Deuteronomy 20:20
Deuteronomy 20:19-20 The Message (MSG)
When you mount an attack on a town and the siege goes on a long time, don’t start cutting down the trees, swinging your axes against them. Those trees are your future food; don’t cut them down. Are trees soldiers who come against you with weapons? The exception can be those trees which don’t produce food; you can chop them down and use the timbers to build siege engines against the town that is resisting you until it falls. * * *
Deuteronomy 20:20 New Living Translation (NLT)
You may only cut down trees that you know are not valuable for food. Use them to make the equipment you need to attack the enemy town until it falls.
Deuteronomy 20:20 King James Version (KJV)
only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
Deuteronomy 20:20 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Only the trees which you know are not fruit trees you shall destroy and cut down, that you may construct siegeworks against the city that is making war with you until it falls.
Deuteronomy 20:20 New Century Version (NCV)
But you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build devices to attack the city walls, until the city is captured.
Deuteronomy 20:20 American Standard Version (ASV)
Only the trees of which thou knowest that they are not trees for food, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall.
Deuteronomy 20:20 New International Version (NIV)
However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.
Deuteronomy 20:20 New King James Version (NKJV)
Only the trees which you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, to build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued.