16
But of the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
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Verse 16. Live. Hebrew “thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth.” Josephus (iv. 8.) acknowledges that all were to be slain; though some of the Rabbins have supposed that they might be spared, if they would abandon idols, and so forth
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