Deuteronomy - Chapter 20 العدد 19 | When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field {cf15I is} man's {cf15I life}) to employ {cf15I them} in the siege: