But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God does give you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
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
