Whenever you capture towns in the land the Lord your God is giving you, be sure to kill all the people and animals.
17 He has commanded you to completely wipe out the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
18 If you allow them to live, they will persuade you to worship their disgusting gods, and you will be unfaithful to the Lord.
