Graphic Bible · Scene 19 of 20

Ripe figs and intact leaves hang from a living branch beside a field, with a distant city wall beyond.
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Deuteronomy 20:19

Spare the Food Trees

Hear the Battle Laws and Spare the Food Trees · Deuteronomy 20

Story guide: Fruit on a living tree accompanies the command to spare food trees during a long siege because people may eat from them.

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19When you besiege a city for many days, fighting against it to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them, for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should come before you in the siege?

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