1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Deuteronomy 20:16

But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live:

Live. Hebrew, "thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth." Josephus ([Antiquities?] 4:8.) acknowledges that all were to be slain; though some of the Rabbins have supposed that they might be spared, if they would abandon idols, etc.