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Sifrei on Deuteronomy

Sifrei Devarim 201

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English · Shraga Silverstein

(Devarim 20:15) "Thus shall you do to all the cities that are distant": The distant ones (i.e., those not of the seven nations) are subsumed in this law (to spare the women and children), but those that are near (i.e., the seven nations) are not subsumed in this law.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

(Ibid. 16) "But from the cities of these people (the seven nations) … you shall not allow any soul to live": (But you shall slay them) by the sword.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

(Ibid. 17) "But you shall utterly destroy them": I might think that their spoil were forbidden to you; it is, therefore, written (Ibid. 6:11) "and houses full of all good." "the Chitti, the Emori, the Canaani, etc."

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"as the L-rd your G-d commanded you": to include the Girgashi.

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