11It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.


In Context

8 The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, |What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother's heart melt as his heart.|

9 It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.

10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

11 It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.

12 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:

13 and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

Deuteronomy 20:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:11And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, [that] all the people [that is] found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:11If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:11If they receive it, and open the gates to thee, all the people that are therein, shall be saved, and shall serve thee paying tribute.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:11And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that are found therein shall become tributary unto thee, and shall serve thee.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:11And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then all the people that are found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:11And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall become tributary unto thee, and shall serve thee.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:11And it shall be, if it shall make thee answer of peace, and open to thee, then it shall be, that all the people that are found therein, shall be tributaries to thee, and they shall serve thee.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:11and it hath been, if Peace it answer thee, and hath opened to thee, then it hath come to pass — all the people who are found in it are to thee for tributaries, and have served thee.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:11And it shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries to you, and they shall serve you.