Deuteronomy 20:16-18

English Standard Version

¹⁶ But ^(A)in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, ¹⁷ but ^(B)you shall devote them to complete destruction,^[a] the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded, ¹⁸ that ^(C)they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you ^(D)sin against the Lord your God.