Deuteronomy 20:20

English Standard Version

20 Only the trees that you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.

New International Version

20 However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.

New International Reader’s Version

20 But you can cut down trees that you know aren’t fruit trees. You can build war machines out of their wood. You can use them until you capture the city you are fighting against.

King James Version

20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.