Thematic Bible: Prohibited from cutting down fruit-bearing, for sieges
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"When you attack a city and have to fight against it for many days, don't destroy its trees by cutting them down with an ax. You may eat from them, but you must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human beings, that you would come and attack them?