and the Negev, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.

a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;

Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build siege works against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.

When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?