Deuteronomy 20:19

19“When you besiege a city for a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, so you shall not cut them down. For 20:19 Read as interrogative with ancient versions; MT the tree of the field is manis the tree of the field a human, that it should 20:19 Lit come before you in the siegebe besieged by you?