Deuteronomy 20:18
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.In other versions
that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so would ye sin against Jehovah your God.
ASV
So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.
BBE
that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, so that ye sin against Jehovah your God.
DBY
that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
WEB
so that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations which they have done to their gods, and ye have sinned against Jehovah your God.
YLT
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should all of you sin against the LORD your God.
ENG
That they may not teach you to do after all their abominations which they have done to their gods; so would ye sin against the LORD your God.
WBT
so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the LORD your God.
BSB
In context
16But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
17But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
18That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
19When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
20Only 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.