19 "When you'll besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you won't destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them, because you can eat from them, and you won't cut them down, because is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you? 20 Only the trees of that you know aren't trees for food, you'll destroy and cut them down, and you'll build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.
19 "Loko wo tshuka u sivelela muti masiku yo tala ku lwa na wona leswaku u wu teka, u nga tshuki u onha mirhi ya wona hi ku yi tsema hi xihloka; hikuva u ta dya eka yona, u nga tshuki u yi tsema,+ hikuva, xana murhi wa le nhoveni wo va munhu leswi u wu sivelelaka?