In this task, you are given a sentence from the Bible in Persian, and your task is to translate it into English.

Example input: در ابتدا، خدا آسمانها و زمین را آفرید.
Example output: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Example explanation: This is a good example. The above sentence is correctly translated from Persian to English.
Q: و بنی لاوی کهنه نزدیک بیایند، چونکه یهوه خدایت ایشان رابرگزیده است تا او را خدمت نمایند، و به نام خداوند برکت دهند، و برحسب قول ایشان هرمنازعه و هر آزاری فیصل پذیرد.
A:
When 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: