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?
Xa nithe ke nenza iintsuku niwungqingile umzi, nisilwa nawo ukuba niwuhluthe, uze ungayonakalisi imithi yawo ngokuyixabela ngezembe; kuba uya kudla kuyo. Uze ungayigawuli; kuba umthi wasendle ungumntu na, ukuba ungqingwe nguwe?