8. In addition, the officers are to say to the troops, “Who among you is afraid and fainthearted? He may go home so that he will not make his fellow soldier’s heart as fearful as his own.”
9. Then, when the officers have finished speaking, they must appoint unit commanders to lead the troops.
10. When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.
11. If it accepts your terms and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves.