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Negative commandment · Lo Ta’aseh #24 of 613

Not to benefit from the property of an apostate city

שלא ליהנות בממון עיר הנידחת

Parashat Re'eh ראה · Sefer HaChinuch #466

The verse · Devarim 13:18

וְלֹא־יִדְבַּק בְּיָדְךָ מְאוּמָה מִן־הַחֵרֶם לְמַעַן יָשׁוּב ה׳ מֵחֲרוֹן אַפּוֹ וְנָתַן־לְךָ רַחֲמִים וְרִחַמְךָ וְהִרְבֶּךָ כַּאֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּע לַאֲבֹתֶיךָ

“And nothing of that which was devoted to destruction shall remain in your hand: that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he has sworn to thy fathers;”

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The Rambam’s words

Not to benefit from the property of an apostate city, as [Deuteronomy 13:18] states: "Let nothing that has been condemned cling to your hand."

שלא ליהנות בממון עיר הנידחת, שנאמר "ולא ידבק בידך מאומה, מן החרם" (דברים יג,יח).

Where in the Mishneh Torah

Hilchot Foreign Worship and Customs of the Nations הלכות עבודה זרה וחוקות הגויים

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