“And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart.”
The officials shall also say to the troops: Is anyone afraid or disheartened? He should go back to his house, or he might cause the heart of his comrades to melt like his own — the fourth and most significant exemption (the fearful/fainthearted man) removes demoralized fighters from the army; the cowardly soldier threatens unit cohesion and becomes a liability rather than asset.
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