Do not make war with anyone in the world until you have offered that person the chance for peace, whether in a voluntary war or whether an obligatory war, as it is said: “When you approach a city to make war with it, you shall offer it peace.” If they surrender and accept the seven commandments that the sons of Noah were commanded, then you do not kill any soul from them, and they become tributary, as it is said: “And they will become for you a tributary and they shall serve you.” They accept upon themselves the tribute but not the service or they accept upon themselves the tribute but no