申命記 20
1 當你出征進攻你的仇敵，見到戰馬戰車和比你更多的群眾時，你不必害怕，因為領你出埃及地的上主你的天主與你在一起。
When thou shalt go forth to warre against thine enemies, and shalt see horses and charets, and people moe then thou, be not afrayde of them: for the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
2 當你們快要交戰時，司祭應上前來，對民眾訓話，
And when ye are come neere vnto the battel, then the Priest shall come forth to speake vnto the people,
3 向他們說：「以色列，請聽! 你們今天就要上陣攻打你們的仇敵，你們不要灰心，不要害怕，不要恐慌，不要在他們面前戰慄，
And shall say vnto them, Heare, O Israel: ye are come this day vnto battell against your enemies: let not your heartes faynt, neither feare, nor be amased, nor adread of them.
4 因為上主你們的天主與你們同去，幫助你們攻打你們的仇敵，使你們勝利。」
For ye Lord your God goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, and to saue you
5 然後長官對民眾說：「誰若蓋了新房屋，還沒有祝聖，他可回家去，免得他死在戰場，別人來替他祝聖。
And let the officers speake vnto the people, saying, What man is there that hath buylt a new house, and hath not dedicate it? let him go and returne to his house, least he dye in the battel, and an other man dedicate it.
6 誰若栽種了葡萄園，還沒有享用過，他可回家去，免得他死在戰場，別人來替他收穫。
And what man is there that hath planted a vineyarde, and hath not eaten of the fruite? let him go and returne againe vnto his house, least he die in the battel, and another eate the fruite.
7 誰若與女人訂了婚，還沒有迎娶，他可回家去，免得他死在戰場，別人來娶她。」
And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and returne againe vnto his house, lest he die in the battell, and another man take her.
8 長官再繼續對民眾致辭說：「誰若害怕灰心，他可回家去，免得他使兄弟的心，如他的一樣沮喪。」
And let the officers speake further vnto the people, and say, Whosoeuer is afrayde and faynt hearted, let him go and returne vnto his house, least his brethrens heart faynt like his heart.
9 長官向民眾訓完話，就派定軍官統率部隊。
And after that the officers haue made an ende of speaking vnto the people, they shall make captaines of the armie to gouerne the people.
10 當你臨近一城要進攻時，應先向那城提議和平；
When thou commest neere vnto a citie to fight against it, thou shalt offer it peace.
11 若那地給你和平的答覆，給你開門，城內所有的人民就臣服於你，給你服役。
And if it answere thee againe peaceably, and open vnto thee, then let all the people that is founde therein, be tributaries vnto thee, and serue thee.
12 如不與你講和，反願與你作戰，你就圍攻。
But if it will make no peace with thee, but make war against thee, then shalt thou besiege it.
13 幾時上主你的天主將城交在你手中，你應用利刃殺盡所有的男人；
And the Lord thy God shall deliuer it into thine handes, and thou shalt smite all the males thereof with the edge of the sworde.
14 至於婦女、嬰兒、牲畜和在城內所有的一切，算是你奪得的勝利品，你可享用你由仇人奪得的勝利品，因為是上主你的天主賜給你的。
Onely the women, and the children, and the cattel, and all that is in the citie, euen all the spoyle thereof shalt thou take vnto thy selfe, and shalt eate the spoyle of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath giuen thee.
15 這是你對於離你很遠，且不屬於這些民族的城市的作法。
Thus shalt thou do vnto all ye cities, which are a great way off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations here.
16 但是在上主你的天主賜給你作產業的這些人民的城市內，你不可讓任何生靈生活，
But of the cities of this people, which the Lord thy God shall giue thee to inherite, thou shalt saue no person aliue,
17 應將他們：即赫特人、阿摩黎人。客納罕人、培黎齊人、希威人和耶步斯人，盡行毀滅，如上主你的天主吩咐你的，
But shalt vtterly destroy them: to wit, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hiuites, and the Iebusites, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee,
18 免得他們教你學習他們對自己的神所行的一切可惡之事，使你們得罪上主你們的天主。
That they teache you not to doe after all their abominations, which they haue done vnto their gods, and so ye should sinne against the Lord your God.
19 若你圍攻一座城，需要多日纔能攻取佔領，你不可用斧頭砍伐那裏的樹木；你可以吃樹上的果子，卻不可砍倒樹；難道田間的樹可當作你圍攻的敵人看待﹖
When thou hast besieged a citie long time, and made warre against it to take it, destroy not the trees therof, by smiting an axe into them: for thou mayest eate of them: therfore thou shalt not cut them downe to further thee in the siege, (for the tree of the field is mans life)
20 只是那些你不知道不結實的樹木，你可毀壞砍伐，用來建築圍攻的設備，為進攻與你交戰的城市，直到將城攻下。
Onely those trees, which thou knowest are not for meate, those shalt thou destroy and cut downe, and make fortes against the citie that maketh warre with thee, vntil thou subdue it.
