申命記 20
1 「你出去與仇敵爭戰的時候，看見馬匹、車輛，並有比你多的人民，不要怕他們，因為領你出埃及地的耶和華－你上帝與你同在。
When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than yours, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you.
2 你們將要上陣的時候，祭司要到百姓面前宣告
When you are about to go into battle, the priest is to come forward and address the army,
3 說：『以色列人哪，你們當聽，你們今日將要與仇敵爭戰，不要膽怯，不要懼怕戰兢，也不要因他們驚恐；
saying to them, “Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be alarmed or terrified because of them.
4 因為耶和華－你們的上帝與你們同去，要為你們與仇敵爭戰，拯救你們。』
For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.”
5 官長也要對百姓宣告說：『誰建造房屋，尚未奉獻，他可以回家去，恐怕他陣亡，別人去奉獻。
Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.
6 誰種葡萄園，尚未用所結的果子，他可以回家去，恐怕他陣亡，別人去用。
Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
7 誰聘定了妻，尚未迎娶，他可以回家去，恐怕他陣亡，別人去娶。』
Has any man become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man marry her.”
8 官長又要對百姓宣告說：『誰懼怕膽怯，他可以回家去，恐怕他弟兄的心消化，和他一樣。』
Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”
9 官長對百姓宣告完了，就當派軍長率領他們。
When the officers have finished addressing the army, they are to appoint commanders to lead it.
10 「你臨近一座城、要攻打的時候，先要對城裏的民宣告和睦的話。
When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.
11 他們若以和睦的話回答你，給你開了城，城裏所有的人都要給你效勞，服事你；
If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.
12 若不肯與你和好，反要與你打仗，你就要圍困那城。
But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.
13 耶和華－你的上帝把城交付你手，你就要用刀殺盡這城的男丁。
When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
14 惟有婦女、孩子、牲畜，和城內一切的財物，你可以取為自己的掠物。耶和華－你上帝把你仇敵的財物賜給你，你可以吃用。
But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
15 離你甚遠的各城，不是這些國民的城，你都要這樣待他。
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
16 但這些國民的城，耶和華－你上帝既賜你為業，其中凡有氣息的，一個不可存留；
However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
17 只要照耶和華－你上帝所吩咐的將這赫人、亞摩利人、迦南人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人都滅絕淨盡，
For you must devote them to complete destruction —the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,
18 免得他們教導你們學習一切可憎惡的事，就是他們向自己神所行的，以致你們得罪耶和華－你們的上帝。
so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the LORD your God.
19 「你若許久圍困、攻打所要取的一座城，就不可舉斧子砍壞樹木；因為你可以吃那樹上的果子，不可砍伐。田間的樹木豈是人，叫你糟蹋嗎？
When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
20 惟獨你所知道不是結果子的樹木可以毀壞、砍伐，用以修築營壘，攻擊那與你打仗的城，直到攻塌了。」
But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
