Ponovljeni zakon 20
1 Ako pođeš u rat na svoje neprijatelje te vidiš konje, kola i narod brojniji od sebe, ne boj ih se! TÓa s tobom je Jahve, Bog tvoj, koji te izveo iz zemlje egipatske.
When you go out to war against other nations, and come face to face with horses and war-carriages and armies greater in number than yourselves, have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.
2 Prije boja neka svećenik istupi i govori narodu.
And when you are on the point of attacking, let the priest come forward and say to the people,
3 Neka im kaže: 'Čuj, Izraele! Danas polazite u boj na neprijatelje svoje. Neka vam srca ne klonu! Ne plašite se! Ne bojte se! Ne dršćite pred njima!
Give ear, O Israel: today you are going forward to the fight; let your heart be strong; do not let uncontrolled fear overcome you because of those who are against you;
4 TÓa Jahve, Bog vaš, ide s vama da se bori za vas protiv vaših neprijatelja i da vas spasi.'
For the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from those who are against you.
5 Potom neka narodu progovore nadglednici: 'Ima li koga da je sagradio novu kuću a nije se u nju uselio? Neka se vrati kući svojoj da ne pogine u boju pa da se tko drugi u nju ne useli.
And let the overseers say to the people, If there is any man who has made for himself a new house and has not gone into it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not take his house for himself.
6 Ima li koga da je zasadio vinograd a još ga nije brao? Neka se vrati domu svome da u boju ne pogine te da mu drugi roda ne obere.
Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit.
7 Ima li koga da se zaručio a nije se oženio? Neka se vrati domu svome da u boju ne pogine te da mu tko drugi zaručnice ne odvede.'
Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.
8 Neka nadglednici nastave te narodu kažu: 'Tko se boji i kome srce trne, neka se vrati domu svome da ne trne srce njegovoj braći kao njemu.'
And let the overseers go on to say to the people, If there is any man whose heart is feeble with fear, let him go back to his house before he makes the hearts of his countrymen feeble.
9 Kad nadglednici završe govor narodu, neka vojni zapovjednici stanu na čelo naroda.
Then, after saying these words to the people, let the overseers put captains over the army.
10 Kada dođeš pod koji grad da na nj navališ, najprije mu ponudi mir.
When you come to a town, before attacking it, make an offer of peace.
11 Ako ti odgovori mirom i otvori ti vrata svoja, sav narod što se nađe u njemu podvrgni tlaki neka za te radi.
And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants.
12 Ali ako odbije tvoj mir i zarati s tobom, opsjedni ga.
If however it will not make peace with you, but war, then let it be shut in on all sides:
13 Kad ti ga Jahve, Bog tvoj, preda u ruke, sve njegove muškarce pobij oštrim mačem!
And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.
14 A žene, djecu, stoku, sve što bude u gradu - sav plijen - uzmi sebi i uživaj plijen od svojih neprijatelja što ti ga daje Jahve, Bog tvoj.
But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.
15 Tako čini sa svim gradovima koji budu vrlo daleko od tebe, koji ne budu gradovi ovih naroda odavde.
So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.
16 U gradovima onih naroda koje ti Jahve, Bog tvoj, preda u baštinu ništa ne ostavljaj na životu
But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:
17 nego ih udari 'heremom' - kletim uništenjem: Hetite i Amorejce, Kanaance i Perižane, Hivijce i Jebusejce, kako ti je Jahve, Bog tvoj, naredio,
Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders:
18 tako da vas ne nauče činiti sve one odvratnosti što ih čine svojim bogovima te da ne sagriješite protiv Jahve, Boga svoga.
So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.
19 Kad navališ na kakav grad pa ga moradneš dugo opsjedati da ga osvojiš, nemoj uništavati njegovih stabala zasijecajući u njih sjekirom. Možeš im jesti plod, a nemoj ih sjeći. Jer poljska stabla nisu ljudi da bi ispred tebe mogla bježati u utvrdu.
If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees be cut down and made waste; for their fruit will be your food; are the trees of the countryside men for you to take up arms against them?
20 Jedino stabla za koja znaš da nisu voćke možeš ništiti; njih možeš sjeći i od njih praviti naprave za opsadu grada koji je u ratu protiv tebe dok ne padne.
Only those trees which you are certain are not used for food may be cut down and put to destruction: and you are to make walls of attack against the town till it is taken.
