Deuteronomy 20
1 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.
“你出去与仇敌争战的时候，看见马匹、车辆，并有比你多的人民，不要怕他们，因为领你出埃及地的耶和华—你 神与你同在。
2 When you are about to go into battle, the priest is to come forward and address the army,
你们将要上阵的时候，祭司要到百姓面前宣告
3 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.
说：‘以色列人哪，你们当听，你们今日将要与仇敌争战，不要胆怯，不要惧怕战兢，也不要因他们惊恐；
4 For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.”
因为耶和华—你们的 神与你们同去，要为你们与仇敌争战，拯救你们。’
5 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.
官长也要对百姓宣告说：‘谁建造房屋，尚未奉献，他可以回家去，恐怕他阵亡，别人去奉献。
6 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.
谁种葡萄园，尚未用所结的果子，他可以回家去，恐怕他阵亡，别人去用。
7 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.”
谁聘定了妻，尚未迎娶，他可以回家去，恐怕他阵亡，别人去娶。’
8 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.”
官长又要对百姓宣告说：‘谁惧怕胆怯，他可以回家去，恐怕他弟兄的心消化，和他一样。’
9 When the officers have finished addressing the army, they are to appoint commanders to lead it.
官长对百姓宣告完了，就当派军长率领他们。
10 When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.
“你临近一座城、要攻打的时候，先要对城里的民宣告和睦的话。
11 If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.
他们若以和睦的话回答你，给你开了城，城里所有的人都要给你效劳，服事你；
12 But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.
若不肯与你和好，反要与你打仗，你就要围困那城。
13 When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
耶和华—你的 神把城交付你手，你就要用刀杀尽这城的男丁。
14 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.
惟有妇女、孩子、牲畜，和城内一切的财物，你可以取为自己的掠物。耶和华—你 神把你仇敌的财物赐给你，你可以吃用。
15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
离你甚远的各城，不是这些国民的城，你都要这样待他。
16 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.
但这些国民的城，耶和华—你 神既赐你为业，其中凡有气息的，一个不可存留；
17 For you must devote them to complete destruction —the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,
只要照耶和华—你 神所吩咐的将这赫人、亚摩利人、迦南人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人都灭绝净尽，
18 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.
免得他们教导你们学习一切可憎恶的事，就是他们向自己神所行的，以致你们得罪耶和华—你们的 神。
19 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?
“你若许久围困、攻打所要取的一座城，就不可举斧子砍坏树木；因为你可以吃那树上的果子，不可砍伐。田间的树木岂是人，叫你糟蹋吗？
20 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.
惟独你所知道不是结果子的树木可以毁坏、砍伐，用以修筑营垒，攻击那与你打仗的城，直到攻塌了。”
