Deuteronomy 20
1 And if you should go forth to war against your enemies, and should see horse, and rider, and a people more numerous than yourself; you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God [is] with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Nagal miteu toh kisat dinga nakon doh tenguleh, sakol ahin kangtalai, nanghoa sanga tamjo namu diu, hinlah nakichat lou diu ahi. Ajeh chu nangho Egypt gamsunga kona nahinpui doh'pau Pakai, Pathen in naumpi jing uve!
2 And it shall come to pass whenever you shall draw near to battle, that the priest shall draw near and speak to the people, and shall say to them,
Galmun nalhun masang kahseuva, nalah uva thempupa chu mipi jouse masang lama namakai sah diu ahi.
3 Hear, O Israel; you are going this day to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint, fear not, neither be confounded, neither turn aside from their face.
Chule mipi henga thu asei ding, Vo Israelte ngaiyun! Kichatna jong neihih un, ajeh chu tunia nangho nacheuva amaho khu naga kisatpi diu ahi! Nagal miteu kichat nan kihot hih unlang, gin jong nagin loudiu ahi.
4 For [it is] the Lord your God who advances with you, to fight with you against your enemies, [and] to save you.
Ajeh chu Pakai, Pathen in nangho dinga gal asat ding! Na masang lam uva lamkai jing ding, galjona nachan diu ahi!
5 And the scribes shall speak to the people, saying, What man [is] he that has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man dedicate it.
Chuphat leh gal vaipoa pang hon mipi henga hitia hi asei diu ahi. Koiham inthah tungdoh a thenso louva koi? Nalah uva hitobang mihem chu auma ahileh, ama chu galmuna thiden jeng thei ahi. Athiden khah tah’a ahileh, a in chu mi dang dinga thensona um ding ahi.
6 And what man [is] he that has planted a vineyard, and not been made merry with it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man be made merry with it.
Lengpi lei laiya natonga lengpi thei tepkha lou koiham? Amapa jong chu inlama kile jeng thei ahi. Achuti louva ahileh galmuna thina ato jeng thei, alengpi lei jeng jong mi dang chan lo ding ahi.
7 And what man [is] he that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
Hiche bang chun pasal koi tobang khat chu jinei dinga kigosa dem a umta, ahinlah jinei loulai koi ham? Ama jong chu in kilea jinei thei ahi. Ajeh chu galmuna thina nachan'a naji ding nu chu mi dang chang jeng thei ahi.
8 And the scribes shall speak further to the people, and say, What man [is] he that fears and is cowardly in his heart? Let him go and return to his house, lest he make the heart of his brother fail, as his own.
Chule sepai vaihom natonga pang hon mipi henga hitia hi asei nah lai diu ahi. Meidoi, kichase um em? Aumleh in a kile hen, ajeh chu midang asuh meidoilo ding ahi, tia aseidiu ahi.
9 And it shall come to pass when the scribes shall have ceased speaking to the people, that they shall appoint generals of the army to be leaders of the people.
Sepai vaihom natonga pangho chun sepai ho henga hitia chu asei chaisoh kei tenguleh, aloi loiya lamkai alhendoh diu ahi.
10 And if you shall draw near to a city to overcome them by war, then call them out peaceably.
Chule khopi khat nabulhu konu leh, amasan hiche khopi chu ki champi din tem un.
11 If then they should answer peaceably to you, and open to you, it shall be that all the people found in it shall be tributary and subject to you.
Hiche khopi chun natepnau ahin ngaiyuva, kelkotpi chu nahonpeh uva ahileh, na vaihomna noiyuva umdiu, nakinu bollea pang diu ahi.
12 But if they will not listen to you, but wage war against you, you shall invest it;
Ahinlah kicham ding gel louva kidoupi ding joh ageluva ahileh, khopi chu nabulu tei ding ahi.
13 until the Lord your God shall deliver it into your hands, and you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
Chuteng Pakai, Pathen in hiche khopi chu nangho khut a ahin pehlut ding, na chemjam'uva pasal jouse natha diu ahi.
14 except the women and the stuff: and all the cattle, and whatever shall be in the city, and all the plunder you shall take as spoil for yourself, and shall eat all the plunder of your enemies whom the Lord your God gives you.
Hinlah numei le chapang, thilkeo ho nakikoi khom diu ahi. Ajeh chu Pakai, Pathen in khopi sunga kona chu nopsa tah a naman chah diuva napeh'u ahitai.
15 Thus shall you do to all the cities that are very far off from you, not [being] of the cities of these nations which the Lord your God gives you to inherit their land.
Nachen nauva kona gamlha tah a um khopi ho, hitia chu nabol sohkei diu ahi.
16 [Of these] you shall not take any thing alive;
Pakai, Pathen in napeh nau hiche khopi chengsea chu naum tenguleh, ahing thei jouse nasuh gam diu ahi.
17 but you shall surely curse them, the Chettite, and the Amorite, and the Chananite, and the Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Gergesite; as the Lord your God commanded you:
Ajeh chu Pakai, Pathen in naseipeh bang uva, Hit mite, Amor mite, Canan mite, Periz mite, Hiv mite chule Jebus mite hijongleh abonchauva nasuh gam hel diu ahi.
18 that they may not teach you to do all their abominations, which they did to their gods, and [so] you should sin before the Lord your God.
Chutileh hiche mite akona chu milim doi kisem thuhoa kona nakihei mang thei diu, amaho pathen semthua kona nakiven tup uva, nalhah lutlou diu ahi.
19 And if you should besiege a city many days to prevail against it by war to take it, you shall not destroy its trees, by applying an iron tool to them, but you shall eat of it, and shall not cut it down: Is the tree that is in the field a man, to enter before you into the work of the siege?
Khopi khat bulu dinga phatsotpi naumkim tenguleh thingphung naphuh lou diu ahi. Aga neuvin, hinlah aphung phuh hih un, thingphung hochu nagalmiteu ahipoi.
20 But the tree which you know to be not fruit-bearing, this you shall destroy and cut down; and you shall construct a mound against the city, which makes war against you, until it be delivered up.
Hinlah thingphung aphachompoi tia nagel houvang chu naphuh uva, khopi sunga galmite toh kidouna galmanchah a naman theiyu ahi.
