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.
Bw’onoobanga ogenze okutabaala abalabe bo, n’olaba embalaasi n’amagaali n’eggye eddene okukira eriryo, tobatyanga; kubanga Mukama Katonda wo, eyakuggya mu nsi y’e Misiri, anaabanga naawe.
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,
Bwe munaabanga muli kumpi okutandika okulwana, kabona anajjanga n’ayogera eri eggye ly’abaserikale,
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.
n’abagamba nti, “Wulira, Ayi Isirayiri! Olwa leero mugenda okutandika okulwana n’abalabe bammwe. Temuggwaamu mutima, so temutiitiira wadde okubatya.
4 For [it is] the Lord your God who advances with you, to fight with you against your enemies, [and] to save you.
Kubanga Mukama Katonda wammwe y’anaagendanga nammwe okubalwanirira ng’alwanyisanga abalabe bammwe, n’okubawanga mmwe obuwanguzi.”
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.
Abaami banaayogeranga eri eggye nga bagamba nti, “Waliwo mu mmwe alina ennyumba empya gye yeezimbira naye nga tennatukuzibwa? Kimusanidde addeyo mu nnyumba ye, si kulwa ng’afiira mu lutalo, omulala n’agitukuza.
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.
Waliwo mu mmwe eyalima ennimiro y’emizabbibu naye nga tannatandika kulya ku bibala byamu? Kimusaanidde addeyo mu maka ge, si kulwa ng’afiira mu lutalo, omuntu omulala n’alya ebibala byamu.
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.
Waliwo mu mmwe eyali ayogereza omukazi, naye nga tannamuwasa? Kimugwanidde addeyo mu maka ge, si kulwa ng’afiira mu lutalo, omuntu omulala n’awasa omukazi oyo.”
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.
Abaami banaayongeranga okwogera eri eggye nga bagamba nti, “Waliwo mu mmwe omutiitiizi, oba aweddemu amaanyi mu mutima? Kimusaanidde addeyo mu maka ge, si kulwa ng’aleetera banne omutima omutiitiizi.”
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.
Abaami bwe banaamalanga okwogera eri eggye, banaalondanga abakulu mu balwanyi abanaakulemberanga eggye eryo.
10 And if you shall draw near to a city to overcome them by war, then call them out peaceably.
Bw’onoosembereranga ekibuga ng’ogenda okukirwanyisa, osookanga kulangirira mirembe eri abantu baamu.
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.
Bwe banakkirizanga emirembe, ne bakuggulirawo emiryango gy’ekibuga kyabwe, kale abantu baamu bonna banaafuukanga baweereza bo, okukukoleranga byonna nga bw’onooyagalanga.
12 But if they will not listen to you, but wage war against you, you shall invest it;
Naye ekibuga ekyo bwe kinaagaananga okukkiriza emirembe, ne kisalawo okukulwanyisa, onookyebungululanga n’okizingiza.
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:
Mukama Katonda wo bw’anaakigabulanga mu mukono gwo, onottanga n’ekitala buli musajja yenna.
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.
Kyokka abakazi n’abaana abato, n’ebisibo by’ensolo, n’ebintu byonna ebinaabanga mu kibuga omwo, onoobyetwaliranga ng’omunyago gwo. Era onookozesanga nga bw’onooyagalanga omunyago gwonna ogunaavanga mu balabe bo Mukama Katonda wo gw’anaabanga akuwadde.
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.
Bw’otyo bw’onookolanga ebibuga byonna ebinaakubeeranga ewala ennyo, ebitaabenga bibuga bya mawanga gano.
16 [Of these] you shall not take any thing alive;
Naye mu bibuga bino Mukama Katonda wo by’akuwa okuba obusika bwo obw’enkalakkalira, tewaabeerengawo kintu n’ekimu ky’onoolekangamu nga kissa omukka, byonna onoobizikiririzanga ddala.
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:
Abakiiti, n’Abamoli, n’Abakanani, n’Abaperezi, n’Abakiivi, n’Abayebusi, onoobamalirangawo ddala, nga Mukama Katonda wo bw’akulagidde,
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.
balemenga kubayigiriza bikolobero bye bakola nga basinza bakatonda baabwe, bwe mutyo nammwe ne mwonoonanga eri Mukama Katonda wammwe.
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?
Bw’onoozingizanga ekibuga, ng’olwana nakyo, okumala ebbanga eddene olyoke okiwangule, toddiranga mbazzi n’ozikiriza emiti gyakyo gyonna, kubanga ojjanga kwetaaga okulyanga ku bibala byagyo. Togitemanga. Emiti egy’omu nnimiro nagyo bantu olyoke ogizingize?
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.
Naye emiti gy’omanyi nga si gya bibala, egyo onoogitemanga olyoke ogikozesenga okuzimba ekisenge kw’onoosinziiranga okulwananga n’ekibuga ky’onoobanga ozingizza, okutuusa lwe kinaagwanga.
