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.
Cuando salieres a la guerra contra tus enemigos, y vieres caballos y carros, un pueblo más grande que tú, no tengas temor de ellos, que el SEÑOR tu Dios es contigo, el cual te sacó de tierra de Egipto.
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,
Y será que, cuando os acercaréis para combatir, llegará el sacerdote, y hablará al pueblo,
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.
y les dirá: Oye, Israel, vosotros os juntáis hoy en batalla contra vuestros enemigos; no se ablande vuestro corazón, no temáis, ni tengáis miedo, ni tampoco os desalentéis delante de ellos;
4 For [it is] the Lord your God who advances with you, to fight with you against your enemies, [and] to save you.
que el SEÑOR vuestro Dios anda con vosotros, para pelear por vosotros contra vuestros enemigos, para salvaros.
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.
Y los alcaldes hablarán al pueblo, diciendo: ¿Quién ha edificado casa nueva, y no la ha estrenado? Vaya, y vuélvase a su casa, para que no muera por ventura en la batalla, y algún otro la estrene.
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.
¿Y quién ha plantado viña, y no ha disfrutado de ella? Vaya, y vuélvase a su casa, para que por ventura no muera en la batalla, y algún otro la disfrute.
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.
¿Y quién se ha desposado con mujer, y no la ha tomado? Vaya, y vuélvase a su casa, para que por ventura no muera en la batalla, y algún otro la tome.
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.
Y volverán los alcaldes a hablar al pueblo, y dirán: ¿Quién es hombre medroso y cobarde de corazón? Vaya, y vuélvase a su casa, y no apoque el corazón de sus hermanos, como su corazón.
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.
Y será que, cuando los alcaldes acabaren de hablar al pueblo, entonces los capitanes de los ejércitos mandarán delante del pueblo.
10 And if you shall draw near to a city to overcome them by war, then call them out peaceably.
Cuando te acercares a una ciudad para combatirla, le intimarás la paz.
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.
Y será que, si te respondiere: Paz, y te abriere, todo el pueblo que en ella fuere hallado te serán tributarios, y te servirán.
12 But if they will not listen to you, but wage war against you, you shall invest it;
Mas si no hiciere paz contigo, y emprendiere contigo guerra, y la cercares,
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:
y el SEÑOR tu Dios la entregare en tu mano, entonces herirás a todo varón suyo a filo de espada.
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.
Solamente las mujeres y los niños, y los animales, y todo lo que hubiere en la ciudad, todos sus despojos, tomarás para ti; y comerás del despojo de tus enemigos, los cuales el SEÑOR tu Dios te entregó.
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.
Así harás a todas las ciudades que estuvieren muy lejos de ti, que no fueren de las ciudades de estos gentiles.
16 [Of these] you shall not take any thing alive;
Solamente de las ciudades de estos pueblos que el SEÑOR tu Dios te da por heredad, ninguna persona dejarás con vida;
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:
del todo los destruirás: al heteo, y al amorreo, y al cananeo, y al ferezeo, y al heveo, y al jebuseo, como el SEÑOR tu Dios te ha mandado;
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.
para que no os enseñen a hacer según todas sus abominaciones, que ellos hacen a sus dioses, y pequéis contra el SEÑOR vuestro Dios.
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?
Cuando pusieres cerco a alguna ciudad, peleando contra ella muchos días para tomarla, no destruyas su arboleda metiendo en ella hacha, porque de ella comerás; y no la talarás, (porque el árbol del campo es la vida del hombre) para emplearla en el cerco.
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.
Mas el árbol que supieres que no es árbol para comer, lo destruirás y lo talarás, y edificarás baluarte contra la ciudad que pelea contigo, hasta sojuzgarla.
