Deuteronomy 20
1 “If you go out to battle against your enemies, and you see horsemen and chariots, and that the multitude of your adversary’s army is greater than your own, you shall not fear them. For the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, is with you.
當你出征進攻你的仇敵，見到戰馬戰車和比你更多的群眾時，你不必害怕，因為領你出埃及地的上主你的天主與你在一起。
2 Then, as the battle now draws near, the priest shall stand before the front ranks, and he shall speak to the people in this manner:
當你們快要交戰時，司祭應上前來，對民眾訓話，
3 ‘Listen, O Israel! Today you engage in a battle against your enemies. Do not let your heart be overwhelmed with fear. Do not be apprehensive. Do not yield. You should have no dread of them.
向他們說：「以色列，請聽! 你們今天就要上陣攻打你們的仇敵，你們不要灰心，不要害怕，不要恐慌，不要在他們面前戰慄，
4 For the Lord your God is in your midst, and he will contend against your enemies on your behalf, so that he may rescue you from peril.’
因為上主你們的天主與你們同去，幫助你們攻打你們的仇敵，使你們勝利。」
5 Likewise, the officers shall proclaim, throughout every company, in the hearing of the soldiers: ‘What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest perhaps he may die in the battle, and another man may dedicate it.
然後長官對民眾說：「誰若蓋了新房屋，還沒有祝聖，他可回家去，免得他死在戰場，別人來替他祝聖。
6 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not yet caused it to be common, so that all may eat from it? Let him go, and return to his house, lest perhaps he may die in the battle, and another man may carry out his office.
誰若栽種了葡萄園，還沒有享用過，他可回家去，免得他死在戰場，別人來替他收穫。
7 What man is there, who has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go, and return to his house, lest perhaps he may die in battle, and another man may take her.’
誰若與女人訂了婚，還沒有迎娶，他可回家去，免得他死在戰場，別人來娶她。」
8 After these things have been declared, they shall add the remainder, and shall say to the people: ‘What man is there who is overwhelmed by fear and is fainthearted? Let him go, and return to his house, lest he cause the hearts of his brothers to fear, just as he himself has been thoroughly stricken with fear.’
長官再繼續對民眾致辭說：「誰若害怕灰心，他可回家去，免得他使兄弟的心，如他的一樣沮喪。」
9 And when the officers of the army have become silent, and have completed their speech, each one shall prepare his unit to wage war.
長官向民眾訓完話，就派定軍官統率部隊。
10 When, at any time, you approach a city to fight against it, you shall first offer peace to it.
當你臨近一城要進攻時，應先向那城提議和平；
11 If they receive it, and open the gates to you, then all the people who are in it shall be saved, and they shall serve you by paying tribute.
若那地給你和平的答覆，給你開門，城內所有的人民就臣服於你，給你服役。
12 But if they are not willing to enter into an agreement, and they begin to act against you in warfare, then you shall besiege it.
如不與你講和，反願與你作戰，你就圍攻。
13 And when the Lord your God will have delivered it into your hands, you shall strike down anyone who is in it, of the male gender, with the edge of the sword,
幾時上主你的天主將城交在你手中，你應用利刃殺盡所有的男人；
14 but not the women and young children, nor the cattle and the other things that are within the city. And you shall divide all the plunder to the soldiers, and you shall eat the spoils from your enemies, which the Lord your God will give to you.
至於婦女、嬰兒、牲畜和在城內所有的一切，算是你奪得的勝利品，你可享用你由仇人奪得的勝利品，因為是上主你的天主賜給你的。
15 So shall you do to all the cities which are at a great distance from you, those which are not among the cities that you shall receive as a possession.
這是你對於離你很遠，且不屬於這些民族的城市的作法。
16 But among those cities which shall be given to you, you shall not permit anyone at all to live.
但是在上主你的天主賜給你作產業的這些人民的城市內，你不可讓任何生靈生活，
17 Instead, you shall put them to death with the edge of the sword, specifically: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite, the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you.
應將他們：即赫特人、阿摩黎人。客納罕人、培黎齊人、希威人和耶步斯人，盡行毀滅，如上主你的天主吩咐你的，
18 Otherwise, they may teach you to do all the abominations which they have committed for their own gods. And then you would sin against the Lord your God.
免得他們教你學習他們對自己的神所行的一切可惡之事，使你們得罪上主你們的天主。
19 When you will have besieged a city for a long time, and you will have encircled it with fortifications, so that you may fight against it, you shall not cut down trees from which one is able to eat, neither shall you cause devastation with axes to the surrounding region. For it is a tree, and not a man. It is not able to increase the number of those who are fighting against you.
若你圍攻一座城，需要多日纔能攻取佔領，你不可用斧頭砍伐那裏的樹木；你可以吃樹上的果子，卻不可砍倒樹；難道田間的樹可當作你圍攻的敵人看待﹖
20 But if there are any trees which are not fruitful, but are wild, and if these are fit for other uses, then cut them down, and make machines, until you have captured the city that is contending against you.”
只是那些你不知道不結實的樹木，你可毀壞砍伐，用來建築圍攻的設備，為進攻與你交戰的城市，直到將城攻下。
