Deuteronomy 20
1 “When you go out to battle against your enemy, and have seen horse and chariot—a people more numerous than you—you are not afraid of them, for your God YHWH [is] with you, who is bringing you up out of the land of Egypt;
“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 and it has been, in your drawing near to the battle, that the priest has come near, and spoken to the people,
你们将要上阵的时候，祭司要到百姓面前宣告
3 and said to them, Hear, O Israel: You are drawing near today to battle against your enemies, do not let your hearts be tender, do not fear, nor make haste, nor be terrified at their presence,
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 your God YHWH [is] He who is going with you, to fight for you with your enemies—to save you.
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 And the authorities have spoken to the people, saying, Who [is] the man that has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he 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 And who [is] the man that has planted a vineyard and has not made it common? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man make it common.
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 And who [is] the man that has betrothed a woman and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man take 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 And the authorities have added to speak to the people and said, Who [is] the man that is afraid and tender of heart? Let him go and return to his house, and the heart of his brothers does not melt like his heart.
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 And it has come to pass, as the authorities finish to speak to the people, that they have appointed princes of the hosts at the head of the people.
官长对百姓宣告完了，就当派军长率领他们。
10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then you have called to it for 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 and it has been, if it answers you [with] peace, and has opened to you, then it has come to pass, all the people who are found in it are for tributaries to you, and have served 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 And if it does not make peace with you, and has made war with you, then you have laid siege against it,
若不肯与你和好，反要与你打仗，你就要围困那城。
13 and your God YHWH has given it into your hand, and you have struck every male of it by the mouth of 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 Only, the women, and the infants, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you seize for yourself, and you have eaten the spoil of your enemies which your God YHWH has given to 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 So you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
离你甚远的各城，不是这些国民的城，你都要这样待他。
16 Only, of the cities of these peoples which your God YHWH is giving to you [for] an inheritance, you do not keep alive any [that are] breathing;
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 certainly devote the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as your God YHWH 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 do not teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods, and you have sinned against your God YHWH.
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] many days to fight against it, to capture it, you do not destroy its trees to force an axe against them, for you eat of them, and you do not cut them down—for the tree of the field [is] man’s—to go in at your presence in the siege.
“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 Only, the tree of which you know that it [is] not a fruit-tree, you destroy it, and have cut [it] down, and have built a bulwark against the city which is making war with you until you have subdued it.”
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。”
