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;
「你出去與仇敵爭戰的時候，看見馬匹、車輛，並有比你多的人民，不要怕他們，因為領你出埃及地的耶和華－你上帝與你同在。
2 and it has been, in your drawing near to the battle, that the priest has come near, and spoken to the people,
你們將要上陣的時候，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,
說：『以色列人哪，你們當聽，你們今日將要與仇敵爭戰，不要膽怯，不要懼怕戰兢，也不要因他們驚恐；
4 for your God YHWH [is] He who is going with you, to fight for you with your enemies—to save you.
因為耶和華－你們的上帝與你們同去，要為你們與仇敵爭戰，拯救你們。』
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.
官長也要對百姓宣告說：『誰建造房屋，尚未奉獻，他可以回家去，恐怕他陣亡，別人去奉獻。
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.
誰種葡萄園，尚未用所結的果子，他可以回家去，恐怕他陣亡，別人去用。
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.
誰聘定了妻，尚未迎娶，他可以回家去，恐怕他陣亡，別人去娶。』
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.
官長又要對百姓宣告說：『誰懼怕膽怯，他可以回家去，恐怕他弟兄的心消化，和他一樣。』
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.
官長對百姓宣告完了，就當派軍長率領他們。
10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then you have called to it for peace,
「你臨近一座城、要攻打的時候，先要對城裏的民宣告和睦的話。
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.
他們若以和睦的話回答你，給你開了城，城裏所有的人都要給你效勞，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,
若不肯與你和好，反要與你打仗，你就要圍困那城。
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.
耶和華－你的上帝把城交付你手，你就要用刀殺盡這城的男丁。
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.
惟有婦女、孩子、牲畜，和城內一切的財物，你可以取為自己的掠物。耶和華－你上帝把你仇敵的財物賜給你，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.
離你甚遠的各城，不是這些國民的城，你都要這樣待他。
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;
但這些國民的城，耶和華－你上帝既賜你為業，其中凡有氣息的，一個不可存留；
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,
只要照耶和華－你上帝所吩咐的將這赫人、亞摩利人、迦南人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人都滅絕淨盡，
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.
免得他們教導你們學習一切可憎惡的事，就是他們向自己神所行的，以致你們得罪耶和華－你們的上帝。
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.
「你若許久圍困、攻打所要取的一座城，就不可舉斧子砍壞樹木；因為你可以吃那樹上的果子，不可砍伐。田間的樹木豈是人，叫你糟蹋嗎？
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.”
惟獨你所知道不是結果子的樹木可以毀壞、砍伐，用以修築營壘，攻擊那與你打仗的城，直到攻塌了。」
