Diuteronomi 20
1 Mgbe i pụrụ ibuso ndị iro gị agha, ọ bụrụ na i lee anya hụ na ndị iro gị nwere ọtụtụ ịnyịnya, ụgbọ agha na ndị agha dị ukwuu nʼọnụọgụgụ karịa gị, unu atụla egwu, nʼihi na Onyenwe anyị Chineke gị, onye ahụ mere ka i si nʼala Ijipt pụta nʼudo, nọnyeere gị.
When you go out to war against other nations, and come face to face with horses and war-carriages and armies greater in number than yourselves, have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.
2 Tupu agha ebido, otu onye nchụaja ga-eguzo nʼihu ndị agha Izrel gwa ha okwu sị,
And when you are on the point of attacking, let the priest come forward and say to the people,
3 “Geenụ ntị, unu ndị Izrel, taa, unu na-apụ ibuso ndị iro unu agha. Unu atụla egwu. Unu atụla ụjọ. Ka obi unu gharakwa ịda mba.
Give ear, O Israel: today you are going forward to the fight; let your heart be strong; do not let uncontrolled fear overcome you because of those who are against you;
4 Nʼihi na Onyenwe anyị Chineke unu ga-eso unu gaa, ọ ga-alụrụ unu ọgụ imegide ndị iro unu, ọ ga-enyekwa unu mmeri.”
For the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from those who are against you.
5 Mgbe ahụ, ndị ọchịagha ga-esi otu a gwa ndị agha Izrel okwu sị ha, “O nwere onye ọbụla nʼime unu wuru ụlọ ọhụrụ ọ na-edobeghị nsọ nye Onyenwe anyị? Ka onye dị otu a laghachi nʼụlọ ya. Ka onye ahụ ghara ịnwụ nʼagha hapụ ụlọ ya, ka nwoke ọzọ doo ya nsọ nye Onyenwe anyị!
And let the overseers say to the people, If there is any man who has made for himself a new house and has not gone into it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not take his house for himself.
6 Ọ dị nwoke ọbụla kụrụ ubi vaịnị ọhụrụ nke ọ na-esitebeghị nʼime ya ghọọ mkpụrụ ọbụla? Ya laa, ka ọ ghara ịnwụ nʼagha, hapụrụ ya onye ọzọ nke ga-eri mkpụrụ si na ya!
Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit.
7 Ọ dị nwoke nwere nwaagbọghọ o kwere nkwa na ọ ga-alụ? Ya laa, gaa lụọ nwanyị! Nʼihi na ọ bụrụ na ọ nwụọ nʼagha, nwoke ọzọ ga-alụ ya.”
Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.
8 Mgbe ahụ, ndị ọchịagha ahụ ga-ekwukwa sị, “Ọ dị onye egwu na-atụ? Ọ bụrụ na o nwere onye ụjọ na-atụ, ya laghachi nʼụlọ ya ka ịtụ ụjọ ya hapụ ijide ndị ọzọ.”
And let the overseers go on to say to the people, If there is any man whose heart is feeble with fear, let him go back to his house before he makes the hearts of his countrymen feeble.
9 Mgbe ndịisi agha gwachara ndị agha ha okwu ndị a, ha ga-ahọpụta ndịisi ga-achịkọta usuu ndị agha.
Then, after saying these words to the people, let the overseers put captains over the army.
10 Mgbe ị bịaruru obodo ọbụla nso ibuso ya agha, ị ga-ebu ụzọ kpọọ ndị bi nʼime ya oku, maka ime udo.
When you come to a town, before attacking it, make an offer of peace.
11 Ọ bụrụ na ha anabata ime udo, megheere gị ọnụ ụzọ ama ha, ndị niile bi nʼime obodo ahụ ga-abụrụ gị ndị ọrụ na-agbakwara gị odibo.
And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants.
12 Ma ọ bụrụ na ha ekweghị ime udo, lụso gị agha, mgbe ahụ, ndị agha gị ga-agba ya gburugburu.
If however it will not make peace with you, but war, then let it be shut in on all sides:
13 Mgbe Onyenwe anyị Chineke gị nyefere gị ya nʼaka, were mma agha gbuo nwoke ọbụla nọ nʼime ya.
And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.
14 Ma ụmụ nwanyị niile na ụmụntakịrị niile, anụ ụlọ niile na ihe nkwata niile nke ndị obodo ahụ ka ị ga-edebere onwe gị. Ị ga-ewerekwa ihe nkwata nke Onyenwe anyị Chineke gị nyere site nʼaka ndị iro gị mee ihe dị gị mma.
But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.
15 Iwu ndị a metụtara naanị mmeso ị ga-emeso obodo ndị tere anya. O metụtaghị obodo ndị na-adịghị nʼime mba ndị a dị nso.
So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.
16 Ma otu ọ dị, nʼobodo niile ndị ahụ Onyenwe anyị Chineke na-enye gị dịka ihe nketa, o nweghị ihe ọbụla na-eku ume ị ga-ahapụ ndụ. Laa ihe niile na-eku ume nʼiyi.
But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:
17 Ị ghaghị ịla obodo ndị a nʼiyi: obodo ndị Het na nke ndị Amọrait, nke ndị Kenan na nke ndị Periz, nke ndị Hiv na nke ndị Jebus, dịka Onyenwe anyị Chineke gị nyere gị nʼiwu.
Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders:
18 Ma ọ bụghị otu a, ha ga-akụziri gị ime ihe ndị ahụ niile rụrụ arụ ha na-eme mgbe ha na-efe chi ha dị iche iche, mee ka i mehie megide Onyenwe anyị Chineke gị.
So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.
19 Mgbe ị nọchibidoro obodo ọbụla ogologo oge, na-ebu agha megide ya maka iwere ya, ebibila osisi na-amị mkpụrụ dị nʼime ya site nʼiji anyụike gbutuo ha. Nʼihi na i nwere ike rie mkpụrụ osisi ha, egbutula ha. Osisi dị nʼọhịa ha ọ bụ ndị mmadụ, na ị ga-anọchibido ha?
If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees be cut down and made waste; for their fruit will be your food; are the trees of the countryside men for you to take up arms against them?
20 Naanị osisi na-adịghị amị mkpụrụ ka ị ga-egbutu, nke a na-adịghị eri mkpụrụ ya eri. Jiri ha meere onwe gị ngwa ọgụ, dịka ubibi, na nkwasa, na ihe unu ji etitu mgbidi obodo ahụ.
Only those trees which you are certain are not used for food may be cut down and put to destruction: and you are to make walls of attack against the town till it is taken.
