申命記 20
1 汝その敵と戰はんとて出るに當り馬と車を見また汝よりも數多き民を見るもこれに懼るる勿れ其は汝をエジプトの國より導き上りし汝の神ヱホバなんぢとともに在せばなり
When you march out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you must not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, he who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
2 汝ら戰闘に臨む時は祭司進みいで民に告て
When you are about to enter into battle, the priest must approach and speak to the people.
3 之に言べしイスラエルよ聽け汝らは今日なんぢらの敵と戰はんとて進み來れり心に臆する勿れ懼るるなかれ倉皇なかれ彼らに怖るなかれ
He must say to them, 'Listen, Israel, you are going to battle against your enemies. Do not let your hearts faint. Do not fear or tremble. Do not be afraid of them.
4 其は汝らの神ヱホバ汝らとともに行き汝らのために汝らの敵と戰ひて汝らを救ひたまふべければなりと
For Yahweh your God is the one who is going with you to fight for you against your enemies and to save you.'
5 斯てまた有司等民に告て言べし誰か新しき家を建て之に移らざる者あるかその人は家に歸りゆくべし恐くは自己戰闘に死て他の人これに移らん
The officers must speak to the people and say, 'What man is there who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, so that he does not die in battle and another man dedicates it.
6 誰か菓物園を作りてその果を食はざる者あるかその人は家に歸りゆくべし恐くは自己戰闘に死て他の人これを食はん
Is there anyone who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go home, so he will not die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
7 誰か女と契りて之を娶らざる者あるかその人は家に歸りゆくべし恐くは自己戰闘に死て他の人これを娶らんと
What man is there who is engaged to marry a woman but has not yet married her? Let him go home so that he does not die in battle and another man marries her.'
8 有司等なほまた民に告て言べし誰か懼れて心に臆する者あるかその人は家に歸りゆくべし恐くはその兄弟たちの心これが心のごとく挫けんと
The officers must speak further to the people and say, 'What man is there who is fearful or fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, so that his brother's heart does not melt like his own heart.'
9 有司等かく民に告ることを終たらば軍勢の長等を立て民を率しむべし
When the officers have finished speaking to the people, they must appoint commanders over them.
10 汝ある邑に進みゆきて之を攻んとする時は先これに平穩に降ることを勸むべし
When you march up to attack a city, make those people an offer of peace.
11 その邑もし平穩に降らんと答へてその門を汝に開かば其處なる民をして都て汝に貢を納しめ汝に事へしむべし
If they accept your offer and open their gates to you, all the people who are found in it must become forced labor for you and must serve you.
12 其もし平穩に汝に降ることを肯んぜずして汝と戰かはんとせば汝これを攻べし
But if it makes no offer of peace to you, but instead makes war against you, then you must besiege it,
13 而して汝の神ヱホバこれを汝の手に付したまふに至らば刃をもてその中の男を盡く撃殺すべし
and when Yahweh your God gives you victory and puts them under your control, you must kill every man in the town.
14 惟その婦女嬰孩家畜および凡てその邑の中にて汝が奪ひ獲たる物は盡く己に取べし抑汝がその敵より奪ひ獲たる物は汝の神ヱホバの汝に賜ふ者なれば汝これをもて樂むべし
But the women, the little ones, the cattle, and everything that is in the city, and all its spoil, you will take as booty for yourself. You will consume the booty of your enemies, whom Yahweh your God has given to you.
15 汝を離るることの遠き邑々すなはち是等の國々に屬せざるところの邑々には凡てかくのごとく行なふべし
You must act in this way toward all the cities that are very far from you, cities that are not of the cities of these following nations.
16 但し汝の神ヱホバの汝に與へて產業となさしめたまふこの國々の邑々においては呼吸する者を一人も生し存べからず
In the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must save alive nothing that breathes.
17 即ちヘテ人 アモリ人 カナン人 ペリジ人 ヒビ人 ヱブス人などは汝かならずこれを滅ぼし盡して汝の神ヱホバの汝に命じたまへる如くすべし
Instead, you must completely destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you.
18 斯するは彼らがその神々にむかひて行ふところの憎むべき事を汝らに敎へて之を倣ひおこなはしめ汝らをして汝らの神ヱホバに罪を獲せしむる事のなからんためなり
Do this so that they do not teach you to act in any of their abominable ways, as they have done with their gods. If you do, you will sin against Yahweh your God.
19 汝久しく邑を圍みて之を攻取んとする時においても斧を振ふて其處の樹を砍枯すべからず是は汝の食となるべき者なり且その城攻において田野の樹あに人のごとく汝の前に立ふさがらんや
When you will besiege a city for a long time, as you wage war against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them. For you may eat from them, so you must not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man whom you should besiege?
20 但し果を結ばざる樹と知る樹はこれを砍り枯し汝と戰ふ邑にむかひて之をもて雲梯を築きその降るまで之を攻るも宜し
Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you may destroy and cut down; you will build siege works against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.
