Deuteronomy 20
1 “Pacl kowos illa in mweun lain mwet lokoalok lowos, ac kowos liye chariot ac horse ac sie un mwet mweun su pus liki kowos, kowos, in tia sangeng selos. LEUM GOD lowos, su molikowosla ac uskowosme liki facl Egypt, El ac fah wi kowos.
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 Meet liki kowos mutawauk mweun, sie mwet tol fah fahsryak nu meet uh ac fahk nu sin un mwet mweun,
When you are about to enter into battle, the priest must approach and speak to the people.
3 ‘Mukul Israel, porongo! Misenge kowos ac som mweun. Nikmet sangeng sin mwet lokoalok lowos, a kowos in pulaik ac tia sensen ku fosrnga.
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 LEUM GOD lowos El ac wi kowos, ac El ac sot kutangla nu suwos.’
For Yahweh your God is the one who is going with you to fight for you against your enemies and to save you.'
5 “Na mwet kol lun un mwet mweun uh ac fah fahk nu sin mwet uh, ‘Su suwos tufahna musaela lohm se sel ma soenna kisakunla? Fin oasr, na elan folokla nu lohm sel uh, mweyen el fin tuh anwuki ke mweun uh, siena mwet ac tuh kisaela lohm sel uh.
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 Su suwos tufahna yukwiya sie ima in grape, a soenna kosrani fahko kac? Fin oasr, elan folokla, mweyen el fin tuh misa ke mweun uh, siena mwet ac tuh kang fahko kac.
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 Su suwos akoo in payukyak a soenna alula? Fin oasr, elan folokla nu yen sel, mweyen el fin tuh misa ke mweun uh, siena mwet ac payukyak sin mutan se el ako se uh.’
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 “Mwet kol fah oayapa fahk nu sin mwet uh, ‘Su suwos munasla nanka ac sangeng? Fin oasr, elan folokla, mweyen el fin wi kut, el ac akmunasyela nunkun mwet mweun wial uh.’
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 Ke mwet kol elos sramsram tari nu sin un mwet mweun uh, elos fah pakiya mwet in kol kais sie u.”
When the officers have finished speaking to the people, they must appoint commanders over them.
10 “Ke kowos som in mweuni sie siti, ma se meet kowos in oru pa in akkalemye nu sin mwet we ke inkanek in orek misla.
When you march up to attack a city, make those people an offer of peace.
11 Elos fin insese in suk misla, na elos nukewa fah mwet kohs lowos ac oru kutena orekma kowos sapkin nu selos.
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 Tusruktu mwet in siti sac fin tia insese in suk misla, a elos sulela in mweun, kowos fah kuhlusya in mweunelos.
But if it makes no offer of peace to you, but instead makes war against you, then you must besiege it,
13 Na ke LEUM GOD lowos El oru tuh kowos in kutangla siti sac, kowos fah uniya mukul nukewa we.
and when Yahweh your God gives you victory and puts them under your control, you must kill every man in the town.
14 Tusruktu, kowos ku in eis mutan, tulik, kosro, ac ma nukewa saya tuh in ma wap lowos. Kowos in insewowokin ma nukewa lun mwet lokoalok lowos, su LEUM GOD El sot nu suwos.
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 Pa inge ma kowos ac oru nu ke siti nukewa ma oan loessula liki acn kowos ac muta we.
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 “Tusruktu, ke kowos ac kutangla siti in facl se su LEUM GOD lowos El asot nu suwos, kowos in onela mwet ac kosro nukewa.
In the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must save alive nothing that breathes.
17 Kunausla mwet nukewa: mwet Hit, mwet Amor, mwet Canaan, mwet Periz, mwet Hiv ac mwet Jebus, oana LEUM GOD El sapkin nu suwos.
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 Onelosla nukewa elos in tia luti kowos ouiya ma srungayuk ma elos oru ke elos alu nu sin god lalos, ma pwanang kowos orekma koluk lain LEUM GOD.
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 “Ke pacl kowos srike in sruokya sie siti, kowos in tia pakiya sak ma oasr fahko kac, kowos finne kuhlusya acn sac ke pacl na loes. Kang fokinsak kac, tusruk nimet pakela sak uh. Mwet lokoalok lowos pa mwet we, tia sak we.
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 Kowos ku in pakiya sak nukewa ma wangin fahko kac, in orek nien fan nu in siti sacn nwe ke kowos sruokya.
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.
