Второзаконие 20
1 Аще же изыдеши на брань на враги твоя, и узриши кони и всадники и люди множайшыя тебе, да не убоишися их: яко Господь Бог твой с тобою, изведый тя из земли Египетския.
When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.
2 И будет егда приближишися к рати, и приступив жрец да возглаголет к людем и речет к ним:
It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,
3 послушай, Израилю, вы исходите днесь на рать ко врагом вашым: да не ослабеет сердце ваше, ни убойтеся, ниже устрашитеся и не уклонитеся от лица их:
and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Do not let your heart faint! Do not be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
4 яко Господь Бог ваш идый пред вами споборствует вам на враги вашя и спасет вас.
for the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
5 И да рекут книгочия к людем, глаголюще: кий человек создавый храмину нову, и не обнови ея? Да идет, и да возвратится в дом свой, да не умрет на рати, и человек ин обновит ю:
The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
6 и кии человек, иже насади виноград, и не веселися от него? Да идет, и возвратится в дом свой, да не умрет на рати, и человек ин возвеселится от него:
What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.
7 и кий человек, иже обручи себе жену, и не понял ю? Да идет, и возвратится в дом свой, да не умрет на рати, и ин человек поймет ю.
What man is there who has pledged to be married to a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”
8 И да приложат книгочия глаголати к людем, и да рекут: кий человек страшлив и слаб сердцем? Да идет, и возвратится в дом свой, да не устрашит сердца брата своего, аки сердце свое.
The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”
9 И будет егда умолкнут книгочия глаголюще к людем, и поставят воеводы воинства вожды людий.
It shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.
10 Аще же приидеши ко граду воевати нань, и воззовеши я с миром:
When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
11 аще убо мирное отвещают ти, и отверзут тебе (град), вси людие обретшиися во граде да будут тебе дань дающе и послушающии тебе:
It shall be, if it gives you answer of peace and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you.
12 аще же не покорятся тебе, и сотворят с тобою рать, да обсядеши его,
If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it.
13 дондеже предаст я Господь Бог твой в руце твои: да избиеши всяк мужеск пол в нем убийством меча,
When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;
14 кроме жен и имения, и вся скоты, и вся елика суть во граде, и все стяжание да плениши себе, и да снеси весь плен врагов твоих, яже Господь Бог твой дает тебе.
but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.
15 Тако да сотвориши всем градом, иже суть далече от тебе зело, иже не суть от градов языков сих, ихже Господь Бог дает тебе наследити землю их:
Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
16 от них да не оставите жива всякаго дыхания:
But of the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
17 но и проклятием проклените их, Хеттеа и Аморреа, и Хананеа и Ферезеа, и Евеа и Иевусеа и Гергесеа, якоже заповеда тебе Господь Бог твой:
but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the LORD your God has commanded you;
18 да не научат вас творити всякия мерзости своя, елики твориша богом своим, и согрешите пред Господем Богом вашим.
that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against the LORD your God.
19 Аще же обсядеши град един дни многи воевати его в приятие себе, да не истребиши садовия его, возложив железо нань, но токмо да яси плод от них, самого же да не посечеши: еда древо, еже в дубраве, человек есть, иже внити от лица твоего в забрала?
When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you?
20 Но древо, еже веси, яко не ястся плод его, сие потребиши и посечеши, и сотвориши лествицы на град, иже творит на тя рать, дондеже предастся.
Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.
