Deuteronomio 20
1 Cuando salieres a la guerra contra tus enemigos, y vieres caballos y carros, pueblo más grande que tú, no hayas temor de ellos, que Jehová tu Dios es contigo, que te sacó de tierra de Egipto.
When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, and a people more than you, be not afraid of them: for the LORD your God is with you, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
2 Y será que cuando os acercareis para pelear, el sacerdote se llegará, y hablará al pueblo:
And it shall be, when you are come near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,
3 Y decirles ha: Oye Israel: Vosotros os juntáis hoy en batalla contra vuestros enemigos: no se enternezca vuestro corazón, no temáis, no os apresuréis, y no os quebrantéis delante de ellos:
And shall say to them, Hear, O Israel, you approach this day to battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be you terrified because of them;
4 Que Jehová vuestro Dios anda con vosotros para pelear por vosotros contra vuestros enemigos para salvaros.
For the LORD your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
5 Y los alcaldes hablarán al pueblo, diciendo: ¿Quién ha edificado casa nueva, y no la ha estrenado? Vaya, y vuélvase a su casa, porque quizá no muera en la batalla, y otro alguno la estrene.
And the officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there that 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 Y ¿quién ha plantado viña, y no la ha profanado? Vaya, y vuélvase a su casa, porque quizá no muera en la batalla y otro alguno la profane.
And what man is he that has planted a vineyard, and has not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
7 Y ¿quién se ha desposado con mujer, y no la ha tomado? Vaya, y vuélvase a su casa, porque quizá no muera en la batalla y algún otro la tome.
And what man is there that has betrothed 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 Y tornarán los alcaldes a hablar al pueblo, y dirán: ¿Quién es hombre medroso, y tierno de corazón? Vaya, y vuélvase a su casa, y no deslía el corazón de sus hermanos, como su corazón.
And the officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart.
9 Y será, que cuando los alcaldes acabaren de hablar al pueblo, entonces los capitanes de los ejércitos mandarán delante del pueblo.
And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
10 Cuando te acercares a la ciudad para combatirla, pregonarle has paz.
When you come near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
11 Y será, que si te respondiere: Paz, y te abriere, todo el pueblo que en ella fuere hallado te serán tributarios, y te servirán.
And it shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries to you, and they shall serve you.
12 Mas sino hiciere paz contigo, e hiciere contigo guerra, y la cercares,
And if it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:
13 Y Jehová tu Dios la diere en tu mano, entonces herirás a todo varón suyo a filo de espada.
And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
14 Solamente las mujeres y los niños, y los animales, y todo lo que hubiere en la ciudad, todos sus despojos, tomarás para ti: y comerás del despojo de tus enemigos, los cuales Jehová tu Dios te entregó.
But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shall you take to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.
15 Así harás a todas las ciudades que estuvieren muy lejos de ti, que no fueren de las ciudades de estas gentes.
Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
16 Solamente de las ciudades de estos pueblos que Jehová tu Dios te da por heredad, ninguna persona dejarás a vida:
But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God does give you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes:
17 Mas destruyendo los destruirás, al Jetteo, y al Amorreo, y al Cananeo, y al Ferezeo, y al Heveo, y al Jebuseo: como Jehová tu Dios te ha mandado.
But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you:
18 Porque no os enseñen a hacer según todas sus abominaciones, que ellos hacen a sus dioses, y pequéis contra Jehová vuestro Dios.
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so should you sin against the LORD your God.
19 Cuando pusieres cerco a alguna ciudad peleando contra ella muchos días para tomarla, no destruirás su arboleda metiendo en ella hacha, porque de ella comerás: y no la talarás, que no es hombre el árbol del campo, que venga contra ti en el cerco.
When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an ax against them: for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life) to employ them in the siege:
20 Mas el árbol que supieres que no es árbol para comer, destruirlo has y talarlo has, y edificarás baluarte contra la ciudad que pelea contigo, hasta sojuzgarla.
Only the trees which you know that they be not trees for meat, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it be subdued.
