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.
And if you should go forth to war against your enemies, and should see horse, and rider, and a people more numerous than yourself; you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God [is] with you, who 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 come to pass whenever you shall draw near to battle, that the priest shall draw near and speak to the people, and shall say to them,
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:
Hear, O Israel; you are going this day to battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint, fear not, neither be confounded, neither turn aside from their face.
4 Que Jehová vuestro Dios anda con vosotros para pelear por vosotros contra vuestros enemigos para salvaros.
For [it is] the Lord your God who advances with you, to fight with you against your enemies, [and] 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 scribes shall speak to the people, saying, What man [is] he that has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the war, 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 not been made merry with it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man be made merry with 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] he 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 scribes shall speak further to the people, and say, What man [is] he that fears and is cowardly in his heart? Let him go and return to his house, lest he make the heart of his brother fail, as his own.
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 come to pass when the scribes shall have ceased speaking to the people, that they shall appoint generals of the army to be leaders of the people.
10 Cuando te acercares a la ciudad para combatirla, pregonarle has paz.
And if you shall draw near to a city to overcome them by war, then call them out peaceably.
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.
If then they should answer peaceably to you, and open to you, it shall be that all the people found in it shall be tributary and subject to you.
12 Mas sino hiciere paz contigo, e hiciere contigo guerra, y la cercares,
But if they will not listen to you, but wage war against you, you shall invest it;
13 Y Jehová tu Dios la diere en tu mano, entonces herirás a todo varón suyo a filo de espada.
until the Lord your God shall deliver it into your hands, and you shall strike every male of it 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.
except the women and the stuff: and all the cattle, and whatever shall be in the city, and all the plunder you shall take as spoil for yourself, and shall eat all the plunder of your enemies whom the Lord your God gives 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 that are very far off from you, not [being] of the cities of these nations which the Lord your God gives you to inherit their land.
16 Solamente de las ciudades de estos pueblos que Jehová tu Dios te da por heredad, ninguna persona dejarás a vida:
[Of these] you shall not take any thing alive;
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 surely curse them, the Chettite, and the Amorite, and the Chananite, and the Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Gergesite; as the Lord your God 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 may not teach you to do all their abominations, which they did to their gods, and [so] you should sin before 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.
And if you should besiege a city many days to prevail against it by war to take it, you shall not destroy its trees, by applying an iron tool to them, but you shall eat of it, and shall not cut it down: Is the tree that is in the field a man, to enter before you into the work of 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.
But the tree which you know to be not fruit-bearing, this you shall destroy and cut down; and you shall construct a mound against the city, which makes war against you, until it be delivered up.
