Deuteronomy 20

1 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.

Ko greš ven na boj zoper svoje sovražnike in vidiš konje in bojne vozove in ljudstvo, številnejše od tebe, se jih ne boj, kajti Gospod, tvoj Bog, je s teboj, ki te je privedel gor iz egiptovske dežele.

2 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,

In zgodilo se bo, ko se približate k bitki, da bodo pristopili duhovniki in spregovorili ljudstvu

3 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.

ter jim rekli: ›Prisluhni, oh Izrael, danes se približujete bitki zoper svoje sovražnike. Naj vaša srca ne slabijo, ne bojte se in ne trepetajte, niti zaradi njih ne bodite prestrašeni,

4 For [it is] the Lord your God who advances with you, to fight with you against your enemies, [and] to save you.

kajti Gospod, vaš Bog, je ta, ki gre z vami, da se za vas bori zoper vaše sovražnike, da vas reši.‹

5 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.

Častniki bodo ljudstvu govorili, rekoč: ›Kateri mož je tam, ki je zgradil novo hišo in je ni posvetil? Naj ta gre in se vrne k svoji hiši, da v bitki ne umre in je ne posveti drug moški.

6 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.

In kateri mož je ta, ki je zasadil vinograd in še ni jedel od njega? Tudi ta naj gre in se vrne k svoji hiši, da v bitki ne umre in drug moški ne jé od njega.

7 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.

In kateri mož je tam, ki je zaročil ženo in je še ni vzel? Naj gre in se vrne k svoji hiši, da v bitki ne umre in je ne vzame drug moški.‹

8 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.

Častniki bodo naprej govorili ljudstvu in bodo rekli: ›Kateri moški je tam, ki je bojazljiv in boječ? Naj gre in se vrne k svoji hiši, da ne bo srce njegovih bratov oslabelo tako kakor njegovo srce.‹

9 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.

Zgodilo se bo, ko bodo častniki končali govorjenje ljudstvu, da bodo postavili poveljnike vojsk, da vodijo ljudstvo.

10 And if you shall draw near to a city to overcome them by war, then call them out peaceably.

Ko prideš blizu mesta, da se boriš zoper njega, potem mu razglasi mir.

11 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.

Zgodilo se bo, če ti ta naredi odgovor miru in ti odpre, potem se bo zgodilo, da ti bodo vsi ljudje, ki so najdeni notri, postali davkoplačevalci in ti bodo služili.

12 But if they will not listen to you, but wage war against you, you shall invest it;

Če pa s teboj ne bo sklenilo miru, temveč se bo zoper tebe vojskovalo, potem ga boš oblegal

13 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:

in ko ga Gospod, tvoj Bog, izroči v tvoje roke, boš vsakega tamkajšnjega moškega udaril z ostrino meča.

14 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.

Toda ženske, malčke, živino in vse, kar je v mestu, torej ves njegov plen, boš vzel k sebi in jedel boš plen svojih sovražnikov, ki ti ga je dal Gospod, tvoj Bog.

15 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.

Tako boš storil vsem mestom, ki so zelo daleč od tebe, ki niso od mest teh narodov.

16 [Of these] you shall not take any thing alive;

Toda od mest teh ljudstev, ki ti jih Gospod, tvoj Bog, da za dediščino, ne boš ohranil živega ničesar, kar diha,

17 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:

temveč jih boš popolnoma uničil, namreč Hetejce, Amoréjce, Kánaance, Perizéjce, Hivéjce in Jebusejce, kakor ti je zapovedal Gospod, tvoj Bog,

18 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.

da te ne naučijo delati po vseh svojih ogabnostih, ki so jih storili svojim bogovom. Tako bi grešili zoper Gospoda, svojega Boga.

19 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?

Ko boš dolgo časa oblegal mesto in se vojskoval zoper njega, da ga zavzameš, ne boš uničil njegovih dreves s tem, da bi nadnje privedel sekiro, kajti od njih lahko ješ in ne boš jih posekal, da bi jih uporabil pri obleganju (kajti poljsko drevo je življenje človeku).

20 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.

Uničil in posekal boš le drevesa, za katera veš, da niso drevesa za hrano. Zoper mesto, ki se bojuje s teboj, boš zgradil branike, dokler ne bo podjarmljeno.