Deuteronomy 20
1 When thou goest out to battle against thy enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
「你出去與仇敵爭戰的時候，看見馬匹、車輛，並有比你多的人民，不要怕他們，因為領你出埃及地的耶和華－你上帝與你同在。
2 And it shall be, when ye are come near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,
你們將要上陣的時候，祭司要到百姓面前宣告
3 And shall say to them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day to battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
說：『以色列人哪，你們當聽，你們今日將要與仇敵爭戰，不要膽怯，不要懼怕戰兢，也不要因他們驚恐；
4 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
因為耶和華－你們的上帝與你們同去，要為你們與仇敵爭戰，拯救你們。』
5 And the officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he should die in the battle, and another man should dedicate it.
官長也要對百姓宣告說：『誰建造房屋，尚未奉獻，他可以回家去，恐怕他陣亡，別人去奉獻。
6 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return to his house, lest he should die in the battle, and another man should eat of it.
誰種葡萄園，尚未用所結的果子，他可以回家去，恐怕他陣亡，別人去用。
7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he should die in battle, and another man should take her.
誰聘定了妻，尚未迎娶，他可以回家去，恐怕他陣亡，別人去娶。』
8 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 should faint as well as his heart.
官長又要對百姓宣告說：『誰懼怕膽怯，他可以回家去，恐怕他弟兄的心消化，和他一樣。』
9 And it shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
官長對百姓宣告完了，就當派軍長率領他們。
10 When thou comest near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
「你臨近一座城、要攻打的時候，先要對城裏的民宣告和睦的話。
11 And it shall be, if it shall make thee answer of peace, and open to thee, then it shall be, that all the people that are found in it shall be forced labourers to thee, and they shall serve thee.
他們若以和睦的話回答你，給你開了城，城裏所有的人都要給你效勞，服事你；
12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
若不肯與你和好，反要與你打仗，你就要圍困那城。
13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thy hands, thou shalt smite every male of it with the edge of the sword:
耶和華－你的上帝把城交付你手，你就要用刀殺盡這城的男丁。
14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, shalt thou take to thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thy enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
惟有婦女、孩子、牲畜，和城內一切的財物，你可以取為自己的掠物。耶和華－你上帝把你仇敵的財物賜給你，你可以吃用。
15 Thus shalt thou do to all the cities which are very distant from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
離你甚遠的各城，不是這些國民的城，你都要這樣待他。
16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
但這些國民的城，耶和華－你上帝既賜你為業，其中凡有氣息的，一個不可存留；
17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
只要照耶和華－你上帝所吩咐的將這赫人、亞摩利人、迦南人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人都滅絕淨盡，
18 That they may not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
免得他們教導你們學習一切可憎惡的事，就是他們向自己神所行的，以致你們得罪耶和華－你們的上帝。
19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees of it by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man’s life ) to employ them in the siege:
「你若許久圍困、攻打所要取的一座城，就不可舉斧子砍壞樹木；因為你可以吃那樹上的果子，不可砍伐。田間的樹木豈是人，叫你糟蹋嗎？
20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they are not trees for food, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it shall be subdued.
惟獨你所知道不是結果子的樹木可以毀壞、砍伐，用以修築營壘，攻擊那與你打仗的城，直到攻塌了。」
