Deuteronomy 20

1 When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than yours, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you.

1 “你们和敌人交战时，面对比你们强大的军队及战车战马，不要害怕，因为你们的上帝耶和华与你们同在，祂曾带你们出埃及。

2 When you are about to go into battle, the priest is to come forward and address the army,

2 你们出战之前，祭司要上前鼓舞士气，

3 saying to them, “Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be alarmed or terrified because of them.

3 说，‘以色列人啊，听着！今天你们要和敌人交战，不要胆小害怕，也不要惊慌失措。

4 For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.”

4 因为你们的上帝耶和华要与你们同去，为你们争战，使你们战胜仇敌。’

5 Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.

5 官长要对士兵说，‘你们谁建了新房子还没有举行奉献礼 ？他可以回家去，以免他阵亡了，别人为他的房子举行奉献礼。

6 Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.

6 谁栽种了葡萄园还没有享受过园中的果子？他可以回家去，以免他阵亡了，别人享受他园中的果子。

7 Has any man become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man marry her.”

7 谁订了亲还没有迎娶？他可以回家去，以免他阵亡了，别人娶他的未婚妻。’

8 Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”

8 官长也要告诉士兵，‘有没有胆怯、害怕的？他可以回家去，免得影响他人士气。’

9 When the officers have finished addressing the army, they are to appoint commanders to lead it.

9 他们讲完后，就要委派将领率军出战。

10 When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.

10 “你们进攻一座城之前，要先给城中居民求和的机会。

11 If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.

11 如果他们开城求和，城里所有人都要做你们的奴隶，为你们服劳役。

12 But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.

12 如果他们不肯求和，要交战，你们就要围攻那城。

13 When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.

13 你们的上帝耶和华把城交给你们时，你们要用刀杀光城里所有的男子，

14 But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.

14 但可以留下城中的妇女、孩童、牲畜及其他一切作战利品。你们可以享用仇敌的财物，那是你们的上帝耶和华赐给你们的。

15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

15 上述做法只适用于离你们很遥远的城邑，你们附近各族的城邑除外。

16 However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.

16 你们的上帝耶和华将把你们附近各族的城邑赐给你们作产业，你们要将里面有气息的全部消灭。

17 For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,

17 要遵照你们的上帝耶和华的吩咐，彻底灭绝赫人、亚摩利人、迦南人、比利洗人、希未人和耶布斯人，

18 so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the LORD your God.

18 免得他们将祭拜自己神明的可憎习俗传给你们，以致你们得罪你们的上帝耶和华。

19 When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?

19 “你们围攻一座城久攻不下时，不可用斧头砍掉那里的树木，因为你们可以吃树上的果子。田间的树木岂是人，让你们围攻吗？

20 But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.

20 但你们可以砍那些不结果子的树来建围城的工事，直到攻陷为止。