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戰爭的條例

20 “你出去和你的仇敵作戰的時候,看見馬匹、車輛和比你多的人群,你不要怕他們,因為那把你們從埃及地領上來的耶和華你的 神,與你同在。 你們快要上戰場的時候,祭司要上前來,對人民說話, 對他們說:‘以色列人哪,你們要聽,你們今日快要和仇敵作戰,你們不要膽怯,不要懼怕,不要驚慌,不要因他們的緣故戰兢; 因為耶和華你們的 神和你們同去,要為你們攻打你們的仇敵,要拯救你們。’ 官長也要對人民宣告:‘誰建造了新房屋,還沒有行過奉獻禮的,他可以回家去,恐怕他死在戰場上,別人去為他的房屋行奉獻禮。 誰栽種了葡萄園,還沒有享用過它的果子的,他可以回家去,恐怕他死在戰場上,別人去享用它的果子。 誰與女子訂了婚,還沒有迎娶的,他可以回家去,恐怕他死在戰場上,別人去娶了她。’ 官長又要對人民宣告:‘誰是懼怕、膽怯的,他可以回家去,恐怕他使他兄弟的心融化,像他的心一樣。’ 官長對人民講完了話,就要指派軍官統率他們。

攻城的策略

10 “你臨近一座城,要攻打那城的時候,要先向那城提和議。 11 如果那城以和平的話回答你,給你開門,城裡所有的人都要給你作苦工,服事你。 12 如果那城不肯與你言和,卻要與你作戰,你就要圍困那城。 13 耶和華你的 神把城交在你手裡的時候,你要用利刃殺盡城裡所有的男丁。 14 只有婦人、小孩子、牲畜和城裡所有的一切,就是一切戰利品,你都可以據為己有,你的仇敵的戰利品,你都可以吃用,因為這是耶和華你的 神賜給你的。 15 離開你很遠的各城,不是屬於這些國民的城,你都要這樣對待他們。 16 只是在耶和華你的 神賜給你作產業的這些國民的城市裡,凡有氣息的,連一個你也不可讓他活著; 17 只要照著耶和華你的 神吩咐你的,把赫人、亞摩利人、迦南人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人,完全滅絕; 18 免得他們教導你們學習一切可憎的事,就是他們對自己的神所行的事,以致你們得罪耶和華你們的 神。

19 “如果你圍困一座城,很久才能攻取佔領它,你就不可揮斧破壞那裡的樹木;因為你可以吃樹上的果子,卻不可以砍伐樹木。難道田間的樹木是人,可以被你圍困的嗎? 20 只有你知道不結果子的樹木,你才可以毀壞砍伐,用來建造圍城的設備,攻擊那與你作戰的城,直到把它攻下為止。”

Going to War

20 When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours,(A) do not be afraid(B) of them,(C) because the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with(D) you. When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army. He shall say: “Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted(E) or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them. For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you(F) to fight(G) for you against your enemies to give you victory.(H)

The officers shall say to the army: “Has anyone built a new house and not yet begun to live in(I) it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else may begin to live in it. Has anyone planted(J) a vineyard and not begun to enjoy it?(K) Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else enjoy it. Has anyone become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else marry her.(L) Then the officers shall add, “Is anyone afraid or fainthearted? Let him go home so that his fellow soldiers will not become disheartened too.”(M) When the officers have finished speaking to the army, they shall appoint commanders over it.

10 When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace.(N) 11 If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject(O) to forced labor(P) and shall work for you. 12 If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. 13 When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it.(Q) 14 As for the women, the children, the livestock(R) and everything else in the city,(S) you may take these as plunder(T) for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. 15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance(U) from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.(V) 17 Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. 18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods,(W) and you will sin(X) against the Lord your God.

19 When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them?[b] 20 However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees(Y) and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 20:17 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.
  2. Deuteronomy 20:19 Or down to use in the siege, for the fruit trees are for the benefit of people.

戰爭的條例

20 “你出去和你的仇敵作戰的時候,看見馬匹、車輛和比你多的人群,你不要怕他們,因為那把你們從埃及地領上來的耶和華你的 神,與你同在。 你們快要上戰場的時候,祭司要上前來,對人民說話, 對他們說:‘以色列人哪,你們要聽,你們今日快要和仇敵作戰,你們不要膽怯,不要懼怕,不要驚慌,不要因他們的緣故戰兢; 因為耶和華你們的 神和你們同去,要為你們攻打你們的仇敵,要拯救你們。’ 官長也要對人民宣告:‘誰建造了新房屋,還沒有行過奉獻禮的,他可以回家去,恐怕他死在戰場上,別人去為他的房屋行奉獻禮。 誰栽種了葡萄園,還沒有享用過它的果子的,他可以回家去,恐怕他死在戰場上,別人去享用它的果子。 誰與女子訂了婚,還沒有迎娶的,他可以回家去,恐怕他死在戰場上,別人去娶了她。’ 官長又要對人民宣告:‘誰是懼怕、膽怯的,他可以回家去,恐怕他使他兄弟的心融化,像他的心一樣。’ 官長對人民講完了話,就要指派軍官統率他們。

攻城的策略

10 “你臨近一座城,要攻打那城的時候,要先向那城提和議。 11 如果那城以和平的話回答你,給你開門,城裡所有的人都要給你作苦工,服事你。 12 如果那城不肯與你言和,卻要與你作戰,你就要圍困那城。 13 耶和華你的 神把城交在你手裡的時候,你要用利刃殺盡城裡所有的男丁。 14 只有婦人、小孩子、牲畜和城裡所有的一切,就是一切戰利品,你都可以據為己有,你的仇敵的戰利品,你都可以吃用,因為這是耶和華你的 神賜給你的。 15 離開你很遠的各城,不是屬於這些國民的城,你都要這樣對待他們。 16 只是在耶和華你的 神賜給你作產業的這些國民的城市裡,凡有氣息的,連一個你也不可讓他活著; 17 只要照著耶和華你的 神吩咐你的,把赫人、亞摩利人、迦南人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人,完全滅絕; 18 免得他們教導你們學習一切可憎的事,就是他們對自己的神所行的事,以致你們得罪耶和華你們的 神。

19 “如果你圍困一座城,很久才能攻取佔領它,你就不可揮斧破壞那裡的樹木;因為你可以吃樹上的果子,卻不可以砍伐樹木。難道田間的樹木是人,可以被你圍困的嗎? 20 只有你知道不結果子的樹木,你才可以毀壞砍伐,用來建造圍城的設備,攻擊那與你作戰的城,直到把它攻下為止。”

Going to War

20 When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours,(A) do not be afraid(B) of them,(C) because the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with(D) you. When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army. He shall say: “Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted(E) or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them. For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you(F) to fight(G) for you against your enemies to give you victory.(H)

The officers shall say to the army: “Has anyone built a new house and not yet begun to live in(I) it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else may begin to live in it. Has anyone planted(J) a vineyard and not begun to enjoy it?(K) Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else enjoy it. Has anyone become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else marry her.(L) Then the officers shall add, “Is anyone afraid or fainthearted? Let him go home so that his fellow soldiers will not become disheartened too.”(M) When the officers have finished speaking to the army, they shall appoint commanders over it.

10 When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace.(N) 11 If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject(O) to forced labor(P) and shall work for you. 12 If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. 13 When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it.(Q) 14 As for the women, the children, the livestock(R) and everything else in the city,(S) you may take these as plunder(T) for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. 15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance(U) from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.(V) 17 Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. 18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods,(W) and you will sin(X) against the Lord your God.

19 When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them?[b] 20 However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees(Y) and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 20:17 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.
  2. Deuteronomy 20:19 Or down to use in the siege, for the fruit trees are for the benefit of people.