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

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Footnotes

  1. 20:5 举行奉献礼”指入住前举行的仪式,有些版本译为“开始入住”。

The officers shall say to the army: “Has anyone built a new house and not yet begun to live in(A) it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else may begin to live in it.

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