中英对照

1. 1.当你 你 在这里是指向民兵讲话，代表国家说话 率领军队与敌人交战，看见敌人有马和战车，且人数比你多，不要害怕他们，因为永在的上帝，你的神，曾将你从埃及领出，现在与你同在。When you take the field against your enemies, and see horses and chariots—forces larger than yours—have no fear of them, for the ETERNAL your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, is with you.💡
2. 2.在你们即将交战之前，祭司要走到前面对军队说：Before you join battle, the priest shall come forward and address the troops. 💡
3. 3.他要对他们说：“以色列啊，你们要听！你们即将与敌人交战，不要胆怯，不要害怕，也不要因他们而惊惧。He shall say to them, “Hear, O Israel! You are about to join battle with your enemy. Let not your courage falter. Do not be in fear, or in panic, or in dread of them. 💡
4. 4.因为是你们的神永恒上帝与你们同行，为你们与敌人争战，使你们得胜。For it is the ETERNAL your God who marches with you to do battle for you against your enemy, to bring you victory.”💡
5. 5.官长要对军队说：你们中间有没有人新建了房子，还没有奉献呢，他可以回家，免得他死在战场上，另一个人来奉献他的房子。Then the officials shall address the troops, as follows: “Is there anyone who has built a new house but has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his home, lest he die in battle and another dedicate it. 💡
6. 6.有没有人种了葡萄园却没有收获？让他回家吧，免得他在战场上死去，另一个人收获它。Is there anyone who has planted a vineyard but has never harvested it? Let him go back to his home, lest he die in battle and another harvest it. 💡
7. 7.有没有人已经为妻子支付了聘金，使她在法律上成为他的妻子，尽管她还没有搬进来，但是他还没有把她带回家？他可以回家，以免他在战场上死去，另一个人娶她为妻。Is there anyone who has paid the bride-price for a wife, but who has not yet taken her [into his household]? Let him go back to his home, lest he die in battle and another take her to wife.”💡
8. 8.官长要向军队宣告说，有人因害怕、失去勇气，可以回家，免得使他的兄弟失去勇气。The officials shall go on addressing the troops and say, “Is there anyone afraid and disheartened? Let him go back to his home, lest the courage of his comrades flag like his.” 💡
9. 9.官员们完成了对部队的讲话后，军队指挥官将接管部队的指挥。When the officials have finished addressing the troops, army commanders shall assume command of the troops.💡
10. 10.当你靠近一座城要攻打它的时候，你应当向城里提出和平的条件。提出和平的条件 或作“邀请它投降”When you approach a town to attack it, you shall offer it terms of peace.💡
11. 11.如果它和平地应允并且开门让你进去，那里所有的人都要给你服苦役。If it responds peaceably and lets you in, all the people present there shall serve you at forced labor. 💡
12. 12.若不肯投降，反要与你打仗，你就要把这城围困；If it does not surrender to you, but would join battle with you, you shall lay siege to it; 💡
13. 13.当耶和华你神将城交在你手中的时候，你要将城中所有的男丁用刀杀死。and when the ETERNAL your God delivers it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword.💡
14. 14.然而，你可以将城中的妇女、孩子、牲畜和一切财物都当作战利品，享受永恒的神你神所赐予你的敌人战利品的使用。You may, however, take as your booty the women, the children, the livestock, and everything in the town—all its spoil—and enjoy the use of the spoil of your enemy, which the ETERNAL your God gives you.💡
15. 15.你们要这样对待那些很远离你们、不属于这四围各国的城邑。Thus you shall deal with all towns that lie very far from you, towns that do not belong to nations hereabout. 💡
16. 16.在耶和华你神所赐你为业的那些国的城中，绝不可让一切气息都剩下。In the towns of the latter peoples, however, which the ETERNAL your God is giving you as a heritage, you shall not let a soul remain alive.💡
17. 17.不，你必须将他们剪除，就是赫人、亚摩利人、迦南人、比利洗人、希未人和耶布斯人，正如耶和华你神所吩咐你的。No, you must proscribe them—the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites—as the ETERNAL your God has commanded you,💡
18. 18.免得他们引诱你去行他们为神所行的一切可憎之事，你就得罪了你神永恒主。lest they lead you into doing all the abhorrent things that they have done for their gods and you stand guilty before the ETERNAL your God.💡
19. 19.你们围攻一座城，旷日持久，想要攻取它的时候，不可用斧子砍伐树木，也不可毁坏树木，因为树木不是人，不能在你们面前逃入城中，你们可以吃树上的果子，却不可砍伐树木When in your war against a city you have to besiege it a long time in order to capture it, you must not destroy its trees, wielding the ax against them. You may eat of them, but you must not cut them down. Are trees of the field human to withdraw before you into the besieged city? 💡
20. 20.只有你们知道不结果子的树木才可以毁坏，你们可以砍伐它们来攻打对你们作战的城市，直到攻取了它。Only trees that you know do not yield food may be destroyed; you may cut them down for constructing siegeworks against the city that is waging war on you, until it has been reduced.💡