¹戰爭的條例“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。

¹When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

²你們快要上戰場的時候，祭司要上前來，對人民說話，

²It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,

³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；

³and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: don’t let your heart faint; don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;

⁴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。’

⁴for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”

⁵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。

⁵The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

⁶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。

⁶What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.

⁷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。’

⁷What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”

⁸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。’

⁸The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”

⁹官長對人民講完了話，就要指派軍官統率他們。

⁹It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.

¹⁰攻城的策略“你臨近一座城，要攻打那城的時候，要先向那城提和議。

¹⁰When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

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。

¹¹It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.

¹²如果那城不肯與你言和，卻要與你作戰，你就要圍困那城。

¹²If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:

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。

¹³and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

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。

¹⁴but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

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。

¹⁵Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

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；

¹⁶But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

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；

¹⁷but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;

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，以致他們得罪耶和華你們的　神。

¹⁸that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

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？

¹⁹When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?

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。”

²⁰Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.