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10.「你臨近一座城、要攻打的時候，先要對城裏的民宣告和睦的話。
When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace
11.他們若以和睦的話回答你，給你開了城，城裏所有的人都要給你效勞，服事你；
If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you.
12.若不肯與你和好，反要與你打仗，你就要圍困那城。
If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city.
13.耶和華你的 神把城交付你手，你就要用刀殺盡這城的男丁。
When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it.
14.惟有婦女、孩子、牲畜，和城內一切的財物，你可以取為自己的掠物。耶和華你 神把你仇敵的財物賜給你，你可以吃用。
As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies.
15.離你甚遠的各城，不是這些國民的城，你都要這樣待他。
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
16.但這些國民的城，耶和華你 神既賜你為業，其中凡有氣息的，一個不可存留；
However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.
17.只要照耶和華你 神所吩咐的，將這赫人、亞摩利人、迦南人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人都滅絕淨盡，
Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you.
Footnotes:
a. Deuteronomy 20:17 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the LORD, often by totally destroying them.
18.免得他們教導你們學習一切可憎惡的事，就是他們向自己神所行的，以致你們得罪耶和華你們的 神。
Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God.
19.你若許久圍困、攻打所要取的一座城，就不可舉斧子砍壞樹木；因為你可以吃那樹上的果子，不可砍伐。田間的樹木豈是人，叫你糟蹋嗎？
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]
Footnotes:
b. Deuteronomy 20:19 Or down to use in the siege, for the fruit trees are for the benefit of people.
20.惟獨你所知道不是結果子的樹木可以毀壞、砍伐，用以修築營壘，攻擊那與你打仗的城，直到攻塌了。
However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls. |
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