Deuteronômio 20

1 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you. 2 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people, 3 and shall tell them, "Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them; 4 for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you."

5 The 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 What 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 What man is there who has pledged to be married to 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 The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, "What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart." 9 It shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.

10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. 11 It shall be, if it gives you answer of peace and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you. 12 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it. 13 When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword; 14 but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you. 15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. 16 But of the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; 17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you; 18 that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God. 19 When 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 ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you? 20 Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.

Tikanga ina Whawhai

1 E haere koe ki te whawhai ki ōu hoariri, ā, ka kite i ngā hōiho me ngā hāriata, i te iwi hoki he tokomaha ake i a koe, kei wehi i a rātou; kei a koe hoki a Ihowā, tōu Atua, i kawea mai ai koe i te whenua o Īhipa. 2 Ā, ka whakatata koutou ki te whawhai, nā, me haere mai te tohunga, me kōrero ki te iwi, 3 ka mea ki a rātou: "Whakarongo, e Īharaira! E whakatata atu ana koutou āianei ki te whawhai ki ō koutou hoariri. Kei hopī ō koutou ngākau; kaua e wehi. Kaua e pōtatutatu, kaua anō hoki e pāwera i tō rātou aroaro; 4 ko Ihowā hoki, ko tō koutou Atua, ko ia te haere tahi ana i a koutou, māna tā koutou whawhai ki ō koutou hoariri, māna koutou e whakaora."

5 Me kōrero anō hoki ngā kaiwhakahauhau ki te iwi, me kī atu: "Tēnei rānei tētahi kua hangā e ia he whare hou, ā, kāhore anō i tāia te kawa? Me haere ia, me hoki atu ki tōna whare, kei mate ki te whawhaitanga, ka riro mā te tangata kē e tā te kawa. 6 Tēnei rānei tētahi kua whakatōkia e ia he māra wāina, ā, kāhore anō i kainga ngā hua? Me haere ia, me hoki atu ki tōna whare, kei mate ki te whawhaitanga, ka riro mā te tangata kē e kai. 7 Tēnei rānei tētahi kua oti tētahi wahine te taumau māna, ā, kāhore anō i tangohia e ia? Me haere ia, me hoki atu ki tōna whare, kei mate ki te whawhaitanga, ka riro mā te tangata kē e tango." 8 Ā, me kōrero anō ngā kaiwhakahauhau ki te iwi, me kī atu, "Tēnei rānei tētahi e wehi ana, e hopī ana te ngākau? Me haere ia, me hoki atu ki tōna whare, kei ngohe ngā ngākau o ōna tēina, kei rite ki tōna ngākau." 9 Nā, ka mutu te kōrero a ngā kaiwhakahauhau ki te iwi, me whakarite e rātou ētahi rangatira ope hei upoko mō te iwi.

10 Ka whakatata atu koe ki te tatau ki tētahi pā, nā, me karanga atu e koe te rangimārie ki reira. 11 Ā, ki te mea he rangimārie tāna e whakahoki mai ai ki a koe, ā, ka whakapuaretia ki a koe, kātahi ka waiho ngā tāngata katoa e kitea e koe ki reira hei kaihōmai takoha ki a koe, hei apa anō rātou māu. 12 Ā, ki te kore e mau tā reira rongo ki a koe, ā, ka anga ki te whawhai ki a koe, kātahi ka whakapaea e koe; 13 ā, ki te hoatu e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ki ōu ringa, nā, me patu e koe ngā tāne katoa o reira ki te mata o te hoari. 14 Ko ngā wāhine ia me ngā tamariki, ko ngā kararehe me ngā mea katoa i roto i te pā, ko ngā taonga katoa o reira, me tango e koe māu; ā, ka pau i a koe ngā mea a ōu hoariri, e hoatu ana e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ki a koe. 15 Ko tēnei tāu e mea ai ki ngā pā katoa e mamao rawa atu ana i a koe, ehara nei i te pā nō ēnei iwi.

16 Ko ngā pā ia o ēnei iwi, e hoatu nei e Ihowā, e tōu Atua, ki a koe hei kāinga tupu, kaua e whakaorangia tētahi mea e whai manawa ana. 17 Engari, me whakangaro rawa rātou e koe – ngā Hiti, ngā Amori, ngā Kanaani, ngā Perihi, ngā Hiwi, ngā Iepuhi – kia rite ki tā Ihowā, ki tā tōu Atua, i whakahau ai ki a koe. 18 Kei whakaakona koutou e rātou ki te mahi i ā rātou mahi whakarihariha katoa e mahia nei e rātou ki ō rātou atua; ā, ka hara koutou ki a Ihowā, ki tō koutou Atua.

19 Ki te maha ngā rā e whakapaea ai e koe he pā, e tauria ai kia horo, kei whakakorea e koe ngā rākau o reira, kei ākina atu ki te toki. Nō te mea hei kai ēnā māu, ā, kaua e tuaina e koe; he tangata koia te rākau o te pārae kia whakapaea e koe? 20 Ko ngā rākau anake e mōhio ai koe ehara i te rākau kai, ko ēnā āu e whakakore, ka tua ki raro; ā, ka hangā he taiepa whakapae mō te pā e whawhai ana ki a koe, ā horo noa.