Deutéronome 20

BIBLES DES PEUPLES	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Lorsque tu partiras combattre tes ennemis, si tu leur vois des chevaux, des chars et des troupes plus nombreuses que les tiennes, n’aie pas peur, car Yahvé ton Dieu qui t’a fait monter du pays d’Égypte est avec toi.	1 “If you go out to battle against your enemies, and you see horsemen and chariots, and that the multitude of your adversary’s army is greater than your own, you shall not fear them. For the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, is with you.
2 Avant qu’on engage le combat, le prêtre s’avancera et parlera au peuple.	2 Then, as the battle now draws near, the priest shall stand before the front ranks, and he shall speak to the people in this manner:
3 Il lui dira: “Écoute, Israël! Vous êtes aujourd’hui sur le point d’affronter vos ennemis. Ne faiblissez pas, soyez sans crainte et ne vous effrayez pas, n’ayez pas peur devant eux,	3 ‘Listen, O Israel! Today you engage in a battle against your enemies. Do not let your heart be overwhelmed with fear. Do not be apprehensive. Do not yield. You should have no dread of them.
4 car Yahvé votre Dieu marche avec vous. Il combattra vos ennemis à vos côtés et il vous sauvera.”	4 For the Lord your God is in your midst, and he will contend against your enemies on your behalf, so that he may rescue you from peril.’
5 Les chefs diront ensuite au peuple: “Qui a bâti une maison neuve et n’a pas encore eu le temps de la bénir? Qu’il s’en aille et retourne chez lui, de peur qu’il ne meure dans la bataille et qu’un autre ne la bénisse à sa place.	5 Likewise, the officers shall proclaim, throughout every company, in the hearing of the soldiers: ‘What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest perhaps he may die in the battle, and another man may dedicate it.
6 Qui a planté une vigne et n’a pas encore mangé de son raisin? Qu’il s’en aille et retourne chez lui, de peur qu’il ne meure dans la bataille et qu’un autre ne profite de sa vigne.	6 What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not yet caused it to be common, so that all may eat from it? Let him go, and return to his house, lest perhaps he may die in the battle, and another man may carry out his office.
7 Qui s’est fiancé à une femme et ne l’a pas encore épousée? Qu’il s’en aille et retourne chez lui, de peur qu’il ne meure dans la bataille et qu’un autre ne l’épouse.”	7 What man is there, who has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go, and return to his house, lest perhaps he may die in battle, and another man may take her.’
8 Les chefs diront encore: “Qui a peur? Qui se sent démoralisé? Qu’il s’en aille et retourne chez lui, car il pourrait démoraliser ses frères.”	8 After these things have been declared, they shall add the remainder, and shall say to the people: ‘What man is there who is overwhelmed by fear and is fainthearted? Let him go, and return to his house, lest he cause the hearts of his brothers to fear, just as he himself has been thoroughly stricken with fear.’
9 Lorsqu’ils auront fini de parler au peuple, les chefs prendront la tête des troupes.	9 And when the officers of the army have become silent, and have completed their speech, each one shall prepare his unit to wage war.
10 Lorsque tu t’approcheras d’une ville pour l’attaquer, tu commenceras par lui offrir la paix.	10 When, at any time, you approach a city to fight against it, you shall first offer peace to it.
11 Si elle répond pacifiquement et t’ouvre ses portes, tout le peuple qui s’y trouve paiera le tribut et te servira.	11 If they receive it, and open the gates to you, then all the people who are in it shall be saved, and they shall serve you by paying tribute.
12 Mais si elle refuse la paix avec toi et qu’elle veuille combattre, tu en feras le siège.	12 But if they are not willing to enter into an agreement, and they begin to act against you in warfare, then you shall besiege it.
13 Lorsque Yahvé ton Dieu l’aura livrée entre tes mains, tu passeras au fil de l’épée tous les mâles.	13 And when the Lord your God will have delivered it into your hands, you shall strike down anyone who is in it, of the male gender, with the edge of the sword,
14 Mais les femmes, les enfants, le bétail et tout ce qui sera dans la ville, toutes ses dépouilles, tu les prendras pour toi et tu te nourriras du butin de tes ennemis que Yahvé ton Dieu t’aura livré.	14 but not the women and young children, nor the cattle and the other things that are within the city. And you shall divide all the plunder to the soldiers, and you shall eat the spoils from your enemies, which the Lord your God will give to you.
15 Tu agiras ainsi envers toutes les villes qui sont très loin de toi et qui n’appartiennent pas aux étrangers du voisinage.	15 So shall you do to all the cities which are at a great distance from you, those which are not among the cities that you shall receive as a possession.
16 Mais tu ne laisseras personne en vie dans ces villes d’étrangers que Yahvé ton Dieu te donne en héritage.	16 But among those cities which shall be given to you, you shall not permit anyone at all to live.
17 Tu dois les vouer à l’anathème: les Hittites, les Amorites, les Cananéens, les Périsites, les Hivvites, les Jébusites, comme Yahvé ton Dieu te l’a ordonné.	17 Instead, you shall put them to death with the edge of the sword, specifically: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite, the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you.
18 Ainsi ils ne vous apprendront pas leurs pratiques et leurs façons de servir leurs dieux: elles sont scandaleuses! Et vous, vous ne pécherez pas envers Yahvé votre Dieu.	18 Otherwise, they may teach you to do all the abominations which they have committed for their own gods. And then you would sin against the Lord your God.
19 Lorsque tu attaqueras une ville pour t’en emparer, si tu l’assièges et que le siège se prolonge, tu n’abattras pas les arbres, tu n’y mettras pas la hache si tu peux en manger les fruits. L’arbre des champs n’est pas un homme, et tu n’es pas en guerre avec lui.	19 When you will have besieged a city for a long time, and you will have encircled it with fortifications, so that you may fight against it, you shall not cut down trees from which one is able to eat, neither shall you cause devastation with axes to the surrounding region. For it is a tree, and not a man. It is not able to increase the number of those who are fighting against you.
20 Mais si ce n’est pas un arbre fruitier, tu peux le couper et l’abattre pour les travaux du siège, jusqu’à ce que tombe cette ville qui est en guerre avec toi.	20 But if there are any trees which are not fruitful, but are wild, and if these are fit for other uses, then cut them down, and make machines, until you have captured the city that is contending against you.”