¹ あなたが敵と戦うために出る時、馬と戦車と、あなたよりも大ぜいの軍隊を見ても、彼らを恐れてはならない。あなたをエジプトの国から導きのぼられたあなたの神、主が共におられるからである。

² あなたがたが戦いに臨むとき、祭司は進み出て民に告げて、

³ 彼らに言わなければならない、『イスラエルよ聞け。あなたがたは、きょう、敵と戦おうとしている。気おくれしてはならない。恐れてはならない。あわててはならない。彼らに驚いてはならない。

⁴ あなたがたの神、主が共に行かれ、あなたがたのために敵と戦って、あなたがたを救われるからである』。

⁵ 次につかさたちは民に告げて言わなければならない。『新しい家を建てて、まだそれをささげていない者があれば、その人を家に帰らせなければならない。そうしなければ、彼が戦いに死んだとき、ほかの人がそれをささげるようになるであろう。

⁶ ぶどう畑を作って、まだその実を食べていない者があれば、その人を家に帰らせなければならない。そうしなければ彼が戦いに死んだとき、ほかの人がそれを食べるようになるであろう。

⁷ 女と婚約して、まだその女をめとっていない者があれば、その人を家に帰らせなければならない。そうしなければ彼が戦いに死んだとき、ほかの人が彼女をめとるようになるであろう』。

⁸ つかさたちは、また民に告げて言わなければならない。『恐れて気おくれする者があるならば、その人を家に帰らせなければならない。そうしなければ、兄弟たちの心が彼の心のようにくじけるであろう』。

⁹ つかさたちがこのように民に告げ終ったならば、軍勢のかしらたちを立てて民を率いさせなければならない。

¹⁰ 一つの町へ進んで行って、それを攻めようとする時は、まず穏やかに降服することを勧めなければならない。

¹¹ もしその町が穏やかに降服しようと答えて、門を開くならば、そこにいるすべての民に、みつぎを納めさせ、あなたに仕えさせなければならない。

¹² もし穏やかに降服せず、戦おうとするならば、あなたはそれを攻めなければならない。

¹³ そしてあなたの神、主がそれをあなたの手にわたされる時、つるぎをもってそのうちの男をみな撃ち殺さなければならない。

¹⁴ ただし女、子供、家畜およびすべて町のうちにあるもの、すなわちぶんどり物は皆、戦利品として取ることができる。また敵からぶんどった物はあなたの神、主が賜わったものだから、あなたはそれを用いることができる。

¹⁵ 遠く離れている町々、すなわちこれらの国々に属さない町々には、すべてこのようにしなければならない。

¹⁶ ただし、あなたの神、主が嗣業として与えられるこれらの民の町々では、息のある者をひとりも生かしておいてはならない。

¹⁷ すなわちヘテびと、アモリびと、カナンびと、ペリジびと、ヒビびと、エブスびとはみな滅ぼして、あなたの神、主が命じられたとおりにしなければならない。

¹⁸ これは彼らがその神々を拝んでおこなったすべての憎むべき事を、あなたがたに教えて、それを行わせ、あなたがたの神、主に罪を犯させることのないためである。

¹⁹ 長く町を攻め囲んで、それを取ろうとする時でも、おのをふるって、そこの木を切り枯らしてはならない。それはあなたの食となるものだから、切り倒してはならない。あなたは田野の木までも、人のように攻めなければならないであろうか。

²⁰ ただし実を結ばない木とわかっている木は切り倒して、あなたと戦っている町にむかい、それをもってとりでを築き、陥落するまで、それを攻めることができる。

¹ Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

² Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

³ Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

⁴ Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

⁵ Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

⁶ Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."

⁷ She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

⁸ The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

⁹ Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

¹⁰ Therefore she said to Abraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac."

¹¹ The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.

¹² God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

¹³ I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."

¹⁴ Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

¹⁵ The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

¹⁶ She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.

¹⁷ God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

¹⁸ Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."

¹⁹ God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.

²⁰ God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

²¹ He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

²² It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.

²³ Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."

²⁴ Abraham said, "I will swear."

²⁵ Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

²⁶ Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."

²⁷ Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

²⁸ Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

²⁹ Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"

³⁰ He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."

³¹ Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.

³² So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

³³ Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

³⁴ Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.