Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
Then
the
LORD
said
to
Joshua,
And
Jehovah
speaketh
unto
Joshua, saying,
“Tell
the
Israelites
to
designate
the cities of refuge, as I instructed
you through
Moses,
`Speak
unto
the sons
of
Israel,
saying,
Give
for
you
cities of refuge, as I have
spoken
unto
you by
the
hand
of
Moses,
so
that
anyone
who
kills
another
unintentionally
or
accidentally
may
flee
there.
These
will
be
your
refuge from the avenger
of blood.
for
the
fleeing
thither
of
a
man-slayer
smiting
life
inadvertently,
without
knowledge;
and
they
have
been
to
you
for
a
refuge from the redeemer
of blood.
When someone
flees
to
one of these cities, stands
at the entrance
of the city
gate, and states
his
case
before
its
elders, they are
to
bring
him into the city and give
him a place to
live
among
them.
`
When `
one '
hath
fled
unto
one
of these cities, and
hath
stood
`
at '
the opening
of the gate of
the
city
, and hath
spoken
in
the
ears
of
the
elders of
that
city
his
matter
, then
they have
gathered
him into the city unto
them,
and have
given
to
him a place ,
and
he
hath
dwelt
with
them.
Now
if
the avenger
of blood pursues
him, they must
not surrender
the manslayer
into his hand, because
that
man
killed
his
neighbor
accidentally
without prior
malice.
`And
when
the redeemer
of blood doth
pursue
after
him, then
they do
not shut
up
the man-slayer
into his hand, for
without knowledge
he
hath
smitten
his
neighbour,
and
is
not
hating
him
hitherto;
He is
to
stay
in that city until
he
stands
trial
before the assembly
and
until
the death of the high
priest serving
at
that
time.
Then the manslayer
may
return
to
his own
home
in
the city from
which
he fled. ”
and
he hath
dwelt
in that city till
his
standing
before the company
for
judgment,
till
the death of the chief
priest who
is
in
those
days
--
then doth
the man-slayer
turn
back
and
hath
come
unto
his city,
and
unto
his
house,
unto
the city whence
he fled. '
So
they set
apart
Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath
-arba ( that
is ,
Hebron) in the hill country of Judah .
And
they sanctify
Kedesh in Galilee ,
in the hill -
country of Naphtali, and
Shechem in the hill -
country of Ephraim, and Kirjath
-Arba ( it
`
is '
Hebron) ,
in the hill -
country of Judah ;
And beyond the Jordan, east
of
Jericho, they designated
Bezer on
the wilderness plateau
from
the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead from
the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from
the tribe of Manasseh.
and beyond the Jordan, `at'
Jericho eastward
, they have
given
Bezer in
the wilderness ,
in
the plain,
out
of
the
tribe of Reuben, and
Ramoth in Gilead out
of
the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out
of
the tribe of Manasseh.
These are
the
cities appointed
for all the Israelites
and
foreigners
among
them
, so
that
anyone
who
kills
a person
unintentionally
may
flee
there
and not die by the hand of the avenger
of blood prior
to
standing trial
before the assembly
.
These have
been
cities of
meeting
for all the sons
of
Israel
, and
for
a sojourner
who
is
sojourning
in
their
midst,
for
the
fleeing
thither
of
any
one
smiting
life
inadvertently,
and he
doth
not die by the hand of the redeemer
of blood till
his
standing before the company
.
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