1耶和華對約書亞說：2「你吩咐以色列人，照我以前藉摩西所吩咐你們的，設立一些城邑作為避難城，3好讓那些誤殺了人的可以逃到那裡，免遭仇人追殺。4逃進城的人要先站在城門口，向避難城的長老陳明事情的經過，長老就把他們收容到城裡，給他們地方住。5如果他們的仇人追到，長老們不可把他們交出來，因為他們是無意殺的，跟被殺者無冤無仇。6這些人要住在城內，直到在會眾面前受了審訊，並且還要等到在任的大祭司死後，才可離城回鄉。」7於是，民眾便設立拿弗他利山區加利利境內的基低斯、以法蓮山區的示劍和猶大山區的基列·亞巴，即希伯崙作為避難城。8他們又在約旦河、耶利哥東面空曠的平原上設立呂便支派的比悉，迦得支派基列境內的拉末和瑪拿西支派巴珊境內的哥蘭作為避難城。9這是為以色列人和那些從外地來寄居的人所設立的避難城，誤殺了人的可以逃到那裡，不致未在會眾面前受審便死在報仇的人手裡。
English Standard Version
The Cities of Refuge
1Then the Lord said to Joshua,2“Say to the people of Israel, ‘Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,3that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.4He shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain his case to the elders of that city. Then they shall take him into the city and give him a place, and he shall remain with them.5And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not give up the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unknowingly, and did not hate him in the past.6And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time. Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.’”7So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.8And beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland, from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.9These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel and for the stranger sojourning among them, that anyone who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he stood before the congregation.
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