Joshua 20

1 Pakaiyin Joshua kommah hitihin thu ahinseije:

And the LORD spoke unto Joshua, saying:

2 “Tun keiman Mose kana seipeh bangin Israel techun kiselna ding khopiho chu akilhendoh diovin seipehtan

'Speak to the children of Israel, saying: Assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I spoke unto you by the hand of Moses;

3 ‘Koitabang hamkhat in mikhattou tupna mong umlouva ahilou leh hettoh louva ahin tha khah tah a ahileh athatpa chunga phulanom athipa sopiho khutna konna ajamlut nading kiselna khopi ho umding ahi.

that the manslayer that killeth any person through error and unawares may flee thither; and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

4 Hiche khopiho khatpen’a hi ajamlut teng hiche mithatpahi khopi kelkot phunga upa ho masanga achungthu akiphondoh ding, amahon hichepa hi khopi sunga alutsah uva amaho komma achenthei nading agonpeh diu ahi.

And he shall flee unto one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

5 Ijemtia athipa insung mite chu phula dinga ahungu leh lamkai hochun mithatpa chu amaho komma apehlut louding ahi, ajeh chu amapa chun tumasanga kinahna umlou chuleh tupna mong imacha umlouva khutsoiya anatha khah jeh ahi.

And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unawares, and hated him not beforetime.

6 Ahinlah mithatpa chu hiche khopia chu umden ding, khopi chun achung thu akhol toh uva athu atandiu ahi, chuleh hiche thilso petna thempu chungnung natongpa hinlai sea hiche komma chu cheng ding ahi. Hijouteng chuleh ahung jamdohna khopi sung ain munna chu kilekit thei ding ahi.

And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days; then may the manslayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.'

7 Hicheho hi kiselna khopi hochu: Naphtali thinglhang gam'a din Galilee a um Kadesh, Ephraim thinglhang gammadin Sechem, Judah thinglhang gam'a din Kiriath-arba (Hebron tina),

And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba — the same is Hebron — in the hill-country of Judah.

8 Jericho gallang Jordan vadung solama din hiche khopiho hi alhengdoh un ahi: Reuben phung phaicham gammang langa din Bezer; Gad phung mite gamsunga din Gilead na um Ramoth, Manasseh phung mite gamsunga din Bashan’a um Golan ahiuve.

And beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the table-land 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.

9 Israelte hihen alah uva cheng gamchom miho hijongleh hiche khopi hohi kigonpeh a ahiuve. Hichehi amun khoppi masanga thu kikholna umman louva phulahna a kilhana dinga konna hoidohna aumtheina dinga tohgon ahi.

These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person through error might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.