Joshua 20

1 Pakaiyin Joshua kommah hitihin thu ahinseije:

Then Yahweh said to Joshua,

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

“Tell the Israeli people that they should choose some cities to which people [can run] in order to be safe/protected, like I told Moses that they should do.

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.

If someone kills another person accidentally, not intending to kill that person, the one who killed that person may run/escape to one of these cities and be safe/protected from someone trying to get revenge for that person’s death [MTY].

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.

When the one who killed someone arrives at the gate of one of those cities, he must stop there and tell the leaders of the city what happened. [If they believe him], they must allow him to enter the city, and they must give him a place to live 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.

If some relative of the one who was killed comes to that city to get revenge, the leaders of that city must not allow the relative to take the killer, because what happened was accidental. He did not hate that person and as a result deliberately kill him.

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.

But the person who killed someone must stay in that city until the city judges put him on trial. [Only if the judges decide that the person who has run/escaped to their city did not deliberately kill the other person will they allow him to stay in that city], and he must stay there until the Supreme Priest dies. Then he may safely go back to his own town, [because the death of the Supreme Priest will be considered to atone/pay for the death of the person who was killed].”

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),

So the Israelis chose these cities to be cities to which people could run to be safe/protected: Kedesh in the Galilee district in the hilly area where the tribe of Naphtali lived; Shechem in the hilly area where the tribe of Ephraim lived; Kiriath-Arba (which is [now named] Hebron) in the hilly area where the tribe of Judah lived;

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.

Bezer, on the east side of the Jordan [River] near Jericho, in the flat land in the desert where the tribe of Reuben lived; Ramoth in the Gilead [region] in the land where the tribe of Gad lived; and Golan in the Bashan region where the tribe of Manasseh lived.

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.

Any Israeli or any foreigner who lived among us, anyone who killed someone (accidentally/without planning to do it), was allowed to run to one of those cities, and be safe/protected from some relative of the person who died coming there and killing him to get revenge. He could stay in that city until there was a trial there [to decide whether he was telling the truth or not when he said that he did not plan to kill that person].