Joshua 20
1 Hahoi BAWIPA Cathut ni Joshua hah a kaw teh,
And YHWH speaks to Joshua, saying,
2 nang ni Isarel miphunnaw,
“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Give cities of refuge for yourselves, as I have spoken to you by the hand of Moses,
3 tami thei hanelah pouknae awm laipalah, ka tet payon e tami ni, a yawng nahane khonaw hah kârawi awh. Kut pathungnae koehoi hlout nahane kho lah ao han.
for the fleeing there of a manslayer striking life through ignorance, without knowledge; and they have been for a refuge to you from the redeemer of blood.
4 Hote kho buetbuet touh dawk ka yawng e tami teh, kho e longkha koe kangdue vaiteh, hote kho dawk kacuenaw koe amae kong hah a thaisak vaiteh, ahnimouh ni kho thung a kaw vaiteh, amamouh koe hmuen a poe han.
When [one] has fled to one of these cities, and has stood [at] the opening of the gate of the city, and has spoken his matter in the ears of [the] elderly of that city, then they have gathered him into the city to them, and have given a place to him, and he has dwelt with them.
5 Kut ka pathung hane tami ni pâlei pawiteh, ahnie kut dawk poe mahoeh. Bangkongtetpawiteh, ahni ni amae a hui hah kâtarannae awm laipalah a thei payon toe.
And when the redeemer of blood pursues after him, then they do not shut up the manslayer into his hand, for he has struck his neighbor without knowledge, and is not hating him until now;
6 Ahni teh tamimaya hmalah a kangdue teh, lawkcengnae a khang hoehnahlan, hatnae tueng nah vaihma kacue a due hoehnahlan, hote kho dawk ao han. Hathnukkhu hoi a yawng takhai e kho, ama a onae im koe bout ban vaiteh o thainae kâ ao han.
and he has dwelt in that city until his standing before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the chief priest who is in those days—then the manslayer turns back and has come to his city, and to his house, to the city from where he fled.”
7 Ahnimouh ni Galilee ram, Naphtali mon dawk Kedesh vah, Ephraim mon dawk Shekhem kho, Judah mon dawk Hebron kho tie Kiriath-Arba khonaw hai thoseh,
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;
8 Jordan palang namran, Jeriko kho, Kanîtholah Reuben ram, Kahrawngum dawk e Bezer kho, Gad ram, Gilead ram dawk Ramoth kho, Manasseh ram, Bashan ram dawk Golan khonaw hah a rawi awh.
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.
9 Hete khonaw teh, Isarel miphun dawk hai thoseh, ahnimouh koe kaawm e Jentelnaw hai thoseh, pouk laipalah tami thet payon pawiteh, ka thet e tami ni kut pathungnae dawk hoi a hlout vaiteh, tamimaya hmalah a pha hoehnahlan a yawng vaiteh, ao thai nahanelah rawi e khonaw lah ao.
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 there of anyone striking life through ignorance, and he does not die by the hand of the redeemer of blood until his standing before the congregation.
