Joshua 20
1 And Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,
Mukama Katonda n’alyoka agamba Yoswa nti,
2 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Assign for you the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
“Gamba abaana ba Isirayiri bateekewo ebibuga ebyokwekwekamu nga bwe nabalagira okuyita mu Musa,
3 that the manslayer who kills any soul unwittingly and unawares may flee there. And they shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.
era nti omuntu yenna atta omulala nga tagenderedde era nga takitegese addukirenga omwo, eyo gy’anaawoneranga omuwoolezi w’eggwanga ayagala okwesasuza.
4 And he shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. And they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
“Annadukiranga mu kimu ku bibuga ebyo n’ayimirira ku mulyango gw’ekibuga annyonnyole ensonga ye eri abakadde b’ekibuga ekyo. Awo ne balyoka bamukkiriza okuyingira mu kibuga ne bamuwa ekifo eky’okubeeramu.
5 And if the avenger of blood pursues after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand, because he smote his neighbor unawares, and did not hate him formerly.
N’oyo ayagala okwesasuza singa anaamugobereranga, tebateekwa kuwaayo oyo asse tagenderedde kubanga muliraanwa we yamutta tagenderedde, lwa kuba nti yamulinako ekiruyi n’obukyayi.
6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest who shall be in those days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city from where he fled.
“Mu kibuga omwo mwanaabeeranga, abantu baamu banaawuliranga ensonga ye, era anaabeeranga omwo okutuusa kabona omukulu aliko mu kiseera ekyo, lw’alifa. Olwo nno aliddayo ewaabwe mu kibuga gye yadduka.”
7 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.
Awo ne baawulako ebibuga bino: Kedesi mu Ggaliraaya mu nsi ey’ensozi eya Nafutaali, ne Sekemu mu nsi ey’ensozi eya Efulayimu, ne Kiriasualuba, ye Kebbulooni mu nsi ey’ensozi eya Yuda.
8 And beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned 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.
N’emitala wa Yoludaani ku Yeriko ku luuyi olw’ebuvanjuba ne bateekayo Bezeri mu lukoola mu lusenyi mu kika kya Lewubeeni, ne Lamosi mu Gireyaadi mu kika kya Gaadi, ne Golani mu Basani mu kika kya Manase.
9 These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any soul unwittingly might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stood before the congregation.
Ebyo bye bibuga ebyateekebwawo abaana ba Isirayiri bonna era ne bannaggwanga abaali mu bo nti omuntu yenna eyattanga omuntu nga tagenderedde addukire eyo aleme kuttibwa omuwoolezi w’eggwanga okutuusa lw’aliyimirira mu maaso g’ekibiina.
