Joshua 20

1 And the Lord spoke to Josue, saying: Speak to the children of Israel and say to them:

茲にヱホバ、ヨシユアに告て言たまひけるは

2 Appoint cities of refuge, a of which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses:

汝イスラエルの子孫に告て言へ汝等モーセによりて我が汝らに語りおきし逃遁の邑を擇び定め

3 That whosoever shall kill a person unawares may flee to them: and may escape the wrath of the kinsman, who is the avenger of blood:

誤りて知ずに人を殺せる者を其處に逃れしめよ是は汝らが仇打する者を避て逃るべき處なり

4 And when he shall flee to one of these cities: he shall stand before the gate of the city, and shall speak to the ancients of that city, such things as prove him innocent: and so shall they receive him, and give him a place to dwell in.

斯る者は是等の邑の一に逃れゆき邑の門の入口に立てその邑の長老等の耳にその事情を述べし然る時は彼ら之をその邑に受いれ處を與へて己の中に住しむべし

5 And when the avenger of blood shall pursue him, they shall not deliver him into his hands, because he slew his neighbour unawares, and is not proved to have been his enemy two or three days before.

假令仇打する者追ゆくとも彼らその人を殺せる者を之が手に交すべからず其は彼知ずして人を殺せるにて素より之を惡みをりしに非ればなり

6 And he shall dwell in that city, till he stand before judgment to give an account of his fact, and till the death of the high priest, who shall be at that time: then shall the manslayer return, and go into his own city and house from whence he fled.

その人は會衆の前に立て審判を受るまで其時の祭司の長の死る迄その邑に住をるべし然る後その人を殺せる者己の邑に歸り往てその家にいたり己が逃いでし邑に住むべし

7 And they appointed Cedes in Galilee of mount Nephtali, and Sichem in mount Ephraim, and Cariath-Arbe, the same is Hebron in the mountain of Juda.

爰にナフタリの山地なるガリラヤのケデシ、エフライムの山地なるシケムおよびユダの山地なるキリアテアルバ(すなはちヘブロン)を之がために分ち

8 And beyond the Jordan to the east of Jericho, they appointed Bosor, which is upon the plain of the wilderness of the tribe of Ruben, and Ramoth in Galaad of the tribe of Cad, and Gaulon in Basan of the tribe of Manasses.

またヨルダンの彼旁ヱリコの東の方にてはルベンの支派の中より平地なる荒野のベゼルを擇び定めガドの支派の中よりギレアデのラモテを擇び定めマナセの支派の中よりバシヤンのゴランを擇び定めたり

9 These cities were appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the strangers, that dwelt among them: that whosoever had killed a person unawares might flee to them, and not die by the hand of the kinsman, coveting to revenge the blood that was shed, until he should stand before the people to lay open his cause.

是すなはちイスラエルの一切の子孫および之が中に寄寓をる他國人のために設けたる邑々にして凡て人を誤まり殺せる者を此に逃れしめ其會衆の前に立ざる中に仇打の手に死るがごときことなからしめんためなり