Joshua 20
1 And the LORD spoke unto Joshua, saying:
Yawe alobaki na Jozue:
2 'Speak to the children of Israel, saying: Assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I spoke unto you by the hand of Moses;
« Yebisa bana ya Isalaele ete bapona bingumba ya kokimela, ndenge nayebisaki bino na nzela ya Moyize,
3 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.
mpo ete moto nyonso oyo akoboma moto na nko te akoka kokimela kuna mpe azwa ebombamelo liboso ya mobukanisi makila.
4 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.
Soki akimeli kati na moko ya bingumba wana, akotelema na ekotelo ya ekuke ya engumba mpe akotalisa likambo na ye epai ya bampaka ya engumba wana. Bongo bampaka bakoyamba moto yango kati na engumba mpe bakopesa ye esika ya kovanda elongo na bango.
5 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.
Soki mobukanisi makila alandi ye, bampaka basengeli te kokaba mobomi yango na maboko na ye, pamba te abomaki mozalani na ye na nko te mpe azalaki liboso na makanisi ya mabe te.
6 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.'
Akotikala na engumba wana kino tango akoleka na esambiselo liboso ya lisanga mpe kino tango mokonzi ya Banganga-Nzambe oyo azali na mosala na tango wana, akokufa. Na sima na yango nde mobomi yango akoki kozonga na engumba na ye, na ndako na ye, kati na engumba epai wapi awuta. »
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.
Bana ya Isalaele babulisaki Kedeshi, kati na Galile, kati na mokili ya bangomba ya Nefitali; Sishemi, kati na mokili ya bangomba ya Efrayimi, mpe Kiriati-Ariba oyo ezali Ebron, kati na mokili ya bangomba ya Yuda.
8 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.
Na ngambo mosusu ya Yordani, na este ya Jeriko, baponaki Betseri kati na esobe, na likolo ya ngomba ya libota ya Ribeni; Ramoti kati na Galadi, kati na etuka ya libota ya Gadi; mpe Golani kati na Bashani, kati na etuka ya libota ya Manase.
9 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.
Yango nde ezalaki bingumba oyo eponamaki mpo na moto nyonso ya Isalaele to mpe mpo na mopaya nyonso oyo azali kovanda kati na bango. Moto nyonso oyo akoboma moto na nko te akoki kokimela kuna, mpo ete mobukanisi makila aboma ye te, liboso ete aleka na esambiselo na miso ya lisanga.
