Joshua 20
1 The LORD also spoke to Joshua, saying,
Nitsara am’ Iehosoa t’Iehovà ami’ty hoe:
2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spoke to you by the hand of Moses:
Saontsio amo ana’ Israeleo ty hoe: Tendreo o rovam-pitsolohañe nitaroñeko ama’ areo am-pità’ i Mosèo;
3 That the slayer that kills any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
ie amy zay, i mañoho-doza ama’ ondaty tsy nitsatrie’ey, ty hilay mb’eo, toe ho fitsoloham-pamale-fate.
4 And when he that does flee to one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
Ie hitriban-day mb’ ami’ty raik’ amy rova rezay, naho hijohañe an-dalambei’ i rovay, naho hitaroñe ty aze an-dravembia’ o androanavi’ i rovaio; le hampihovae’ iareo amy rovay vaho ho tolora’ iareo toetse himoneña’e am’ iareo.
5 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbor unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
Naho mañoridañe aze i mpamale-fatey le tsy hasese’ iereo am-pità’e i namonoy amy te tsy ni-satrie’e ty nanjevoñe i rañe’ey ie tsy niheje’e taolo.
6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city from where he fled.
Himoneña’e i rovay ampara’ te mijohañe añatrefa’ ty fivory ty hizaka aze; am-para’ ty fihomaha’ ty mpisorom-bey henane zay; himpoly amy zao i mpamonoy mb’ an-drova’e naho mb’añ’akiba’e, mb’ amy rova nihirifa’e an-daiy.
7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
Aa le navì’ iareo ty Kedese e Galilà am-bohibohi’ i Naftalý ao naho i Sekeme am-bohibohi’ i Efraime ao, vaho i Kiriate-arbà (i Kebrone Izay), am-bohibohi’ Iehoda ao.
8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness on 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.
Naho alafe’ Iardeney, atiñana’ Ieriko, le tinoro’ iereo i Betsere am-patrambey an-tane pisakey boak’ am-pifokoa’ i Reobene ao, naho i Ramote e Gilade amy fifokoa’ i Gadey, vaho i Golane e Basane amy fifokoa’ i Menasè.
9 These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
Ie o rova natoro amo hene ana’ Israeleo naho amo renetane mañialo am’ iareoo, te eo ty mañoho-doza ama’ ondaty tsy nitsatrie’e le añe ty itribaha’e an-day tsy hivetrake am-pità’ i mpamale-fatey am-para’ ty ijohaña’e añatrefam-pivory.
