Joshua 20
1 And YHWH speaks to Joshua, saying,
茲にヱホバ、ヨシユアに告て言たまひけるは
2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Give cities of refuge for yourselves, as I have spoken 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 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.
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 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.
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 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;
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 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.”
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 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;
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, [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.
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 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.
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
