Joshua 20
1 Then Yahweh said to Joshua,
फिर याहवेह ने यहोशू से कहा:
2 “Tell the Israeli people that they should choose some cities to which people [can run] in order to be safe/protected, like I told Moses that they should do.
“इस्राएल वंश से कहो, कि मैंने मोशेह के द्वारा जैसा तुमसे कहा था, कि अपने लिए शरण के शहर बनाओ,
3 If someone kills another person accidentally, not intending to kill that person, the one who killed that person may run/escape to one of these cities and be safe/protected from someone trying to get revenge for that person’s death [MTY].
ताकि यदि किसी व्यक्ति से अनजाने में किसी की हत्या हो जाए, तब विरोधियों से अपने आपको बचाने के लिए उस शरण के शहर में जाकर छिप सके.
4 When the one who killed someone arrives at the gate of one of those cities, he must stop there and tell the leaders of the city what happened. [If they believe him], they must allow him to enter the city, and they must give him a place to live among them.
वो व्यक्ति अपनी भूल-चूक को बुजुर्गों को बताए और वे उसे नगर के अंदर ले लें, और उसे ठहरने को जगह दे, ताकि वह उनके साथ रहने लगे.
5 If some relative of the one who was killed comes to that city to get revenge, the leaders of that city must not allow the relative to take the killer, because what happened was accidental. He did not hate that person and as a result deliberately kill him.
यदि हत्या का विरोधी उसका पीछा करता है, तो वे उस व्यक्ति को विरोधी के हाथ में न छोड़े, क्योंकि उससे यह हत्या जानबूझकर नहीं हुई है, और न उनके बीच कोई दुश्मनी थी.
6 But the person who killed someone must stay in that city until the city judges put him on trial. [Only if the judges decide that the person who has run/escaped to their city did not deliberately kill the other person will they allow him to stay in that city], and he must stay there until the Supreme Priest dies. Then he may safely go back to his own town, [because the death of the Supreme Priest will be considered to atone/pay for the death of the person who was killed].”
हत्यारा उस नगर में तब तक रह सकता है, जब तक वह सभा में न्याय के लिए खड़ा न हो जाए, या जब तक उस समय के महापुरोहित की मृत्यु न हो जाए. उसके बाद ही वह हत्यारा अपने घर जा सकता है.”
7 So the Israelis chose these cities to be cities to which people could run to be safe/protected: Kedesh in the Galilee district in the hilly area where the tribe of Naphtali lived; Shechem in the hilly area where the tribe of Ephraim lived; Kiriath-Arba (which is [now named] Hebron) in the hilly area where the tribe of Judah lived;
इसके लिए उन्होंने नफताली के पर्वतीय प्रदेश के गलील में केदेश, एफ्राईम के पर्वतीय प्रदेश में शेकेम तथा यहूदिया के पर्वतीय प्रदेश में किरयथ-अरबा, अर्थात् हेब्रोन को शरण के शहर निश्चित किया.
8 Bezer, on the east side of the Jordan [River] near Jericho, in the flat land in the desert where the tribe of Reuben lived; Ramoth in the Gilead [region] in the land where the tribe of Gad lived; and Golan in the Bashan region where the tribe of Manasseh lived.
और यरदन के पार येरीख़ो के पूर्व में रियूबेन के गोत्र के मैदानी निर्जन प्रदेश में बेज़र, गाद के गोत्र के गिलआद के रामोथ तथा मनश्शेह गोत्र के बाशान के गोलान भी चुने गये.
9 Any Israeli or any foreigner who lived among us, anyone who killed someone (accidentally/without planning to do it), was allowed to run to one of those cities, and be safe/protected from some relative of the person who died coming there and killing him to get revenge. He could stay in that city until there was a trial there [to decide whether he was telling the truth or not when he said that he did not plan to kill that person].
ये सभी नगर उन इस्राएली तथा विदेशी लोगों के लिए हैं, जिनसे अनजाने में किसी की हत्या हो जाती है, वह यहां आ जाए और सुरक्षित रहें ताकि विरोधी उसको मार न सके, जब तक सभा के सामने खूनी को नहीं लाया जाता तब तक वह व्यक्ति शरण शहर में ही रह सकता है!
