Joshua 20
1 Then Yahweh said to Joshua,
TUHAN berkata kepada Yosua,
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.
“Sampaikanlah kepada orang Israel untuk memilih kota-kota yang akan dijadikan tempat perlindungan, seperti yang Aku perintahkan kepadamu melalui Musa.
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].
Siapa saja yang membunuh orang lain dengan tidak sengaja berhak melarikan diri ke salah satu kota perlindungan untuk menyelamatkan diri dari pihak keluarga korban yang ingin menuntut balas sebelum kasusnya diadili.
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.
“Orang itu harus berdiri di depan gerbang masuk kota perlindungan dan menjelaskan peristiwa yang terjadi kepada para pemimpin kota itu. Lalu mereka akan mengizinkan dia masuk dan memberinya tempat tinggal di sana.
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.
Jika orang yang mau menuntut balas mengejar dia, para pemimpin kota tidak boleh menyerahkan orang itu. Mereka harus melindunginya karena dia membunuh dengan tidak sengaja, bukan karena benci.
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].”
Dia harus tinggal di kota itu sampai kasusnya diadili di depan umum, atau sampai imam besar yang menjabat waktu itu sudah meninggal. Setelah itu barulah orang tersebut boleh pulang ke rumahnya di kota asalnya.”
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;
Lalu orang Israel memilih tiga kota perlindungan di sebelah barat sungai Yordan, yaitu kota Kedes di Galilea, di daerah pegunungan Naftali, kota Sikem di pegunungan Efraim, kota Kiryat Arba (juga disebut Hebron) di pegunungan Yehuda.
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.
Mereka juga memilih tiga kota di sebelah timur sungai Yordan, di seberang kota Yeriko, yaitu kota Bezer di padang belantara di dataran tinggi, milik suku Ruben, kota Ramot di Gilead milik suku Gad, kota Golan di daerah Basan milik suku Manasye.
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].
Itulah kota-kota perlindungan yang dipilih untuk semua orang Israel dan orang asing yang tinggal di antara mereka. Siapa saja yang tidak sengaja membunuh orang lain dapat melarikan diri ke salah satu kota itu supaya tidak dibunuh oleh penuntut balas sebelum kasusnya diadili di depan umum.
