Joshua 20

1 Then Yahweh said to Joshua,

茲にヱホバ、ヨシユアに告て言たまひけるは

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.

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 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].

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 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.

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 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.

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 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].”

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 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;

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 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.

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 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].

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