Joshua 20
1 Then Yahweh said to Joshua,
Gospod je spregovoril tudi Józuetu, rekoč:
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.
»Govori Izraelovim otrokom, rekoč: ›Izločite si zavetna mesta, o katerih sem ti govoril po Mojzesovi roki,
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].
da ubijalec, ki nenamerno in nevede ubije katerokoli osebo, lahko pobegne tja in ta bodo vaše zatočišče pred krvnim maščevalcem.
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.
Ko bo tisti, ki pobegne v eno izmed teh mest, stal pri vhodu velikih vrat mesta in bo svojo zadevo oznanil v ušesa starešin tega mesta, ga bodo vzeli k sebi v mesto in mu dali prostor, da bo lahko prebival med njimi.
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.
Če ga krvni maščevalec zasleduje, potem ubijalca ne bodo izročili v njegovo roko, ker je nevede udaril svojega bližnjega in ga predtem ni sovražil.
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].”
Prebival bo v tem mestu, dokler ne bo stal pred skupnostjo za sodbo in do smrti vélikega duhovnika, ki bo v tistih dneh. Potem se bo ubijalec vrnil in prišel v svoje lastno mesto in v svojo lastno hišo v mesto, iz katerega je pobegnil.‹«
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;
Določili so Kedeš v Galileji, na gori Neftáli in Sihem na gori Efrájim in Kirját Arbo, ki je Hebrón, na Judovi gori.
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.
Na drugi strani Jordana, pri Jerihi, proti vzhodu, so v divjini, na ravnini, določili Becer od Rubenovega rodu in Ramót v Gileádu od Gadovega rodu in Golán v Bašánu od Manásejevega rodu.
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].
To so bila mesta, določena za vse Izraelove otroke in za tujca, ki začasno biva med njimi, da kdorkoli nenamerno ubije katerokoli osebo, lahko pobegne tja in ne umre po roki krvnega maščevalca, dokler ta stoji pred skupnostjo.
