Joshua 20
1 Then Yahweh said to Joshua,
Yavé habló a Josué:
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.
Habla a los hijos de Israel: Designen las ciudades de refugio, de las cuales les hablé por medio de Moisés,
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].
para que huya allí el homicida que mate a alguien sin intención, sin premeditación, y les sirvan de refugio del vengador de la sangre.
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.
El que huya a alguna de esas ciudades, se presentará a la puerta de la ciudad y expondrá sus razones a oídos de los ancianos de aquella ciudad. Ellos lo recibirán consigo en la ciudad y le darán lugar para que viva con ellos.
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.
Si el vengador de la sangre lo persigue, no entregarán en su mano al homicida, porque mató a su prójimo sin premeditación, sin aborrecerlo antes.
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].”
Deberá permanecer en aquella ciudad hasta que comparezca en juicio ante la congregación, y hasta la muerte del que sea sumo sacerdote en aquellos días. Entonces el homicida regresará a la ciudad de la cual huyó y a su propia casa.
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;
Entonces apartaron a Quedes en Galilea, en la región montañosa de Neftalí, a Siquem en la región montañosa de Efraín, y a Quiriat-arba (que es Hebrón), en la región montañosa de Judá.
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.
En el otro lado del Jordán, al este de Jericó, designaron a Beser, en el desierto, en la llanura de la tribu de Rubén, a Ramot, en Galaad, de la tribu de Gad, y a Golán, en Basán, de la tribu de Manasés.
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].
Éstas fueron las ciudades [de refugio] señaladas para todos los hijos de Israel y el extranjero que vive en medio de ellos, a fin de que huya allí cualquiera que mate a alguno por accidente, con el propósito de que no perezca por mano del vengador de la sangre antes de comparecer ante la congregación.
