Joshua 20
1 The LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,
Gospod je spregovoril tudi Józuetu, rekoč:
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
»Govori Izraelovim otrokom, rekoč: ›Izločite si zavetna mesta, o katerih sem ti govoril po Mojzesovi roki,
3 that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.
da ubijalec, ki nenamerno in nevede ubije katerokoli osebo, lahko pobegne tja in ta bodo vaše zatočišče pred krvnim maščevalcem.
4 He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live amongst 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 the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver up the man slayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbour unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before.
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 He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgement, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the man slayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.’”
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 They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
Določili so Kedeš v Galileji, na gori Neftáli in Sihem na gori Efrájim in Kirját Arbo, ki je Hebrón, na Judovi gori.
8 Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
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 These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives amongst them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands trial before the congregation.
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.
