Josué 20
1 Et le Seigneur parla à Josué, disant:
And the LORD spoke unto Joshua, saying:
2 Parle aux fils d'Israël, dis-leur: Donnez les villes de refuge que je vous ai dites par Moïse;
'Speak to the children of Israel, saying: Assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I spoke unto you by the hand of Moses;
3 Villes de refuge pour le meurtrier qui involontairement aura frappé à mort; ces villes seront pour vous des refuges, et le meurtrier ne sera point tué par le vengeur du sang, avant d'avoir comparu en jugement devant la synagogue.
that the manslayer that killeth any person through error and unawares may flee thither; and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.
And he shall flee unto one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unawares, and hated him not beforetime.
And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days; then may the manslayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.'
7 Josué désigna donc Cadès, en Galilée, dans les montagnes de Nephthali; Sichem, dans les montagnes d'Ephraïm; la ville d'Arboc, la même qu'Hébron, dans les montagnes de Juda.
And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba — the same is Hebron — in the hill-country of Judah.
8 Et au delà du Jourdain, il désigna Bosor dans le désert, dans la plaine de la tribu de Ruben; Arémoth, en Galaad, de la tribu de Gad, et, dans le royaume de Basan, Gaulon, de la tribu de Manassé.
And beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the table-land out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
9 Telles sont les villes qui furent choisies pour les fils d'Israël, et pour le prosélyte résidant parmi eux, afin de servir de refuge à tout homme qui porterait involontairement un coup mortel, et afin qu'il ne pérît pas, de la main du vengeur de sang, avant d'avoir comparu en jugement devant la synagogue.
These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person through error might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
