Josué 20
1 Et le Seigneur parla à Josué, disant:
Yhwh also spake 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, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake 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 slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, 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 the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer 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 appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath–arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain 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 on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain 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 cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
