Jozye 20
1 Alò, SENYÈ a te pale a Josué e te di:
The LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,
2 “Pale a fis Israël yo e di: ‘Etabli vil azil ke M te pale ou pa Moïse yo,
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
3 pou moun ki touye nenpòt moun san li pa fè eksprè, san reflechi yo, pou yo kapab sove ale rive la. Yo va vin yon azil kont vanjè san an.
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.
4 Li va sove ale rive nan youn nan vil sila yo. Yo va kanpe nan antre pòtay a vil sa a pou pwononse ka li a pou ansyen yo nan vil la tande. Konsa, yo va fè l antre nan vil kote yo a, yo va ba li yon kote pou li kapab rete pami yo.
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 among them.
5 Alò, si vanjè san an vin kouri dèyè li, yo pa pou livre moun ki touye moun nan nan men yo, akoz li te frape vwazen li an san reflechi e li pa t rayi li avan lè.
If the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver up the man slayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before.
6 Li va rete nan vil sa a jiskaske li kanpe devan asanble a pou jijman, jiska lanmò a wo prèt la nan jou epòk sa a. Epi moun ki te touye moun nan va retounen nan pwòp vil pa li ak pwòp kay pa li, nan vil sila li te sove ale a.’”
He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, 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.’”
7 Konsa, yo te mete akote Kédesh nan Galilée nan peyi ti kolin yo a Nephtali, Sichem nan peyi ti kolin yo a Éphraïm ak Kirjath-Arba (sa vle di, Hébron) nan peyi ti kolin Juda a.
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.
8 Lòtbò Jourdain an, sòti Jéricho vè lès, yo te dezinye Betser nan dezè a sou plèn nan pou tribi Ruben an, Ramoth nan Galaad pou tribi Gad la ak Golan nan Basan pou tribi Manassé a.
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.
9 Sila yo se te vil yo chwazi pou tout fis Israël yo, pou etranje ki demere pami yo, pou nenpòt moun ki touye yon moun san eksprè, kapab sove ale rive la e pa mouri pa men a vanjè san an jiskaske li vin kanpe devan asanble a.
These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among 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.
