Yoshuwa 20
1 Sai Ubangiji ya ce wa Yoshuwa,
And YHWH speaks to Joshua, saying,
2 “Ka gaya wa Isra’ilawa su keɓe waɗansu birane su zama biranen mafaka kamar yadda na umarce ku ta wurin Musa,
“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Give cities of refuge for yourselves, as I have spoken to you by the hand of Moses,
3 domin idan wani ya kashe wani bisa kuskure ba da niyyar yin kisankai ba, mutumin zai iya gudu zuwa can yă fake don kada a kashe shi.
for the fleeing there of a manslayer striking life through ignorance, without knowledge; and they have been for a refuge to you from the redeemer of blood.
4 Lokacin da ya gudu zuwa ɗaya daga cikin biranen nan, sai yă tsaya a ƙofar birnin yă gaya wa dattawan wannan birni damuwarsa. Sa’an nan su karɓe shi su ba shi wurin zama a cikin birninsu.
When [one] has fled to one of these cities, and has stood [at] the opening of the gate of the city, and has spoken his matter in the ears of [the] elderly of that city, then they have gathered him into the city to them, and have given a place to him, and he has dwelt with them.
5 In mai neman yă kashe shi don ramako ya bi shi zuwa can, ba za su miƙa shi ba domin ba da niyya ya kashe wani ba, kuma ba fushi ne ya sa ya yi kisan ba.
And when the redeemer of blood pursues after him, then they do not shut up the manslayer into his hand, for he has struck his neighbor without knowledge, and is not hating him until now;
6 Zai zauna a wannan birni har sai taron jama’a sun yi masa shari’a, kuma har sai lokacin da babban firist wanda yake aiki a lokacin ya mutu, sa’an nan zai iya koma garinsa na dā.”
and he has dwelt in that city until his standing before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the chief priest who is in those days—then the manslayer turns back and has come to his city, and to his house, to the city from where he fled.”
7 Saboda haka suka keɓe Kedesh a Galili a ƙasar kan tudu ta Naftali, Shekem a ƙasar kan tudu ta Efraim, da Kiriyat Arba (wato, Hebron) a ƙasar kan tudu ta Yahuda.
And they sanctify Kedesh in Galilee, in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kirjath-Arba (it [is] Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah;
8 A hayin Urdun, gabas da Yeriko, suka keɓe Bezer ta jeji a kan tudu a cikin yankin kabilar Ruben, Ramot cikin Gileyad a kabilar Gad, da Golan cikin Bashan a kabilar Manasse.
and beyond the Jordan, [at] Jericho eastward, they have given Bezer in the wilderness, in 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 In wani mutumin Isra’ila ko kuma wani baƙon da yake zama a cikinsu, ya yi kisankai cikin kuskure, zai iya gudu zuwa biranen da aka keɓe, ba za a bari mai neman ramako yă kashe shi kafin jama’a su yi masa shari’a ba.
These have been cities of meeting for all the sons of Israel, and for a sojourner who is sojourning in their midst, for the fleeing there of anyone striking life through ignorance, and he does not die by the hand of the redeemer of blood until his standing before the congregation.
