Josue 20

1 Ket kinuna ni Yahweh kenni Josue,

Then Yahweh said to Joshua,

2 “Agsaoka kadagiti tattao ti Israel, a kunaem, 'Mangitudingkayo kadagiti siudad a pagkamangan a kas insaok kadakayo babaen iti ima ni Moises.

“Tell the Israeli people that they should choose some cities to which people [can run] in order to be safe/protected, like I told Moses that they should do.

3 Aramidenyo daytoy tapno mabalin a mapan sadiay ti tao a nakapatay a saanna nga inggagara. Agbalinto a pagkamangan dagitoy a siudad manipud iti siasinoman a mangibales ti dara ti tao a napapatay.

If someone kills another person accidentally, not intending to kill that person, the one who killed that person may run/escape to one of these cities and be safe/protected from someone trying to get revenge for that person’s death [MTY].

4 Tumarayto isuna iti maysa kadagiti siudad ken tumakderto isuna iti pagserkan ti ruangan ti siudad, ket ilawlawagnanto ti kasasaadna kadagiti panglakayen iti dayta a siudad. Ket pastrekendanto isuna iti siudad ken ikkandanto isuna iti lugar a pakipagnaedanna kadakuada.

When the one who killed someone arrives at the gate of one of those cities, he must stop there and tell the leaders of the city what happened. [If they believe him], they must allow him to enter the city, and they must give him a place to live among them.

5 Ket no umay ti tao a mangpadas a mangibales iti dara ti napapatay a tao, masapul a saan nga iyawat dagiti tattao iti siudad ti tao a nakapatay kenkuana. Masapul a saanda nga aramiden daytoy, gapu ta saanna nga inggagara a pinapatay ti karrubana ken awan ti gurana kenkuana iti napalabas.

If some relative of the one who was killed comes to that city to get revenge, the leaders of that city must not allow the relative to take the killer, because what happened was accidental. He did not hate that person and as a result deliberately kill him.

6 Masapul nga agtalinaed isuna iti dayta a siudad agingga a tumakder isuna iti sangoanan ti taripnong para iti pannakaikeddeng, agingga iti ipapatay ti tao nga agserserbi a kas nangato a padi kadagidiay nga al-aldaw. Ket mabalinen nga agsubli ti tao a nakapatay iti tao a saanna nga inggagara iti bukodna nga ili ken iti bukodna a pagtaengan, ti ili a pinanawanna.”

But the person who killed someone must stay in that city until the city judges put him on trial. [Only if the judges decide that the person who has run/escaped to their city did not deliberately kill the other person will they allow him to stay in that city], and he must stay there until the Supreme Priest dies. Then he may safely go back to his own town, [because the death of the Supreme Priest will be considered to atone/pay for the death of the person who was killed].”

7 Isu a pinili dagiti Israelita ti Kedes idiay Galilea iti katurturodan a pagilian ti Neftali, Sikem iti katurturodan a pagilian ti Efraim, ken Kiriat Arba (nga isu met laeng ti Hebron) iti katurturodan a pagilian ti Juda.

So the Israelis chose these cities to be cities to which people could run to be safe/protected: Kedesh in the Galilee district in the hilly area where the tribe of Naphtali lived; Shechem in the hilly area where the tribe of Ephraim lived; Kiriath-Arba (which is [now named] Hebron) in the hilly area where the tribe of Judah lived;

8 Iti ballasiw ti Jordan a dayaen ti Jerico, pinilida ti Bezer idiay let-ang idiay kapatadan iti tribu ti Ruben; Ramot iti Galaad, manipud iti tribu ti Gad; ken Golan iti Basan, manipud iti tribu ti Manases.

Bezer, on the east side of the Jordan [River] near Jericho, in the flat land in the desert where the tribe of Reuben lived; Ramoth in the Gilead [region] in the land where the tribe of Gad lived; and Golan in the Bashan region where the tribe of Manasseh lived.

9 Napili dagitoy a siudad para kadagiti amin a tattao ti Israel ken para kadagiti ganggannaet a makipagnanaed kadakuada, tapno mabalin a tumaray kadagitoy ti siasinoman a pimmatay iti tao a saanna nga inggagara para iti talged. Saan a mabalin a matay daytoy a tao iti ima ti tao a mangibales ti nagsayasay a dara, agingga a tumakder nga umuna ti napabasol a tao iti sangoanan ti taripnong.

Any Israeli or any foreigner who lived among us, anyone who killed someone (accidentally/without planning to do it), was allowed to run to one of those cities, and be safe/protected from some relative of the person who died coming there and killing him to get revenge. He could stay in that city until there was a trial there [to decide whether he was telling the truth or not when he said that he did not plan to kill that person].