Yosua 20
1 Kemudian TUHAN menyuruh Yosua
Then Yahweh said to Joshua,
2 berkata begini kepada orang Israel, "Aku sudah memerintahkan Musa supaya ia memberitahukan kepadamu tentang kota-kota suaka, yaitu kota-kota di mana orang dapat melarikan diri untuk mendapat perlindungan. Sekarang pilihlah kota-kota itu.
“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 Orang yang membunuh orang lain dengan tidak sengaja, boleh lari ke kota itu untuk luput dari orang yang hendak membalas dendam kepadanya.
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 Ia boleh lari ke salah satu dari kota-kota itu, dan pergi ke tempat pengadilan di pintu gerbang kota itu, lalu menjelaskan kepada para pemimpin di situ apa yang telah terjadi. Pemimpin-pemimpin itu akan mengizinkan dia memasuki kota itu, dan memberikan kepadanya tempat untuk tinggal.
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 Kalau orang yang mau membalas dendam itu mengejar dia sampai ke situ, penduduk kota itu tidak boleh menyerahkannya kepada orang itu. Mereka harus melindunginya, sebab ia membunuh orang dengan tidak sengaja, dan bukan karena benci.
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 Ia boleh tinggal di kota itu sampai ia telah diadili di hadapan umum, dan sampai orang yang menjabat Imam Agung pada masa itu meninggal. Sesudah itu barulah orang itu boleh pulang ke kampung halamannya dari mana ia melarikan diri."
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 Maka di daerah barat Sungai Yordan umat Israel menentukan kota-kota berikut ini sebagai kota suaka: Kedes di pegunungan Naftali di Galilea, Sikhem di pegunungan Efraim, dan Hebron di pegunungan Yehuda.
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 Di daerah timur Sungai Yordan di dataran tinggi padang pasir sebelah timur Yerikho, mereka menentukan kota-kota berikut ini sebagai kota suaka: kota Bezer di wilayah Ruben, kota Ramot di Gilead di wilayah Gad, dan kota Golan di Basan, wilayah Manasye.
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 Itulah semuanya kota-kota suaka yang ditentukan untuk seluruh umat Israel dan untuk setiap orang asing yang tinggal di tengah-tengah mereka. Setiap orang yang membunuh orang lain dengan tidak sengaja, boleh mendapat perlindungan di kota-kota itu dari kejaran orang yang mau membalas dendam kepadanya; ia tidak boleh dibunuh kalau belum diadili di depan umum.
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].
