Jozue 20
1 Yawe alobaki na Jozue:
The LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,
2 « Yebisa bana ya Isalaele ete bapona bingumba ya kokimela, ndenge nayebisaki bino na nzela ya Moyize,
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
3 mpo ete moto nyonso oyo akoboma moto na nko te akoka kokimela kuna mpe azwa ebombamelo liboso ya mobukanisi makila.
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 Soki akimeli kati na moko ya bingumba wana, akotelema na ekotelo ya ekuke ya engumba mpe akotalisa likambo na ye epai ya bampaka ya engumba wana. Bongo bampaka bakoyamba moto yango kati na engumba mpe bakopesa ye esika ya kovanda elongo na bango.
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 Soki mobukanisi makila alandi ye, bampaka basengeli te kokaba mobomi yango na maboko na ye, pamba te abomaki mozalani na ye na nko te mpe azalaki liboso na makanisi ya mabe te.
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 Akotikala na engumba wana kino tango akoleka na esambiselo liboso ya lisanga mpe kino tango mokonzi ya Banganga-Nzambe oyo azali na mosala na tango wana, akokufa. Na sima na yango nde mobomi yango akoki kozonga na engumba na ye, na ndako na ye, kati na engumba epai wapi awuta. »
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 Bana ya Isalaele babulisaki Kedeshi, kati na Galile, kati na mokili ya bangomba ya Nefitali; Sishemi, kati na mokili ya bangomba ya Efrayimi, mpe Kiriati-Ariba oyo ezali Ebron, kati na mokili ya bangomba ya Yuda.
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 Na ngambo mosusu ya Yordani, na este ya Jeriko, baponaki Betseri kati na esobe, na likolo ya ngomba ya libota ya Ribeni; Ramoti kati na Galadi, kati na etuka ya libota ya Gadi; mpe Golani kati na Bashani, kati na etuka ya libota ya Manase.
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 Yango nde ezalaki bingumba oyo eponamaki mpo na moto nyonso ya Isalaele to mpe mpo na mopaya nyonso oyo azali kovanda kati na bango. Moto nyonso oyo akoboma moto na nko te akoki kokimela kuna, mpo ete mobukanisi makila aboma ye te, liboso ete aleka na esambiselo na miso ya lisanga.
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.
