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1 त्यसपछि परमप्रभुले यहोशूलाई भन्‍नुभयो,
The LORD also spoke to Joshua, saying,
2 “इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई यसो भन्, 'मैले मोशाद्वारा तिमीहरूलाई भनेजस्तै शरण-नगरहरू चुन ।
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint for you cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses:
3 यसो गर ताकि जसले मानिसलाई अनजानमा मार्छ त्यो व्यक्‍ति त्यहाँ जान सक्छ । यी सहरहरू मारिएको व्य‍क्‍तिको रगतको बदला लिन खोज्‍नेबाट शरण-स्थान हुने छ ।
That the slayer that killeth [any] person unawares [and] ignorantly, may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
4 त्यो ती सहरहरूमध्ये एउटामा भागेर जाने छ, सहरको प्रवेशद्वारमा खडा हुने छ र त्यस सहरका धर्म-गुरुहरूलाई त्यसका सबै कुरा बताउने छ । त्यसपछि तिनीहरूले त्यसलाई सहरभित्र लाने छन् र त्यसलाई तिनीहरूमाझ बस्‍नलाई ठाउँ दिने छन् ।
And when he that doth flee to one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
5 यदि कोही मारिएको व्यक्‍तिको बदला लिन आउँछ भने, त्यस सहरका मानिसहरूले मार्ने व्यक्‍तिलाई अधिकारीहरूको हातमा सुम्‍पनुहुँदैन । तिनीहरूले यसो गर्नुहुँदैन, किनभने त्यसले आफ्नो छिमेकीलाई अनजानमा मार्‍यो, र विगतमा तिनको उनीसँग कुनै दुश्मनी थिएन ।
And if the avenger of blood shall pursue him, then they shall not deliver the slayer into his hand; because he smote his neighbor ignorantly, and had not hated him before.
6 सहरमा न्यायको सभाको सामु खडा नभएसम्म ती दिनमा प्रधान पुजारीको सेवा गरिरहेका व्यक्‍तिको मृत्यु नभएसम्म त्यो व्यक्ति त्यस सहरमा रहनुपर्छ । त्यसपछि दुर्घटनावश मानिसलाई मार्ने व्यक्‍ति आफ्नो घर र आफ्नो सहरमा फर्कन सक्छ, जहाँबाट त्यो भागेको थियो' ।”
And he shall dwell in that city, until he shall stand before the congregation for judgment, [and] until the death of the high-priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city from whence he fled.
7 त्यसैले इस्राएलीहरूले नप्‍तलीको पहाडी देशमा गालीलको केदेश, एफ्राइमको पहाडी देशमा शकेम, र यहूदाको पहाडी देशमा किर्यत-अर्बा (जुन हेब्रोन हो) छाने ।
And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, (which [is] Hebron) in the mountain of Judah.
8 यर्दनको पूर्वपट्टि, तिनीहरूले रूबेनको कुलबाट उच्‍च-स्थानमाथिको मरुभूमिमा बेसेर; गादको कुलबाट रामो गिलाद; र मनश्शेको कुलबाट बाशाको गोलान चुने ।
And on the other side of Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon 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 इस्राएलका मानिसहरू र तिनीहरूमाझ बसोबास गरेका परदेशीहरूका निम्ति चुनेका सहरहरू यिनै हुन्, ताकि अनजानमा मानिसलाई मार्ने व्यक्‍ति सुरक्षाको निम्ति त्यहाँ भागोस् । यो व्यक्‍ति सभाको सामु पहिले न्यायको निम्ति खडा नभई त्यो व्यक्‍ति बगाइएको रगतको बदला लिन चाहनेको हातबाट नमरोस् ।
These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger sojourning among them, that whoever should kill [any] person unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

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