Josué 20

1 Yahweh falou com Josué, dizendo,

Then Yahweh said to Joshua,

2 “Fale com as crianças de Israel, dizendo, 'Atribua as cidades de refúgio, das quais eu falei com você por Moisés,

“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 para que o homem assassino que matar qualquer pessoa acidental ou involuntariamente possa fugir para lá. Eles serão para vocês um refúgio do vingador do sangue”.

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 Ele fugirá para uma dessas cidades, e ficará à entrada do portão da cidade, e declarará seu caso aos ouvidos dos anciãos daquela cidade. Eles o levarão para a cidade com eles, e lhe darão um lugar, para que possa viver entre eles.

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 Se o vingador do sangue o perseguir, então eles não entregarão o assassino na mão dele; porque ele bateu no vizinho sem querer, e não o odiou antes.

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 Ele habitará naquela cidade até que esteja diante da congregação para julgamento, até a morte do sumo sacerdote que estará naqueles dias. Então o assassino voltará, e virá para sua própria cidade, e para sua própria casa, para a cidade de onde fugiu”.

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 Eles separaram Kedesh na Galiléia, na região montanhosa de Naftali, Shechem na região montanhosa de Efraim, e Kiriath Arba (também chamada de Hebron) na região montanhosa de Judá.

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 Além do Jordão em Jericó para o leste, eles designaram Bezer no deserto na planície da tribo de Reuben, Ramoth em Gilead da tribo de Gad, e Golan em Bashan da tribo de Manasseh.

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 Estas foram as cidades designadas para todos os filhos de Israel, e para o estrangeiro que vive entre eles, para que quem matar qualquer pessoa involuntariamente possa fugir para lá, e não morrer pela mão do vingador do sangue, até que seja julgado perante a congregação.

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].