యెహొషువ 20
၁ထိုနောက်ထာဝရဘုရားသည်ယောရှုမှ တစ်ဆင့် ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့အား၊-
2 ౨ “నీవు ఇశ్రాయేలీయులతో ఈ విధంగా చెప్పాలి, తెలియక పొరపాటున ఎవరినైనా చంపిన హంతకుడు పారిపోడానికి నేను మోషే ద్వారా మీతో పలికించిన ఆశ్రయ పట్టణాలు మీరు ఏర్పరచుకోవాలి.
၂``ငါသည်မောရှေအားဖြင့်မိန့်မှာသည့် အတိုင်းခိုလှုံရာမြို့များကိုရွေးချယ် လော့။-
၃တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက်အားမတော်တဆသတ်မိ သောသူသည် လက်စားချေမည့်သူ၏လက်မှ လွတ်မြောက်ရန် ထိုမြို့များသို့ထွက်ပြေး ခိုလှုံနိုင်စေရမည်။-
4 ౪ ఒకడు ఆ పట్టణాల్లో ఒక దానికి పారిపోయి ఆ పట్టణ ద్వారం దగ్గర నిలబడి, ఆ పట్టణపు పెద్దలు వినేలా తన సంగతి చెప్పిన తరువాత, వారు పట్టణంలోకి అతనిని చేర్చుకుని తమ దగ్గర నివసించడానికి స్థలమివ్వాలి.
၄သူသည်ထိုမြို့များအနက်တစ်မြို့မြို့သို့ ထွက်ပြေး၍ မြို့တံခါးဝတွင်ရှိသောတရား စီရင်ရာဌာနသို့သွားပြီးလျှင် မြို့၏အကြီး အကဲတို့အားဖြစ်ပျက်ခဲ့သမျှကိုရှင်းပြ ရမည်။ ထိုနောက်အကြီးအကဲတို့က ထိုသူ အားမြို့တွင်းသို့ဝင်ခွင့်ပြု၍သူနေထိုင် ရန်နေရာချပေးရမည်။-
5 ౫ హత్య విషయంలో ప్రతి హత్య చేసేవాడు అతనిని తరిమితే అతని చేతికి ఆ నరహంతకుని అప్పగించకూడదు. ఎందుకంటే అతడు పొరపాటున తన పొరుగువాని చంపాడు గాని అంతకు మునుపు వాని మీద పగపట్టలేదు.
၅လက်စားချေရန်လိုက်လာသူသည်ထိုအရပ် သို့ရောက်ရှိလာလျှင်မြို့သူမြို့သားတို့က ထွက်ပြေးခိုလှုံသူအား ထိုသူ၏လက်သို့ မအပ်ရ။ သူသည်မိမိအမျိုးသားချင်းကို ရန်ငြိုးမရှိဘဲမတော်တဆသတ်မိသည် ဖြစ်သောကြောင့်သူ့အားအသက်ဘေးမှ ကာကွယ်ပေးရမည်။-
6 ౬ అతడు సమాజం ముందు విచారణకు నిలబడే వరకూ, ఆ రోజుల్లో ఉన్న యాజకుడు చనిపోయే వరకూ ఆ పట్టణంలోనే నివసించాలి. తరువాత ఆ నరహంతకుడు ఏ పట్టణం నుండి పారిపోయాడో ఆ పట్టణంలోని తన ఇంటికి తిరిగి రావాలి.”
၆သူသည်လူအပေါင်းတို့ရှေ့တွင်တရားစီရင် ခြင်းကိုခံပြီးသည်အထိထိုမြို့တွင်နေရ မည်။ အချင်းဖြစ်ပွားစဉ်အချိန်ကယဇ်ပုရော ဟိတ်မင်းဖြစ်သူအနိစ္စရောက်ပြီးနောက်မှသူ သည်ထွက်ပြေးခဲ့သောမိမိနေရင်းမြို့သို့ပြန် နိုင်သည်'' ဟုမိန့်တော်မူ၏။
7 ౭ అప్పుడు వాళ్ళు గలిలీలోని నఫ్తాలి కొండ ప్రదేశంలో ఉన్న కెదెషు, ఎఫ్రాయిం కొండ ప్రదేశంలోని షెకెం, యూదా కొండ ప్రదేశంలోని హెబ్రోను అనే కిర్యతర్బాను ప్రతిష్ఠించారు.
၇ထို့ကြောင့်သူတို့သည်ယော်ဒန်မြစ်အနောက် ဘက်တွင်နဿလိတောင်ကုန်းဒေသ၊ ဂါလိလဲ နယ်ရှိကေဒေရှမြို့၊ ဧဖရိမ်တောင်ကုန်းဒေသ ရှိရှေခင်မြို့၊ ယုဒတောင်ကုန်းဒေသရှိဟေဗြုန် မြို့တို့ကိုခိုလှုံရာမြို့များအဖြစ်ရွေးချယ် သတ်မှတ်ကြသည်။-
8 ౮ తూర్పు వైపున యొర్దాను అవతల యెరికో దగ్గర రూబేను గోత్రం నుండి మైదానం మీద ఉన్న అరణ్యంలోని బేసెరు, గాదు గోత్రం నుండి గిలాదు లోని రామోతు, మనష్షే గోత్రం నుండి బాషానులోని గోలానులను నియమించారు.
၈ယော်ဒန်မြစ်အရှေ့ဘက်၊ ယေရိခေါမြို့အရှေ့ ရုဗင်နယ်မြေကုန်းပြင်မြင့်တောကန္တာရရှိ ဗေဇာမြို့၊ ဂဒ်နယ်မြေဂိလဒ်နယ်ရှိရာမုတ် မြို့၊ မနာရှေနယ်မြေ၊ ဗာရှန်နယ်ရှိဂေါလန် မြို့တို့ကိုခိုလှုံရာမြို့များအဖြစ်ရွေး ချယ်သတ်မှတ်ကြသည်။-
9 ౯ పొరపాటున ఒకడి చంపినవాడు అక్కడికి పారిపోయి హత్యవిషయమై ప్రతిహత్య చేసేవాడు చంపకుండా ఉండేలా సమాజం ముందు నిలబడే వరకూ ఇశ్రాయేలీయులందరికీ వారిమధ్య నివసించే పరదేశులకూ నియమించిన పట్టణాలు ఇవి.
၉ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားဖြစ်စေ၊ သူနှင့်အတူ နေထိုင်သောလူမျိုးခြားဖြစ်စေ၊ မတော်တဆ လူတစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက်ကိုသတ်မိသူသည်လက် စားချေမည့်သူ၏လက်မှလွတ်မြောက်ရန်နှင့် သူ့ အားလူပရိသတ်ရှေ့တွင်တရားမစီရင်ရ သေးမီသေစားမသေစေရန် ဤမြို့များကို ခိုလှုံရာမြို့များအဖြစ်ရွေးချယ်ကြ သတည်း။
