1避难城（参民35:9-28；申19:1-13）
1And Jehovah speaketh unto Joshua, saying,
2“你要告诉以色列人：‘你们要照着我借着摩西命令你们的，为自己设立避难城，
2`Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, Give for you cities of refuge, as I have spoken unto you by the hand of Moses,
3好使那出于错误、并非蓄意杀人的，可以逃到那里去；这些城要成为你们逃避报血仇的人的避难所。
3for the fleeing thither of a man-slayer smiting life inadvertently, without knowledge; and they have been to you for a refuge from the redeemer of blood.
4那杀人的要逃到这些城中的一座，站在城门口，把自己的事情向城中的众长老述说，长老就要把他接入城中，到他们那里，并要给他地方，使他可以住在他们中间。
4`When [one] hath fled unto one of these cities, and hath stood [at] the opening of the gate of the city, and hath spoken in the ears of the elders of that city his matter, then they have gathered him into the city unto them, and have given to him a place, and he hath dwelt with them.
5如果报血仇的人追赶他，长老不可把他交在报血仇的人手里，因为他并非蓄意杀人，他以前与他并没有仇恨。
5`And when the redeemer of blood doth pursue after him, then they do not shut up the man-slayer into his hand, for without knowledge he hath smitten his neighbour, and is not hating him hitherto;
6那杀人的要住在那城里，直到他站在会众面前受审；等到当时的大祭司死了，才可以回到本城本家，回到他逃出来的城那里。’”
6and he hath dwelt in that city till his standing before the company for judgment, till the death of the chief priest who is in those days — then doth the man-slayer turn back and hath come unto his city, and unto his house, unto the city whence he fled.`
7于是以色列人在拿弗他利山地，把加利利的基低斯分别出来；在以法莲山地，把示剑分别出来；在犹大山地，把基列．亚巴分别出来，基列．亚巴就是希伯仑；
7And they sanctify Kedesh in Galilee, in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kirjath-Arba (it [is] Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah;
8又在约旦河东，耶利哥的东面，从流本支派中，指定在旷野平原上的比悉；从迦得支派中，指定在基列的拉末；从玛拿西支派中，指定在巴珊的哥兰。
8and beyond the Jordan, [at] Jericho eastward, they have given Bezer in the wilderness, in 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这些都是为所有的以色列人，和在他们中间寄居的外族人所指定的城，让误杀人的可以逃到那里，不致死在报血仇的人手里，直到他站在会众面前受审为止。
9These have been cities of meeting for all the sons of Israel, and for a sojourner who is sojourning in their midst, for the fleeing thither of any one smiting life inadvertently, and he doth not die by the hand of the redeemer of blood till his standing before the company.