¹The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,

¹A Hospodin hovoril Jozuovi a riekol:

²Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:

²Hovor synom Izraelovým a povedz im: Nože dajte útočištné mestá, o ktorých som vám hovoril skrze Mojžiša,

³That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

³aby sa ta utiahol vrah, ten, kto by nechcúc zabil človeka, z omylu a bez vedomia, a budú vám útočišťom pred pomstiteľom krvi.

⁴And when he that doth flee unto 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 unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

⁴A keby sa utiekol do niektorého z týchto miest, zastane pri vrátach brány mesta a rozpovie v uši starších toho mesta svoju vec. A tak ho vezmú do mesta k sebe a dajú mu miesto, a bude bývať s nimi.

⁵And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbor unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.

⁵A keby ho prenasledoval pomstiteľ krvi, nevydajú vraha do jeho ruky, lebo bez vedomia zabil svojho blížneho a nemal ho v nenávisti ani včera ani predvčerom.

⁶And he shall dwell in that city, until he 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 unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.

⁶A tak bude býva v tom meste, dokiaľ sa nepostaví pred obec k súdu a zostane v meste až do smrti najvyššieho kňaza, ktorý bude v tých dňoch; len vtedy sa navráti vrah a prijde do svojho mesta a do svojho domu, do mesta, odkiaľ utiekol.

⁷And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.

⁷A tedy zasvätili Kádeš v Galilei, na vrchu Naftaliho, a Sichem na vrchu Efraimovom a Kirjat-arbe, ktoré je Hebron, na vrchu Júdovom.

⁸And on the other side 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.

⁸A za Jordánom pri Jerichu na východ dali Becer na púšti, na rovine, z pokolenia Rúbenovho, a Rámot v Gileáde z pokolenia Gádovho a Golan v Bázane z pokolenia Manassesovho.

⁹These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

⁹To boly určené mestá pre všetkých synov Izraelových ako i pre pohostína, ktorý pohostínil medzi nimi, nato, aby sa ta utiekol každý, kto by nechcúc zabil človeka, z omylu, a nezomrel rukou pomstiteľa krvi, dokiaľ by sa nepostavil pred obec.