1 Llefarodd yr ARGLWYDD wrth Josua a dweud,
1And Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying,
2 "Dywed wrth yr Israeliaid am neilltuo dinasoedd noddfa, fel y gorchmynnais iddynt trwy Moses,
2Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by Moses,
3 er mwyn i'r sawl sydd wedi lladd rhywun trwy amryfusedd, neu'n anfwriadol, gael ffoi iddynt, a chael noddfa ynddynt rhag y dialydd gwaed.
3that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly [and] unawares may flee thither: and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.
4 Pan fydd rhywun yn ffoi i un o'r dinasoedd hyn, y mae i sefyll wrth fynediad porth y ddinas, ac adrodd ei achos yng nghlyw henuriaid y ddinas honno. Os byddant yn caniat�u iddo ddod i mewn atynt i'r ddinas, byddant yn nodi lle ar ei gyfer, a chaiff aros yno gyda hwy.
4And he shall flee unto one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
5 Os daw'r dialydd gwaed ar ei �l, nid ydynt i ildio'r lleiddiad iddo, oherwydd yn anfwriadol y lladdodd ef ei gymydog, ac nid oedd yn ei gas�u'n flaenorol.
5And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he smote his neighbor unawares, and hated him not beforetime.
6 Caiff aros yn y ddinas honno nes iddo sefyll ei brawf gerbron y gynulleidfa. Ar farwolaeth y sawl fydd yn archoffeiriad ar y pryd, caiff y lleiddiad fynd yn �l i'w gartref yn y dref y ffodd ohoni."
6And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the manslayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
7 Neilltuasant Cedes yn Galilea ym mynydd-dir Nafftali, Sichem ym mynydd�dir Effraim, a Ciriath-arba, sef Hebron, ym mynydd�dir Jwda.
7And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.
8 Y tu hwnt i'r Iorddonen, i'r dwyrain o Jericho, nodasant Beser ar y gwastatir yn yr anialwch, o lwyth Reuben; Ramoth yn Gilead o lwyth Gad, a Golan yn Basan o lwyth Manasse.
8And beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned 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 Nodwyd y dinasoedd hyn ar gyfer yr holl Israeliaid, a'r dieithriaid oedd dros dro yn eu mysg, er mwyn i'r sawl fyddai wedi lladd rhywun mewn amryfusedd ffoi iddynt, rhag iddo farw trwy law dialydd gwaed cyn sefyll ei brawf gerbron y gynulleidfa.
9These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person unwittingly might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.