1A Hospodin hovoril Jozuovi a riekol:
1And Jehovah speaketh unto Joshua, saying,
2Hovor synom Izraelovým a povedz im: Nože dajte útočištné mestá, o ktorých som vám hovoril skrze Mojžiša,
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,
3aby sa ta utiahol vrah, ten, kto by nechcúc zabil človeka, z omylu a bez vedomia, a budú vám útočišťom pred pomstiteľom krvi.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.`
7A tedy zasvätili Kádeš v Galilei, na vrchu Naftaliho, a Sichem na vrchu Efraimovom a Kirjat-arbe, ktoré je Hebron, na vrchu Júdovom.
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;
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.
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.
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.
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.