1A Hospodin hovoril Jozuovi a riekol:
1And Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying,
2Hovor synom Izraelovým a povedz im: Nože dajte útočištné mestá, o ktorých som vám hovoril skrze Mojžiša,
2Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by Moses,
3aby sa ta utiahol vrah, ten, kto by nechcúc zabil človeka, z omylu a bez vedomia, a budú vám útočišťom pred pomstiteľom krvi.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.