¹A Hospodin hovoril Jozuovi a riekol:

¹And Jehovah spoke to 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, Appoint for yourselves the cities of refuge, whereof I spoke unto you through 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 slayer who unwittingly without intent smiteth any one mortally may flee thither: and they shall be your 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 stand at the entrance of the city-gate, and shall declare his matter 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, they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; for he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not previously.

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 have stood before the assembly in judgment, 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.

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 hallowed Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kirjath-Arba, that 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 from Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness, in the plateau, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan 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 cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever smiteth any one mortally without intent might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the assembly.