1Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
1Huan, TOUPAN Josua a houpiha,
2“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
2Israel suante kiangah, Kihumbitna khuate bawl dih ua, Mosi zanga na kiang ua ka gen khitsa:
3that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.
3Kuapeuh theiloua mi nana that kha, huailaiah a tailut thei ding hi: huchiin sisan phulami lakah nou adingin kihumbitna ahi ding.
4He shall flee to 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. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.
4Huan, huai khopite laka akoi hiam pen ah a tai dinga, khopi kulh kongpi lutna ah a vading dinga, huai kho upate bila jakin a tanchin a vatun ding: huan, amau kho sungah a kiang uah a pi lut ding ua, a lak ua a ten theih sam na dingin in omna ding a sehsak ding uhi.
5If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before.
5Huan, sisan phulamiin a hondelh leh, a thatmi pen a khut ah a nape ding uh ahi kei; a insakinkhang theiloua a thah ahia, a main lah huatna a nei ngal keia.
6He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.’”
6Mipi maa vaihawmsak dinga a din ma leh huailaia siampu liana pangpa a sih mateng, huai khuaa a om nilouh ding ahi; huan, huai nungin mi thatmi pen amah kho sung mahmah, a taikhiak san khua, amah mah in sungah a lut nawn ding ahi, chiin genin, chiin.
7They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
7Huchiin Naphtali singtang gama Galili ah Kades khua te, Ephraim singtang gam sekem khua te, Judia singtang gama kirath-arba khua (huai bel Hebron a hi) te a septa uhi.
8Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
8Huan, suahlam ah Jordan gal ah Jeriko ah Reuben nam gama gamdai phaijanga Bezer khua te, Gad nam gama Gilead gam Ramoth khua te, Manassi nam gama Basan gama Golan khua te a sep uh.Huai khuate ahi Israel suante tengteng leh a lak ua nam dang omte adinga seh: kuapeuh mi that khami tuh huaia a tailuta, mipite maa a din phot mateng sisan phulami khuta a sih louhna dingin.
9These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands before the congregation.
9Huai khuate ahi Israel suante tengteng leh a lak ua nam dang omte adinga seh: kuapeuh mi that khami tuh huaia a tailuta, mipite maa a din phot mateng sisan phulami khuta a sih louhna dingin.