1Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
1A Hospodin hovoril Jozuovi a riekol:
2“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
2Hovor synom Izraelovým a povedz im: Nože dajte útočištné mestá, o ktorých som vám hovoril skrze Mojžiša,
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.
3aby sa ta utiahol vrah, ten, kto by nechcúc zabil človeka, z omylu a bez vedomia, a budú vám útočišťom pred pomstiteľom krvi.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.’”
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.
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.
7A tedy zasvätili Kádeš v Galilei, na vrchu Naftaliho, a Sichem na vrchu Efraimovom a Kirjat-arbe, ktoré je Hebron, na vrchu Júdovom.
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.
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.
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.
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.