1Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
1 Rabbi salaŋ Yasuwa se ka ne:
1And Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying,
2“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
2 «Ma salaŋ Israyla izey se ka ne: Wa tuguyaŋ birniyaŋ suuban, wo kaŋ yaŋ ay n'i sanni te Musa me ra.
2Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by Moses,
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.
3 I ga ciya boro-wi se kaŋ na boro wi, amma manti haw-ka-te boŋ no, manti ibaay boŋ mo no a n'a te. A ma zuru ka koy noodin ka faaba daw banako kambe ra.
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.
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.
4 Boro-wiyo ga zuru ka koy birney din afo do. Day a ga kay birno meyo furoyaŋo do ka nga sanno ci birno arkusey se, i ma maa ngey hangey ra. Ngey mo ga bora daŋ birno ra ngey do. I m'a no goray nangu, zama a ma goro i banda noodin.
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.
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.
5 Da daw banako na boro-wiyo ce gana ka kaa, i si boro-wiyo no a se a kambe ra, zama manti nga ibaay boŋ no a na nga gorokasino wi, a mana jin ka konn'a mo.
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.
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.’”
6 A ga goro birni woodin ra hala hano kaŋ hane a ga kay jama jine ciiti se, hala alfaga beero kaŋ gonda dabari jirbi woodin yaŋ ra buuyaŋo banda. Gaa no nga din, boro-wiyo ga hin ka ye nga birno ra. A ma koy nga boŋ windo ra, birno ra nango kaŋ a zuru ka fun din.»
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.
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.
7 Kal i na Kedes suuban Galili ra, Naftali tondey laabo ra. I na Sekem suuban kaŋ go Ifraymu tondey laabo ra. I na Ciriyat-Arba (kaŋ ga ti Hebron suuban), kaŋ go Yahuda tondey laabo ra.
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.
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.
8 Urdun daŋanta mo, Yeriko wayna funay haray, i na Bezer kaŋ go ganjo ra suuban, Ruben kunda batamey ra. I na Ramot kaŋ go Jileyad suuban, Gad kunda do. I na Golan kaŋ go Basan ra suuban, Manasse kunda ra.
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.
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.
9 Woodin yaŋ no ga ti birney kaŋ i suuban Israyla izey se, da yaw kaŋ go i ra da goray mo se. Zama boro kulu kaŋ na boro wi, amma manti ibaay boŋ no, a ma zuru ka koy birney din do. A ma koy noodin zama a ma si bu daw banakwa kambe ra, kala nd'a kay jama jine ciiti se jina.
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.