Joshua 20 20 Joshua Dividing the land Sawi Old Testament (Trial Edition) 1 PLS MYAO KODON sin yosoake agansirke sin, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Joshua,
2 PLS "Aganid Israel rigafke ene gi raumhadef afhaim sin Musake agadimakon BSB BSB: “Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
3 PLS riga bohos vae ni rigabohos vaeke okomaeni odimake, one riga bohos ani one afhaimke tarhanae nahahaen. BSB BSB: so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
4 PLS One rigabohos ani one afhaimke hanae yakaimake bae bai afhaim retaf, aifat dafadimakeke bainahadadan, one af haim fohabke barnake rigafke hanae eni makane sin ke nahaagaden BSB BSB: When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before its elders, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.
5 PLS Manae ke bohos faeni go ke kirkai fishanae martegaudoho hanae e it hovhan ani goke fidanom, one riga bohos ufinenaenid rencana mahaser, amon rigav tarau mahaser. BSB BSB: Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.
6 PLS Ke one rigabohos ani bai nahabadan bai jemaah nake sin tirmane, oke sin kama inake Imam ani homkotae. Ke one rigabohos ani one atav ani nahahaen esgi bai afhaim ke BSB BSB: He is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time. Then the manslayer may return to his own home in the city from which he fled.”
7 PLS Nahav ni one madan karya madef rigav yavasirke. Kadesh ani Galilea Pegunungan Naftali ke tafda hasirke Sikhem ni pegunungan Efraimke hasirke Kiryat-Arba Hebron pegunungan Yehuda amink hasirke. BSB BSB: So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
8 PLS Yordan timur, Yerikho amin bae nahav ni Bezer ke Huni disir One ayo tamin nake Suku Ruben nakee Ke Ramot ni Gilead ke hasir Suku Gad nake Ke Golan ani Basan ke hasir Suku Gad nake. BSB BSB: And beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho, they designated Bezer on the wilderness plateau from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.
9 PLS Ovae kota-kota bainam Israel one kahane hayam manae one madan afhaimke tarhanae banakomain, Israel rigav nahav ani okomae, amon amjab kahane ni okomain one makomain, one tub nake majelis ani sin tirmakomaingu hakomain. BSB BSB: These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.
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