Joshua 20 - Listen Online

¹ OLUWA si sọ fun Joṣua pe,

¹ The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,

² Wi fun awọn ọmọ Israeli pe, Ẹ yàn ilu àbo fun ara nyin, ti mo ti sọ fun nyin lati ọwọ́ Mose wa:

² Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:

³ Ki apania ti o ba ṣeṣì pa ẹnikan li aimọ̀ ki o le salọ sibẹ̀: nwọn o si jẹ́ àbo fun nyin lọwọ olugbẹsan ẹ̀jẹ.

³ That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

⁴ On o si salọ si ọkan ninu ilu wọnni, yio si duro li ẹnu-ọ̀na ibode ilu na, yio si rò ẹjọ́ rẹ̀ li etí awọn àgba ilu na, nwọn o si gbà a sọdọ sinu ilu na, nwọn o si fun u ni ibi kan, ki o le ma bá wọn gbé.

⁴ And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

⁵ Bi olugbẹsan ẹ̀jẹ ba lepa rẹ̀, njẹ ki nwọn ki o má ṣe fi apania na lé e lọwọ; nitoriti o pa aladugbo rẹ̀ li aimọ̀, ti kò si korira rẹ̀ tẹlẹrí.

⁵ And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.

⁶ On o si ma gbé inu ilu na, titi yio fi duro niwaju ijọ fun idajọ, titi ikú olori alufa o wà li ọjọ́ wọnni: nigbana ni apania na yio pada, on o si wá si ilu rẹ̀, ati si ile rẹ̀, si ilu na lati ibiti o gbé ti salọ.

⁶ And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and 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.

⁷ Nwọn si yàn Kedeṣi ni Galili ni ilẹ òke Naftali, ati Ṣekemu ni ilẹ òke Efraimu, ati Kiriati-arba (ti iṣe Hebroni) ni ilẹ òke Juda.

⁷ And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.

⁸ Ati ni ìha keji Jordani lẹba Jeriko ni ìla-õrùn, nwọn yàn Beseri li aginjù ni pẹtẹlẹ̀ ninu ẹ̀ya Reubeni, ati Ramotu ni Gileadi ninu ẹ̀ya Gadi, ati Golani ni Baṣani ninu ẹ̀ya Manasse.

⁸ And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon 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.

⁹ Wọnyi ni awọn ilu ti a yàn fun gbogbo awọn ọmọ Israeli, ati fun alejò ti nṣe atipo lãrin wọn, ki ẹnikẹni ti o ba ṣeṣì pa ẹnikan, ki o le salọ sibẹ̀, ki o má ba si ti ọwọ́ olugbẹsan ẹ̀jẹ ku, titi on o fi duro niwaju ijọ.

⁹ These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.