- He is to stay in that city until he has stood trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest who is serving at that time. Then he may go back to his own home in the town from which he fled."
- 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.
- On the east side of the Jordan of Jericho they designated Bezer in the desert on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan in the tribe of Manasseh.
- Any of the Israelites or any alien living among them who killed someone accidentally could flee to these designated cities and not be killed by the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.
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- 他要住在那城裡、站在會眾面前聽審判.等到那時的大祭司死了、殺人的纔可以回到本城本家、就是他所逃出來的那城。
- 於是以色列人在拿弗他利山地、分定加利利的基低斯、在以法蓮山地、分定示劍、在猶大山地、分定基列亞巴(基列亞巴就是希伯崙)
- 又在約但河外耶利哥東、從流便支派中、在曠野的平原、設立比悉.從迦得支派中、設立基列的拉末.從瑪拿西支派中、設立巴珊的哥蘭.
- 這都是為以色列眾人、和在他們中間寄居的外人所分定的地邑、使誤殺人的都可以逃到那裡、不死在報血仇人的手中、等他站在會眾面前聽審判。
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