- 耶和华晓谕约书亚说,
- 你吩咐以色列人说,你们要照着我藉摩西所晓谕你们的,为自己设立逃城,
- 使那无心而误杀人的,可以逃到那里。这些城可以作你们逃避报血仇人的地方。
- 那杀人的要逃到这些城中的一座城,站在城门口,将他的事情说给城内的长老们听。他们就把他收进城里,给他地方,使他住在他们中间。
- 若是报血仇的追了他来,长老不可将他交在报血仇的手里。因为他是素无仇恨,无心杀了人的。
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- Then the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,
- "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'Designate the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,
- that the manslayer who kills any person unintentionally, without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall become your refuge from the avenger of blood.
- 'He shall flee to one of these cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and state his case in the hearing of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city to them and give him a place, so that he may dwell among them.
- 'Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor without premeditation and did not hate him beforehand.
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