51THESE [ARE] THE INHERITANCES WHICH THEY GAVE AS A POSSESSION ELEAZAR THE PRIEST AND JOSHUA [THE] SON OF NUN AND [THE] LEADERS OF THE FATHERS OF [THE] TRIBES OF [THE] PEOPLE OF ISRAEL BY LOT AT SHILOH <TO> BEFORE YAHWEH [THE] ENTRANCE OF [THE] TENT OF MEETING AND THEY FINISHED FROM APPORTIONING <OBJ.> THE LAND 51These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families distributed by lot to the tribes of Israel at Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing up the land.
1AND HE SPOKE YAHWEH TO JOSHUA <TO> SAYING Six Cities of Refuge (Numbers 35:9–34; Deuteronomy 4:41–43; Deuteronomy 19:1–14) 1Then the LORD said to Joshua,
2SPEAK TO [THE] PEOPLE OF ISRAEL <TO> SAYING ASSIGN FOR <THE> YOURSELVES <OBJ.> [THE] CITIES OF <THE> REFUGE WHICH I SPOKE TO YOU BY [THE] HAND OF MOSES 2“Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
3TO FLEE THERE TOWARDS A KILLER [WHO] STRIKES DOWN <OF> A PERSON BY INADVERTENCE WITH NOT KNOWLEDGE AND THEY WILL BECOME FOR <THE> YOU <INTO> A REFUGE FROM [THE] AVENGER OF <THE> BLOOD 3so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
4AND HE WILL FLEE TO ONE OF THE CITIES <THE> THESE AND HE WILL STAND [THE] ENTRANCE OF [THE] GATE OF THE CITY AND HE WILL SPEAK IN [THE] EARS OF [THE] ELDERS OF THE CITY <THE> THAT <OBJ.> WORDS HIS AND THEY WILL GATHER <OBJ.> HIM THE CITY TOWARDS TO THEMSELVES AND THEY WILL GIVE TO <THE> HIM A PLACE AND HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM 4When 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.
5AND IF HE WILL PURSUE [THE] AVENGER OF <THE> BLOOD AFTER HIM AND NOT THEY WILL DELIVER UP <OBJ.> THE KILLER IN HAND HIS FOR WITH NOT KNOWLEDGE HE STRUCK <OBJ.> NEIGHBOR HIS AND NOT [WAS] HATING HE <TO> <THE> HIM FROM YESTERDAY [THE] THIRD DAY 5Now 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
6AND HE WILL DWELL IN THE CITY <THE> THAT UNTIL STANDS HE <TO> BEFORE THE CONGREGATION FOR <THE> JUDGMENT UNTIL [THE] DEATH OF THE PRIEST <THE> GREAT WHO HE WILL BE IN THE DAYS <THE> THOSE THEN HE WILL RETURN THE KILLER AND HE WILL GO TO OWN CITY HIS AND TO OWN HOUSE HIS TO THE CITY WHERE HE FLED FROM THERE 6He 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
7AND THEY SET APART <OBJ.> KEDESH IN <THE> GALILEE IN [THE] HILL COUNTRY OF NAPHTALI AND <OBJ.> SHECHEM IN [THE] HILL COUNTRY OF EPHRAIM AND <OBJ.> KIRIATH ARBA THAT [IS] HEBRON IN [THE] HILL COUNTRY OF JUDAH 7So 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.
8AND FROM [THE] OTHER SIDE OF [THE] JORDAN OF JERICHO EAST -WARD THEY ASSIGNED <OBJ.> BEZER IN THE WILDERNESS IN THE PLAIN FROM [THE] TRIBE OF REUBEN AND <OBJ.> RAMOTH IN <THE> GILEAD FROM [THE] TRIBE OF GAD AND <OBJ.> GOLAN IN <THE> BASHAN FROM [THE] TRIBE OF MANASSEH 8And 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.
9THESE THEY WERE [THE] CITIES OF <THE> APPOINTING FOR ALL [THE] PEOPLE OF ISRAEL AND FOR THE SOJOURNER WHO SOJOURNS IN MIDST OF THEM TO FLEE THERE TOWARDS ANY [ONE WHO] STRIKES DOWN <OF> A PERSON BY INADVERTENCE AND NOT HE WILL DIE BY [THE] HAND OF [THE] AVENGER OF <THE> BLOOD UNTIL STANDS HE <TO> BEFORE THE CONGREGATION 9These 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.