Joshua 20:3
1 Then the LORD said to Joshua,
2 “Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
4 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 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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
- KJV
- That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
- WEB
- that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.
- ASV
- that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly [and] unawares may flee thither: and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.
- DARBY
- that the slayer who unwittingly without intent smiteth any one mortally may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
- BLB
- for the fleeing there of the manslayer who kills a person in error, without knowledge. And they shall be unto you⁺ a refuge from the avenger of the blood.
- ÅB
- så en manndraper som av vanvare, uten å ville det, slår noen ihjel, kan flykte dit. Dere skal ha dem til tilfluktsstæder for manndraperen, når han flykter for blodhevneren.
- OTB
- slik at enhver som dreper en person utilsiktet og uten forsett kan flykte dit og finne tilflukt fra blodhevneren.
- B1930
- så en manndraper som av vanvare, uten å ville det, slår nogen ihjel, kan fly dit; I skal ha dem til tilfluktsstæder for manndraperen, når han flyr for blodhevneren.