“ Tell the Israelites: Select your cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,

“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，

“你吩咐以色列人说：‘你们要照我藉摩西所吩咐你们的，为自己设立逃城，

“你吩咐以色列人说：‘你们要照我藉摩西所吩咐你们的，为自己设立逃城，

“你吩咐以色列人，照我以前借摩西所吩咐你们的，设立一些城邑作为避难城，

“你要告诉以色列人：‘你们要照着我藉着摩西命令你们的，为自己设立避难城，

「你吩咐以色列人說：你們要照着我藉摩西所曉諭你們的，為自己設立逃城，

「你吩咐以色列人說：『你們要照我藉摩西所吩咐你們的，為自己設立逃城，

「你吩咐以色列人說：『你們要照我藉摩西所吩咐你們的，為自己設立逃城，

「你吩咐以色列人，照我以前藉摩西所吩咐你們的，設立一些城邑作為避難城，

“你要告訴以色列人：‘你們要照著我藉著摩西命令你們的，為自己設立避難城，

『你要告訴以色列人說：「你們要照我由摩西經手所告訴你們的為自己設立逃罪城，

告以色列人云、當遵我藉摩西所命爾者、簡立逃城、

告以色列族云、昔我諭摩西、必有數邑為逋逃之藪、今當立之、

爾告以色列人云、當遵我昔託摩西所命爾者、擇逃避之邑、

“ Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,

“ Tell the Israelites to choose the cities to go to for safety, just as I directed you through Moses.

“ Say to the people of Israel,‘ Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,

“ Now tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed Moses.

“ Speak to the sons of Israel, saying,‘ Designate the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,

“ Speak to the children of Israel, saying:‘ Appoint for yourselves cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by Moses,

“ Tell the Israelites: Select your cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,

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

“ Have the Israelites select the cities of refuge that I told you about through Moses.

“ Speak to the children of Israel, saying,‘ Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,

Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east.Someone could flee there who committed manslaughter, killing his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him. He could flee to one of these cities and stay alive:Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau land, belonging to the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, belonging to the Gadites; or Golan in Bashan, belonging to the Manassites.

“ The cities you give the Levites will include six cities of refuge, which you will provide so that the one who kills someone may flee there; in addition to these, give forty-two other cities.

designate cities to serve as cities of refuge for you, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.You will have the cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the one who kills someone will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.Select three cities across the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan to be cities of refuge.These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the alien or temporary resident among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.“ If anyone strikes a person with an iron object and death results, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.If anyone has in his hand a stone capable of causing death and strikes another person and he dies, the murderer must be put to death.If anyone has in his hand a wooden object capable of causing death and strikes another person and he dies, the murderer must be put to death.The avenger of blood himself is to kill the murderer; when he finds him, he is to kill him.Likewise, if anyone in hatred pushes a person or throws an object at him with malicious intent and he dies,or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood is to kill the murderer when he finds him.“ But if anyone suddenly pushes a person without hostility or throws any object at him without malicious intentor without looking drops a stone that could kill a person and he dies, but he was not his enemy and didn’t intend to harm him,the assembly is to judge between the person who kills someone and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

you are to set apart three cities for yourselves within the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.You are to determine the distances and divide the land the LORD your God is granting you as an inheritance into three regions, so that anyone who commits manslaughter can flee to these cities.“ Here is the law concerning a case of someone who kills a person and flees there to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him:If, for example, he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings the ax to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, that person may flee to one of these cities and live.Otherwise, the avenger of blood in the heat of his anger might pursue the one who committed manslaughter, overtake him because the distance is great, and strike him dead. Yet he did not deserve to die, since he did not previously hate his neighbor.This is why I am commanding you to set apart three cities for yourselves.If the LORD your God enlarges your territory as he swore to your ancestors, and gives you all the land he promised to give them—provided you keep every one of these commands I am giving you today and follow them, loving the LORD your God and walking in his ways at all times— you are to add three more cities to these three.In this way, innocent blood will not be shed, and you will not become guilty of bloodshed in the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.But if someone hates his neighbor, lies in ambush for him, attacks him, and strikes him fatally, and flees to one of these cities,the elders of his city are to send for him, take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood and he will die.Do not look on him with pity but purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and you will prosper.

Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies.Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is the one who died, but even more, has been raised; he also is at the right hand of God and intercedes for us.

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus,

so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.

But if he did not intend any harm, and yet God allowed it to happen, I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.If a person schemes and willfully acts against his neighbor to murder him, you must take him from my altar to be put to death.