Josué 20
1 Et le Seigneur parla à Josué, disant:
And the Lord said to Joshua,
2 Parle aux fils d'Israël, dis-leur: Donnez les villes de refuge que je vous ai dites par Moïse;
Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses,
3 Villes de refuge pour le meurtrier qui involontairement aura frappé à mort; ces villes seront pour vous des refuges, et le meurtrier ne sera point tué par le vengeur du sang, avant d'avoir comparu en jugement devant la synagogue.
So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.
And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe.
And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate.
And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; (till the death of him who is high priest at that time: ) then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight.
7 Josué désigna donc Cadès, en Galilée, dans les montagnes de Nephthali; Sichem, dans les montagnes d'Ephraïm; la ville d'Arboc, la même qu'Hébron, dans les montagnes de Juda.
So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.
8 Et au delà du Jourdain, il désigna Bosor dans le désert, dans la plaine de la tribu de Ruben; Arémoth, en Galaad, de la tribu de Gad, et, dans le royaume de Basan, Gaulon, de la tribu de Manassé.
And on the east side of Jordan at Jericho, they made selection of Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
9 Telles sont les villes qui furent choisies pour les fils d'Israël, et pour le prosélyte résidant parmi eux, afin de servir de refuge à tout homme qui porterait involontairement un coup mortel, et afin qu'il ne pérît pas, de la main du vengeur de sang, avant d'avoir comparu en jugement devant la synagogue.
These were the towns marked out for all the children of Israel and for the man from a strange country living among them, so that anyone causing the death of another in error, might go in flight there, and not be put to death by him who has the right of punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.
