These cities will be places of protection from a dead person’s relatives who want to avenge the death. The slayer must not be put to death before being tried by the community.

这些城可以作逃避报仇人的城，使误杀人的不至于死，等他站在会众面前听审判。

这些城要作为逃避报仇者的城，使误杀人的不至于死，等他站在会众面前受审判。

这些城要作为逃避报仇者的城，使误杀人的不至于死，等他站在会众面前受审判。

躲避复仇的人，以免误杀人者未在会众面前受审便被杀死。

它们可以作你们逃避报仇者的避难城，使误杀人的不至于死，直到他站在会众面前受审判。

這些城可以作逃避報仇人的城，使誤殺人的不至於死，等他站在會眾面前聽審判。

這些城要作為逃避報仇者的城，使誤殺人的不至於死，等他站在會眾面前受審判。

這些城要作為逃避報仇者的城，使誤殺人的不至於死，等他站在會眾面前受審判。

躲避復仇的人，以免誤殺人者未在會眾面前受審便被殺死。

它們可以作你們逃避報仇者的避難城，使誤殺人的不至於死，直到他站在會眾面前受審判。

這些城可以做逃罪城，讓殺人者得以逃避贖業至親報仇的人，不至於死，等到他站在會眾面前受審判，然後決定。

此邑為避復仇者之所、俾誤殺人者不致死亡、俟見鞫於會眾、

殺人者、未見鞫於會眾、而被殺之戚屬欲報其仇、則可遁於斯邑、不致死亡。

誤殺人者逃於斯邑、可避復仇者、不至死亡、待立於會眾前見鞫、

They will be places of refuge from the avenger, so that anyone accused of murder may not die before they stand trial before the assembly.

They will be places of safety for them. People will be safe there from those who want to kill them. Then anyone charged with murder will not die before their case has been brought to the community court.

The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

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 shall serve you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the one who commits manslaughter does not die until he stands before the congregation for trial.

They shall be cities of refuge for you from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment.

And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation for judgment.

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.

And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

And they must stand as your towns of refuge from the avenger in order that the killer may not die until he has stood trial before the community.

The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

“ If the distance to the nearest city of refuge is too far, an enraged avenger might be able to chase down and kill the person who caused the death. Then the slayer would die unfairly, since he had never shown hostility toward the person who died.

Anyone who kills another person accidentally and unintentionally can run to one of these cities; they will be places of refuge from relatives seeking revenge for the person who was killed.“ Upon reaching one of these cities, the one who caused the death will appear before the elders at the city gate and present his case. They must allow him to enter the city and give him a place to live among them.If the relatives of the victim come to avenge the killing, the leaders must not release the slayer to them, for he killed the other person unintentionally and without previous hostility.But the slayer must stay in that city and be tried by the local assembly, which will render a judgment. And he must continue to live in that city until the death of the high priest who was in office at the time of the accident. After that, he is free to return to his own home in the town from which he fled.”

If this should happen, the community must follow these regulations in making a judgment between the slayer and the avenger, the victim’s nearest relative:The community must protect the slayer from the avenger and must escort the slayer back to live in the city of refuge to which he fled. There he must remain until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the sacred oil.“ But if the slayer ever leaves the limits of the city of refuge,and the avenger finds him outside the city and kills him, it will not be considered murder.

The victim’s nearest relative is responsible for putting the murderer to death. When they meet, the avenger must put the murderer to death.

“ But suppose someone is hostile toward a neighbor and deliberately ambushes and murders him and then flees to one of the cities of refuge.In that case, the elders of the murderer’s hometown must send agents to the city of refuge to bring him back and hand him over to the dead person’s avenger to be put to death.

Now the rest of the family is demanding,‘ Let us have your son. We will execute him for murdering his brother. He doesn’t deserve to inherit his family’s property.’ They want to extinguish the only coal I have left, and my husband’s name and family will disappear from the face of the earth.”

These cities were set apart for all the Israelites as well as the foreigners living among them. Anyone who accidentally killed another person could take refuge in one of these cities. In this way, they could escape being killed in revenge prior to standing trial before the local assembly.