设立逃城
（民35．9－28；申19．1－13）
耶和华吩咐约书亚说：
The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,
2“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，Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:
3使那无意中误杀人的，可以逃到那里。这些要作为你们逃避报血仇者的城。That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
4杀人者要逃到这些城中的一座，站在城门口，把他的事情陈诉给那城的长老听。他们就要接他入城，给他地方，让他住在他们中间。And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
5若是报血仇者追上了他，长老不可把他交在报血仇者的手里，因为他是无意中杀了邻舍的，并非过去彼此之间有仇恨。And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
6他要住在那城里，直到他站在会众面前受审判；等到当时的大祭司死后，杀人者才可以回到本城本家，就是他所逃出来的那城。’”And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
7于是，以色列人划分拿弗他利山区加利利的基低斯、以法莲山区的示剑和犹大山区的基列．亚巴，基列．亚巴就是希伯仑。And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
8他们在约旦河的另一边，就是耶利哥的东边，从吕便支派中，在旷野的平原设立比悉，从迦得支派中设立基列的拉末，从玛拿西支派中设立巴珊的哥兰。And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain 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这都是为以色列众人和在他们中间寄居的外人所指定的城镇，使凡误杀人者可以逃到那里，不至于死在报血仇者的手中，直到他站在会众面前受审判☛“受审判”是根据七十士译本，原文没有。。These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.