Ovihuro vyomaundiro
(Num 35:9-34)1 Muhona wa hungira ku Josua kutja a raere nai kOvaisrael: 2 “Toororeye ovihuro vyomaundiro, mbi mba rakizire ku Moses kutja e mu raere. 3 Omundu ngwa zeperere omukwao ma yenene okutaurira ku vyo ama hene komurumendu ngu ma vanga okumusutisa mongore yokuzepa. 4 Eye ma sora okutaurira ku tjimwe tjavyo, a i poṋa pombanguriro pomahitiro wotjihuro na kaserekarera kovanane votjihuro imbi mbya tjitwa. Nungwari owo mave mu yandjere okuhita motjihuro nave mu pe poṋa puma kara kutja a ture mu tjo. 5 Nomunangore tje mu kongorere nga mbo, ovandu votjihuro ave he mu yandja ko momake we. Owo ngave mu yame, orondu eye wa zeperere Omuisrael omukwao, nu ka ri nomazenge na ye. 6 Eye nga kare motjihuro ho, ngandu indu tja pangurwa komurungu wombanguriro, nu ngandu indu omurumendu ngu ri Omupristeri Otjiuru moruveze ndo tja koka. Tjazumba ingwi ngwa zeperere omukwao ma sora okuyaruka kotjihuro tje omuini ka ziririre indu tja taurire.”
7 Komuhingo mbwi Ovaisrael otji va toorora ovihuro mbi komukuma wokongurova kwa Jordan: OoKedes mOgalilea, mehi rozondundu ra Naftali, na Sikem mehi rozondundu ra Efraim, na Kirjat-Arba, tji tji ri Hebron, mehi rozondundu ra Juda. 8 Komukuma wokomuhuka wa Jordan motjivanda mokuti onguza komuhuka wa Jeriko va toorora Beser tjomuhoko wa Ruben, na Ramot mOgilead tjomuhoko wa Gad, na Golan mObasan tjomuhoko wa Manasse. 9 Imbi ombya ri ovihuro vyomaundiro mbya toororerwa Ovaisrael avehe novandu wozonganda, mba turire mokati kawo, omundu auhe ngwa zeperere omukwao kutja a kayamwe mu vyo; eye kamaa ṱu i omunangore e hiya pangurwa komurungu wombanguriro.
1 The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying, 2 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 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 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 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 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 ¶ And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah. 8 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 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.
