¹ 主はモーセに言われた。

² 「正月の元日にあなたは会見の天幕なる幕屋を建てなければならない。

³ そして、その中にあかしの箱を置き、垂幕で、箱を隔て隠し、

⁴ また、机を携え入れ、それに並べるものを並べ、燭台を携え入れて、そのともしびをともさなければならない。

⁵ あなたはまた金の香の祭壇を、あかしの箱の前にすえ、とばりを幕屋の入口にかけなければならない。

⁶ また燔祭の祭壇を会見の天幕なる幕屋の入口の前にすえ、

⁷ 洗盤を会見の天幕と祭壇との間にすえて、これに水を入れなければならない。

⁸ また周囲に庭を設け、庭の門にとばりをかけなければならない。

⁹ そして注ぎ油をとって、幕屋とその中のすべてのものに注ぎ、それとそのもろもろの器とを聖別しなければならない、こうして、それは聖となるであろう。

¹⁰ あなたはまた燔祭の祭壇と、そのすべての器に油を注いで、その祭壇を聖別しなければならない。こうして祭壇は、いと聖なるものとなるであろう。

¹¹ また洗盤と、その台とに油を注いで、これを聖別し、

¹² アロンとその子たちを会見の幕屋の入口に連れてきて、水で彼らを洗い、

¹³ アロンに聖なる服を着せ、これに油を注いで聖別し、祭司の務をさせなければならない。

¹⁴ また彼の子たちを連れてきて、これに服を着せ、

¹⁵ その父に油を注いだように、彼らにも油を注いで、祭司の務をさせなければならない。彼らが油そそがれることは、代々ながく祭司職のためになすべきことである」。

¹⁶ モーセはそのように行った。すなわち主が彼に命じられたように行った。

¹⁷ 第二年の正月になって、その月の元日に幕屋は建った。

¹⁸ すなわちモーセは幕屋を建て、その座をすえ、その枠を立て、その横木をさし込み、その柱を立て、

¹⁹ 幕屋の上に天幕をひろげ、その上に天幕のおおいをかけた。主がモーセに命じられたとおりである。

²⁰ 彼はまたあかしの板をとって箱に納め、さおを箱につけ、贖罪所を箱の上に置き、

²¹ 箱を幕屋に携え入れ、隔ての垂幕をかけて、あかしの箱を隠した。主がモーセに命じられたとおりである。

²² 彼はまた会見の天幕なる幕屋の内部の北側、垂幕の外に机をすえ、

²³ その上にパンを列に並べて、主の前に供えた。主がモーセに命じられたとおりである。

²⁴ 彼はまた会見の天幕なる幕屋の内部の南側に、机にむかい合わせて燭台をすえ、

²⁵ 主の前にともしびをともした。主がモーセに命じられたとおりである。

²⁶ 彼は会見の幕屋の中、垂幕の前に金の祭壇をすえ、

²⁷ その上に香ばしい薫香をたいた。主がモーセに命じられたとおりである。

²⁸ 彼はまた幕屋の入口にとばりをかけ、

²⁹ 燔祭の祭壇を会見の天幕なる幕屋の入口にすえ、その上に燔祭と素祭をささげた。主がモーセに命じられたとおりである。

³⁰ 彼はまた会見の天幕と祭壇との間に洗盤を置き、洗うためにそれに水を入れた。

³¹ モーセとアロンおよびその子たちは、それで手と足を洗った。

³² すなわち会見の天幕にはいるとき、また祭壇に近づくとき、そこで洗った。主がモーセに命じられたとおりである。

³³ また幕屋と祭壇の周囲に庭を設け、庭の門にとばりをかけた。このようにしてモーセはその工事を終えた。

³⁴ そのとき、雲は会見の天幕をおおい、主の栄光が幕屋に満ちた。

³⁵ モーセは会見の幕屋に、はいることができなかった。雲がその上にとどまり、主の栄光が幕屋に満ちていたからである。

³⁶ 雲が幕屋の上からのぼる時、イスラエルの人々は道に進んだ。彼らはその旅路において常にそうした。

³⁷ しかし、雲がのぼらない時は、そののぼる日まで道に進まなかった。

³⁸ すなわちイスラエルの家のすべての者の前に、昼は幕屋の上に主の雲があり、夜は雲の中に火があった。彼らの旅路において常にそうであった。

¹³ これは彼とその後の子孫に永遠の祭司職の契約となるであろう。彼はその神のために熱心であって、イスラエルの人々のために罪のあがないをしたからである』と」。

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

² "Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and you shall give suburbs for the cities around them to the Levites.

³ The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all their animals.

⁴ "The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.

⁵ You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

⁶ "The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

⁷ All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their suburbs.

⁸ Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites."

⁹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

¹⁰ "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

¹¹ then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

¹² The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

¹³ The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

¹⁴ You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.

¹⁵ For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

¹⁶ "'But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

¹⁷ If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

¹⁸ Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

¹⁹ The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

²⁰ If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

²¹ or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

²² "'But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

²³ or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

²⁴ then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

²⁵ and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

²⁶ "'But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,

²⁷ and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

²⁸ because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.

²⁹ "'These things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

³⁰ "'Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

³¹ "'Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

³² "'You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

³³ "'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.

³⁴ You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.'"