¹ Et egressa est sors secunda filiorum Simeon per cognationes suas : fuitque hæreditas

² eorum in medio possessionis filiorum Juda : Bersabee et Sabee et Molada

³ et Hasersual, Bala et Asem

⁴ et Eltholad, Bethul et Harma

⁵ et Siceleg et Bethmarchaboth et Hasersusa

⁶ et Bethlebaoth et Sarohen : civitates tredecim, et villæ earum.

⁷ Ain et Remmon et Athar et Asan : civitates quatuor, et villæ earum :

⁸ omnes viculi per circuitum urbium istarum usque ad Baalath Beer Ramath contra australem plagam. Hæc est hæreditas filiorum Simeon juxta cognationes suas,

⁹ in possessione et funiculo filiorum Juda : quia major erat : et idcirco filii Simeon possederunt in medio hæreditatis eorum.

¹⁰ Ceciditque sors tertia filiorum Zabulon per cognationes suas : factus est terminus possessionis eorum usque Sarid.

¹¹ Ascenditque de mari et Merala, et pervenit in Debbaseth, usque ad torrentem qui est contra Jeconam.

¹² Et revertitur de Sared contra orientem in fines Ceseleththabor : et egreditur ad Dabereth, ascenditque contra Japhie.

¹³ Et inde pertransit usque ad orientalem plagam Gethepher et Thacasin : et egreditur in Remmon, Amthar et Noa.

¹⁴ Et circuit ad aquilonem Hanathon : suntque egressus ejus vallis Jephthaël,

¹⁵ et Cateth et Naalol et Semeron et Jerala et Bethlehem : civitates duodecim, et villæ earum.

¹⁶ Hæc est hæreditas tribus filiorum Zabulon per cognationes suas, urbes et viculi earum.

¹⁷ Issachar egressa est sors quarta per cognationes suas :

¹⁸ fuitque ejus hæreditas Jezraël et Casaloth et Sunem

¹⁹ et Hapharaim et Seon, et Anaharath

²⁰ et Rabboth et Cesion, Abes,

²¹ et Rameth, et Engannim, et Enhadda et Bethpheses.

²² Et pervenit terminus ejus usque Thabor et Sehesima et Bethsames : eruntque exitus ejus Jordanis : civitates sedecim, et villæ earum.

²³ Hæc est possessio filiorum Issachar per cognationes suas, urbes et viculi earum.

²⁴ Ceciditque sors quinta tribui filiorum Aser per cognationes suas :

²⁵ fuitque terminus eorum Halcath et Chali et Beten et Axaph

²⁶ et Elmelech et Amaad et Messal : et pervenit usque ad Carmelum maris et Sihor et Labanath.

²⁷ Ac revertitur contra orientem Bethdagon : et pertransit usque Zabulon et vallem Jephthaël contra aquilonem in Bethemec et Nehiel. Egrediturque ad lævam Cabul,

²⁸ et Abran et Rohob et Hamon et Cana, usque ad Sidonem magnam.

²⁹ Revertiturque in Horma usque ad civitatem munitissimam Tyrum, et usque Hosa : eruntque exitus ejus in mare de funiculo Achziba :

³⁰ et Amma et Aphec et Rohob : civitates viginti duæ, et villæ earum.

³¹ Hæc est possessio filiorum Aser per cognationes suas, urbesque et viculi earum.

³² Filiorum Nephthali sexta sors cecidit per familias suas :

³³ et cœpit terminus de Heleph et Elon in Saananim, et Adami, quæ est Neceb, et Jebnaël usque Lecum : et egressus eorum usque ad Jordanem :

³⁴ revertiturque terminus contra occidentem in Azanotthabor, atque inde egreditur in Hucuca, et pertransit in Zabulon contra meridiem, et in Aser contra occidentem, et in Juda ad Jordanem contra ortum solis :

³⁵ civitates munitissimæ, Assedim, Ser, et Emath, et Reccath et Cenereth,

³⁶ et Edema et Arama, Asor

³⁷ et Cedes et Edrai, Enhasor,

³⁸ et Jeron et Magdalel, Horem et Bethanath et Bethsames : civitates decem et novem, et villæ earum.

³⁹ Hæc est possessio tribus filiorum Nephthali per cognationes suas, urbes et viculi earum.

⁴⁰ Tribui filiorum Dan per familias suas egressa est sors septima :

⁴¹ et fuit terminus possessionis ejus Sara et Esthaol, et Hirsemes, id est, civitas solis.

⁴² Selebin et Ajalon et Jethela,

⁴³ Elon et Themna et Acron,

⁴⁴ Elthece, Gebbethon et Balaath,

⁴⁵ et Jud et Bane et Barach et Gethremmon :

⁴⁶ et Mejarcon et Arecon, cum termino qui respicit Joppen,

⁴⁷ et ipso fine concluditur. Ascenderuntque filii Dan, et pugnaverunt contra Lesem, ceperuntque eam : et percusserunt eam in ore gladii, et possederunt, et habitaverunt in ea, vocantes nomen ejus Lesem Dan, ex nomine Dan patris sui.

⁴⁸ Hæc est possessio tribus filiorum Dan, per cognationes suas, urbes et viculi earum.

⁴⁹ Cumque complesset sorte dividere terram singulis per tribus suas, dederunt filii Israël possessionem Josue filio Nun in medio sui,

⁵⁰ juxta præceptum Domini, urbem quam postulavit Thamnath Saraa in monte Ephraim : et ædificavit civitatem, habitavitque in ea.

⁵¹ Hæ sunt possessiones, quas sorte diviserunt Eleazar sacerdos, et Josue filius Nun, et principes familiarum ac tribuum filiorum Israël in Silo, coram Domino ad ostium tabernaculi testimonii, partitique sunt terram.

¹ Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

² "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,

³ that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

⁴ He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.

⁵ If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn't hate him before.

⁶ He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.'"

⁷ They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

⁸ Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

⁹ These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands before the congregation.