Joshua 20:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ The slayer shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain the case to the elders of that city; then the fugitive shall be taken into the city and given a place and shall remain with them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ He who flees to one of those cities shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain his case to the elders of that city; they shall receive him to [the protection of] that city and give him a place to dwell among them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And he shall flee unto 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; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

Common English Bible

⁴ The killer will flee to one of these cities, stand at the entrance of the city gate, and explain their situation to the elders of that city. The elders are to let the killer into the city and provide a place of refuge for the killer to live with them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And when he will have fled to one of these cities, he shall stand before the gate of the city, and he shall speak to the ancients of that city, the things that prove him innocent. And so shall they receive him, and give him a place in which to live.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And when he shall flee to one of these cities, he shall stand before the gate of the city, and shall speak to the ancients of that city such things as prove him innocent. And so shall they receive him, and give him a place to dwell in.

Joshua 20:4 Références croisées

Job 29:7

When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square,

Job 5:4

Their children are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.

Psalm 26:9

Do not sweep me away with sinners nor my life with the bloodthirsty,

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known in the city gates, taking his seat among the elders of the land.

Jeremiah 38:7

Ebed-melech the Cushite, a eunuch in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. The king happened to be sitting at the Benjamin Gate,

Hebrews 6:18

so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God would prove false, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to seize the hope set before us.

Joshua 20:3

so that anyone who kills a person without intent or by mistake may flee there; they shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.