Joshua 20:4 - Y'all Version Bible

When someone flee to one of those cities, they are to stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and declare their case in the ears of the elders of that city. They are to take him into the city with them, and give him a place, so that the he may live among them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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)

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

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

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

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 Tagairtí Cros

Job 29:7

when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

Job 5:4

His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

Psalm 26:9

Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

Jeremiah 38:7

Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern (the king was then sitting in Benjamin’s gate),

Hebrews 6:18

so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.

Joshua 20:3

so that anyone who kills a person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They will be a refuge for y’all from the avenger of blood.