Joshua 20:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁴ When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before the elders of that city, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among 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 Tagairtí Cros

Job 29:7

When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the town square,

Job 5:4

His children are far from safety. They are crushed at the city gate, with no one to rescue them.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known at the city gates, where he sits among the elders of the land.

Jeremiah 38:7

But Ebed-melech, a Cushite court official in the king’s palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Benjamin Gate,

Hebrews 6:18

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

Joshua 20:3

so that a person who kills someone unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.