Joshua 20:4 - Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

⁴ “If you accidentally kill someone and you run away to one of those cities, you must stop at the entrance of the city and tell the leaders of the people what happened. Then the leaders can allow you to enter the city. They will give you 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

“Those were the days when I went to the city gate and sat in the public meeting of the elders.

Job 5:4

There was no one to help his children. No one defended them in court.

Psalm 26:9

Lord, don’t treat me like one of those sinners. Don’t kill me with those murderers.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is a respected member of the city council, where he meets with the other leaders.

Jeremiah 38:7

But a man named Ebed Melech heard that the officials had put Jeremiah into the cistern. Ebed Melech was from Ethiopia, and he was a eunuch in the king’s palace. King Zedekiah was sitting at the Benjamin Gate, so Ebed Melech left the king’s palace and went to talk to the king at the gate.

Hebrews 6:18

These two things cannot change: God cannot lie when he says something, and he cannot lie when he makes an oath. So these two things are a great help to us who have come to God for safety. They encourage us to hold on to the hope that is ours.

Joshua 20:3

Anyone who kills someone accidentally can go to a city of safety to hide from the relatives who want to kill him.