Joshua 20:1

Complete Jewish Bible

Adonai said to Y'hoshua,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the Lord spoke to Joshua,

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke to Yehoshua, saying,

King James Version
The Lord also spake unto Joshua, saying,

Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

English Standard Version
Then the Lord said to Joshua,

New Century Version
Then the Lord said to Joshua:

New English Translation
The Lord instructed Joshua:

Amplified Bible
The LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lord also spake vnto Ioshua, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

Contemporary English Version
One day the Lord told Joshua:

Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord said to Joshua:

George Lamsa Translation
THEN the LORD said to Joshua,

Good News Translation
Then the Lord told Joshua

Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE spake vnto Iosua, and sayde:

American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying,

Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said to Joshua,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lorde also spake vnto Iosuah, saying:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke unto Joshua, saying:

King James Version (1611)
The Lord also spake vnto Ioshua, saying,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,

English Revised Version
And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Joshua,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Josue, and seide, Spek thou to the sones of Israel, and seie thou to hem,

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Joshua, saying,

Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD also spoke to Joshua, saying,

World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

New King James Version
Numbers 35:9-28; Deuteronomy 19:1-13">[xr] The LORD also spoke to Joshua, saying,

New Living Translation
The Lord said to Joshua,

New Life Bible
The Lord said to Joshua,

New Revised Standard
Then the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh spake unto Joshua, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Josue, saying: Speak to children of Israel and say to them:

Revised Standard Version
Then the LORD said to Joshua,

THE MESSAGE
Then God spoke to Joshua: "Tell the People of Israel: Designate the asylum-cities, as I instructed you through Moses, so that anyone who kills a person accidentally—that is, unintentionally—may flee there as a safe place of asylum from the avenger of blood.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

Contextual Overview

¹ Adonai said to Y'hoshua, ² "Tell the people of Isra'el, ‘Select the cities of refuge about which I spoke to you through Moshe; ³ so that anyone who kills someone by mistake and unknowingly may escape there; they will serve as refuges for you from the next-of-kin avenger. ⁴ He is to flee to one of those cities, stand at the entrance to the city gate and state his cause to the city leaders. Then they will bring him into the city with them and give him a place, so that he may live among them. ⁵ If the next-of-kin avenger pursues him, they are not to hand over the killer to him; because he struck his fellow community member unknowingly and had not hated him previously. ⁶ So he will live in that city until he stands trial before the community, until the death of the cohen hagadol who is in office at the time. When that time comes, the killer may return to his own city and his own house, to the city from which he fled.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

spake: Joshua 5:14, Joshua 6:2, Joshua 7:10, Joshua 13:1-7

Cross-References

Genesis 10:19
The border of the Kena‘ani was from Tzidon, as you go toward G'rar, to ‘Azah; as you go toward S'dom, ‘Amora, Admah and Tzvoyim, to Lesha.

Genesis 13:1
Avram went up from Egypt — he, his wife and everything he had, and Lot with him — into the Negev.

Genesis 14:7
Next they turned back, came to ‘Ein-Mishpat (which is the same as Kadesh), and defeated all the country of the ‘Amaleki, and also the Emori, who lived in Hatzatzon-Tamar.

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai Avram's wife had not borne him a child. But she had an Egyptian slave-girl named Hagar;

Genesis 16:7
The angel of Adonai found her by a spring in the desert, the spring on the road to Shur,

Genesis 16:14
This is why the well has been called Be'er-Lachai-Ro'i [well of the one who lives and sees]; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 18:1
Adonai appeared to Avraham by the oaks of Mamre as he sat at the entrance to the tent during the heat of the day.

Genesis 20:13
When God had me leave my father's house, I told her, ‘Do me this favor: wherever we go, say about me, "He is my brother."'"

Genesis 20:14
Avimelekh took sheep, cattle, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Avraham; and he returned to him Sarah his wife.

Genesis 24:62
Meanwhile, Yitz'chak, one evening after coming along the road from Be'er-Lachai-Ro'i — he was living in the Negev —

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord also spake unto Joshua,.... Out of the tabernacle, at the door of which he with the high priest and princes were; the Lord had spoken to him before concerning dividing the land among the tribes,

Joshua 13:1; and this being done he speaks to him again:

saying: as follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XX

Joshua is commanded to appoint cities of refuge, 1, 2.

The purpose of their institution, 34.

Three cities are appointed in the promised land, 7;

and three on the east side of Jordan, 8, 9.

NOTES ON CHAP. XX