Joshua 20:1

English Standard Version

Then the Lord said to Joshua,

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,

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:

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai said to Y'hoshua,

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 Then the Lord said to Joshua, ² "Say to the people of Israel, ‘Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses, ³ that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood. ⁴ He shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain his case to the elders of that city. Then they shall take him into the city and give him a place, and he shall remain with them. ⁵ And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not give up the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unknowingly, and did not hate him in the past. ⁶ And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time. Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home, to the town 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
And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Genesis 13:1
So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.

Genesis 14:7
Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh) and defeated all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were dwelling in Hazazon-tamar.

Genesis 16:1
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.

Genesis 16:14
Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 18:1
And the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.

Genesis 20:13
And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, ‘This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, "He is my brother."'"

Genesis 20:14
Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him.

Genesis 24:62
Now Isaac had returned from Beer-lahai-roi and was dwelling in the Negeb.

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