Joshua 20:1

New Life Version

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,

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:

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 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 The Lord said to Joshua, ² "Say to the people of Israel, ‘Choose the cities where you may go and be safe when you are in trouble, as I said to you through Moses. ³ So the man who kills any person without meaning to or planning to may run to one of these cities. They will be places where you can go to be safe from the one who wants to punish you for the killing. ⁴ He will run to one of these cities and stand at the city gate. There he will tell his story to the leaders of that city. They will take him into the city and give him a place. So he may live among them. ⁵ If the one who wants to punish him comes after him, they will not give him the one who killed the person, because he killed his neighbor without planning to, and did not hate him in the past. ⁶ He will live in that city until he has been tried in front of the people. And he will live there until the death of the one who is the head religious leader at the time. Then the one who killed the person may return to his own city and his own house, to the city he ran away from.'"

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
So the land of the Canaanite was from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.

Genesis 13:1
So Abram left Egypt and went to the Negev, with his wife and all that belonged to him. And Lot went with him.

Genesis 14:7
Then they turned around and came to Enmishpat (that is, Kadesh). There they won a war against all the country of the Amalekites and the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.

Genesis 16:1
Now Abram's wife Sarai had not given birth to any children. She had a woman servant from Egypt whose name was Hagar.

Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord found Hagar by a well of water in the desert on the way to Shur.

Genesis 16:14
So the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 18:1
The Lord showed Himself to Abraham by the oak trees of Mamre, as he sat at the tent door in the heat of the day.

Genesis 20:13
When God made me go from my father's house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is the kindness you must show me. Everywhere we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"

Genesis 20:14
Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and cattle, and men and women servants. And he returned his wife Sarah to him.

Genesis 24:62
Now Isaac had come from Beerlahairoi, and 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