The man looking for revenge translates the same phrase rendered the man who is looking for revenge of verse 3. Depending upon the previous rendering of this expression, one may adopt the form of Good News Translation or translate “a relative of the dead man.” If both aspects of the meaning, a relative and one looking for revenge, are included in verse 3, it may be necessary to use only one of them here.

Him over to him must be translated so as not to confuse the pronominal references: the meaning is “hand the man who ran to their city for safety over to the man who came to kill him.”

In the second sentence of this verse, They must protect him may need to be placed in final position: “He killed the person accidentally and not out of anger, and so they must protect him.”

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Newman, Barclay M. A Handbook on Joshua. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1983. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .