Exodus 21
1 Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.
Et voici les statuts que tu leur exposeras.
2 If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.
Si tu achètes un esclave hébreu, il restera six années esclave et à la septième il sera remis en liberté sans rançon.
3 If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.
S’Il est venu seul, seul il sortira; s’il était marié, sa femme sortira avec lui.
4 If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.
Si son maître lui a donné une femme, laquelle lui ait enfanté des fils ou des filles, la femme, avec les enfants, appartiendra à son maître et lui se retirera seul.
5 But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:
Que si l’esclave dit: "J’Aime mon maître, ma femme et mes enfants, je ne veux pas être affranchi",
6 Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.
son maître l’amènera par-devant le tribunal, on le placera près d’une porte ou d’un poteau; et son maître lui percera l’oreille avec un poinçon et il le servira indéfiniment.
7 And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.
"Si un homme vend sa fille comme esclave, elle ne quittera pas son maître à la façon des esclaves.
8 If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.
Si elle lui déplaît et qu’il ne la réserve point à lui-même, il la laissera s’affranchir; il n’aura pas pouvoir de la vendre à une famille étrangère, après l’avoir déçue.
9 And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.
Que s’il la fiance à son fils, il procédera à son égard selon. la règle des filles.
10 And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.
S’Il lui en adjoint une autre, il ne devra point la frustrer de sa nourriture, de son habillement, ni du droit conjugal.
11 And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.
Et s’il ne procède pas à son égard de l’une de ces trois manières, elle se retirera gratuitement, sans rançon.
12 He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.
"Celui qui frappe un homme et le fait mourir sera puni de mort.
13 But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.
S’Il n’y a pas eu guet-apens et que Dieu seul ait conduit sa main, il se réfugiera dans un des endroits que je te désignerai.
14 But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.
"Mais si quelqu’un, agissant avec préméditation contre son prochain, le tue de guet-apens, du pied même de mon autel tu le conduiras à la mort.
15 Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.
"Celui qui frappera son père ou sa mère sera mis à mort.
16 Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.
"Celui qui aura enlevé un homme et l’aura vendu, si on l’a pris sur le fait, sera mis à mort.
17 Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.
"Celui qui maudit son père ou sa mère sera puni de mort.
18 If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;
"Si des hommes se prennent de querelle et que l’un frappe l’autre d’un coup de pierre ou de poing, sans qu’il en meure, mais qu’il soit forcé de s’aliter,
19 If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for till he is well.
s’il se relève et qu’il puisse sortir appuyé sur son bâton, l’auteur de la blessure sera absous. Toutefois, il paiera le chômage et les frais de la guérison.
20 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.
"Si un homme frappe du bâton son esclave mâle ou femelle et que l’esclave meure sous sa main, il doit être vengé.
21 But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.
Si pourtant il survit un jour ou deux, il ne sera pas vengé, parce qu’il est sa propriété.
22 If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges.
"Si, des hommes ayant une rixe, l’un d’eux heurte une femme enceinte et la fait avorter sans autre malheur, il sera condamné à l’amende que lui fera infliger l’époux de cette femme et il la paiera à dire d’experts.
23 But if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment for life,
Mais si un malheur s’ensuit, tu feras payer corps pour corps;
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
oeil pour oeil, dent pour dent, main pour main, pied pour pied;
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow.
brûlure pour brûlure, plaie pour plaie, contusion pour contusion.
26 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.
"Si un homme blesse l’œil de son esclave ou de sa servante de manière à lui en ôter l’usage, il le renverra libre à cause de son œil
27 Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.
et s’il fait tomber une dent à son esclave ou à sa servante, il lui rendra la liberté à cause de sa dent.
28 If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible.
"Si un boeuf heurte un homme ou une femme et qu’ils en meurent, ce boeuf doit être lapidé et il ne sera point permis d’en manger la chair; mais le propriétaire du boeuf sera absous.
29 But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death.
Si ce boeuf était sujet à heurter, déjà antérieurement, que son maître, averti, ne l’ait pas surveillé et qu’il ait fait périr un homme ou une femme, le boeuf sera lapidé et même son maître mérite la mort.
30 If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed.
Si toutefois une amende lui est imposée, il paiera la rançon de sa vie selon ce qu’on lui aura imposé.
31 If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule.
Si un bœuf heurte soit un garçon, soit une fille, la même loi lui sera appliquée.
32 If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.
Si ce bœuf heurte un esclave ou une esclave, on paiera à leur maître une somme de trente sicles et le boeuf sera lapidé.
33 If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death;
"Si quelqu’un découvre une citerne, ou si, en ayant creusé une, il ne la couvre point et qu’un boeuf ou un âne y tombe,
34 The owner of the hole is responsible; he will have to make payment to their owner, but the dead beast will be his.
le propriétaire de la citerne doit payer: il remboursera la valeur au maître et l’animal mort lui restera.
35 And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one.
"Si le bœuf appartenant à un homme blesse celui d’un autre et le fait périr, on vendra le bœuf vivant; ils s’en partageront le prix, et partageront aussi le bœuf mort.
36 But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.
Mais si, notoirement, ce boeuf a déjà heurté à plusieurs reprises et que son maître ne l’ait pas surveillé, il devra restituer boeuf pour boeuf et le boeuf tué lui restera.
