Deuteronomy 25
1 “When there is a strife between men, and they have come near to the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrongdoer,
"Si un débat s’élève entre des individus, ils se présenteront devant le tribunal et on les jugera; on déclarera innocent l’innocent, et coupable celui qui a tort.
2 then it has come to pass, if the wrongdoer is to be struck, that the judge has caused him to fall down, and [one] has struck him in his presence, according to the sufficiency of his wrongdoing, by number;
Or, si le coupable a mérité la flagellation, le juge le fera coucher par terre et battre, en sa présence, d’un nombre de coups proportionné à son délit.
3 he strikes him forty [times]; he is not adding, lest he is adding to strike him above these many stripes, and your brother be lightly esteemed in your eyes.
Il lui en infligera quarante, sans plus; autrement, en dépassant ce nombre, on lui infligerait trop de coups, et ton frère serait avili à tes yeux.
4 You do not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
Ne muselle point le bœuf pendant qu’il foule le grain.
5 When brothers dwell together, and one of them has died and has no son, the wife of the dead is not given to a strange man; her husband’s brother goes in to her, and has taken her to him for a wife, and performs the duty of her husband’s brother;
Si des frères demeurent ensemble et que l’un d’eux vienne à mourir sans postérité, la veuve ne pourra se marier au dehors à un étranger; c’est son beau-frère qui doit s’unir à elle. Il la prendra donc pour femme, exerçant le lévirat à son égard.
6 and it has been, the firstborn which she bears rises for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel.
Et le premier fils qu’elle enfantera sera désigné par le nom du frère mort, afin que ce nom ne périsse pas en Israël.
7 And if the man does not delight to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife has gone up to the gate, to the elderly, and said, My husband’s brother is refusing to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he has not been willing to perform the duty of my husband’s brother;
Que s’il déplaît à l’homme d’épouser sa belle-sœur, celle-ci montera au tribunal, par-devant les anciens, et dira: "Mon beau-frère refuse de relever en Israël le nom de son frère, il ne veut pas m’accorder le lévirat."
8 and [the] elderly of his city have called for him, and spoken to him, and he has stood and said, I have no desire to take her.
Alors les anciens de sa ville le manderont et l’interpelleront; et lui, debout, dira: "II ne me plaît point de l’épouser."
9 Then his brother’s wife has drawn near to him before the eyes of the elderly, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who does not build up the house of his brother;
Et sa belle-sœur s’avancera vers lui à la vue des anciens, lui ôtera sa chaussure du pied, crachera devant lui et dira à haute voix: "Ainsi est traité l’homme qui ne veut pas édifier la maison de son frère!"
10 and his name has been called in Israel, The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.
Et la sienne sera surnommée, en Israël, la maison du déchaussé.
11 When men strive together with one another, and the wife of one has drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his striker, and has put forth her hand, and laid hold on his private parts,
Si des individus ont une rixe ensemble, un homme avec un autre, et que la femme de l’un, intervenant pour soustraire son mari à celui qui le frappe, porte la main sur ce dernier et le saisisse par les parties honteuses,
12 then you have cut off her hand; your eye does not spare.
tu lui couperas le poing sans lui accorder aucune pitié.
13 You do not have [both] a great stone and a small stone in your bag.
N’Aie point dans ta bourse deux poids inégaux, un grand et un petit.
14 You do not have a great ephah and a small ephah in your house.
N’Aie point dans ta maison deux mesures inégales, une grande et une petite.
15 You have a complete and just stone, [and] you have a complete and just ephah, so that they prolong your days on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you;
Des poids exacts et loyaux, des mesures exactes et loyales, doivent seuls être en ta possession, si tu veux avoir une longue existence dans le pays que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, te donne.
16 for anyone doing these things, anyone doing iniquity, [is] an abomination [to] your God YHWH.
Car l’Éternel, ton Dieu, a en horreur quiconque agit ainsi, quiconque fait une chose déloyale.
17 Remember that which Amalek has done to you in the way in your going out from Egypt,
Souviens-toi de ce que t’a fait Amalec, lors de votre voyage, au sortir de l’Egypte;
18 that he has met you in the way, and strikes among you all those feeble behind you (when you [were] weary and fatigued), and is not fearing God.
comme il t’a surpris chemin faisant, et s’est jeté sur tous tes traînards par derrière. Tu étais alors fatigué, à bout de forces, et lui ne craignait pas Dieu.
19 And it has been, in your God YHWH giving rest to you from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which your God YHWH is giving to you [for] an inheritance to possess it, you blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens—you do not forget.”
Aussi, lorsque l’Éternel, ton Dieu, t’aura débarrassé de tous tes ennemis d’alentour, dans le pays qu’il te donne en héritage pour le posséder, tu effaceras la mémoire d’Amalec de dessous le ciel: ne l’oublie point.
