Exodus 21
1 And these [are] the judgments which you set before them:
Ce sont ici les jugements que tu placeras devant eux:
2 When you buy a Hebrew servant, he serves [for] six years, and in the seventh he goes out as a freeman for nothing;
Si tu achètes un serviteur hébreu, il servira six années, et, la septième, il sortira libre, gratuitement.
3 if he comes in by himself, he goes out by himself; if he [is] owner of a wife, then his wife has gone out with him;
S’il est venu seul, il sortira seul; s’ il avait une femme, sa femme sortira avec lui.
4 if his lord gives a wife to him, and she has borne sons or daughters to him—the wife and her children are her lord’s, and he goes out by himself.
Si son maître lui a donné une femme, et qu’elle lui ait enfanté des fils ou des filles, la femme et ses enfants seront à son maître, et lui, il sortira seul.
5 And if the servant really says: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons—I do not go out free,
Mais si le serviteur dit positivement: J’aime mon maître, ma femme et mes enfants, je ne veux pas sortir libre;
6 then his lord has brought him near to God, and has brought him near to the door, or to the doorpost, and his lord has bored his ear with an awl, and he has served him for all time.
alors son maître le fera venir devant les juges, et le fera approcher de la porte ou du poteau, et son maître lui percera l’oreille avec un poinçon; et il le servira à toujours.
7 And when a man sells his daughter for a handmaid, she does not go out according to the going out of the menservants;
Et si un homme vend sa fille pour être servante, elle ne sortira point comme sortent les serviteurs.
8 if [it is] evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he has not betrothed her, then he has let her be ransomed; he has no power to sell her to a strange people, in his dealing treacherously with her.
Si elle déplaît aux yeux de son maître qui se l’était fiancée, il la fera racheter; il n’aura pas le pouvoir de la vendre à un peuple étranger, après l’avoir trompée.
9 And if he betroths her to his son, he does to her according to the right of daughters.
Et s’il l’a fiancée à son fils, il agira envers elle selon le droit des filles.
10 If he takes another [woman] for him, he does not withdraw her food, her covering, and her habitation;
S’il en prend une autre, il ne retranchera rien pour elle à sa nourriture, à son vêtement, et à son droit conjugal.
11 and if he does not do these three for her, then she has gone out for nothing, without money.
Et s’il ne fait pas pour elle ces trois choses-là, elle sortira gratuitement, sans [payer aucun] argent.
12 He who strikes a man so that he has died is certainly put to death;
Si quelqu’un frappe un homme, et qu’il en meure, il sera certainement mis à mort.
13 as for him who has not laid wait, but God has brought [him] to his hand, I have even set a place for you to where he flees.
Mais s’il ne lui a pas dressé d’embûche, et que Dieu l’ait fait tomber sous ses mains, je t’établirai un lieu où il s’enfuira.
14 And when a man presumes against his neighbor to slay him with subtlety, you take him from My altar to die.
Et si un homme s’élève de propos délibéré contre son prochain, pour le tuer par ruse, tu l’arracheras de mon autel, pour qu’il meure.
15 And he who strikes his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
Et celui qui frappera son père ou sa mère sera certainement mis à mort.
16 And he who steals a man, and has sold him, and he has been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.
Et si quelqu’un vole un homme et qu’il le vende, ou qu’il soit trouvé en sa main, il sera certainement mis à mort.
17 And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
Et celui qui maudit son père ou sa mère sera certainement mis à mort.
18 And when men contend, and a man has struck his neighbor with a stone, or with the fist, and he does not die, but has fallen on the bed;
Et si des hommes contestent entre eux, et que l’un frappe l’autre avec une pierre ou avec le poing, et qu’il ne meure pas, mais tienne le lit:
19 if he rises, and has gone up and down outside on his staff, then the striker has been acquitted; he only gives [for] his cessation, and he is thoroughly healed.
s’il se lève et marche dehors sur son bâton, celui qui l’a frappé sera tenu pour quitte; seulement, il paiera son chômage, et le fera guérir complètement.
20 And when a man strikes his manservant or his handmaid with a rod, and he has died under his hand—he is certainly avenged;
Et si quelqu’un frappe du bâton son serviteur ou sa servante, et qu’il meure sous sa main, il sera certainement vengé;
21 only if he remains a day, or two days, he is not avenged, for he [is] his money.
seulement, s’il reste debout un jour ou deux jours, il ne sera pas vengé, car il est son argent.
22 And when men strive, and have struck a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no harm [to them], he is certainly fined as the husband of the woman lays on him, and he has given through the judges;
Et si des hommes se querellent, et que [l’un d’eux] heurte une femme enceinte et qu’elle accouche sans qu’il y ait de malheur, une amende sera payée selon ce que le mari de la femme lui imposera, et il la donnera suivant [la décision des] juges.
23 and if there is harm [to them], then you have given life for life,
Et s’il arrive malheur, tu donneras vie pour vie,
24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
œil pour œil, dent pour dent, main pour main, pied pour pied,
25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
brûlure pour brûlure, blessure pour blessure, meurtrissure pour meurtrissure.
26 And when a man strikes the eye of his manservant, or the eye of his handmaid, and has destroyed it, he sends him away as a freeman for his eye;
Et si un homme frappe l’œil de son serviteur, ou l’œil de sa servante, et le lui fasse perdre, il les laissera aller libres pour l’œil;
27 and if he knocks out a tooth of his manservant or a tooth of his handmaid, he sends him away as a freeman for his tooth.
et s’il fait tomber la dent de son serviteur ou la dent de sa servante, il les laissera aller libres pour la dent.
28 And when an ox gores man or woman, and they have died, the ox is certainly stoned, and his flesh is not eaten, and the owner of the ox [is] acquitted;
Et si un bœuf frappe de ses cornes un homme ou une femme, et qu’ils en meurent, le bœuf sera certainement lapidé, et sa chair ne sera pas mangée; mais le maître du bœuf sera [tenu pour] non coupable.
29 and if the ox is [one] accustomed to gore before, and it has been testified to its owner, and he does not watch it, and it has put to death a man or woman, the ox is stoned, and its owner is also put to death.
Et si le bœuf frappait de ses cornes auparavant, et que son maître en ait été averti et qu’il ne l’ait pas tenu sous garde, et qu’il tue un homme ou une femme, le bœuf sera lapidé, et son maître aussi sera mis à mort.
30 If atonement is laid on him, then he has given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid on him;
Et si une indemnité lui est imposée, il donnera la rançon de sa vie selon tout ce qui lui sera imposé.
31 whether it gores a son or gores a daughter, according to this judgment it is done to him.
Soit qu’il ait frappé un fils, ou qu’il ait frappé une fille, il lui sera fait selon ce jugement.
32 If the ox gores a manservant or a handmaid, he gives thirty silver shekels to their lord, and the ox is stoned.
Si le bœuf a frappé de ses cornes un serviteur ou une servante, le possesseur donnera à son maître 30 sicles d’argent, et le bœuf sera lapidé.
33 And when a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or donkey has fallen [in] there—
Et si un homme ouvre une fosse, ou si un homme creuse une fosse, et ne la couvre pas, et qu’un bœuf ou un âne y tombe,
34 the owner of the pit repays, he gives back money to its owner, and the dead is his.
le propriétaire de la fosse donnera une compensation, il remettra l’argent au maître de la [bête]; et la bête morte lui appartiendra.
35 And when a man’s ox strikes the ox of his neighbor and it has died, then they have sold the living ox, and halved its money, and they also halve the dead one;
Et si le bœuf d’un homme heurte le bœuf de son prochain, et qu’il en meure, ils vendront le bœuf vivant, et en partageront l’argent, et ils partageront aussi le mort.
36 or, [if] it has been known that the ox is [one] accustomed to gore before, and its owner does not watch it, he certainly repays ox for ox, and the dead is his.
Ou s’il était connu que le bœuf frappait de ses cornes auparavant, et que son maître ne l’ait pas tenu sous garde, il fera certainement compensation, bœuf pour bœuf; et le [bœuf] mort lui appartiendra.
