Numbers 19
1 And YHWH speaks to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
L’Éternel parla à Moïse et à Aaron en ces termes:
2 “This [is] a statute of the law which YHWH has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and they bring a red cow to you, a perfect one, in which there is no blemish, on which no yoke has gone up;
"Ceci est un statut de la loi qu’a prescrit l’Éternel, savoir: Avertis les enfants d’Israël de te choisir une vache rousse, intacte, sans aucun défaut, et qui n’ait pas encore porté le joug.
3 and you have given it to Eleazar the priest, and he has brought it out to the outside of the camp, and has slaughtered it before him.
Vous la remettrez au pontife Eléazar; il la fera conduire hors du camp, et on l’immolera en sa présence.
4 And Eleazar the priest has taken of its blood with his finger, and has sprinkled [it] toward the front of the face of the Tent of Meeting from its blood seven times;
Le pontife Eléazar prendra du sang de l’animal avec le doigt, et il fera, en les dirigeant vers la face de la tente d’assignation, sept aspersions de ce sang.
5 and [one] has burned the cow before his eyes; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, besides her dung, he burns;
Alors on brûlera la vache sous ses yeux: sa peau, sa chair et son sang, on les brûlera avec sa fiente.
6 and the priest has taken cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and has cast [them] into the midst of the burning of the cow;
Le pontife prendra du bois de cèdre, de l’hysope et de l’écarlate, qu’il jettera dans le feu où se consume la vache.
7 and the priest has washed his garments, and has bathed his flesh with water, and afterward comes into the camp, and the priest is unclean until the evening;
Puis ce pontife lavera ses vêtements, baignera son corps dans l’eau, et alors il rentrera au camp; mais il restera impur jusqu’au soir.
8 and he who is burning it washes his garments with water, and has bathed his flesh with water, and is unclean until the evening.
Celui qui aura brûlé la vache nettoiera ses vêtements dans l’eau, baignera dans l’eau son corps, et restera impur jusqu’au soir.
9 And a clean man has gathered the ashes of the cow, and has placed [them] at the outside of the camp in a clean place, and it has become a charge for the congregation of the sons of Israel for waters of separation—it [is for] sin;
Cependant un homme pur recueillera les cendres de la vache et les déposera hors du camp, en lieu pur, où elles resteront en dépôt, pour la communauté des enfants d’Israël, en vue de l’eau lustrale: c’est un purificatoire.
10 and he who is gathering the ashes of the heifer has washed his garments and is unclean until the evening; and it has been to the sons of Israel and to the sojourner who is sojourning in their midst for a continuous statute.
Celui qui aura recueilli les cendres de la vache lavera ses vêtements, et sera impur jusqu’au soir. Et ceci sera, pour les enfants d’Israël et pour l’étranger établi parmi eux, un statut invariable:
11 He who is coming against the dead body of any man is unclean [for] seven days;
celui qui touchera au cadavre d’un être humain quelconque sera impur durant sept jours.
12 he cleanses himself for it on the third day and on the seventh day, [and] he is clean; and if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he is not clean.
Qu’il se purifie au moyen de ces cendres, le troisième et le septième jour, et il sera pur; mais s’il ne s’est pas purifié, le troisième et le septième jour, il ne sera point pur.
13 Anyone who is coming against the dead, against the body of man who dies, and does not cleanse himself, he has defiled the Dwelling Place of YHWH, and that person has been cut off from Israel, for water of separation is not sprinkled on him; he is unclean; his uncleanness [is] still on him.
Quiconque a touché à un cadavre, au corps d’une personne morte, et ne se purifie point, souille la résidence du Seigneur, et cette existence sera retranchée d’Israël: parce que l’eau lustrale n’a pas été lancée sur lui, souillé qu’il est, il gardera sa souillure.
14 This [is] the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who is coming into the tent and all that [is] in the tent are unclean [for] seven days;
Voici la règle, lorsqu’il se trouve un mort dans une tente: quiconque entre dans cette tente, et tout ce qu’elle renferme, sera impur durant sept jours;
15 and every open vessel which has no covering of thread on it is unclean.
et tout vase découvert, qui n’est pas entièrement clos d’un couvercle, sera impur.
16 And everyone on the face of the field who comes against the pierced of a sword, or against the dead, or against a bone of man, or against a grave, is unclean [for] seven days;
Quiconque touchera, en pleine campagne, au corps d’un homme tué par le glaive ou mort naturellement, ou à un ossement humain ou à un sépulcre, sera souillé durant sept jours.
17 and for the unclean person they have taken from the ashes of the burning of the [cow], and he has put running water over it into a vessel;
Pour purifier l’impur, on prendra des cendres provenant de la combustion du purificatoire, auxquelles on mêlera de l’eau vive dans un vase.
18 and a clean person has taken hyssop, and has dipped [it] in water, and has sprinkled [it] on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who have been there, and on him who is coming against a bone, or against one pierced, or against the dead, or against a grave.
Et un homme pur prendra de l’hysope, la trempera dans l’eau et aspergera la tente, ainsi que tous les vases et les personnes qui s’y trouvaient; pareillement, celui qui aurait touché à l’ossement, à l’homme tué ou mort naturellement, ou au sépulcre.
19 And the clean has sprinkled [it] on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day, and has cleansed him on the seventh day, and he has washed his garments, and has bathed with water, and has been clean in the evening.
L’Homme pur fera donc aspersion sur l’impur, au troisième et au septième jour; et lorsqu’il l’aura purifié le septième jour, l’autre lavera ses vêtements, se baignera dans l’eau, et sera pur le soir.
20 And the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself, indeed, that person has been cut off from the midst of the assembly; for he has defiled the sanctuary of YHWH; water of separation is not sprinkled on him; he [is] unclean.
Mais l’individu qui, devenu impur, ne se purifierait pas, celui-là sera retranché du sein de l’assemblée, car il a souillé le sanctuaire du Seigneur: l’eau lustrale n’a pas été jetée sur lui, il reste impur.
21 And it has been for a continuous statute to them, that he who is sprinkling the water of separation washes his garments, and he who is coming against the water of separation is unclean until the evening,
Ce sera pour eux une règle invariable. Quant à celui qui aura fait aspersion de l’eau lustrale, il lavera ses vêtements, et celui qui touchera à l’eau lustrale sera impur jusqu’au soir.
22 and all against which the unclean person comes is unclean, and the person who is coming against [it] is unclean until the evening.”
Tout ce que touchera l’impur sera souillé; et la personne qui le touchera sera souillée jusqu’au soir."
