Numbers 19
1 And YHWH speaks to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
L’Éternel parla à Moïse et à Aaron, et dit:
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;
Voici ce qui est ordonné par la loi que l’Éternel a prescrite, en disant: Parle aux enfants d’Israël, et qu’ils t’amènent une vache rousse, sans tache, sans défaut corporel, et qui n’ait point 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 sacrificateur Éléazar, qui la fera sortir du camp, et on l’égorgera devant lui.
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 sacrificateur Éléazar prendra du sang de la vache avec le doigt, et il en fera sept fois l’aspersion sur le devant de la tente d’assignation.
5 and [one] has burned the cow before his eyes; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, besides her dung, he burns;
On brûlera la vache sous ses yeux; on brûlera sa peau, sa chair et son sang, avec ses excréments.
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 sacrificateur prendra du bois de cèdre, de l’hysope et du cramoisi, et il les jettera au milieu des flammes qui consumeront 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;
Le sacrificateur lavera ses vêtements, et lavera son corps dans l’eau; puis il rentrera dans le camp, et sera 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 lavera ses vêtements dans l’eau, et lavera son corps dans l’eau; et il sera 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;
Un homme pur recueillera la cendre de la vache, et la déposera hors du camp, dans un lieu pur; on la conservera pour l’assemblée des enfants d’Israël, afin d’en faire l’eau de purification. C’est une eau expiatoire.
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 la cendre de la vache lavera ses vêtements, et sera impur jusqu’au soir. Ce sera une loi perpétuelle pour les enfants d’Israël et pour l’étranger en séjour au milieu d’eux.
11 He who is coming against the dead body of any man is unclean [for] seven days;
Celui qui touchera un mort, un corps humain quelconque, sera impur pendant 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.
Il se purifiera avec cette eau le troisième jour et le septième jour, et il sera pur; mais, s’il ne se purifie pas le troisième jour et le septième jour, il ne sera pas 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.
Celui qui touchera un mort, le corps d’un homme qui sera mort, et qui ne se purifiera pas, souille le tabernacle de l’Éternel; celui-là sera retranché d’Israël. Comme l’eau de purification n’a pas été répandue sur lui, il est impur, et son impureté est encore sur lui.
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 loi. Lorsqu’un homme mourra dans une tente, quiconque entrera dans la tente, et quiconque se trouvera dans la tente, sera impur pendant sept jours.
15 and every open vessel which has no covering of thread on it is unclean.
Tout vase découvert, sur lequel il n’y aura point de couvercle attaché, 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, dans les champs, un homme tué par l’épée, ou un mort, ou des ossements humains, ou un sépulcre, sera impur pendant 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;
On prendra, pour celui qui est impur, de la cendre de la victime expiatoire qui a été brûlée, et on mettra dessus 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.
Un homme pur prendra de l’hysope, et la trempera dans l’eau; puis il en fera l’aspersion sur la tente, sur tous les ustensiles, sur les personnes qui sont là, sur celui qui a touché des ossements, ou un homme tué, ou un mort, ou un 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.
Celui qui est pur fera l’aspersion sur celui qui est impur, le troisième jour et le septième jour, et il le purifiera le septième jour. Il lavera ses vêtements, et se lavera dans l’eau; et le soir, il sera pur.
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.
Un homme qui sera impur, et qui ne se purifiera pas, sera retranché du milieu de l’assemblée, car il a souillé le sanctuaire de l’Éternel; comme l’eau de purification n’a pas été répandue sur lui, il est 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 loi perpétuelle. Celui qui fera l’aspersion de l’eau de purification lavera ses vêtements, et celui qui touchera l’eau de purification 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 celui qui est impur sera souillé, et la personne qui le touchera sera impure jusqu’au soir.
