Deuteronomy 18
1 “The priests, who are all from the tribe of Levi, will not receive any land in Israel. Instead, they will receive some of the food that other people offer to be burned [on the altar to be sacrificed] to Yahweh and some of the other sacrifices that will be offered to Yahweh.
"Il n’est accordé aux pontifes, descendants de Lévi, à la tribu de Lévi en général, ni part ni héritage comme au reste d’Israël: c’est des sacrifices de l’Éternel et de son patrimoine qu’ils subsisteront.
2 They will not be allotted any land like the other tribes will be. What they will receive is the work/privilege of being Yahweh’s [priests], which is what he said that they should have.
Ils n’auront point d’héritage au milieu de leurs frères: c’est Dieu qui est leur héritage, comme il le leur a déclaré.
3 “When the people bring an ox or a sheep to be sacrificed, they must give to the priests the shoulder, the cheeks/jaws, and the stomach of those animals.
Voici quel sera le droit dû aux pontifes par le peuple, par quiconque tuera une bête, soit de gros ou de menu bétail: il en donnera au pontife l’épaule, les mâchoires et l’estomac.
4 You must also give to them the first part of the grain that you [harvest], and the first part of the wine [that you make], and the first part of the [olive] oil [that you make], and the first part of the wool that you shear from your sheep.
Les prémices de ton blé, de ton vin, de ton huile, les prémices de la toison de ton menu bétail, tu les lui donneras.
5 You must do this because Yahweh our God has chosen the tribe of Levi from all of your tribes, in order that men [from that tribe] would always be the priests who would serve him.
Car c’est lui que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, a désigné entre toutes les tribus, pour remplir, en permanence, son ministère au nom de l’Éternel, de père en fils, à jamais.
6 “If any man from the tribe of Levi [who has been living] in one of the towns in Israel wants to come from there to the place of worship that Yahweh has chosen, [and start living there],
Lorsque le Lévite, quittant l’une de tes villes, une localité quelconque en Israël où il habite, viendra, de son plein gré, à l’endroit élu par le Seigneur,
7 he is permitted to serve Yahweh there as a priest, just like the other men from the tribe of Levi who have been serving there.
il pourra servir au nom de l’Éternel, son Dieu, comme tous ses frères les Lévites, qui se tiennent là devant l’Éternel.
8 He must be given the same amount of food [that the other priests receive]. He is permitted to keep the money [that his relatives give him] for selling some of their possessions.
Il jouira d’une portion égale à la leur, indépendamment de ses ventes sur les biens paternels.
9 When you enter the land that Yahweh our God is giving you, you must not imitate the disgusting things that the people-groups who are there now do.
Quand tu seras entré dans le pays que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, te donne, ne t’habitue pas à imiter les abominations de ces peuples-là.
10 You must not sacrifice any of your children by burning them [on your altars]. Do not practice (divination/using supernatural power to reveal [what will happen in] the future). Do not do/practice (soothsaying/magic to find out what will happen in the future). Do not (interpret omens/say that because of something that you have seen you know what will happen). Do not practice sorcery/witchcraft. Do not practice (putting spells on people/saying things to cause bad things to happen to others).
Qu’il ne se trouve personne, chez toi, qui fasse passer par le feu son fils ou sa fille; qui pratique des enchantements, qui s’adonne aux augures, à la divination, à la magie
11 Do not try to talk with spirits of dead people. Do not do/practice magic.
qui emploie des charmes, qui ait recours aux évocations ou aux sortilèges ou qui interroge les morts.
12 Yahweh hates people who do any of those disgusting things. And as you advance through that land, he is going to expel the people-groups because they do/practice those disgusting things.
Car l’Éternel a horreur de quiconque fait pareilles choses; et c’est à cause de telles abominations que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, dépossède ces peuples à ton profit.
13 But you must always avoid doing any of those things.
Reste entièrement avec l’Éternel, ton Dieu!
14 The people-groups that you are about to expel [from the land that you will occupy] (consult/seek advice from) soothsayers and those who practice divination. But as for you, Yahweh our God does not allow you to do that.
Car ces nations que tu vas déposséder ajoutent foi à des augures et à des enchanteurs; mais toi, ce n’est pas là ce que t’a départi l’Éternel, ton Dieu.
15 [Some day] he will send from among you a prophet like me. [He is the one who will tell you what will happen in the future], and he is the one whom you must heed.
C’Est un prophète sorti de tes rangs, un de tes frères comme moi, que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, suscitera en ta faveur: c’est lui que vous devez écouter!
16 On the day that your ancestors were gathered at the bottom of Sinai Mountain, they pleaded with me saying, ‘We do not want Yahweh to speak [MTY] to us again, and we do not want to see this huge fire [that is burning on the mountain]!’ [Your ancestors said that because they were afraid] that they would die [if Yahweh spoke to them again].
Absolument comme tu l’as demandé à l’Éternel, ton Dieu, au mont Horeb, le jour de la convocation, quand tu as dit: "Je ne veux plus entendre la voix de l’Éternel, mon Dieu, et ce feu intense, je ne veux plus le voir, de peur d’en mourir;
17 Then Yahweh said to me, ‘What they have said is true/wise.
et le Seigneur me dit alors: "Ils ont bien parlé.
18 So I will send from among them a prophet who will be like you. I will tell him what to say, and then he will tell people everything that I tell him to say.
Je leur susciterai un prophète du milieu de leurs frères, tel que toi, et je mettrai mes paroles dans sa bouche, et il leur dira tout ce que je lui ordonnerai.
19 He will speak for me. And I will punish anyone who does not heed what he says.
Et alors, celui qui n’obéira pas à mes paroles, qu’il énoncera en mon nom, c’est moi qui lui demanderai compte!
20 But if any other [person says that he is a] prophet [and] dares to speak a message which he falsely says comes from me but which I did not tell him to speak, or if anyone who speaks a message that he says other gods [MTY] have revealed to him, he must be executed [for doing that].’
Toutefois, si un prophète avait l’audace d’annoncer en mon nom une chose que je ne lui aurais pas enjoint d’annoncer, ou s’il parlait au nom d’un divinité étrangère, ce prophète doit mourir."
21 But if you say to yourself, ‘How can we know if a message [that someone tells us] does not come from Yahweh?’
Mais, diras-tu en toi-même, comment reconnaîtrons-nous la parole qui n’émane pas de l’Éternel?
22 [The answer is that] when someone speaks a message [about what will happen in the future], a message that he says was revealed by Yahweh, if what he says does not happen, [you will know that] the message did not come from Yahweh. That person has wrongly claimed that it was revealed to him by Yahweh. So you do not need to be afraid of [anything that] he [says].”
Si le prophète annonce de la part de l’Éternel une chose qui ne saurait être, ou qui n’est pas suivie d’effet, cette annonce n’aura pas été dictée par l’Éternel; c’est avec témérité que le prophète l’a émise, ne crains pas de sévir à son égard.
