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.
La tribu entière de Lévi, prêtres et lévites, n'aura ni part ni héritage en Israël; ils vivront des oblations au Seigneur, selon leurs services.
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 parmi leurs frères; le Seigneur seul est leur héritage, comme il le leur a dit.
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.
Et voici la loi pour les prêtres, concernant les offrandes du peuple et les sacrifices des veaux ou des brebis: tu donneras au prêtre l'épaule, les joues et la poitrine,
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.
Et les prémices de ton blé, de ton vin, de ton huile; tu lui donneras aussi les prémices des rejetons de tes menus troupeaux,
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.
Parce que le Seigneur l'a choisi, entre toutes les tribus, pour qu'il se tienne devant le Seigneur Dieu, pour qu'il exerce le sacerdoce, pour que lui et ses fils bénissent en son nom le peuple d'Israël.
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, de l'une des villes qu'il habite, partira au gré de son désir, et viendra au lieu qu'aura choisi 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 servira, au nom du Seigneur son Dieu, comme tous ses frères les lévites qui se tiendront en ce lieu devant le Seigneur.
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 mangera la portion qui lui est assignée indépendamment de la vente de ce qui lui revient dans sa famille.
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.
Lorsque tu seras entré en la terre que le Seigneur ton Dieu te donne, tu n'apprendras pas à imiter les abominations des Gentils.
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).
Il ne se trouvera parmi vous personne qui, pour purifier son fils ou sa fille, les fasse passer par le feu; qui use de la divination, qui prédise, qui prenne les augures.
11 Do not try to talk with spirits of dead people. Do not do/practice magic.
Tu ne chercheras pas à charmer par des incantations magiques, à devenir sorcier ni interprète des prodiges, à interroger 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 quiconque fait ces choses est une abomination pour le Seigneur ton Dieu; c'est à cause de ces abominations que le Seigneur exterminera les Gentils devant ta face.
13 But you must always avoid doing any of those things.
Tu seras parfait devant le Seigneur 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 les nations dont tu vas prendre l'héritage, écoutent les devins et ceux qui prédisent l'avenir, et tu es instruit autrement par le Seigneur 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.
Le Seigneur ton Dieu suscitera parmi tes frères un prophète semblable à moi; c'est lui que vous écouterez,
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].
Parce que, en Horeb, tu en as fait la demande au Seigneur ton Dieu, le jour de l'Eglise; tu as dit: Que nous ne continuions plus d'entendre la voix du Seigneur notre Dieu, que nous ne voyions plus ce grand feu, de peur que nous ne mourions.
17 Then Yahweh said to me, ‘What they have said is true/wise.
Et le Seigneur m'a dit: 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 susciterai pour eux, parmi leurs frères, un prophète semblable à toi; et je mettrai mes paroles dans sa bouche, et il leur parlera selon ce que je lui prescrirai.
19 He will speak for me. And I will punish anyone who does not heed what he says.
Et je tirerai vengeance de tout homme qui n'écoutera pas ce que ce prophète lui aura dit en mon nom.
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].’
Tout autre prophète qui sera assez impie pour dire en mon nom une parole que je ne lui aurai point commandé de dire, ou qui parlera au nom d'autres dieux, ce prophète sera mis à mort.
21 But if you say to yourself, ‘How can we know if a message [that someone tells us] does not come from Yahweh?’
Et si tu dis en ton cœur: Comment discernerons-nous la parole que le Seigneur n'aura pas dite?
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].”
Tout ce qu'aura dit ce prophète au nom du Seigneur et qui n'arrivera pas, qui ne se réalisera pas, n'aura point été dit par le Seigneur. Ce prophète aura parlé dans son impiété: vous ne le recevrez pas.
