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.
Les sacrificateurs de la race de Lévi, toute la tribu de Lévi, n'auront point de part ni d'héritage avec le reste d'Israël; ils se nourriront des sacrifices faits par le feu à l'Éternel, et de son héritage.
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 donc point d'héritage parmi leurs frères; l'Éternel 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.
Or, voici ce que les sacrificateurs auront droit de prendre du peuple, de ceux qui offriront un sacrifice, soit taureau, soit agneau ou chevreau. On donnera au sacrificateur l'épaule, les mâchoires et le ventre.
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.
Tu lui donneras les prémices de ton froment, de ton moût et de ton huile, et les prémices de la toison de tes brebis;
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 l'Éternel ton Dieu l'a choisi d'entre toutes tes tribus, pour se tenir devant lui, et faire le service au nom de l'Éternel, lui et ses fils, à toujours.
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],
Or, quand le Lévite viendra d'une de tes portes, de tout endroit d'Israël où il séjourne, et qu'il viendra, avec tout le désir de son âme, au lieu que l'Éternel aura choisi,
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.
Et qu'il fera le service 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 aura pour sa nourriture une portion égale à la leur, outre ce qu'il pourrait avoir vendu du bien de ses pères.
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 au pays que l'Éternel ton Dieu te donne, tu n'apprendras point à imiter les abominations de ces nations-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).
Il ne se trouvera personne parmi toi qui fasse passer par le feu son fils ou sa fille; ni devin, ni pronostiqueur, ni enchanteur, ni magicien,
11 Do not try to talk with spirits of dead people. Do not do/practice magic.
Ni personne qui use de maléfices, ni personne qui consulte un sorcier, ni aucun diseur de bonne aventure, ni personne 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 quiconque fait ces choses est en abomination à l'Éternel, et c'est à cause de ces abominations que l'Éternel ton Dieu chasse ces nations de devant toi.
13 But you must always avoid doing any of those things.
Tu seras intègre à l'égard de 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, écoutent les pronostiqueurs et les devins; mais pour toi, l'Éternel ton Dieu ne t'a point permis d'agir ainsi.
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.
L'Éternel ton Dieu te suscitera un prophète comme moi, du milieu de toi, d'entre tes frères; vous l'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].
Suivant tout ce que tu demandas à l'Éternel ton Dieu en Horeb, au jour de l'assemblée, en disant: Que je n'entende plus la voix de l'Éternel mon Dieu, et que je ne voie plus ce grand feu, de peur que je ne meure.
17 Then Yahweh said to me, ‘What they have said is true/wise.
Alors l'Éternel me 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 leur susciterai un prophète comme toi, d'entre leurs frères, et je mettrai mes paroles en sa bouche, et il leur dira tout ce que je lui commanderai.
19 He will speak for me. And I will punish anyone who does not heed what he says.
Et il arrivera que quiconque n'écoutera pas mes paroles, qu'il dira en mon nom, je lui en 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].’
Mais le prophète qui aura l'orgueil de dire en mon nom quelque chose que je ne lui aurai point commandé de dire, ou qui parlera au nom d'autres dieux, ce prophète-là mourra.
21 But if you say to yourself, ‘How can we know if a message [that someone tells us] does not come from Yahweh?’
Que si tu dis en ton cœur: Comment connaîtrons-nous la parole que l'Éternel n'a point 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].”
Quand le prophète parlera au nom de l'Éternel, et que ce qu'il aura dit ne sera point, et n'arrivera point, ce sera une parole que l'Éternel n'a point dite; le prophète l'a dite par orgueil; ne le crains point.
