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 prêtres, les Lévites, et tous ceux qui sont de la même tribu n’auront point de part et d’héritage avec le reste d’Israël, parce qu’ils mangeront des sacrifices du Seigneur et de ses oblations;
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.
Et ils ne recevront rien autre chose de la possession de leurs frères; car le Seigneur lui-même est leur héritage, comme il 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.
Voici le droit des prêtres sur le peuple, et sur ceux qui offrent les victimes; soit qu’ils immolent un bœuf ou une brebis, ils donneront au prêtre l’épaule 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.
Les prémices du blé, du vin, de l’huile et une partie de la tonte des 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 c’est lui que le Seigneur ton Dieu a choisi d’entre toutes les tribus, afin qu’il assiste devant le Seigneur, et qu’il exerce le ministère en son nom, lui et ses enfants pour 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],
Si un Lévite sort d’une de vos villes de tout Israël, dans laquelle il habite, et qu’il veuille et désire venir 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 exercera le ministère au nom du Seigneur son Dieu, comme tous ses frères les Lévites, qui assisteront en ce temps-là 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 recevra la même part d’aliments que tous les autres, outre ce qu’il lui est dû dans sa ville de la succession paternelle.
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 la terre que le Seigneur ton Dieu te donnera, prends garde de vouloir imiter les abominations de ces nations;
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).
Et qu’il ne se trouve au milieu de toi personne qui purifie son fils ou sa fille, les faisant passer par le feu, ou qui interroge des devins, et qui observe les songes et les augures, ni qui use de maléfices,
11 Do not try to talk with spirits of dead people. Do not do/practice magic.
Ni qui soit enchanteur, ni qui consulte ceux qui ont l’esprit de python et les devins, ou qui demande aux morts la vérité;
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 le Seigneur a toutes ces choses en abomination, et c’est à cause de ces sortes de crimes qu’il détruira ces nations à ton entrée.
13 But you must always avoid doing any of those things.
Tu seras parfait et sans tache avec 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.
Ces nations dont tu posséderas la terre, écoutent les augures et les devins; mais toi, tu as été 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 te suscitera un Prophète de ta nation et d’entre tes frères, comme moi; c’est lui que tu écouteras;
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].
Comme tu as demandé au Seigneur ton Dieu à Horeb, quand l’assemblée fut réunie, et comme tu as dit: Que je n’entende plus la voix du Seigneur mon Dieu, et que je ne voie plus ce très grand feu, afin que je ne meure pas.
17 Then Yahweh said to me, ‘What they have said is true/wise.
Et le Seigneur me répondit: Ils ont bien dit toutes choses.
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, semblable à toi, et je mettrai mes paroles en sa bouche, et il leur dira tout ce que je lui aurai ordonné.
19 He will speak for me. And I will punish anyone who does not heed what he says.
Or, celui qui ne voudra pas écouter ses paroles, qu’il dira en mon nom, c’est moi qui m’en vengerai.
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, corrompu par orgueil, voudra dire en mon nom des choses que je ne lui ai pas ordonné de dire, ou qui parlera au nom de dieux étrangers, 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?’
Que si tu réponds secrètement par la pensée: Comment puis-je discerner la parole que le Seigneur n’a 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].”
Tu auras ce signe: Ce que ce prophète aura prédit au nom du Seigneur, n’arrivant pas, le Seigneur ne l’a pas dit, mais c’est par l’enflure de son esprit que le prophète l’a inventé: et c’est pourquoi tu ne le craindras pas.
