Deuteronomy 7
1 “Yahweh our God will bring you to the land that you will soon enter and occupy. As you advance, he will expel from that land seven people-groups that are more powerful and more numerous than you are. He will expel the Heth people-group, the Girgash people-group, the Amor people-group, the Canaan people-group, the Periz people-group, the Hiv people-group, and the Jebus people-group.
Lorsque Yahweh, ton Dieu, t’aura fait entrer dans le pays dont tu vas prendre possession, et qu’il aura chassé devant toi beaucoup de nations, les Hittites, les Gergéséens, les Amorrhéens, les Chananéens, les Phéréséens, les Hévéens et les Jébuséens, sept nations plus nombreuses et plus puissantes que toi,
2 When Yahweh our God enables you to defeat [DOU] them, you must kill all of them. You must not make (an alliance/a peace treaty) with any of them. You must not act mercifully toward them.
et que Yahweh, ton Dieu, te les aura livrées et que tu les auras battues, tu les dévoueras par anathème, tu ne concluras pas d’alliance avec elles et tu ne leur feras pas grâce.
3 You must not marry any of them. You must not allow your daughters to marry any of their sons or allow your sons to marry any of their daughters.
Tu ne contracteras pas de mariage avec elles, tu ne donneras pas tes filles à leurs fils, et tu ne prendras pas leurs filles pour tes fils;
4 Because, if you did that, those people would cause your children to stop worshiping Yahweh and to worship other gods. If that happens, Yahweh will be very angry with you and he will get rid of you immediately.
car elles détourneraient de marcher après moi tes fils, qui serviraient d’autres dieux; la colère de Yahweh s’enflammerait contre vous, et il te détruirait promptement.
5 This is what you must do to those people: Tear down their (altars/places for sacrificing animals), break apart the stone pillars [that are dedicated to their male god Baal], cut down the [poles that they use when they worship the goddess] Asherah, and burn their [wooden] idols.
Mais voici comment vous agirez à leur égard: Vous renverserez leurs autels, vous briserez leurs stèles, vous abattrez leurs aschérim et vous livrerez au feu leurs images taillées.
6 You must do that because you are a group of people who belong to Yahweh our God. He has chosen you from among all the people-groups in the world to be his own special people.
Car tu es un peuple saint à Yahweh, ton Dieu. Yahweh, ton Dieu, t’a choisi pour être son peuple particulier, parmi tous les peuples qui sont sur la face de la terre.
7 “It was not because you were more numerous than any other people-group that Yahweh preferred you; you are one of the smallest people-groups on the earth.
Si Yahweh s’est attaché à vous et vous a choisis, ce n’est pas que vous surpassiez en nombre tous les peuples, car vous êtes le plus petit de tous les peuples.
8 Instead, it is because Yahweh loved you and because he wanted to do what he vowed to your ancestors. That is the reason that he rescued you by his great power [MTY], and freed you from being slaves [MTY] of the king of Egypt.
Mais, parce que Yahweh vous aime et parce qu’il a voulu tenir le serment qu’il avait fait à vos pères, Yahweh vous a fait sortir par sa main puissante et vous a rachetés de la maison de servitude, de la main de Pharaon, roi d’Égypte.
9 So do not forget that Yahweh our God is the only/true God. He will do what he agreed to do for you, and he will faithfully love (for 1,000 generations/forever) all those who love him and who obey his commandments.
Sache donc que c’est Yahweh, ton Dieu, qui est Dieu, le Dieu fidèle qui garde l’alliance et la miséricorde jusqu’à mille générations, pour ceux qui l’aiment et qui gardent ses commandements.
10 But for those who hate him, he will (pay them back/do to them what they deserve); he will punish them and quickly get rid of them.
Mais il rend la pareille en face à ceux qui le haïssent, en les faisant périr; il ne tarde pas à l’égard de celui qui le hait, et il lui rend la pareille en face.
11 “So you must be sure to obey all the commandments and rules and regulations that I am giving to you today.
C’est pourquoi tu observeras les commandements, les lois et les ordonnances que je te prescris aujourd’hui, en les mettant en pratique.
12 If you heed these commands and obey them faithfully, Yahweh our God will do what he has agreed to do for you, and he will faithfully love you, which is what he vowed to your ancestors that he would do.
Si vous écoutez ces ordonnances, si vous les gardez et les mettez en pratique, en retour Yahweh, ton Dieu, gardera envers toi l’alliance et la miséricorde qu’il a jurées à tes pères.
13 He will love you and bless you. He will enable you to have many children [DOU]. He will bless your fields, with the result that you will have plenty of grain and [grapes to make] wine and plenty of [olive] oil. You will have many cattle and sheep. He will do all these things for you in the land that he promised to your ancestors that he would give to you.
Il t’aimera, te bénira et te multipliera; il bénira le fruit de tes entrailles et le fruit de ton sol, ton blé, ton vin nouveau et ton huile, les portées de tes vaches et les petits de tes brebis, sur la terre qu’il a juré à tes pères de te donner.
14 He will bless you more than he will bless any other people-group. All of you will be able to have/produce children [LIT]. All of your livestock will be able to produce offspring.
Tu seras béni plus que tous les peuples; il n’y aura chez toi ni homme ni femme stérile, ni bête stérile parmi tes troupeaux.
15 And Yahweh will protect you from all illnesses. You will not be afflicted with any of the dreadful diseases that [our ancestors knew about] in Egypt, but all your enemies will be inflicted with those diseases.
Yahweh éloignera de toi toute maladie; il ne t’enverra aucune de ces affections malignes d’Égypte que tu connais; mais il en affligera tous ceux qui te haïssent.
16 You must get rid of all the people-groups that Yahweh our God will enable you to conquer. Do not [SYN] act mercifully toward any of them. And do not worship their gods, because if you do that, it would be like falling into a trap [from which you will never be able to escape].
Tu dévoreras tous les peuples que Yahweh, ton Dieu, va te livrer; ton œil sera sans pitié pour eux, et tu ne serviras pas leurs dieux, car ce serait un piège pour toi.
17 “Do not think to yourselves, ‘These people-groups are more numerous/powerful than we are, so we certainly cannot [RHQ] expel them.’
Que si tu dis dans ton cœur: « Ces nations sont plus nombreuses que moi; comment pourrai-je les chasser? »
18 Do not be afraid of them. Instead, think about what Yahweh our God did to the king of Egypt and to all the people whom he [ruled].
Ne les crains pas; rappelle à ton souvenir ce que Yahweh, ton Dieu, a fait à Pharaon et à toute l’Égypte:
19 Do not forget the terrible plagues that your ancestors saw [Yahweh inflict on the people of Egypt], and the many [DOU] miracles [that he performed], and the very powerful [DOU, MTY] way by which he brought your ancestors out [of Egypt]. Yahweh our God will do the same kind of things to the people-groups that you are afraid of now.
les grandes épreuves que tes yeux ont vues, les miracles et les prodiges, la main forte et le bras étendu, par lesquels Yahweh, ton Dieu, t’a fait sortir: ainsi fera Yahweh, ton Dieu, à tous les peuples dont tu as peur.
20 Furthermore, he will cause them to become terrified, and he will destroy those who remain alive and run away to hide from you.
Yahweh, ton Dieu, enverra même sur eux les frelons, jusqu’à ce que soient détruits ceux qui auront pu échapper et se cacher devant toi.
21 Do not be afraid of those people, because Yahweh our God will be with/among you. He is a great God; he is the one you should be afraid of.
Tu ne t’effraieras pas à cause d’eux; car Yahweh, ton Dieu, est au milieu de toi, Dieu grand et terrible!
22 He will expel those people-groups gradually. You should not [try to] expel all of them at one time, because if you did that, the number of wild animals would quickly increase, [and you would not be able to get rid of them].
Yahweh, ton Dieu, chassera peu à peu ces nations devant toi; tu ne pourras pas les exterminer promptement, de peur que les bêtes sauvages ne se multiplient contre toi.
23 Instead, Yahweh will enable you to defeat your enemies [one people-group at a time]. He will cause them to panic until they are destroyed.
Yahweh, ton Dieu, te les livrera, et il jettera parmi elles une grande consternation, jusqu’à ce qu’elles soient détruites.
24 He will enable you to defeat [IDM] their kings. After you kill them, their names will be forgotten {people will forget about them}. No people-group will be able to stop you; you will destroy all of them.
Il livrera leurs rois entre tes mains et tu feras disparaître leurs noms de dessous les cieux; personne ne tiendra devant toi, jusqu’à ce que tu les aies détruits.
25 You must burn the wooden idols [that represent] their gods. Do not desire to take the silver or gold [decorations] that are on those idols, because if you take them for yourselves, they will be like a trap [to cause you to want to worship those idols]. Yahweh hates [the worship of those idols].
Vous consumerez par le feu les images taillées de leurs dieux; tu ne convoiteras pas l’argent ou l’or qui est sur elles, et tu ne le prendras pas pour toi, de peur qu’il ne te soit un piège; car il est en abomination à Yahweh, ton Dieu.
26 You must not bring any of those disgusting idols into your houses, because if you do that, God will curse you like he curses them. You must hate and despise [DOU] those idols, because they are things that [Yahweh] has cursed.”
Tu n’introduiras pas une chose abominable dans ta maison, afin que tu ne sois pas, comme elle, dévoué par anathème; tu l’auras en horreur extrême, tu l’auras en extrême abomination, car c’est une chose dévouée par anathème.
