Deuteronomy 9
1 “You people of Israel, listen to me! You will soon [HYP] cross the Jordan [River]. In the land that you will enter, there are large cities that have very high walls [around them] that [seem to] [HYP] extend up to the sky. There are people-groups in that land that are more numerous and more powerful than you are.
Ecoute, ô Israël: tu franchis maintenant le Jourdain, pour aller déposséder des nations plus grandes et plus puissantes que toi aux villes importantes, dont les remparts touchent le ciel;
2 Those people are very tall and strong. [Some of them] are giants who are descendants of Anak. You know about them, and you have heard people say that no one [RHQ] can defeat the descendants of Anak.
une peuplade nombreuse et géante, des enfants d’Anak! Et tu sais toi-même, tu l’as souvent ouï dire, qui peut tenir tête aux enfants d’Anak?
3 But I want you to know that Yahweh our God will go ahead of you. He will be like a raging/roaring fire. While you advance, he will defeat and destroy them. As a result, you will quickly be able to expel some of them and kill the others, which is what Yahweh promised that you would do.
Tu reconnaîtras donc que c’est l’Éternel, ton Dieu, qui marche devant toi, comme un feu dévorant; c’est lui qui les anéantira, lui qui les fera plier devant toi, si bien que tu les vaincras et les détruiras sans peine, comme l’Éternel te l’a promis.
4 “After Yahweh our God has expelled them for you, do not say to yourselves, ‘It is because we are righteous that Yahweh has enabled us to capture this land.’ The truth is that it is because the people in that land are wicked that Yahweh will expel them as you advance.
Ne dis pas en ton cœur, lorsque l’Éternel, ton Dieu, les aura ainsi écartés de devant toi: "C’Est grâce à mon mérite que l’Éternel m’a introduit dans ce pays pour en prendre possession," quand c’est à cause de la perversité de ces peuples que l’Éternel les dépossède à ton profit.
5 [I say again that] it is not because you are righteous or because you do things that are righteous that you will enter and capture that land. It is because those people-groups are very wicked that Yahweh our God will expel them as you advance, and because he intends to do what he vowed to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would do.
Non, ce n’est pas à ton mérite ni à la droiture de ton cœur que tu devras la conquête de leur pays: c’est pour leur iniquité que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, dépossède ces peuples à ton profit, et aussi pour accomplir la parole qu’il a jurée à tes pères, à Abraham, à Isaac et à Jacob.
6 I want you to know that it is not because you are righteous that Yahweh our God is giving you this good/fertile land. I say that because [you are not righteous]; you are a very stubborn [IDM] people.”
Sache-le, ce ne peut être pour ta vertu que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, t’accorde la possession de ce beau pays, puisque tu es un peuple réfractaire.
7 “Never forget what your ancestors did in the desert that caused Yahweh our God to become angry. From the day that we left Egypt until the day that we arrived here, you and your ancestors have continually rebelled against him.
Rappelle-toi, n’oublie jamais, combien tu as mécontenté l’Éternel, ton Dieu, dans le désert! Depuis le jour où tu es sorti du pays d’Egypte, jusqu’à votre arrivée en ce lieu-ci, vous avez été rebelles envers le Seigneur!
8 Even at Sinai [Mountain] your ancestors caused Yahweh to become angry. Because he was very angry, he was ready to get rid of [all of] them.
Au Horeb même, vous avez mécontenté le Seigneur, et il s’irrita contre vous, au point de vouloir vous anéantir.
9 When I climbed the mountain to receive from him the stone tablets on which he had written the Ten Commandments that he was giving to them, I stayed there 40 days and nights, and [during that time] I did not eat or drink anything.
Je m’étais retiré sur la montagne pour recevoir les tables de pierre, les tables de l’alliance contractée par le Seigneur avec vous. Je restai sur la montagne quarante jours et quarante nuits, ne mangeant pas de pain, ne buvant point d’eau;
10 Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets on which he had written [the commandments] with his own fingers. They were the words/commandments that he had spoken to your ancestors from the fire on that mountain, when they were gathered together [at the bottom of the mountain].
et le Seigneur me remit les deux tables de pierre, burinées de son doigt divin, et contenant toutes les paroles que le Seigneur vous avait adressées sur la montagne, du milieu du feu, le jour de la convocation.
11 “At the end of those 40 days and nights, Yahweh gave me those two stone tablets on which he had written those commandments.
Ce fut au bout de quarante jours et de quarante nuits que le Seigneur me remit les deux tables de pierre, tables de l’alliance;
12 But then he said to me, ‘Go down the mountain immediately, because [the people whom you are leading], the people whom you led out of Egypt, have committed a terrible sin! They have very quickly done what I commanded them not to do. They have made for themselves a metal statue [of a calf to worship].’
et il me dit alors: "Va, descends d’ici en toute hâte, car on a perverti ton peuple, que tu as conduit hors de l’Egypte; ils ont tôt abandonné la voie que je leur avais prescrite, ils se sont fabriqué une idole!"
13 Then Yahweh said to me, ‘I have been watching these people, and I see that they are very stubborn.
Puis, l’Éternel me parla ainsi: "J’Ai observé ce peuple: or, c’est un peuple rétif.
14 So do not try to stop me. I am going to destroy all of them, with the result that no one anywhere will remember (their names [MTY]/that they ever existed). Then I will enable you to become [the ancestor of] a nation that will be more numerous and more powerful than they are.’
Laisse-moi, je veux les anéantir, je veux effacer leur nom sous le ciel, et faire naître de toi une nation plus grande et plus nombreuse que celle-ci."
15 So I turned and went down the mountain, carrying in my hands the two stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were [written]. Fire was burning all over the mountain.
Et je redescendis de la montagne, qui était alors en feu, tenant les deux tables d’alliance de mes deux mains;
16 I looked, and I was shocked to see that your ancestors had committed a [great] sin against Yahweh. They very quickly had begun to do what Yahweh our God had commanded them not to do. They had [requested Aaron to] make for them [a metal image of] a calf [to worship].
et je vis qu’en effet vous aviez péché contre l’Éternel, votre Dieu, vous vous étiez fait un veau de métal, prompts à quitter la voie que le Seigneur vous avait indiquée;
17 So while they were watching, I lifted up those two stone tablets and threw them [on the ground], and they broke into pieces.
et je saisis les deux tables, je les jetai de mes deux mains, je les brisai à vos yeux.
18 Then I (prostrated myself/lay) on the ground in Yahweh’s presence as I had done before, and I did not eat or drink anything for 40 days and nights. I did that because your ancestors had sinned against Yahweh and caused him to become very angry.
Puis je me prosternai devant le Seigneur, restant comme la première fois quarante jours et quarante nuits, sans manger de pain ni boire d’eau, à cause du grave péché que vous aviez commis en faisant ce qui déplaît au Seigneur, ce qui devait l’offenser.
19 I was afraid/worried that because Yahweh was very angry with them, he would get rid of all of them. [But again I prayed that he would not do that], and again he listened to me [and answered my prayer].
Car j’étais effrayé de cette colère et de cette indignation dont le Seigneur était animé pour votre perte. Mais, cette fois-là encore, le Seigneur m’exauça.
20 Yahweh was also very angry with Aaron [for making that golden calf] and was ready to kill Aaron. But at the same time I prayed for Aaron also, [and Yahweh answered my prayer].
Aaron aussi avait gravement irrité l’Éternel, qui voulait l’anéantir: j’intercédai pour Aaron aussi dans ce temps-là.
21 Your ancestors had sinned by [requesting Aaron to] make [a metal statue of] a calf. So I took that statue and [I melted it] in a fire and crushed it and ground it into very tiny pieces [HYP]. Then I threw those tiny pieces into the stream that flowed down the mountain.
Et votre ouvrage impie, ce veau que vous aviez fabriqué, je m’en saisis, le jetai au feu, le mis entièrement en pièces et le réduisis en menue poussière; puis je répandis cette poussière dans le torrent qui descend de la montagne.
22 Your ancestors also caused Yahweh to become very angry [by what they did] at [places which they named] Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.
De même à Tabéra, à Massa, à Kibroth-Hattaava, partout, vous avez irrité le Seigneur.
23 And when we were at Kadesh-Barnea, Yahweh said to your ancestors, ‘Go up and capture the land that I am about to give to you!’ But they rebelled against him. They did not trust him, and they did not obey what he told [MTY] them to do.
Et quand l’Éternel voulut vous faire partir de Kadêch-Barnéa, en disant: "Allez prendre possession du pays que je vous ai donné", vous avez désobéi à la parole de l’Éternel, votre Dieu, vous n’avez pas eu foi en lui, vous n’avez pas écouté sa voix!
24 Your ancestors rebelled against Yahweh from the first day that I knew them, [in Egypt].
Oui, vous avez été rebelles envers le Seigneur, depuis que je vous connais!
25 So, [as I said], I lay on the ground in Yahweh’s presence for 40 days and nights, because Yahweh had said that he would get rid of your ancestors.
Je restai donc prosterné devant le Seigneur pendant les quarante jours et les quarante nuits que j’ai dit, car le Seigneur menaçait de vous anéantir,
26 And I prayed to Yahweh, saying, ‘Lord God, these people belong to you; do not destroy them. They are people whom you rescued and brought out of Egypt by your very great power. [DOU, MTY]
et j’implorai le Seigneur, et je dis: "Seigneur-Elohim! N’Extermine pas ton peuple, ton héritage, que tu as sauvé par ta puissance, que tu as, d’une invincible main, fait sortir de l’Egypte!
27 Do not forget [what you promised to] Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Please ignore these stubborn and wicked people and the sin that they have committed.
Souviens-toi de tes serviteurs, d’Abraham, d’Isaac et de Jacob; ne considère pas l’insoumission de ce peuple, sa perversité ni sa faute,
28 If you do not do that, [and if you get rid of them], the people of Egypt will [hear about it and] say that you were not able to bring them into the land that you promised to give to them. They will say that you took them into the desert only to kill them there because you hated them.
de peur qu’on ne dise, dans ce pays d’où tu nous as fait sortir: "C’Est que l’Éternel n’avait pas le pouvoir de les introduire dans le pays qu’il leur avait promis; ou bien, par haine pour eux, il les a fait sortir d’ici pour les immoler dans le désert."
29 [Do not forget that] they are your people. [You chose them to] belong to you. You brought them out [from Egypt] by your very great power [DOU, MTY].’”
Et pourtant, ils sont ton peuple et ton héritage, que tu as délivré par ta haute puissance, par ton bras triomphant!"
