Exodus 21
1 “Here are some [other] instructions to give to [the Israeli people]:
Et voici les statuts que tu leur exposeras.
2 When/If you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve you for [only] six years. In the seventh year you must free him [from being your slave], and he is not required to pay you anything [for setting him free].
Si tu achètes un esclave hébreu, il restera six années esclave et à la septième il sera remis en liberté sans rançon.
3 If he was not married before he became your slave, and if he marries [someone while he is your slave], his wife is not to be set free [with him]. But if he was married before he became your slave, you must free both him and his wife.
S’Il est venu seul, seul il sortira; s’il était marié, sa femme sortira avec lui.
4 If a slave’s master gives him a wife, and she gives birth to sons or daughters [while her husband is a slave], only the man is to be freed. His wife and children will continue to be slaves of their master.
Si son maître lui a donné une femme, laquelle lui ait enfanté des fils ou des filles, la femme, avec les enfants, appartiendra à son maître et lui se retirera seul.
5 But when it is time for the slave to be set free, if the slave says, ‘I love my master and my wife and my children, and I do not want to be set free,’
Que si l’esclave dit: "J’Aime mon maître, ma femme et mes enfants, je ne veux pas être affranchi",
6 then his master must take him to [the place where they worship] God (OR, to [the owner’s] house). There he must make the slave stand against the door or the doorpost. Then the master will use an (awl/pointed metal rod) to make a hole in the slave’s ear. Then [he will fasten a tag to the slave’s ear to indicate that] (he will own that slave for the rest of his life/he will own the slave as long as the slave lives).
son maître l’amènera par-devant le tribunal, on le placera près d’une porte ou d’un poteau; et son maître lui percera l’oreille avec un poinçon et il le servira indéfiniment.
7 If a man sells his daughter to become a slave, she should not be set free [after six years], as the male slaves are.
"Si un homme vend sa fille comme esclave, elle ne quittera pas son maître à la façon des esclaves.
8 If the man who bought her wanted her to be his wife, but if [later] he is not pleased with her, he must sell her back to her father. He must not sell her to a foreigner, because that would be breaking the contract/agreement [he made with the girl’s father].
Si elle lui déplaît et qu’il ne la réserve point à lui-même, il la laissera s’affranchir; il n’aura pas pouvoir de la vendre à une famille étrangère, après l’avoir déçue.
9 If the man who buys her wants her to be a wife for his son, he must then treat her as though she were his own daughter.
Que s’il la fiance à son fils, il procédera à son égard selon. la règle des filles.
10 If the master takes another slave girl to be another wife for himself, he must continue to give the first slave wife the same amount of food and clothing that he gave to her before, and he must continue to have sex [EUP] with her as before.
S’Il lui en adjoint une autre, il ne devra point la frustrer de sa nourriture, de son habillement, ni du droit conjugal.
11 If he does not do all these three things for her, he must free her [from being a slave], and she is not required to pay anything [for being set free].
Et s’il ne procède pas à son égard de l’une de ces trois manières, elle se retirera gratuitement, sans rançon.
12 You must execute anyone who strikes another person with the result that the person who is struck dies.
"Celui qui frappe un homme et le fait mourir sera puni de mort.
13 But if the one who struck the other did not intend to kill that person, the one who struck him can escape to a place that I will choose for you, [and he will be safe there].
S’Il n’y a pas eu guet-apens et que Dieu seul ait conduit sa main, il se réfugiera dans un des endroits que je te désignerai.
14 But if someone gets angry with another person and kills him, even if the murderer runs to the altar, [a place that God designated as a place to be safe], you must execute him.
"Mais si quelqu’un, agissant avec préméditation contre son prochain, le tue de guet-apens, du pied même de mon autel tu le conduiras à la mort.
15 Anyone who strikes his father or mother must surely be executed.
"Celui qui frappera son père ou sa mère sera mis à mort.
16 Anyone who kidnaps another person, either in order to sell that person or to keep him as a slave, must be executed.
"Celui qui aura enlevé un homme et l’aura vendu, si on l’a pris sur le fait, sera mis à mort.
17 Anyone who reviles/curses his father or his mother must be executed.
"Celui qui maudit son père ou sa mère sera puni de mort.
18 Suppose two people fight, and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist. And suppose the person he strikes does not die but is injured and has to stay in bed [for a while],
"Si des hommes se prennent de querelle et que l’un frappe l’autre d’un coup de pierre ou de poing, sans qu’il en meure, mais qu’il soit forcé de s’aliter,
19 and later he is able to walk outside using a cane. Then the person who struck him does not have to be punished. However, he must pay the injured person the money he could not earn [while he was recovering], and he must also pay the injured person’s medical expenses until that person is well.
s’il se relève et qu’il puisse sortir appuyé sur son bâton, l’auteur de la blessure sera absous. Toutefois, il paiera le chômage et les frais de la guérison.
20 If someone strikes his male or female slave with a stick, if the slave dies (immediately/as a result) [IDM], the one who struck him must be punished.
"Si un homme frappe du bâton son esclave mâle ou femelle et que l’esclave meure sous sa main, il doit être vengé.
21 But if the slave lives for a day or two after he is struck [and then dies], you must not punish the one who struck him. Not having that slave to be able to work for him any longer is enough punishment.
Si pourtant il survit un jour ou deux, il ne sera pas vengé, parce qu’il est sa propriété.
22 Suppose two people are fighting and they hurt a pregnant woman with the result that (she has a miscarriage/her baby is born prematurely and dies). If the woman is not harmed in any other way, the one who injured her must pay a fine. He must pay whatever the woman’s husband demands, after a judge approves of the fine.
"Si, des hommes ayant une rixe, l’un d’eux heurte une femme enceinte et la fait avorter sans autre malheur, il sera condamné à l’amende que lui fera infliger l’époux de cette femme et il la paiera à dire d’experts.
23 But if the woman is injured in some additional way, the one who injured her must be caused to suffer in exactly the same way [that he caused her to suffer]. If she dies, he must be executed.
Mais si un malheur s’ensuit, tu feras payer corps pour corps;
24 If her eye is injured or destroyed, or if he knocks out one of her teeth, or her hand or foot is injured, or if she is burned or bruised, the one who injured her must be injured in the same way.
oeil pour oeil, dent pour dent, main pour main, pied pour pied;
brûlure pour brûlure, plaie pour plaie, contusion pour contusion.
26 If the owner of a slave strikes the eye of his male or female slave and ruins it, he must free that slave because of [what he did to] the slave’s eye.
"Si un homme blesse l’œil de son esclave ou de sa servante de manière à lui en ôter l’usage, il le renverra libre à cause de son œil
27 If someone knocks out one of his slave’s teeth, he must free the slave because of [what he did to] the slave’s tooth.
et s’il fait tomber une dent à son esclave ou à sa servante, il lui rendra la liberté à cause de sa dent.
28 If a bull gores a man or woman with the result that the person dies, you [must kill the bull by] throwing stones at it, but you must not punish the owner of the bull.
"Si un boeuf heurte un homme ou une femme et qu’ils en meurent, ce boeuf doit être lapidé et il ne sera point permis d’en manger la chair; mais le propriétaire du boeuf sera absous.
29 But suppose the bull had attacked people several times before, and its owner had been warned, but he did not keep the bull inside a fence. Then you [must kill the bull by] throwing stones at it, but you must also execute its owner.
Si ce boeuf était sujet à heurter, déjà antérieurement, que son maître, averti, ne l’ait pas surveillé et qu’il ait fait périr un homme ou une femme, le boeuf sera lapidé et même son maître mérite la mort.
30 However, if the owner of the bull is allowed to pay a fine (to save his own life/in order not to be executed), he must pay the full amount that the judges say that he must pay.
Si toutefois une amende lui est imposée, il paiera la rançon de sa vie selon ce qu’on lui aura imposé.
31 If someone’s bull attacks and gores another person’s son or daughter, you must treat the bull’s owner according to that same rule.
Si un bœuf heurte soit un garçon, soit une fille, la même loi lui sera appliquée.
32 If a bull attacks and gores a male or female slave, its owner must pay to the slave’s owner 30 pieces of silver. Then you must [kill the bull by] throwing stones at it.
Si ce bœuf heurte un esclave ou une esclave, on paiera à leur maître une somme de trente sicles et le boeuf sera lapidé.
33 Suppose someone has a pit/cistern and does not keep it covered, and someone’s bull or donkey falls into it [and dies].
"Si quelqu’un découvre une citerne, ou si, en ayant creusé une, il ne la couvre point et qu’un boeuf ou un âne y tombe,
34 Then the owner of the pit/cistern must pay for the animal that died. He must give the money to the animal’s owner, but then he can take away the animal that died and [do whatever he wants to with it].
le propriétaire de la citerne doit payer: il remboursera la valeur au maître et l’animal mort lui restera.
35 If someone’s bull hurts another person’s bull with the result that it dies, the owners of both bulls must sell the bull that is living, and they must divide [between them] the money [that they receive] for it. They must also divide [between them the meat of] the animal that died.
"Si le bœuf appartenant à un homme blesse celui d’un autre et le fait périr, on vendra le bœuf vivant; ils s’en partageront le prix, et partageront aussi le bœuf mort.
36 However, if people know that the bull often attacked other animals previously, and its owner did not keep it inside a fence, then the owner of that bull must give the owner of the bull that died one of his own bulls, but he can take away the animal that died [and do with it whatever he wants to do].”
Mais si, notoirement, ce boeuf a déjà heurté à plusieurs reprises et que son maître ne l’ait pas surveillé, il devra restituer boeuf pour boeuf et le boeuf tué lui restera.
