Exodus 23
1 “Do not tell to others (false rumors/untrue reports) about other people. Do not help someone who is guilty by (testifying falsely/lying) [about what happened].
"N’Accueille point un rapport mensonger. Ne sois pas complice d’un méchant, en servant de témoin à l’iniquité.
2 Do not join a group of people who are planning to do something evil. Do not testify the way the [crowd wants you to], if that will prevent [the judge from deciding the case] justly/fairly.
Ne suis point la multitude pour mal faire; et n’opine point, sur un litige, dans le sens de la majorité, pour faire fléchir le droit.
3 When a poor person is on trial, do not [testify in] his favor [just] because he is poor [and you feel sorry for him].
Ne sois point partial pour le pauvre, dans son procès.
4 If you see someone’s bull or donkey when it is wandering away [loose], take it back to [its owner, even if the owner] is your enemy.
"Si tu trouves le bœuf ou l’âne de ton ennemi, égaré, aie soin de le lui ramener.
5 If you see someone’s donkey that has fallen down [because of its heavy load], help the owner to get the donkey up again, [even if] he is someone who hates you. Do not just walk away [without helping him].
"Si tu vois l’âne de ton ennemi succomber sous sa charge, garde toi de l’abandonner; aide-lui au contraire à le décharger.
6 Decide the cases of poor people who are on trial [as] fairly [as you decide the cases of other people].
"Ne fais pas fléchir le droit de ton prochain indigent, s’il a un procès.
7 Do not accuse people falsely. Do not decide that innocent and righteous [DOU] people should be executed, because I will (punish/not forgive) people who do such an evil thing.
Fuis la parole de mensonge et ne frappe point de mort celui qui est innocent et juste, car je n’absoudrais point le prévaricateur.
8 Do not accept money that is a bribe, because officials who accept bribes are not able to [MTY] decide what is right to do, and they do not allow innocent people to be treated fairly.
N’Accepte point de présents corrupteurs; car la corruption trouble la vue des clairvoyants et fausse la parole des justes.
9 Do not mistreat foreigners [who live among you]. You know [how people often treat] foreigners, because the Egyptians [did not treat you well when] you were foreigners there.
Tu ne vexeras point l’étranger. Vous connaissez, vous, le cœur de l’étranger, vous qui avez été étrangers dans le pays d’Égypte!
10 Plant [seeds] in your ground and gather the harvest for six years.
Six années tu ensemenceras ta terre et en recueilleras le produit;
11 But during the seventh year you must not plant anything. [If things grow without your planting seeds], allow poor people [to harvest and] eat the crops. If there are still crops (left over/that they do not harvest), allow wild animals to eat them. Do the same thing with your grapevines/vineyards and your olive trees.
mais la septième, tu lui donneras du repos et en abandonneras les fruits, pour que les indigents de ton peuple en jouissent, le surplus pourra être consommé par les animaux des champs. Ainsi en useras-tu pour ta vigne et pour ton plant d’oliviers.
12 [You may] work for six days [each week], but on the seventh day you must rest [and not work]. And on the seventh day you must allow your work animals and your slaves and the foreigners [who live among you] also [to rest and] be refreshed.
Six jours durant tu t’occuperas de tes travaux, mais au septième jour tu chômeras; afin que ton bœuf et ton âne se reposent, que puissent respirer le fils de ton esclave et l’étranger.
13 Make certain that you obey everything that I have commanded [you to do]. Do not pray to [MTY] other gods. Do not even mention their names.”
Attachez-vous scrupuleusement à tout ce que je vous ai prescrit. Ne mentionnez jamais le nom de divinités étrangères, qu’on ne l’entende point dans ta bouche!
14 “Every year you must celebrate three festivals to [honor] me.
Trois fois l’an, tu célébreras des fêtes en mon honneur.
15 [The first one] is the Festival of Bread That Has No Yeast. Celebrate it in the month [that is named] Abib. That is the month in which you left Egypt. Celebrate it in the way that I commanded you. And always bring [LIT] an offering when you come to worship me.
Et d’abord, tu observeras la fête des Azymes: durant sept jours tu mangeras des pains azymes, ainsi que je te l’ai ordonné, à l’époque du mois de la germination, car c’est alors que tu es sorti de l’Égypte et l’on ne paraîtra point devant ma face les mains vides.
16 The second one is the Festival of Harvesting. During that festival you must offer to me the first parts/harvest of your crops that grow from the seeds that you planted. The third one is the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters. That will be after you finish harvesting your grain and grapes and fruit.
Puis, la fête de la Moisson, fête des prémices de tes biens, que tu auras semés dans la terre; et la fête de l’Automne, au déclin de l’année, lorsque tu rentreras ta récolte des champs.
17 Every year, at each of these times, all the men must gather together to worship me, Yahweh God.
Trois fois par an, tous tes mâles paraîtront par-devant le Souverain, l’Éternel.
18 When you sacrifice an animal [and offer it] to me, you must not offer bread that has been baked with yeast. [When you] offer sacrifices, [burn] the fat [from the animals on that same day]. Do not allow any fat to remain until the next morning.
Tu ne verseras point, en présence du pain levé, le sang de mon sacrifice; et la graisse de mes victimes ne séjournera pas jusqu’au matin sans être offerte.
19 Each year, when you harvest your crops, bring to the place where you worship me, Yahweh God, the first part of what you harvest. When you kill a (young animal/kid [or lamb or calf)], do not [prepare to eat it by] boiling it in its mother’s milk.”
Les prémices nouvelles de ton sol, tu les apporteras dans la maison de l’Éternel ton Dieu. Tu ne feras point cuire un chevreau dans le lait de sa mère.
20 “Note this: I am going to send an angel ahead of you, to guard you as you travel and to bring you safely to the place that I have prepared [for you]. Pay attention to what he says and obey him. Do not rebel against him, because he will have my authority [MTY] and he will (punish/not forgive) [LIT] you if you rebel against him.
"Or, j’enverrai devant toi un mandataire, chargé de veiller sur ta marche et de te conduire au lieu que je t’ai destiné.
Sois circonspect à son égard et docile à sa voix; ne lui résiste point! Il ne pardonnerait pas votre rébellion, car ma divinité est en lui.
22 But if you pay attention to what he says and if you do all that I tell you [to do], I will fight strongly [DOU] against all of your enemies.
Que si tu es toujours docile à sa voix, si tu accomplis toutes mes paroles, je serai l’ennemi de tes ennemis et je persécuterai tes persécuteurs.
23 My angel will go ahead of you, and will take you to where the Amor and Heth and Periz and Canaan and Hiv and Jebus people-groups live, and I will completely get rid of them.
Lorsque mon mandataire, guidant tes pas, t’aura introduit chez l’Amorréen, le Héthéen, le Phérézéen, le Cananéen, le Hévéen, le Jébuséen et que je les aurai exterminés,
24 Do not bow down before their gods/idols or worship them. And do not do the things [that they think that their gods want] them to do. Completely destroy their gods/idols, and smash to pieces their sacred stones.
ne te prosterne point devant leurs dieux, ne les sers point et n’imite point leurs rites; au contraire, tu dois les, renverser, tu dois briser leurs monuments.
25 You must worship me, Yahweh God. [If you do that], I will bless your (OR, bless [you by giving you]) food and water, and I will protect you from becoming sick.
Vous servirez uniquement l’Éternel votre Dieu; et il bénira ta nourriture et ta boisson et j’écarterai tout fléau du milieu de toi.
26 No women in your land will have (miscarriages/babies that will die after being born prematurely), and no women will be unable to become pregnant. And I will enable you to live a long time.
"Nulle femme n’avortera, nulle ne sera stérile dans ton pays; je comblerai la mesure de tes jours.
27 I will cause the people who oppose you to become very afraid of me. I will cause the people whom you fight against to become very confused. And then I will cause them to turn around and run away from you.
J’Enverrai ma terreur devant toi et je jetterai le trouble en toute population chez qui tu pénétreras et je mettrai tous tes ennemis en fuite devant toi.
28 I will cause your enemies to become terrified. And I will expel the Hiv, Canaan, and Heth people-groups from your land.
Je te ferai précéder par le frelon, qui chassera le Hévéen, le Cananéen et le Héthéen de devant toi.
29 I will not expel [all of] them in less than one year. If I did that, your land would become deserted, and there would be very many wild animals ([that would attack you/you would not be able to control]).
Je ne l’expulserai pas de devant toi en une seule année, car le pays deviendrait un désert et les bêtes sauvages se multiplieraient à tes dépens:
30 I will expel those people-groups slowly, a few at a time, until the number of your people increases and you are able to live everywhere in the land.
je L’Expulserai de devant toi successivement, jusqu’à ce que, devenu nombreux, tu puisses occuper tout le pays.
31 I will cause the borders of your land to extend from the (Red Sea/Gulf of Aqaba) [in the southeast] to the Mediterranean Sea [in the northwest], and from the [Sinai] Desert [in the southwest] to the [Euphrates] River [in the northeast of the country]. I will enable you [MTY] to expel the people who live there, so that you will expel them as you occupy more of the country.
Je fixerai tes limites depuis la mer des Joncs jusqu’à la mer des Philistins et depuis le Désert jusqu’au Fleuve; car je livrerai en ta main les habitants de cette contrée et tu les chasseras de devant toi.
32 You must not make any agreement/treaty with those people or with their gods.
Tu ne feras de pacte avec eux ni avec leurs divinités.
33 Do not allow [those people] to live in your land, in order that they do not cause you to sin against me. If you worship their gods, [you will not be able to escape from worshiping them and sinning against me, just like someone caught] in a trap [is unable to escape] [MET].”
Qu’ils ne subsistent point sur ton territoire! Ils te feraient prévariquer contre moi; car tu adorerais leurs divinités et ce serait pour toi un écueil."
