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].
Tu n’accueilleras point une parole de mensonge, et tu ne prêteras pas ta main de manière à dire en faveur de l’impie un faux témoignage.
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.
Tu ne suivras point la multitude pour faire le mal; et en jugement tu n’acquiesceras pas à l’avis du plus grand nombre pour dévier de la vérité.
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].
Tu n’auras point non plus compassion du pauvre en jugement.
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 rencontres le bœuf de ton ennemi, ou son âne égaré, ramène-le-lui.
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 celui qui te hait tombé sous le fardeau, tu ne passeras pas outre, mais tu le relèveras avec lui.
6 Decide the cases of poor people who are on trial [as] fairly [as you decide the cases of other people].
Ne fais point d’écarts dans le jugement du pauvre.
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.
Tu fuiras le mensonge; tu ne feras point mourir l’innocent et le juste, parce que j’ai l’impie en aversion.
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.
Tu ne recevras point de présents, qui aveuglent même les sages et corrompent les paroles 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 seras point fâcheux pour l’étranger; car vous connaissez les âmes des étrangers, puisque vous-mêmes, vous avez été étrangers dans la terre d’Egypte.
10 Plant [seeds] in your ground and gather the harvest for six years.
Pendant six ans tu sèmeras ta terre et tu en recueilleras les fruits.
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 à la septième année, tu la laisseras et tu la feras reposer, afin que les pauvres de ton peuple mangent, et que tout ce qui sera de reste, les bêtes de la campagne le mangent: ainsi tu feras 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.
Pendant six jours tu travailleras, mais au septième jour tu cesseras, afin que ton bœuf et ton âne se reposent, et que le fils de ta servante, et l’étranger reprennent des forces.
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.”
Gardez toutes les choses que je vous ai dites, et vous ne jurerez point par le nom des dieux étrangers, et on ne l’entendra pas de votre bouche.
14 “Every year you must celebrate three festivals to [honor] me.
Trois fois chaque année vous célébrerez 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.
Tu garderas la solennité des azymes. Durant sept jours tu mangeras des azymes, comme je t’ai ordonné, au temps du mois des nouveaux fruits, quand tu es sorti de l’Egypte: tu ne paraîtras pas en ma présence 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.
Tu garderas de plus la solennité de la moisson des prémices de ton travail, quoi que ce soit que tu aies semé dans ton champ; et aussi la solennité à la fin de l’année, quand tu auras recueilli tous les fruits de ton champ.
17 Every year, at each of these times, all the men must gather together to worship me, Yahweh God.
Trois fois dans l’année, paraîtront tous tes mâles en présence de moi, le Seigneur ton Dieu.
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 sacrifieras point sur du levain le sang de ma victime, et la graisse de ma solennité ne demeurera point jusqu’au matin.
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.”
Tu apporteras les prémices du fruit de ta terre dans la maison du Seigneur 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.
Voilà que moi, j’enverrai mon ange, afin qu’il te précède et te garde dans le chemin, et qu’il t’introduise dans le lieu que j’ai préparé.
Respecte-le, écoute sa voix, et ne pense pas à le mépriser, parce qu’il ne te pardonnera point, lorsque tu pécheras, et que mon nom 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 écoutes sa voix, et que tu fasses tout ce que je te dis, je serai un ennemi pour ton ennemi, et j’affligerai ceux qui t’affligeront.
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.
Et mon ange te précédera, et il t’introduira chez l’Amorrhéen, l’Héthéen, le Phérézéen, le Chananéen, l’Hévéen et le Jébuséen, que j’écraserai.
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.
Tu n’adoreras point leurs dieux et tu ne les serviras pas; tu ne feras point leurs œuvres, mais tu les détruiras et tu briseras leurs statues.
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 le Seigneur votre Dieu, afin que je bénisse tes pains et tes eaux, et que j’enlève la maladie 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.
Il n’y aura ni femme inféconde, ni stérile dans ta terre: je remplirai le nombre 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 en avant de toi, et je ferai mourir tout peuple chez lequel tu entreras, et je ferai tourner le dos à tous tes ennemis 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.
Envoyant d’abord les frelons, qui mettront en fuite l’Hévéen, le Chananéen et l’Héthéen, avant que tu entres.
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 les chasserai pas de devant ta face en une seule année, de peur que la terre ne soit réduite en solitude, et que les bêtes sauvages ne se multiplient contre toi.
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.
C’est peu à peu que je les chasserai de ta présence, jusqu’à ce que tu croisses en nombre et que tu possèdes cette terre.
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 poserai tes limites depuis la mer Rouge jusqu’à la mer des Philistins, et depuis le désert jusqu’au fleuve: je livrerai entre vos mains les habitants de cette terre, et les chasserai de votre présence.
32 You must not make any agreement/treaty with those people or with their gods.
Tu ne feras point d’alliance avec eux, ni avec leurs dieux.
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 n’habitent point dans ta terre, de peur qu’ils ne le fassent pécher contre moi, si tu sers leurs dieux; ce qui certainement serait pour toi un scandale.
