< Exodus 34 >

1 Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Cut two slabs of stone that will be like the first slabs, the ones that you broke. Then I will engrave on them the words that were on the first slabs.
Le Seigneur dit à Moïse: "Taille toi-même deux tables de pierre semblables aux précédentes; et je graverai sur ces tables les paroles qui étaient sur les premières tables, que tu as brisées.
2 Get ready tomorrow morning, and come up to the top of Sinai Mountain again to talk with me there.
Sois prêt pour le matin; tu monteras, au matin, sur le mont Sinaï et tu m’y attendras au sommet de la montagne.
3 Do not allow anyone to come up with you. I do not want anyone [else] to be anywhere on the mountain. Do not allow any sheep or cattle to graze (at the base of/near) the mountain.”
Nul n’y montera avec toi et nul, non plus, ne doit paraître sur toute la montagne; qu’on ne laisse même paître aux environs de cette montagne ni menu ni gros bétail."
4 So Moses/I cut two slabs of stone that were like the first ones. He/I arose early the next morning. He/I took the slabs and carried them in his/my hands up to the top of Sinai Mountain, as Yahweh had commanded.
Ayant taillé deux tables de pierre pareilles aux précédentes, Moïse se leva de bonne heure et monta sur le mont Sinaï, comme le lui avait commandé l’Éternel, après avoir pris en main les deux tables de pierre.
5 Then Yahweh descended in the [tall] cloud and stood with Moses/me there. He proclaimed that it was he, Yahweh, [who was going to speak to Moses/me].
L’Éternel descendit dans la nuée, s’arrêta là, près de lui et proclama nominativement l’Éternel.
6 Then Yahweh passed in front of him/me and proclaimed, “I am Yahweh God. I always act mercifully and kindly [toward people]. I do not get angry quickly. I [truly] love [people] and I do what I promise to do for them, without changing.
La Divinité passa devant lui et proclama: "ADONAÏ est l’Étre éternel, tout puissant, clément, miséricordieux, tardif à la colère, plein de bienveillance et d’équité;
7 I love people for thousands of generations. I forgive people for all kinds of sins [TRI]. But I will certainly punish [LIT] those who are guilty. I will punish not only them, but I will punish (their descendants, down to the third and fourth generation/their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren).”
il conserve sa faveur à la millième génération; il supporte le crime, la rébellion, la faute, mais il ne les absout point: il poursuit le méfait des pères sur les enfants, sur les petits-enfants, jusqu’à la troisième et à la quatrième descendance."
8 Moses/I quickly prostrated himself/myself on the ground and worshiped [Yahweh].
Aussitôt Moïse s’inclina jusqu’à terre et se prosterna;
9 He/I said, “Yahweh, if you are now pleased with me, I ask that you go with us. These people are very stubborn [IDM], but forgive us for all our sins [DOU], and accept us to be people who belong to you [forever].”
et il dit: "Ah! si j’ai trouvé faveur à tes yeux, Seigneur, daigne marcher encore au milieu de nous! Oui, ce peuple est indocile, mais tu pardonneras notre iniquité et nos péchés et nous resterons ton héritage."
10 Yahweh replied, “Note this: I am going to make a solemn agreement [with the Israeli people]. As they are watching, I will perform great miracles. They will be miracles that no one has ever done on the earth in any nation. All the people who are near you will see the great things that I, Yahweh, will do. I will do awesome things for you [all].
Il répondit: "Eh bien! je renouvelle le pacte: à la face de tout ton peuple, je ferai des prodiges qui n’ont encore été opérés dans aucun pays, chez aucune nation; et tout le peuple qui t’entoure verra combien est imposante l’oeuvre de l’Éternel, que j’accomplirai par toi."
11 [Each Israeli] person must obey what I am commanding you this day. Do not forget that [if you obey me], I will expel the Amor, Canaan, Heth, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus people-groups [from the land]. But be careful that you do not make any [peace] agreements with any of the people who live in the land into which you are going, because if you do that, [you will begin to do the evil things that they do]. It will be [like] falling into a trap.
Mais prends garde à ce que je te commande aujourd’hui. Voici, j’écarterai de devant toi l’Amorréen, le Cananéen, le Héthéen, le Phérézeen, le Hévéen et le jébuséen.
Garde-toi de contracter alliance avec l’habitant du pays que tu vas occuper: il deviendrait un danger au milieu de toi.
13 You must tear down their altars, destroy their sacred pillars, and cut down [the poles that they use to worship their female goddess] Asherah.
Au contraire, vous renverserez leurs autels, vous briserez leurs monuments, vous abattrez leurs bosquets.
14 You must worship only me, [and] not worship any other god, because I, Yahweh, cannot endure any rivals.
Car tu ne dois pas te courber devant une divinité étrangère, parce que l’Éternel a nom JALOUX, c’est un Dieu jaloux!
15 Do not make peace agreements with [any group] that lives in that land. When they worship their gods and offer sacrifices to their gods, and they invite you to join them, do not join them. If [you join them], you will eat the food that they sacrifice to their gods, and [you will not be faithful to me. You will be like people who] commit adultery, [who are not being faithful to their spouses] [MET].
Garde-toi de faire alliance avec l’habitant de ce pays: prostitué au culte de ses dieux, il leur sacrifierait et il te convierait à ses sacrifices et tu en mangerais.
16 If you take some of their women to be wives for your sons, and these women worship their own gods, they will persuade your sons also to worship their gods.
Puis, tu choisirais parmi ses filles des épouses à tes fils; et ses filles, s’abandonnant au culte de leurs dieux, entraîneraient tes fils dans leur culte.
17 Do not pour melted metal into molds to make statues for you to worship.
Tu ne te fabriqueras point des dieux de métal.
18 [Each year], during the month [of/named] Abib, celebrate the Festival of Eating Bread Made Without Yeast. [During that festival], for seven days you must not eat bread made with yeast, as I commanded you, because it was in that month that you left Egypt.
Observe la fête des Azymes: sept jours tu mangeras des azymes, comme je te l’ai prescrit, à l’époque du mois de la germination, car c’est dans ce mois que tu es sorti de l’Égypte.
19 Your firstborn sons and the firstborn [male] animals of your cattle and sheep [and goats] belong to me.
Toutes prémices des entrailles sont à moi: tout ce qui, dans ton bétail, naîtrait mâle, premier-né de la vache ou de la brebis.
20 The firstborn of your [male] donkeys [also belong to me]. But you may buy them back by [offering to me] lambs [in their place]. If you do not do that, you must [kill these animals by] breaking their necks. You must also buy back your firstborn sons. You must bring an offering to me [LIT] each time you come to [worship] me.
Le premier-né de l’âne, tu le rachèteras par un agneau, sinon tu lui briseras la nuque; tout premier-né de tes fils, tu le rachèteras et ils ne paraîtront point devant moi sans offrande.
21 [Each week] you may work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest. [Even] during the times when you plow [the ground] and harvest [your crops], you must rest [on the seventh day].
Six jours tu travailleras et le septième jour tu chômeras; labourage et moisson seront interrompus.
22 [Each year] celebrate the Harvest Festival, when you begin to harvest the first crop of wheat, and also celebrate the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters, when you finish harvesting [the grain and fruit].
Tu auras aussi une fête des Semaines, pour les prémices de la récolte du froment; puis la fête de l’Automne, au renouvellement de l’année.
23 Three times each year all the men must come to worship me, Yahweh, the God of the Israeli people.
Trois fois l’année, tous tes mâles paraîtront en présence du Souverain, de l’Éternel, Dieu d’Israël.
24 I will expel the people-groups that live in the land [where you will be], and I will cause your territory to become very large. As a result, no group will try to conquer your country if you come to worship me each year during those three festivals.
Car je déposséderai des peuples à cause de toi et je reculerai ta frontière: et cependant nul ne convoitera ton territoire, quand tu t’achemineras pour comparaître devant l’Éternel ton Dieu, trois fois l’année.
25 When you sacrifice an animal [MTY] to me, do not offer with it bread that is made with yeast. And during the Passover Festival, when you sacrifice lambs, do not keep any of the meat until the next morning.
Tu ne feras point couler; en présence du pain levé, le sang de ma victime, ni ne différeras jusqu’au matin le sacrifice de cette victime pascale.
26 I am Yahweh God. You must bring to my Sacred Tent the first part of the grain that you harvest each year. When you kill a young animal/kid [either a lamb or a calf], do not [prepare to eat it by] boiling it in its mother’s milk.”
Les prémices nouvelles de ta terre, tu les apporteras dans la maison de l’Éternel ton Dieu. Tu ne feras point cuire un chevreau dans le lait de sa mère."
27 Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Write down the words that I have told you. By giving you these commands, I have made a solemn agreement with you and with the [other] Israeli people.”
L’Éternel dit à Moïse: "Consigne par écrit ces paroles; car c’est à ces conditions mêmes que j’ai conclu une alliance avec toi et avec Israël."
28 Moses/I was there [on the top of the mountain] with Yahweh for 40 days and nights. During that time he/I did not eat or drink anything [SYN]. He/I engraved on the stone slabs the words of the Ten Commandments, [which were part of Yahweh’s] solemn agreement.
Et il passa là avec le Seigneur quarante jours et quarante nuits, ne mangeant point de pain, ne buvant point d’eau; et Dieu écrivit sur les tables les paroles de l’alliance, les dix commandements.
29 When Moses/I came back down the mountain, carrying in his/my hand the two stone slabs on which were written the Ten Commandments, his/my face was shining because he/I had been talking with Yahweh, but he/I did not know that his/my face was shining.
Or, lorsque Moïse redescendit du mont Sinaï, tenant en main les deux tables du Statut, il ne savait pas que la peau de son visage était devenue rayonnante lorsque Dieu lui avait parlé.
30 When Aaron and the [other] Israeli people saw Moses/me, they were amazed/surprised that his/my face was shining. So they were afraid to come near him/me.
Aaron et tous les enfants d’Israël regardèrent Moïse et voyant rayonner la peau de son visage, ils n’osèrent l’approcher.
31 But Moses/I called to them. Then Aaron and the other Israeli leaders came to him/me, and he/I talked with them.
Moïse les appela, Aaron et tous les phylarques de la communauté se rapprochèrent de lui et Moïse leur parla.
32 Afterwards, all the other Israeli people came near, and he/I told them all the laws that Yahweh had given to him/me on Sinai Mountain.
Ensuite s’avancèrent tous les enfants d’Israël et il leur transmit tous les ordres que l’Éternel lui avait donnés sur le mont Sinaï.
33 When Moses/I finished talking to the people, he/I put a veil over his/my face.
Moïse, ayant achevé de parler, couvrit son visage d’un voile.
34 But whenever Moses/I entered the Sacred Tent to talk with Yahweh, he/I removed the veil. When he/I came back out, he/I would always tell to the Israeli people everything that Yahweh had commanded him/me [to tell them].
Or, quand Moïse se présentait devant l’Éternel pour communiquer avec lui, il ôtait ce voile jusqu’à son départ; sorti de ce lieu, il répétait aux Israélites ce qui lui avait été prescrit
35 The Israeli people would see that Moses’/my face was [still] shining. Then he/I would put the veil back on his/my face again until the next time that he/I went into [the Sacred Tent] to talk with Yahweh.
et les Israélites remarquaient le visage de Moïse, dont la peau était rayonnante; puis Moïse remettait le voile sur son visage, jusqu’à ce qu’il rentrât pour communiquer avec le Seigneur.

< Exodus 34 >