Leviticus 21
1 Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
Yahweh dit à Moïse: Parle aux prêtres, fils d'Aaron, et dis-leur: Nul ne se rendra impur au milieu de son peuple pour un mort,
2 ‘You priests must not cause yourselves to become unfit to do my work by [touching] corpses. Priests are permitted to touch only the corpses of close relatives, such as the priest’s mother or father or his son or daughter or his brother.
excepté pour son parent du même rang, pour sa mère, pour son père, pour son fils, pour sa fille, pour son frère,
3 Priests are also permitted to touch the corpse of a sister if she is not married, because she has no husband [to bury her body].
et pour sa sœur vierge, qui vit auprès de lui, n'étant pas encore mariée; pour elle il se rendra impur.
4 Priests must not cause themselves to become unfit to do my work [DOU] by [touching corpses of] people who were married to one of their close relatives.
Chef de maison parmi son peuple, il ne se souillera pas et ne profanera pas sa dignité.
5 You priests must not shave your heads or shave the edges of your beards or cut your bodies [to show that you are mourning for someone who has died].
Les prêtres ne se raseront pas la tête, ils n'enlèveront pas les côtés de leur barbe, et ils ne feront pas d'incisions dans leur chair.
6 You must act in ways that I, your God, consider to be holy, and not disgrace my name/reputation. You are the ones who present to me the offerings that are burned. [It is as though] those offerings are food for me, your God; so you must act in ways that are holy.
Ils seront saints pour leur Dieu, et ils ne profaneront pas le nom de leur Dieu, car ils offrent à Yahweh des sacrifices consumés par le feu, le pain de leur Dieu: ils seront saints.
7 You priests must not marry women who have been prostitutes or who have been divorced from their husbands, because you priests are (set apart for me/holy).
Ils ne prendront point une femme prostituée ou déshonorée; ils ne prendront point une femme répudiée par son mari, car le prêtre est saint pour son Dieu.
8 You must consider that you are holy, because you offer food to me, your God. Consider yourselves to be holy because I, Yahweh, [the one who caused you to be priests and] the one who enables you to be holy, am holy.
Tu le tiendras pour saint, car il offre le pain de ton Dieu; il sera saint pour toi, car je suis saint, moi Yahweh, qui vous sanctifie.
9 If a priest’s daughter disgraces herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; and she must be killed by being burned in a fire.
Si la fille d'un prêtre se déshonore en se prostituant, elle déshonore son père: elle sera brûlée au feu.
10 The Supreme Priest is the one among his relatives who has been [appointed for that work] by having his head anointed with olive oil. He is also the one who has been appointed to wear the special garments that priests wear. He must not allow the hair on his [head] to remain uncombed, and he must not tear his clothes [when he is mourning for someone].
Le grand prêtre qui est au-dessus de ses frères, sur la tête duquel a été répandue l'huile d'onction, et qui a été installé pour revêtir les vêtements sacrés, ne découvrira pas sa tête et ne déchirera pas ses vêtements.
11 He must not enter some place where there is a corpse. He must not do that and cause himself to become unfit for his work, even if it is his father or his mother who has died.
Il n'approchera d'aucun mort; il ne se rendra impur ni pour son père, ni pour sa mère.
12 He must not leave the Sacred Tent [to join those who are mourning], because he would cause himself to become unfit for his work and would also defile/desecrate the Sacred Tent. He must not leave the Sacred Tent [at that time], because by being anointed with olive oil he has been (appointed/set apart) to serve his God [in the Sacred Tent]. I, Yahweh, [am the one who am commanding this].
Il ne sortira pas du sanctuaire, et ne profanera pas le sanctuaire de son Dieu, car l'huile d'onction de son Dieu est un diadème sur lui. Je suis Yahweh.
13 Women whom you priests marry must be virgins.
Il prendra pour femme une vierge.
14 You priests must not marry widows or prostitutes or divorced women, because if you did that, [if you later have] sons, they would not be acceptable to be priests among your people. You must marry only virgins from among your own people. I am Yahweh, who sets priests apart to be holy.’”
Il ne prendra ni une veuve, ni une femme répudiée, ni une femme déshonorée ou prostituée; mais il prendra pour femme une vierge du milieu de son peuple.
Il ne déshonorera pas sa postérité au milieu de son peuple; car je suis Yahweh, qui le sanctifie. "
16 Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
Yahweh parla à Moïse, en disant:
17 “Say this to Aaron: 'For all future time, none of your descendants who has any defects [on his body] will be allowed to come near [the altar] to offer [sacrifices to me which will be like] [MET] my food:
" Parle à Aaron, et dis-lui: Nul homme de ta race, dans toutes les générations, qui aura une difformité corporelle, n'approchera pour offrir le pain de ton Dieu.
18 No one who is blind or lame or deformed, or whose [face is] disfigured,
Car nul homme qui a une difformité corporelle n'approchera: un homme aveugle ou boiteux, ou qui aura une mutilation ou une excroissance;
19 no man with a crippled foot or a crippled hand,
ou un homme qui aura une fracture au pied ou à la main;
20 no man who is a hunchback or a dwarf, no man whose eyes are defective, no man who has a skin disease [DOU] or whose testicles have been damaged is allowed to brings sacrifices.
qui sera bossu ou nain, ou qui aura une tache à l'œil, la gale, une dartre ou les testicules écrasés.
21 No descendant of Aaron, the [first Supreme] Priest, who has any defect is allowed to come to the altar to offer to me, his God, sacrifices that will be burned.
Nul homme de la race du prêtre Aaron qui aura une difformité corporelle, ne s'approchera pour offrir à Yahweh les sacrifices faits par le feu; il a une difformité corporelle: qu'il ne s'approche point pour offrir le pain de son Dieu.
22 Priests who have defects are permitted to eat the various kinds of holy food offered to me.
Il pourra manger le pain de son Dieu, des choses très saintes et des choses saintes.
23 But because of their defects, they must not go near the curtain [in the Sacred Tent] or near the altar, because if they did that, they would desecrate my Sacred Tent. I am Yahweh, the one who sets those places apart as being holy.'”
Mais il n'ira point vers le voile et ne s'approchera point de l'autel, car il a une difformité corporelle; il ne profanera point mes sanctuaires, car je suis Yahweh; qui les sanctifie. "
24 So Moses/I told this to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israeli people.
Ainsi parla Moïse à Aaron et à ses fils, et à tous les enfants d'Israël.
