Leviticus 25
1 Yahweh said to Moses/me on Sinai Mountain,
Le Seigneur parla à Moïse sur la montagne de Sinaï, disant:
2 “Tell the Israelis [that I, Yahweh, say this]: When you enter the land that I am about to give you, every seventh year you must honor me by [not planting any seeds. You will be] allowing the ground to rest.
Parle aux enfants d’Israël, et tu leur diras: Quand vous serez entrés dans la terre que je vous donnerai moi-même, sabbatise le sabbat en l’honneur du Seigneur.
3 For six years you are to plant seeds in your fields and prune your grapevines and harvest the crops.
Pendant six ans tu sèmeras ton champ, et pendant six ans tu tailleras ta vigne et tu recueilleras ses fruits;
4 But the seventh/next year you must [dedicate] to me, and allow your fields to rest. Do not plant seeds in your fields or prune your grapevines [during that year].
Mais à la septième année, ce sera le sabbat de la terre et du repos du Seigneur, tu ne sèmeras point ton champ, et tu ne tailleras point ta vigne.
5 Do not reap [the grain] that grows in your fields without having been planted, or harvest the grapes that grow [without the vines being pruned]; you must allow the land to rest for that one year.
Ce que le sol produira de lui-même, tu ne le moissonneras point, et tu ne recueilleras point les raisins de tes prémices comme ta vendange; car c’est l’année du repos de la terre;
6 But you are permitted to eat whatever crops grow by themselves during that year without having been planted. You and your male and female servants, and workers whom you have hired, and people who are living among you temporarily are permitted to eat it.
Mais ce vous sera une nourriture, à toi et à ton serviteur, à ta servante et à ton mercenaire, et à l’étranger qui séjourne chez toi;
7 Also, [during that year] your livestock and the wild animals in your land are permitted to eat it.’
À tes bêtes et à tes troupeaux, tout ce qui naît fournira de la nourriture.
8 ‘Also, after every 49 years has ended, you must do this: (On the tenth day of the seventh month/At the end of September) [of the next/50th year], blow trumpets throughout the country, to declare that it will be a day on which you request that I forgive you for the sins that you have committed.
Tu compteras aussi sept semaines d’années, c’est-à-dire sept fois sept, qui ensemble font quarante-neuf ans.
Et tu sonneras de la trompette au septième mois, au dixième jour du mois, temps de la propitiation dans votre terre.
10 Set apart that year, and proclaim that throughout the country, it will be a year of restoring the land and freeing people: All the people [who sold their property] will receive back the property that they previously owned, and slaves must be (freed/allowed to return to [their property and] their families).
Et tu sanctifieras l’année cinquantième et tu proclameras la rémission pour tous les habitants de ta terre; car c’est le jubilé. L’homme retournera dans sa possession, et chacun reviendra dans son ancienne famille;
11 That year will be a Year of Celebration; [during that year] do not plant anything, and do not harvest [in the usual way] the grain/wheat that grows without having been planted, or the grapes that grow without the vines being pruned.
Parce que c’est le jubilé et la cinquantième année. Vous ne sèmerez point, et vous ne moissonnerez point ce qui naît de soi-même dans un champ, et vous ne recueillerez point les prémices de la vendange,
12 It will be a Year of Celebration, so eat [only] what grows in the fields (by itself/without any work being done to produce anything).
À cause de la sanctification du jubilé; mais vous mangerez aussitôt ce qui se présentera.
13 ‘In that Year of Celebration, everyone must return to their own property.
En l’année du jubilé tous retourneront dans leurs possessions.
14 ‘If you sell some of your land to a fellow Israeli or if you buy some land from one of them, you must treat that person fairly:
Quand tu vendras quelque chose à ton concitoyen, ou que tu achèteras de lui, ne contriste point ton frère, mais tu achèteras de lui selon le nombre des années du jubilé,
15 If you buy land, the price that you will pay will depend on the number of years there will be until the next Year of Celebration. If someone sells land to you, he will charge a price that is determined by the number of years until the next Year of Celebration.
Et il te vendra selon la supputation des moissons.
16 If there will be many years before the next Year of Celebration, the price will be higher; if there will be only a few years until the next Year of Celebration, the price will be lower. [You could say that] what he is really selling you is the number of crops [which you can harvest before the next Year of Celebration].
Plus il restera d’années après le jubilé, plus aussi le prix augmentera, et moins tu compteras de temps, moindre aussi sera le prix de l’achat; car c’est le temps des moissons qu’il te vendra.
17 Do not cheat each other; instead, revere me. I, Yahweh your God, [am the one who am commanding this].
N’affligez, point ceux qui sont de la même tribu que vous; mais que chacun craigne son Dieu, parce que je suis le Seigneur votre Dieu.
18 ‘Obey all my laws [DOU] carefully. If you do that, you will continue to live safely in your country [DOU].
Exécutez mes préceptes, gardez mes ordonnances et accomplissez-les, afin que vous puissiez habiter dans le pays sans aucune crainte,
19 And crops will grow well on the land, and you will have plenty to eat.
Et que le sol vous produise ses fruits, que vous puissiez manger jusqu’à satiété, ne redoutant la violence de personne.
20 But you may ask, “If we do not plant or harvest our crops during the seventh year, what will we have to eat?”
Que si vous dites: Que mangerons-nous en la septième année, si nous n’avons pas semé, et si nous n’avons pas recueilli nos moissons?
21 [My answer is that] I will bless you very much during the sixth/previous year, with the result that during that year there will be enough crops to provide food for you for three years!
Je vous donnerai ma bénédiction en la sixième année, et elle produira les fruits de trois ans.
22 Then, after you plant seed during the eighth/next year [and wait for the crops to grow], you will eat the food grown in the sixth year, and continue to eat it until more food is harvested in the ninth year!
Or, vous sèmerez en la huitième année, et vous mangerez les anciens fruits jusqu’à la neuvième année; jusqu’à ce qu’il naisse quelque chose de nouveau, vous mangerez l’ancien.
23 ‘You must not sell any of your land to belong to someone else permanently, because the land [is not yours, it]; is really mine, and you are only living on it temporarily and (farming/taking care of) it for me.
La terre aussi ne sera pas vendue à perpétuité, parce qu’elle est à moi, et que vous, vous êtes des étrangers et mes colons.
24 Throughout the country that you will possess, you must remember that if someone sells some of his land to you, he is permitted to buy it back from you [if he wants to].
C’est pourquoi tout le pays de votre possession sera vendu sous condition de rachat.
25 ‘So, if one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and sells some of his property [to obtain some money], the person who is most closely related to him is permitted to come and buy that land for him.
Si devenu pauvre, ton frère vend sa petite possession, et si son proche parent la veut, il peut racheter ce que celui-là avait vendu.
26 However, if a man has no one to buy the land for him, and he himself prospers again and saves enough money to buy that land back,
Mais s’il n’a pas de proche parent, et qu’il puisse lui-même trouver le prix pour racheter,
27 he must calculate how many years there will be until the next Year of Celebration. Then he must pay to the man who bought the land the money that he would have earned by continuing to grow crops on that land for those years.
On comptera les fruits depuis le temps qu’il a vendu; et ce qui reste, il le rendra à l’acheteur, et ainsi il recouvrera sa possession.
28 But if the original owner does not have any money to buy the land that he sold, it will continue to belong to the man who bought it, until the next Year of Celebration. In that year it must be returned to its original owner, and he will be able to live on it again.
Que si sa main ne peut trouver à rendre le prix, l’acheteur possédera ce qu’il aura acheté jusqu’à l’année jubilaire; car en cette même année toute chose vendue retournera à son maître et à son ancien possesseur.
29 ‘If someone who lives in a city that has a wall around it sells a house there, during the next year he will be permitted to buy it from the man who bought it.
Celui qui aura vendu une maison au dedans des murs d’une ville, aura la faculté de la racheter jusqu’à ce qu’une année soit accomplie.
30 If he does not buy it during that year, it will belong permanently to the man who bought it and to his descendants. It must not be returned to the original owner in the Year of Celebration.
S’il ne la rachète point, et que le cours d’une année soit révolu, l’acheteur la possédera, ainsi que ses descendants, à perpétuité, et elle ne pourra point être rachetée, même au jubilé.
31 But houses that are in villages that do not have walls around them are considered to be as though they are in a field. So if someone sells one of those houses, he is permitted to buy it back at any time. And [if he does not buy it], it must be returned to him in the Year of Celebration.
Mais si la maison est dans un village qui n’a pas de murailles, elle sera vendue selon le droit rural. Si auparavant elle n’a pas été rachetée, au jubilé elle retournera à son maître.
32 ‘If any descendants of Levi sell their houses in the towns in which they live, they are permitted to buy them back at any time.
Les maisons des Lévites, qui sont dans les villes, peuvent toujours être rachetées.
33 And because the houses in their towns are on land that [was given to them by] other Israelis, that land will become theirs again in the Year of Celebration [if they do not buy it back before then].
Si elles n’ont point été rachetées, au jubilé elles retourneront à leurs maîtres, parce que les maisons des villes des Lévites sont leurs possessions parmi les enfants d’Israël.
34 But the pastureland near their towns must not be sold. It must belong to the original owners permanently/forever.
Mais que leurs faubourgs ne se vendent pas, parce que c’est une possession perpétuelle.
35 ‘If one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and is unable to buy what he needs [IDM], others of you must help him like you would help a foreigner who is living among you [DOU] temporarily.
Si ton frère est devenu pauvre et infirme de sa main, et si tu l’as reçu comme un étranger et un voyageur, et qu’il vive avec toi,
36 [If you lend money to him], do not charge any kind of interest [DOU]. Instead, [show by what you do that you] revere me, your God, and help that man, in order that he will be able to continue to live among you.
Ne reçois point d’usures de lui, ni plus que tu as donné. Crains ton Dieu afin que ton frère puisse vivre chez toi.
37 If you lend him money, do not charge interest; and if you sell food to him, [charge him only what you paid for it]; do not get a profit from it.
Tu ne lui donneras point ton argent à usure, et tu n’exigeras pas un surplus de fruits.
38 [Do not forget that] I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God and to give you the land of Canaan, [and I did not charge you for doing that].
Je suis le Seigneur votre Dieu qui vous ai retirés de la terre d’Egypte, pour vous donner la terre de Chanaan, et pour être votre Dieu.
39 ‘If one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and sells himself to you, do not force him to work like a slave.
Si pressé par la pauvreté, ton frère se vend à toi, tu ne l’accableras point de la servitude des esclaves,
40 Treat him like you treat workers that you hire or like someone who is living on your land temporarily. But he must work for you [only] until the Year of Celebration.
Mais il sera comme un mercenaire et un colon: jusqu’à l’année jubilaire il travaillera chez toi,
41 During that year, you must free him, and he will go back to his family and to the property that his ancestors owned.
Et ensuite il sortira avec ses enfants, et il retournera dans sa famille et dans la possession de ses pères;
42 [It is as though] you Israelis are my slaves/servants, whom I [freed from being slaves] in Egypt. So none of you should be sold to become slaves.
Car c’est de moi qu’ils sont les esclaves, et c’est moi qui les ai retirés de la terre d’Egypte; qu’ils ne soient point vendus dans la condition des esclaves.
43 And do not treat the Israelis whom you buy cruelly; instead, revere me, your God.
Ne l’afflige point par ta puissance, mais crains ton Dieu.
44 ‘If you want to have slaves, you are permitted to buy them from nearby countries.
Ayez des serviteurs et des servantes des nations qui sont autour de vous.
45 You are also permitted to buy some of the foreigners who are living among you, and members of their clans that were born in your country. Then you will own them.
Et quant aux étrangers qui séjournent chez vous, ou qui sont nés d’eux dans votre terre, ce sont eux que vous aurez pour serviteurs,
46 They will be your slaves for the remaining years of your life, and after you die, it is permitted for your children to own them. But you must not act in brutal ways toward your fellow Israelis.
Et que par un droit héréditaire vous transmettrez à vos descendants, et que vous posséderez pour toujours; mais vos frères d’Israël, ne les opprimez point par votre puissance.
47 ‘If a foreigner who is living among you [DOU] becomes rich, and if one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and sells himself to that foreigner or to a member of his clan/family,
Si la main d’un étranger et d’un voyageur s’est affermie chez vous, et que devenu pauvre ton frère se soit vendu à lui, ou à quelqu’un de sa race,
48 it is permitted for someone to pay for him to be freed. It is permitted for one of his relatives to pay for him to be released:
Après la vente, il peut être racheté. Celui de ses frères qui voudra, le rachètera,
49 An uncle or a cousin or another relative in his clan may pay for him to be released. Or, if he prospers [and gets enough money], he is permitted to pay for his own release.
Son oncle, le fils de son oncle, son consanguin et son allié. Mais si lui-même aussi le peut, il se rachètera,
50 The man who wants to pay for his own release must count the number of years until the next Year of Celebration. The price he pays to the man who bought him will depend on the pay that would be given to a hired worker for that number of years.
Les années seulement étant supputées depuis le temps de sa vente jusqu’à l’année jubilaire, et l’argent pour lequel il a été vendu étant supputé selon le nombre des années et son service de mercenaire;
51 If there are a lot of years that remain until the Year of Celebration, he must pay for his release a larger amount of the money.
S’il y a beaucoup d’années qui restent jusqu’au jubilé, c’est aussi selon ces années qu’il fera la remise du prix.
52 If there are only a few years that remain until the Year of Celebration, he must pay a smaller amount to be released.
S’il y en a peu, il comptera avec son maître selon le nombre des années, et il rendra à l’acheteur ce qui est de reste des années,
53 During the years that he is working for the man who bought him, the man who bought him must treat him like he would treat a hired worker, and all of you must make sure that his owner does not treat him cruelly.
Le salaire pour lequel il a précédemment servi étant mis en ligne de compte: il ne l’affligera point violemment en ta présence.
54 ‘And even if a fellow Israeli who has sold himself to a rich man is not able to pay for himself to be freed by any of these ways, he and his children must be freed in the Year of Celebration,
Que si par ces moyens il ne peut être racheté, il sortira à l’année jubilaire avec ses enfants,
55 because [it is as though] you Israelis are my slaves/servants, whom I, Yahweh your God, freed from [being slaves in] Egypt.’”
Car c’est de moi que sont esclaves les enfants d’Israël que j’ai retirés de la terre d’Egypte.
