Numbers 12
1 [Moses’/My older sister] Miriam and [his/my older brother] Aaron were saying this: “Is Moses the only one to whom Yahweh has spoken messages to tell to us [RHQ]? Does Yahweh not speak messages to us two also?” [They told people that] they were saying that because Moses/I had married a woman who was a descendant of the Cush people-group, [but they were really saying that because they (were jealous/did not want Moses/me to be the only leader of the Israeli people)]. But Yahweh heard what they were saying.
Et Marie et Aaron parlèrent contre Moïse à l’occasion de la femme éthiopienne qu’il avait prise, car il avait pris une femme éthiopienne.
Et ils dirent: L’Éternel n’a-t-il parlé que par Moïse seulement? n’a-t-il pas parlé aussi par nous? Et l’Éternel l’entendit.
3 [The truth was that] Moses/I was very humble. He/I was more humble than anyone else on the earth [and Moses/I had not appointed himself/myself to be their leader].
Et cet homme, Moïse, était très doux, plus que tous les hommes qui étaient sur la face de la terre.
4 So immediately Yahweh spoke to Moses/me and to Aaron and Miriam. He said, “All three of you must go and stand at the Sacred Tent.” So they/we did that.
Et soudain l’Éternel dit à Moïse, et à Aaron et à Marie: Sortez, vous trois, vers la tente d’assignation. Et ils sortirent eux trois.
5 Then Yahweh descended to the entrance of the tent in a cloud [that resembled a huge white] pillar. He told Aaron and Miriam to step forward, so they did.
Et l’Éternel descendit dans la colonne de nuée, et se tint à l’entrée de la tente; et il appela Aaron et Marie, et ils sortirent eux deux.
6 Then he said to them, “Listen to me! When a prophet is among you, I [usually] reveal myself to him by allowing him to see visions, and I speak to him in dreams.
Et il dit: Écoutez mes paroles: S’il y a un prophète parmi vous, moi l’Éternel, je me ferai connaître à lui en vision, je lui parlerai en songe.
7 But that is not the way I speak to my servant Moses. I trust that he will lead my people [well].
Il n’en est pas ainsi de mon serviteur Moïse, qui est fidèle dans toute ma maison;
8 So I talk to him face-to-face. I speak to him (clearly/using words that he will understand easily), not using parables. He has even seen what I look like. So you should be afraid to criticize my servant Moses!”
je parle avec lui bouche à bouche, et [en me révélant] clairement, et non en énigmes; et il voit la ressemblance de l’Éternel. Et pourquoi n’avez-vous pas craint de parler contre mon serviteur, contre Moïse?
9 Yahweh was very angry with Miriam and Aaron, and he left.
Et la colère de l’Éternel s’embrasa contre eux, et il s’en alla;
10 When the cloud rose up from the Sacred Tent, Aaron looked at Miriam, and he saw that her skin was [as white] as snow, because she now had leprosy.
et la nuée se retira de dessus la tente: et voici, Marie était lépreuse, comme la neige; et Aaron se tourna vers Marie, et voici, elle était lépreuse.
11 Aaron said to Moses/me, “My master, please do not punish us for this sin that we have foolishly committed.
– Et Aaron dit à Moïse: Ah, mon seigneur! ne mets pas, je te prie, sur nous, ce péché par lequel nous avons agi follement et par lequel nous avons péché.
12 Do not allow Miriam to be like a baby that is already dead when it is born, whose flesh is already half decayed!”
Je te prie, qu’elle ne soit pas comme un [enfant] mort, dont la chair est à demi consumée quand il sort du ventre de sa mère.
13 So Moses/I cried out to Yahweh, saying, “God, I plead with you to heal her!”
Et Moïse cria à l’Éternel, disant: Ô Dieu! je te prie, guéris-la, je te prie.
14 But Yahweh replied, “If her father had [rebuked her for doing something wrong by] spitting in her face, she would have been ashamed for seven days. [She should be ashamed because of what she has done]. So send her outside the camp for seven days. Then [she will not have leprosy any more, and] she may return to the camp.”
Et l’Éternel dit à Moïse: Si son père lui avait craché au visage, ne serait-elle pas pendant sept jours dans la honte? Qu’elle soit exclue, sept jours, hors du camp, et après, qu’elle y soit recueillie.
15 So they sent her outside the camp for seven days. (The people/We) did not move [to another location] until she returned.
Et Marie demeura exclue hors du camp sept jours; et le peuple ne partit pas jusqu’à ce que Marie ait été recueillie.
16 But after [she returned], they/we left Hazeroth and moved [north] in the Paran Desert and set up their/our tents there.
Et après, le peuple partit de Hatséroth, et il campa au désert de Paran.
