Numbers 19
1 Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses/me,
Le Seigneur parla encore à Moïse et à Aaron, disant:
2 “I am now giving to you another regulation. Tell the Israeli people to bring to you one reddish-brown cow that has no defects. It must be an animal that (has never been/no one has ever) used for plowing ground.
Voici sur la loi de purification les détails que le Seigneur a réglés, disant: Parle aux fils d'Israël et qu'ils t'amènent une génisse rousse sans tache, sans difformité, qui n'ait point encore porté le joug.
3 Give it to Eleazar, the priest. He must take it outside the camp and slaughter it [and drain the blood in a basin].
Tu la donneras à Eléazar le prêtre; puis, on la conduira hors du camp, en lieu pur, et on l'égorgera devant lui.
4 He must dip one of his fingers in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times [on the ground] near the Sacred Tent.
Eléazar prendra de son sang, et il en fera sept aspersions sur la façade du tabernacle du témoignage.
5 Then, while Eleazar watches, the cow must be burned completely—its hide, its meat, [the rest of] its blood, and even its dung.
Puis, on la brûlera devant lui; le cuir et la chair, le sang et la fiente seront consumés.
6 Eliezer then must take a stick of cedar wood, a stalk of [a plant named] hyssop, and some scarlet/red yarn, and throw them into the fire where the cow is burning.
Après quoi, le prêtre prendra du bois de cèdre, de l'hysope, de l'écarlate, et l'on jettera ces choses au milieu du bûcher qui consumera la génisse.
7 “Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe. After doing that, he may return to the camp. But he will be unfit for doing any sacred work until that evening.
Le prêtre lavera ensuite ses vêtements; il se lavera le corps avec de l'eau; il rentrera dans le camp, et il sera impur jusqu'au soir.
8 The man who burns the cow must also wash his clothes and bathe, and he will also be unacceptable to me until that evening.
L'homme qui aura brûlé la génisse lavera aussi ses vêtements, et il se lavera le corps avec de l'eau, et il sera impur jusqu'au soir.
9 “Then someone who has not become unacceptable to me must gather up the ashes of the cow and put them in a (sacred place/place that is acceptable to me) outside the camp. The ashes must be kept there for the people of Israel to [use when they] mix it with water for the ritual to remove the guilt of sin.
Un homme pur recueillera les cendres de la génisse, et il les déposera hors du camp en lieu pur; et la synagogue des fils d'Israël veillera à ce qu'elle soit conservée; l'eau de l'aspersion est chose purifiante.
10 The man who gathers up the ashes of the cow must [also] wash his clothes, and he [also] will be unfit to do any more sacred work until that evening. That is a regulation that will never be changed. It must be obeyed by you Israeli people and by any foreigners who live among you.
L'homme donc qui aura recueilli les cendres de la génisse lavera ses vêtements, et il sera impur jusqu'au soir: c'est une loi perpétuelle pour vous et pour les prosélytes établis parmi vous.
11 “All those who touch a corpse will be unacceptable to me for seven days.
Celui qui aura touché un homme mort sera impur sept jours.
12 On the third day and on the seventh day [after touching a corpse], in order to become acceptable to me again, [they must have sprinkled on them] some of that water for removing the guilt of their sin. If they do not do that on both of those days, they will continue to be unacceptable to me.
Il sera purifié avec l'eau de l'aspersion, le troisième et le septième jour, et il sera pur; s'il n'est aspergé le troisième et le septième jour, il ne le sera point.
13 All those who touch a corpse, and do not perform in the correct way the ritual to become acceptable to me again, defile Yahweh’s Sacred Tent. They will no longer be permitted to live among the Israeli people. The water to remove the guilt of sin was not sprinkled on them, so they continue to be unacceptable to me.
Quiconque aura touché le cadavre d'un homme mort, et n'aura point été purifié, a souillé le tabernacle du Seigneur; il sera exterminé en Israël, parce qu'il n'aura pas été aspergé de l'eau de l'aspersion. Il est impur, et son impureté est encore en lui.
14 “There is another ritual that must be performed when someone dies inside a tent. All those who were inside that tent when that person died or who enter that tent will be unacceptable to me for seven days.
Autre loi: Si un homme est mort dans une maison, quiconque entrera dans la maison et tout ce que la maison renferme seront impurs sept jours.
15 Any jars that are inside that tent that are not covered are not permitted to be used.
Tout vase ouvert qui n'aura pas de couvercle attaché sera impur.
16 If someone who is out in a field touches the corpse of someone who was murdered, or who died from natural causes, or if someone touches a bone from some human or touches a grave, that person will be unacceptable to me for seven days.
Quiconque aura touché, sur le lieu d'un meurtre, soit un cadavre, soit des ossements humains, soit un sépulcre, sera impur sept jours.
17 “For someone like that to become acceptable to me again, some of the ashes from [the cow] that was burned must be taken and put in a jar. Then some fresh water must be poured over the ashes.
On prendra pour l'impur des cendres de la génisse brûlée pour la purification, et on répandra sur elles de l'eau vive en un vase.
18 Then someone who is still acceptable to me must take a stalk of [a plant named] hyssop and dip it into the water. Then that person must sprinkle some of the water on the tent where that person died, on the things that are in the tent, and on the people who were in the tent. He must also sprinkle some of that water on any person who touched a human bone or who touched a person who died, or who touched a grave.
Ensuite un homme pur prendra de l'hysope, il la trempera dans l'eau, et il en aspergera soit la maison, les meubles, les âmes qui s'y trouvent, soit l'homme qui aura touché les ossements humains, ou le champ du meurtre, ou le mort, ou la sépulture.
19 On the third day and on the seventh day after that, the person who is acceptable to me must sprinkle some of that water on those who have become unacceptable to me. On the seventh day, the people who are performing that ritual to become acceptable to me again must wash their clothes and bathe. If they do that, on that evening they will become acceptable to me again.
Et l'homme pur aspergera l'impur, le troisième et le septième jour, et celui-ci sera purifié le septième jour; alors, il lavera ses vêtements, il se lavera avec de l'eau, et il sera impur jusqu'au soir.
20 “If those who have become unacceptable to me do not become acceptable to me again by doing this, they will no longer be permitted to live among the Israeli people, because they have defiled my Sacred Tent. They did not sprinkle on themselves the water that removes the guilt of their sins, so they remain unacceptable to me.
L'homme qui aura été souillé, et n'aura pas été purifié sera exterminé du milieu du peuple, parce qu'il aura souillé les choses saintes du Seigneur, et qu'il n'aura pas été aspergé de l'eau de l'aspersion; il est impur.
21 That is a law for the Israeli people that will never be changed. Those who sprinkle that water on themselves must then wash their clothes. And anyone who touches that water which removes guilt for sins will remain unacceptable to God until that evening.
Ce sera pour vous une loi perpétuelle, et celui qui aspergera avec l'eau de l'aspersion lavera ses vêtements, et celui qui aura touché l'eau de l'aspersion sera impur jusqu'au soir.
22 “If someone touches a thing or a person that has become unacceptable to me, that person will remain unacceptable to me until that evening.”
Tout ce qu'aura touché un homme impur sera également impur, et celui qui touchera une de ces choses sera impur jusqu'au soir.
