Deutéronome 18
1 Les prêtres lévitiques, la tribu entière de Lévi, n’auront ni part ni héritage avec Israël; ils se nourriront des sacrifices de Yahweh faits par le feu et de son héritage.
“The priests, who are all from the tribe of Levi, will not receive any land in Israel. Instead, they will receive some of the food that other people offer to be burned [on the altar to be sacrificed] to Yahweh and some of the other sacrifices that will be offered to Yahweh.
2 Ils n’auront pas d’héritage au milieu de leurs frères; Yahweh est leur héritage, comme il leur a dit.
They will not be allotted any land like the other tribes will be. What they will receive is the work/privilege of being Yahweh’s [priests], which is what he said that they should have.
3 Voici quel sera le droit des prêtres sur le peuple, sur ceux qui sacrifieront un bœuf ou une brebis: on donnera au prêtre l’épaule, les mâchoires et l’estomac.
“When the people bring an ox or a sheep to be sacrificed, they must give to the priests the shoulder, the cheeks/jaws, and the stomach of those animals.
4 Tu lui donneras les prémices de ton blé, de ton vin nouveau et de ton huile, et les prémices de la toison de tes brebis;
You must also give to them the first part of the grain that you [harvest], and the first part of the wine [that you make], and the first part of the [olive] oil [that you make], and the first part of the wool that you shear from your sheep.
5 car c’est lui que Yahweh, ton Dieu, a choisi d’entre toutes les tribus pour se tenir devant Yahweh et faire le service au nom de Yahweh, lui et ses fils, à toujours.
You must do this because Yahweh our God has chosen the tribe of Levi from all of your tribes, in order that men [from that tribe] would always be the priests who would serve him.
6 Si un lévite quitte l’une de tes villes, le lieu quelconque du territoire d’Israël où il demeure, pour venir, selon tout le désir de son âme, au lieu qu’aura choisi Yahweh,
“If any man from the tribe of Levi [who has been living] in one of the towns in Israel wants to come from there to the place of worship that Yahweh has chosen, [and start living there],
7 et qu’il fasse le service au nom de Yahweh, son Dieu, comme tous ses frères les lévites qui se tiennent là devant Yahweh,
he is permitted to serve Yahweh there as a priest, just like the other men from the tribe of Levi who have been serving there.
8 il aura pour sa nourriture une portion égale à la leur, indépendamment des produits de la vente de son patrimoine.
He must be given the same amount of food [that the other priests receive]. He is permitted to keep the money [that his relatives give him] for selling some of their possessions.
9 Quand tu seras entré dans le pays que te donne Yahweh, ton Dieu, tu n’apprendras pas à imiter les abominations de ces nations-là.
When you enter the land that Yahweh our God is giving you, you must not imitate the disgusting things that the people-groups who are there now do.
10 Qu’on ne trouve chez toi personne qui fasse passer par le feu son fils ou sa fille, qui s’adonne à la divination, au augures, aux superstitions et aux enchantements,
You must not sacrifice any of your children by burning them [on your altars]. Do not practice (divination/using supernatural power to reveal [what will happen in] the future). Do not do/practice (soothsaying/magic to find out what will happen in the future). Do not (interpret omens/say that because of something that you have seen you know what will happen). Do not practice sorcery/witchcraft. Do not practice (putting spells on people/saying things to cause bad things to happen to others).
11 qui ait recours aux charmes, qui consulte les évocateurs et les sorciers, et qui interroge les morts.
Do not try to talk with spirits of dead people. Do not do/practice magic.
12 Car tout homme qui fait ces choses est en abomination à Yahweh, et c’est à cause de ces abominations que Yahweh, ton Dieu, va chasser ces nations devant toi.
Yahweh hates people who do any of those disgusting things. And as you advance through that land, he is going to expel the people-groups because they do/practice those disgusting things.
13 Tu seras intègre avec Yahweh, ton Dieu.
But you must always avoid doing any of those things.
14 Car ces nations que tu vas chasser écoutent les augures et les devins; mais à toi, Yahweh, ton Dieu, ne le permet pas.
The people-groups that you are about to expel [from the land that you will occupy] (consult/seek advice from) soothsayers and those who practice divination. But as for you, Yahweh our God does not allow you to do that.
15 Yahweh, ton Dieu, te suscitera du milieu de toi, d’entre tes frères, un prophète tel que moi: vous l’écouterez.
[Some day] he will send from among you a prophet like me. [He is the one who will tell you what will happen in the future], and he is the one whom you must heed.
16 C’est ce que tu as demandé à Yahweh, ton Dieu, en Horeb, le jour de l’assemblée, en disant: « Que je n’entende plus la voix de Yahweh, mon Dieu, et que je ne voie plus ce grand feu, de peur de mourir. »
On the day that your ancestors were gathered at the bottom of Sinai Mountain, they pleaded with me saying, ‘We do not want Yahweh to speak [MTY] to us again, and we do not want to see this huge fire [that is burning on the mountain]!’ [Your ancestors said that because they were afraid] that they would die [if Yahweh spoke to them again].
17 Yahweh me dit: « Ce qu’ils ont dit est bien.
Then Yahweh said to me, ‘What they have said is true/wise.
18 Je leur susciterai du milieu de leurs frères un prophète tel que toi; je mettrai mes paroles dans sa bouche, et il leur dira tout ce que je lui commanderai.
So I will send from among them a prophet who will be like you. I will tell him what to say, and then he will tell people everything that I tell him to say.
19 Et si quelqu’un n’écoute pas mes paroles qu’il dira en mon nom, c’est moi qui lui en demanderai compte.
He will speak for me. And I will punish anyone who does not heed what he says.
20 Mais le prophète qui s’enorgueillira jusqu’à dire en mon nom une parole que je ne lui aurai pas commandé de dire, ou qui parlera au nom d’autres dieux, ce prophète-là mourra. »
But if any other [person says that he is a] prophet [and] dares to speak a message which he falsely says comes from me but which I did not tell him to speak, or if anyone who speaks a message that he says other gods [MTY] have revealed to him, he must be executed [for doing that].’
21 Que si tu dis dans ton cœur: « Comment reconnaîtrons-nous la parole que Yahweh n’aura pas dite? »...,
But if you say to yourself, ‘How can we know if a message [that someone tells us] does not come from Yahweh?’
22 quand le prophète aura parlé au nom de Yahweh, si ce qu’il a dit n’arrive pas et ne se réalise pas, c’est là la parole que Yahweh n’a pas dite; c’est par l’orgueil que le prophète l’a dite: tu n’auras pas peur de lui.
[The answer is that] when someone speaks a message [about what will happen in the future], a message that he says was revealed by Yahweh, if what he says does not happen, [you will know that] the message did not come from Yahweh. That person has wrongly claimed that it was revealed to him by Yahweh. So you do not need to be afraid of [anything that] he [says].”
