Nombres 16
1 Coré, fils d’Isaar, fils de Caath, fils de Lévi, se fit des partisans, avec Dathan et Abiron, fils d’Eliab, et Hon, fils de Phéleth, ceux-ci, fils de Ruben,
One day Korah, who was the son of Izhar and a descendant of Levi’s son Kohath, conspired with Dathan and Abiram, who were the sons of Eliab, and On, who was the son of Peleth. Those three men were from the tribe of Reuben.
2 et ils se soulevèrent en présence de Moïse, ayant avec eux deux cent cinquante hommes des enfants d’Israël, princes de l’assemblée, appelés aux conseils et gens de renom.
Korah and those other three men incited 250 other people who were leaders among the Israeli people to join them in rebelling against Moses/me.
3 Ils s’attroupèrent contre Moïse et Aaron, et leur dirent: « C’en est assez! car toute l’assemblée, tous sont saints, et Yahweh est au milieu d’eux. Pourquoi vous élevez-vous au-dessus de l’assemblée de Yahweh? »
They came together to criticize Aaron and Moses/me. They said to them/us, “You two are using more [authority] than you should! Yahweh has set apart all of us Israeli people, and he is with/helping all of us. So why do you act as though you are more important than the rest of us people who belong to Yahweh [RHQ]?”
4 Quand Moïse entendit cela, il tomba sur son visage.
When Moses/I heard what they were saying, he/I prostrated himself/myself on the ground.
5 Il parla à Coré et à toute sa troupe en disant: « Demain, Yahweh fera connaître celui qui est à lui et qui est saint, et il le fera approcher de lui; celui qu’il aura choisi, il le fera approcher de lui.
Then he/I said to Korah and those [Israeli leaders] who were with Korah, “Tomorrow morning Yahweh will show us whom he has chosen to be his [priest], and who is holy and allowed to come near to him. Yahweh will permit [only] those whom he chooses to come into his presence.
6 Faites ceci: Prenez des encensoirs, Coré et toute sa troupe.
So Korah, tomorrow you and those who are with you must prepare your pans to burn incense.
7 Demain, mettez-y du feu, et jetez dessus du parfum devant Yahweh; celui que Yahweh choisira, c’est lui qui est saint. C’en est assez, enfants de Lévi. »
Then you must light a fire in them and burn the incense in the presence of Yahweh. Then we will see which one of us Yahweh has chosen to be his holy servant. It is you men who are descendants of Levi who are trying to use more [authority] than you should!”
8 Moïse dit à Coré: « Ecoutez donc, enfants de Lévi.
Then Moses/I spoke again to Korah. He/I said, “You men who are descendants of Levi, listen to me!
9 Est-ce trop peu pour vous que le Dieu d’Israël vous ait séparés de l’assemblée d’Israël en vous faisant approcher de lui, pour faire le service de la Demeure de Yahweh, et pour vous tenir devant l’assemblée pour faire son service?
The God of us Israelis has chosen all of you to be close to him in order that you can work for him at his Sacred Tent and serve the people. (Is that unimportant/Does that mean nothing) to you [RHQ]?
10 Il t’a fait approcher de lui, toi et tous tes frères, les enfants de Lévi, avec toi, et vous ambitionnez encore le sacerdoce!
Yahweh has brought you, [Korah], and your fellow descendants of Levi, near to himself. Now are you demanding to become priests also?
11 C’est pour cela que toi et toute ta troupe, vous vous assemblez contre Yahweh! Et Aaron, qui est-il, pour que vous murmuriez contre lui? »
It is really Yahweh against whom you and your fellow descendants of Levi are rebelling. Aaron is not the one about whom you are really complaining [RHQ].”
12 Moïse fit appeler Dathan et Abiron, fils d’Eliab; et ils dirent: « Nous ne monterons pas.
Then Moses/I summoned Dathan and Abiram, but [they refused to come]. They [sent a message] saying, “We will not come to you!
13 N’est-ce pas assez de nous avoir fait sortir d’un pays où coulent le lait et le miel pour nous faire mourir au désert, que tu t’ériges en maître sur nous?
You brought us out of Egypt, which was a very fertile [IDM] land, in order to cause us to die here in this desert. That was bad. But now you are also trying to boss us [RHQ], and that is worse.
14 Ah! Ce n’est pas dans un pays où coulent le lait et le miel que tu nous as conduits; ce ne sont pas des champs et des vignes que tu nous as donnés en possession! Penses-tu crever les yeux de ces gens? Nous ne monterons pas! »
You have not given us a new land to live in, a land that has good fields and vineyards. You are only trying to [RHQ] trick these people. So we will not come to you.”
15 Moïse, très irrité, dit à Yahweh: « N’ayez pas égard à leur oblation. Je ne leur ai pas même pris un âne, et je n’ai fait de mal à aucun d’eux. »
Then Moses/I became very angry. He/I said to Yahweh, “Do not accept the grain offerings that they have brought. I have not taken anything from them, not even one donkey, and I have never done anything wrong to them, [so they have no reason to complain about me].”
16 Moïse dit à Coré: « Toi et toute ta troupe, trouvez-vous demain devant Yahweh, toi et eux, avec Aaron.
Then Moses/I said to Korah, “You and all those who are with you must come here tomorrow and stand in front of Yahweh. Aaron will also be here.
17 Prenez chacun votre encensoir, mettez-y du parfum et présentez chacun votre encensoir devant Yahweh: deux cent cinquante encensoirs; toi aussi et Aaron, vous prendrez chacun votre encensoir. »
You and all the 250 men who are with you must each take a pan in which to burn incense, and put incense in it, to [burn it to be] an offering to Yahweh. Aaron will do the same thing.”
18 Ils prirent chacun leur encensoir, y mirent du feu et y jetèrent du parfum, et ils se tinrent à l’entrée de la tente de réunion, avec Moïse et Aaron.
So [the next day] each of those men got a pan to burn incense. They put in it incense and hot coals to light it, and then they all stood at the entrance of the Sacred Tent with Aaron and Moses/me.
19 Coré avait convoqué toute l’assemblée contre Moïse et Aaron, à l’entrée de la tente de réunion. Alors la gloire de Yahweh apparut à toute l’assemblée.
Then Korah summoned all the people who supported him and who were against Moses/me, and they also gathered at the entrance of the tent. Then the glory of Yahweh appeared to all of them/us,
20 Et Yahweh parla à Moïse et à Aaron, en disant:
and Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses/me,
21 « Séparez-vous du milieu de cette assemblée, et je les consumerai en un instant. »
“Get away from all these people, in order that I can get rid of them immediately!”
22 Et ils tombèrent sur leur visage, et dirent: « O Dieu, Dieu des esprits de toute chair, un seul homme a péché, et tu t’irriterais contre toute l’assemblée! »
But Aaron and Moses/I prostrated themselves/ourselves on the ground. We pleaded with Yahweh, saying, “God, you are the one who caused all these people to live [MTY]. Only one of these men has sinned; so, (is it right for you to be angry with all the people?/it is not right for you to be angry with all the people!) [RHQ]”
23 Yahweh parla à Moïse, en disant:
Yahweh said to Moses/me,
24 « Parle à l’assemblée et dis: Ecartez-vous tout à l’entour de la demeure de Coré, de Dathan et d’Abiron. »
“[Okay], but tell all the people to get away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”
25 Moïse se leva et alla vers Dathan et Abiron, et des anciens d’Israël allèrent après lui.
So Moses/I stood up and went to the tents of Dathan and Abiram. The Israeli leaders followed him/me.
26 Il parla à l’assemblée, en disant: « Eloignez-vous des tentes de ces méchants hommes, et ne touchez à rien de ce qui leur appartient, de peur que vous ne périssiez, enveloppés dans tous leurs péchés. »
He/I told the people, “Get away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything that belongs to them! If you touch anything, you will die because of their sins!”
27 Ils s’écartèrent tout à l’entour de la demeure de Coré, de Dathan et d’Abiron. Alors Dathan et Abiron étant sortis se tinrent à l’entrée de leurs tentes, avec leurs femmes, leurs fils et leurs petits enfants.
So all the people moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram came out of their tents with their wives and children and babies, and stood at the entrances of their tents.
28 Moïse dit: « Vous connaîtrez à ceci que Yahweh m’a envoyé pour faire toutes ces œuvres, et que je n’agis pas de moi-même:
Then Moses/I said, “I was not the one who decided to do all these things that I have done. It was Yahweh who [chose me and] sent me to do them. And now he will prove that to you.
29 Si ces gens meurent comme meurent tous les hommes, et si leur sort est celui de tous les hommes, ce n’est pas Yahweh qui m’a envoyé;
If these men die in a normal way, then it will be clear that Yahweh did not choose me.
30 mais si Yahweh fait une chose inouïe, si la terre ouvre sa bouche et les engloutit, eux et tout ce qui leur appartient, et qu’ils descendent vivants dans le séjour des morts, vous saurez que ces gens ont méprisé Yahweh. » (Sheol h7585)
But if Yahweh does something that has never happened before, if he causes the ground [that is under their feet] to open up and swallow these men [and their families] and all their possessions, and they fall into the opening and are buried while they are still alive, then you will know that these men have insulted Yahweh.” (Sheol h7585)
31 Comme il achevait de prononcer toutes ces paroles, le sol qui était sous eux se fendit.
As soon as Moses/I said this, the ground split open beneath those men.
32 La terre ouvrit sa bouche et les engloutit, eux et leurs familles, avec tous les gens de Coré et tous leurs biens.
It swallowed them and their families and all those who were standing there with Korah and all of their possessions.
33 Ils descendirent vivants dans le séjour des morts, eux et tout ce qui leur appartenait; et la terre les recouvrit, et ils disparurent du milieu de l’assemblée. (Sheol h7585)
They fell into the opening in the ground while they were still alive, and all their possessions fell into the opening also. They disappeared, and the ground closed back up again. (Sheol h7585)
34 Tout Israël, qui était autour d’eux, s’enfuit à leur cri; car ils disaient: « Fuyons, de peur que la terre ne nous engloutisse! »
They screamed as they fell, and all the people who were standing nearby heard them scream. The people [were terrified and] cried out as they ran away, saying, “[We do not want] the ground to swallow us also!”
35 Un feu sortit d’auprès de Yahweh et consuma les deux cent cinquante hommes qui offraient le parfum.
And then a fire from Yahweh came down [from the sky] and burned up the 250 men who were burning the incense!
36 Yahweh parla à Moïse, en disant:
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me,
37 « Dis à Eléazar, fils d’Aaron, le prêtre, de retirer les encensoirs du milieu de l’embrasement et d’en répandre au loin le feu, car ils sont sanctifiés.
“Tell Aaron’s son Eleazar to take the pans that had incense in them away from the fire and to scatter the burning coals. The pans that those men [were carrying] are (holy/dedicated to me) [because they burned incense to me in them].
38 Des encensoirs de ces gens qui ont péché contre leur propre vie, qu’on fasse des lames étendues, pour en recouvrir l’autel des holocaustes; car on les a présentés devant Yahweh, et ils sont devenus saints; ils serviront de signe aux enfants d’Israël. »
Those men have now died because of their sin; so [Eleazar must] take their pans and hammer the metal to make it become very thin. He must make a covering for the altar with that metal. Those pans were used to offer incense to me, so they are (holy/dedicated to me). [What happened to] those pans will now warn the Israeli people.”
39 Le prêtre Eléazar prit les encensoirs d’airain qu’avaient présentés les hommes consumés par le feu, et il en fit des lames pour couvrir l’autel.
So Eleazar the priest collected the 250 pans for burning incense that had been used by the men who died in the fire. He hammered the pans very thin to make a covering for the altar, as Yahweh told Moses/me should be done.
40 C’est un mémorial pour les enfants d’Israël, afin qu’aucun étranger, qui n’est pas de la race d’Aaron, ne s’approche pour offrir du parfum devant Yahweh, et ne soit comme Coré et comme sa troupe, selon ce que Yahweh lui avait déclaré par Moïse.
That warned the Israeli people that only those who were descendants of Aaron were permitted to burn incense for an offering to Yahweh. If anyone else did that, the same thing that happened to Korah and those who were with him would happen to them.
41 Le lendemain, toute l’assemblée des enfants d’Israël murmura contre Moïse et Aaron, en disant: « Vous avez fait mourir le peuple de Yahweh. »
But the following morning, all the Israeli people started to complain against Aaron and Moses/me, saying “You have killed many people who belonged to Yahweh!”
42 Comme l’assemblée s’attroupait contre Moïse et Aaron, ceux-ci se tournèrent vers la tente de réunion, et voici que la nuée la couvrit, et que la gloire de Yahweh apparut.
When all the people gathered together to protest about what Aaron and Moses/I had done, they looked at the Sacred Tent and saw that the sacred cloud had covered it, and the glory of Yahweh had appeared.
43 Moïse et Aaron s’avancèrent devant la tente de réunion,
Aaron and Moses/I went and stood in front of the Sacred Tent.
44 et Yahweh parla à Moïse en disant:
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me,
45 « Eloignez-vous du milieu de cette assemblée, et je les consumerai en un instant. » Ils tombèrent sur leur visage,
“Get away from these people, in order that I can get rid of them immediately [without injuring you two]!” But Aaron and Moses/I prostrated themselves/ourselves on the ground [and prayed].
46 et Moïse dit à Aaron: « Prends l’encensoir, et mets-y du feu de dessus l’autel, jettes-y du parfum, va promptement vers l’assemblée, et fais pour eux l’expiation; car la colère est sortie de devant Yahweh; la plaie commence. »
Moses/I said to Aaron, “Quickly take another pan and put in it some burning/hot coals from the altar. Put incense in the pan, and carry it out among the people to atone for the sins of the people. Yahweh is very angry with them, and [I know that] a (severe plague/bad sickness) has already started among them.”
47 Aaron prit l’encensoir, comme Moïse avait dit, et courut au milieu de l’assemblée; et voici que la plaie commençait parmi le peuple. Ayant mis le parfum, il fit l’expiation pour le peuple.
So Aaron did what Moses/I told him. He took the burning incense out among the people. The plague had already started to strike the people, but Aaron continued to burn the incense so that God would forgive them for the sins they had committed.
48 Il se plaça entre les morts et les vivants, et la plaie fut arrêtée.
He stood between the people who had already died and those who were still alive, and then the plague stopped.
49 Quatorze mille sept cents personnes moururent par cette plaie, outre ceux qui étaient morts à cause de Coré.
But 14,700 people had already died from that plague/sickness, in addition to the people who died with Korah.
50 Aaron retourna auprès de Moïse, à l’entrée de la tente de réunion, et la plaie était arrêtée.
Then after the plague had ended, Aaron and Moses/I returned to the entrance of the Sacred Tent.
