Deutéronome 26

1 Et quand tu seras entré dans le pays que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, te donne en héritage, et que tu le posséderas, et y habiteras,

“After you occupy the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, and you (have settled/are living) there,

2 alors tu prendras des prémices de tous les fruits de la terre, que tu tireras de ton pays que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, te donne, et tu les mettras dans une corbeille, et tu iras au lieu que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, aura choisi pour y faire habiter son nom;

[each of] you must take some of the first crops that you harvest, put them in a basket, and take them to the place that Yahweh will have chosen for you to worship [MTY] there.

3 et tu viendras vers le sacrificateur qu’il y aura en ces jours-là, et tu lui diras: Je déclare aujourd’hui à l’Éternel, ton Dieu, que je suis arrivé dans le pays que l’Éternel a juré à nos pères de nous donner.

Go to the Supreme Priest who is serving at that time and say to him, ‘[By giving you this first part of my harvest] today, I am declaring to Yahweh our God that I have [picked it in] the land that he vowed to our ancestors to give to us.’

4 Et le sacrificateur prendra la corbeille de ta main, et la posera devant l’autel de l’Éternel, ton Dieu.

Then the priest must take the basket of food from your hand and put it on the altar where sacrifices are offered to Yahweh our God.

5 Et tu prendras la parole, et tu diras devant l’Éternel, ton Dieu: Mon père était un Araméen qui périssait, et il descendit en Égypte avec peu de gens, et il y séjourna, et y devint une nation grande, forte, et nombreuse.

Then in Yahweh’s presence you must say this: ‘My ancestor [Jacob] was a man from Aram/Syria who was continually wandering [from one place to another]. He took his family to Egypt. They were a small group [when they went there], but they lived there and their descendants became a very large/populous [DOU] and powerful nation.

6 Et les Égyptiens nous maltraitèrent, et nous humilièrent, et nous imposèrent un dur service;

Then the people of Egypt treated them very harshly [DOU], and they forced them to become their slaves and to work very hard.

7 et nous avons crié à l’Éternel, le Dieu de nos pères, et l’Éternel entendit notre cri, et vit notre humiliation, et notre labeur, et notre oppression;

Then our ancestors cried out to you, Yahweh our God, and you heard them. You saw that they were suffering, and that they were forced to work very hard, and were being oppressed.

8 et l’Éternel nous fit sortir d’Égypte à main forte, et à bras étendu, et avec une grande terreur, et avec des signes et des prodiges;

Then by your great power [MTY] and by performing many kinds of miracles [DOU], and other terrifying things, you brought them out of Egypt.

9 et il nous a fait entrer dans ce lieu-ci, et nous a donné ce pays, pays ruisselant de lait et de miel.

You brought us to this land and gave it to us, a land that is very fertile [IDM].

10 Et maintenant, voici, j’ai apporté les prémices du fruit de la terre que tu m’as donnée, ô Éternel! Et tu les poseras devant l’Éternel, ton Dieu, et tu te prosterneras devant l’Éternel, ton Dieu.

So now, Yahweh, I have brought to you the first part of the harvest from the land that I received.’ Then you must set the basket down in Yahweh’s presence and worship him there.

11 Et tu te réjouiras de tout le bien que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, t’aura donné, et à ta maison, toi et le Lévite et l’étranger qui est au milieu de toi.

And you must celebrate [by eating a meal together to thank] Yahweh our God for all the good things that he has given to you and to your family. And you must invite the descendants of Levi and the foreigners who are living among you to also rejoice [and eat] with you.

12 Quand tu auras achevé de lever toute la dîme de ta récolte, dans la troisième année, qui est l’année de la dîme, tu la donneras au Lévite, à l’étranger, à l’orphelin, et à la veuve; et ils la mangeront dans tes portes et seront rassasiés.

Every third year, you must bring to the descendants of Levi and to the foreigners [who are living among you] and the orphans and the widows (a tithe/10 percent) of your crops, in order that in every town they will have plenty to eat.

13 Et tu diras devant l’Éternel, ton Dieu: J’ai emporté de ma maison les choses saintes, et je les ai aussi données au Lévite, et à l’étranger, à l’orphelin, et à la veuve, selon tout ton commandement que tu m’as commandé; je n’ai transgressé aucun de tes commandements, ni ne les ai oubliés.

Then you must say to Yahweh, ‘I have brought to you, from my house, all of the sacred tithe [from my harvest this year]. I am giving it to the descendants of Levi, to the foreigners, the orphans, and the widows, as you commanded us to do. I have not disobeyed any of your commands [about the tithes], and I have not forgotten any of your commands [about tithes].

14 Je n’ai pas mangé de ces choses dans mon affliction, et je n’en ai rien emporté quand j’étais impur, et n’en ai point donné pour un mort; j’ai écouté la voix de l’Éternel, mon Dieu: j’ai fait selon tout ce que tu m’as commandé.

[I declare that] I have not eaten any food from the tithe while I was mourning [for someone who died]. And I have not touched any of it while I was unacceptable to you; I have not offered any of it to [spirits of] dead people. Yahweh, I have obeyed you and done everything that you have commanded us [concerning the tithe].

15 Regarde de ta sainte demeure, des cieux, et bénis ton peuple Israël et la terre que tu nous as donnée, comme tu avais juré à nos pères, un pays ruisselant de lait et de miel.

So [please] look down from your holy place in heaven, and bless us, your Israeli people. Also bless this very fertile [IDM] land which you have given to us, which is what you promised our ancestors that you would do.’

16 Aujourd’hui l’Éternel, ton Dieu, te commande de pratiquer ces statuts et ces ordonnances; et tu les garderas et tu les feras de tout ton cœur et de toute ton âme.

Today Yahweh our God is commanding you to obey all these rules and regulations. So obey them faithfully, with your entire inner being [DOU].

17 Tu as fait promettre aujourd’hui à l’Éternel qu’il sera ton Dieu, pour que tu marches dans ses voies, et que tu gardes ses statuts, et ses commandements, et ses ordonnances, et que tu écoutes sa voix;

Today you have declared that Yahweh is your God, and that you will conduct your lives as he wants you to do, and that you will obey all his commands and rules and regulations, and that you will do all that he tells you to do.

18 et l’Éternel t’a fait promettre aujourd’hui que tu seras pour lui un peuple qui lui appartienne en propre, comme il t’a dit, et que tu garderas tous ses commandements,

And today Yahweh has declared that you are his people, which is what he promised that you would be, and he commands you to obey all his commands.

19 pour qu’il te place très haut en louange et en renommée et en beauté, au-dessus de toutes les nations qu’il a faites; et que tu seras un peuple saint, [consacré] à l’Éternel, ton Dieu, comme il l’a dit.

If you do that, he will cause you to become greater than any other nation that he has established, and he will enable you to praise him and honor him [DOU]. You will truly belong to Yahweh our God, which is what he has promised.”