Exode 23
1 Tu ne feras pas courir de faux bruits. Tu ne donneras pas la main au méchant, pour être un témoin inique.
“Do not tell to others (false rumors/untrue reports) about other people. Do not help someone who is guilty by (testifying falsely/lying) [about what happened].
2 Tu n’iras pas après la foule, pour mal faire; et tu ne répondras pas dans un procès en penchant du côté de la foule, pour faire fléchir [le jugement].
Do not join a group of people who are planning to do something evil. Do not testify the way the [crowd wants you to], if that will prevent [the judge from deciding the case] justly/fairly.
3 Et tu ne favoriseras pas le pauvre dans son procès.
When a poor person is on trial, do not [testify in] his favor [just] because he is poor [and you feel sorry for him].
4 Si tu rencontres le bœuf de ton ennemi, ou son âne, égaré, tu ne manqueras pas de le lui ramener.
If you see someone’s bull or donkey when it is wandering away [loose], take it back to [its owner, even if the owner] is your enemy.
5 Si tu vois l’âne de celui qui te hait couché sous son fardeau, tu te garderas de l’abandonner; tu ne manqueras pas de le délier avec lui.
If you see someone’s donkey that has fallen down [because of its heavy load], help the owner to get the donkey up again, [even if] he is someone who hates you. Do not just walk away [without helping him].
6 Tu ne feras pas fléchir le jugement de ton indigent dans son procès.
Decide the cases of poor people who are on trial [as] fairly [as you decide the cases of other people].
7 Tu t’éloigneras de la parole de mensonge, et tu ne tueras pas l’innocent et le juste; car je ne justifierai pas le méchant.
Do not accuse people falsely. Do not decide that innocent and righteous [DOU] people should be executed, because I will (punish/not forgive) people who do such an evil thing.
8 Et tu ne recevras pas de présent; car le présent aveugle ceux qui voient clair, et pervertit les paroles des justes.
Do not accept money that is a bribe, because officials who accept bribes are not able to [MTY] decide what is right to do, and they do not allow innocent people to be treated fairly.
9 Tu n’opprimeras pas l’étranger; car vous savez ce qu’est le cœur d’un étranger, car vous avez été étrangers dans le pays d’Égypte.
Do not mistreat foreigners [who live among you]. You know [how people often treat] foreigners, because the Egyptians [did not treat you well when] you were foreigners there.
10 Pendant six années tu sèmeras ta terre, et tu en recueilleras le rapport;
Plant [seeds] in your ground and gather the harvest for six years.
11 et la septième, tu la laisseras en jachère, et tu la laisseras inculte, et les indigents de ton peuple en mangeront, et ce qu’ils laisseront de reste, les bêtes des champs le mangeront. Tu en feras de même pour ta vigne et pour ton olivier.
But during the seventh year you must not plant anything. [If things grow without your planting seeds], allow poor people [to harvest and] eat the crops. If there are still crops (left over/that they do not harvest), allow wild animals to eat them. Do the same thing with your grapevines/vineyards and your olive trees.
12 – Six jours tu feras ton ouvrage, et le septième jour tu te reposeras, afin que ton bœuf et ton âne aient du repos, et que le fils de ta servante et l’étranger respirent.
[You may] work for six days [each week], but on the seventh day you must rest [and not work]. And on the seventh day you must allow your work animals and your slaves and the foreigners [who live among you] also [to rest and] be refreshed.
13 Vous prendrez garde à tout ce que je vous ai dit; et vous ne mentionnerez pas le nom d’autres dieux; on ne l’entendra point de ta bouche.
Make certain that you obey everything that I have commanded [you to do]. Do not pray to [MTY] other gods. Do not even mention their names.”
14 Trois fois l’an tu me célébreras une fête.
“Every year you must celebrate three festivals to [honor] me.
15 – Tu garderas la fête des pains sans levain; pendant sept jours, au temps fixé du mois d’Abib, tu mangeras des pains sans levain, comme je t’ai commandé, car en ce [mois] tu es sorti d’Égypte; et on ne paraîtra pas à vide devant ma face;
[The first one] is the Festival of Bread That Has No Yeast. Celebrate it in the month [that is named] Abib. That is the month in which you left Egypt. Celebrate it in the way that I commanded you. And always bring [LIT] an offering when you come to worship me.
16 – et la fête de la moisson des premiers fruits de tes travaux, de ce que tu auras semé dans le champ; – et la fête de la récolte, à la fin de l’année, quand tu recueilleras du champ [les fruits de] tes travaux.
The second one is the Festival of Harvesting. During that festival you must offer to me the first parts/harvest of your crops that grow from the seeds that you planted. The third one is the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters. That will be after you finish harvesting your grain and grapes and fruit.
17 – Trois fois l’an tous tes mâles paraîtront devant la face du Seigneur, l’Éternel.
Every year, at each of these times, all the men must gather together to worship me, Yahweh God.
18 Tu n’offriras point le sang de mon sacrifice avec du pain levé; et la graisse de ma fête ne passera pas la nuit jusqu’au matin.
When you sacrifice an animal [and offer it] to me, you must not offer bread that has been baked with yeast. [When you] offer sacrifices, [burn] the fat [from the animals on that same day]. Do not allow any fat to remain until the next morning.
19 Tu apporteras à la maison de l’Éternel, ton Dieu, les prémices des premiers fruits de ta terre. – Tu ne cuiras pas le chevreau dans le lait de sa mère.
Each year, when you harvest your crops, bring to the place where you worship me, Yahweh God, the first part of what you harvest. When you kill a (young animal/kid [or lamb or calf)], do not [prepare to eat it by] boiling it in its mother’s milk.”
20 Voici, j’envoie un ange devant toi, pour te garder dans le chemin, et pour t’amener au lieu que j’ai préparé.
“Note this: I am going to send an angel ahead of you, to guard you as you travel and to bring you safely to the place that I have prepared [for you]. Pay attention to what he says and obey him. Do not rebel against him, because he will have my authority [MTY] and he will (punish/not forgive) [LIT] you if you rebel against him.
21 Prends garde à toi à cause de sa présence, et écoute sa voix; ne l’irrite pas; car il ne pardonnera point votre transgression, car mon nom est en lui.
22 Mais si tu écoutes attentivement sa voix, et si tu fais tout ce que je dirai, je serai l’ennemi de tes ennemis et l’adversaire de tes adversaires.
But if you pay attention to what he says and if you do all that I tell you [to do], I will fight strongly [DOU] against all of your enemies.
23 Car mon Ange ira devant toi, et t’amènera vers l’Amoréen, et le Héthien, et le Phérézien, et le Cananéen, le Hévien, et le Jébusien, et je les exterminerai.
My angel will go ahead of you, and will take you to where the Amor and Heth and Periz and Canaan and Hiv and Jebus people-groups live, and I will completely get rid of them.
24 Tu ne te prosterneras point devant leurs dieux, et tu ne les serviras point, et tu ne feras pas selon leurs œuvres; mais tu les détruiras absolument, et tu briseras entièrement leurs stèles.
Do not bow down before their gods/idols or worship them. And do not do the things [that they think that their gods want] them to do. Completely destroy their gods/idols, and smash to pieces their sacred stones.
25 Vous servirez l’Éternel, votre Dieu, et il bénira ton pain et tes eaux, et j’ôterai la maladie du milieu de toi.
You must worship me, Yahweh God. [If you do that], I will bless your (OR, bless [you by giving you]) food and water, and I will protect you from becoming sick.
26 Il n’y aura pas de femelle qui avorte, ou qui soit stérile dans ton pays; j’accomplirai le nombre de tes jours.
No women in your land will have (miscarriages/babies that will die after being born prematurely), and no women will be unable to become pregnant. And I will enable you to live a long time.
27 J’enverrai ma frayeur devant toi, et je mettrai en déroute tout peuple contre lequel tu iras, et je ferai que tous tes ennemis tourneront le dos devant toi.
I will cause the people who oppose you to become very afraid of me. I will cause the people whom you fight against to become very confused. And then I will cause them to turn around and run away from you.
28 Et j’enverrai des frelons devant toi, et ils chasseront le Hévien, le Cananéen et le Héthien de devant toi.
I will cause your enemies to become terrified. And I will expel the Hiv, Canaan, and Heth people-groups from your land.
29 Je ne les chasserai pas devant toi en une année, de peur que le pays ne devienne un désert et que les bêtes des champs ne se multiplient contre toi;
I will not expel [all of] them in less than one year. If I did that, your land would become deserted, and there would be very many wild animals ([that would attack you/you would not be able to control]).
30 je les chasserai peu à peu devant toi, jusqu’à ce que tu croisses en nombre, et que tu hérites le pays.
I will expel those people-groups slowly, a few at a time, until the number of your people increases and you are able to live everywhere in the land.
31 Et j’ai établi tes limites depuis la mer Rouge jusqu’à la mer des Philistins, et depuis le désert jusqu’au fleuve; car je livrerai entre tes mains les habitants du pays, et tu les chasseras de devant toi.
I will cause the borders of your land to extend from the (Red Sea/Gulf of Aqaba) [in the southeast] to the Mediterranean Sea [in the northwest], and from the [Sinai] Desert [in the southwest] to the [Euphrates] River [in the northeast of the country]. I will enable you [MTY] to expel the people who live there, so that you will expel them as you occupy more of the country.
32 Tu ne traiteras point alliance avec eux, ni avec leurs dieux.
You must not make any agreement/treaty with those people or with their gods.
33 Ils n’habiteront pas dans ton pays, de peur qu’ils ne te fassent pécher contre moi, car tu servirais leurs dieux; certainement ce serait un piège pour toi.
Do not allow [those people] to live in your land, in order that they do not cause you to sin against me. If you worship their gods, [you will not be able to escape from worshiping them and sinning against me, just like someone caught] in a trap [is unable to escape] [MET].”
