Lévitique 21
1 Et l’Éternel dit à Moïse: Parle aux sacrificateurs, fils d’Aaron, et dis-leur: Que le sacrificateur ne se rende pas impur parmi ses peuples pour un mort,
Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
2 excepté pour son proche parent, pour sa mère, et pour son père, et pour son fils, et pour sa fille, et pour son frère;
‘You priests must not cause yourselves to become unfit to do my work by [touching] corpses. Priests are permitted to touch only the corpses of close relatives, such as the priest’s mother or father or his son or daughter or his brother.
3 et pour sa sœur vierge qui lui est proche, et qui n’aura pas été mariée, pour elle il se rendra impur.
Priests are also permitted to touch the corpse of a sister if she is not married, because she has no husband [to bury her body].
4 Il ne se rendra pas impur comme chef parmi son peuple, pour se profaner.
Priests must not cause themselves to become unfit to do my work [DOU] by [touching corpses of] people who were married to one of their close relatives.
5 Ils ne se feront point de place chauve sur leur tête, et ils ne raseront pas les coins de leur barbe ni ne se feront d’incisions dans leur chair.
You priests must not shave your heads or shave the edges of your beards or cut your bodies [to show that you are mourning for someone who has died].
6 Ils seront saints, [consacrés] à leur Dieu, et ils ne profaneront pas le nom de leur Dieu, car ils présentent les sacrifices de l’Éternel faits par feu, le pain de leur Dieu; et ils seront saints.
You must act in ways that I, your God, consider to be holy, and not disgrace my name/reputation. You are the ones who present to me the offerings that are burned. [It is as though] those offerings are food for me, your God; so you must act in ways that are holy.
7 Ils ne prendront point pour femme une prostituée ou une femme déshonorée; et ils ne prendront pas une femme répudiée par son mari, car le sacrificateur est saint, [consacré] à son Dieu.
You priests must not marry women who have been prostitutes or who have been divorced from their husbands, because you priests are (set apart for me/holy).
8 Et tu le tiendras pour saint, car il présente le pain de ton Dieu. Il te sera saint, car je suis saint, moi, l’Éternel qui vous sanctifie.
You must consider that you are holy, because you offer food to me, your God. Consider yourselves to be holy because I, Yahweh, [the one who caused you to be priests and] the one who enables you to be holy, am holy.
9 Et si la fille d’un sacrificateur se profane en se prostituant, elle profane son père; elle sera brûlée au feu.
If a priest’s daughter disgraces herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; and she must be killed by being burned in a fire.
10 Et le grand sacrificateur d’entre ses frères, sur la tête duquel l’huile de l’onction aura été versée et qui aura été consacré pour revêtir les [saints] vêtements, ne découvrira pas sa tête et ne déchirera pas ses vêtements.
The Supreme Priest is the one among his relatives who has been [appointed for that work] by having his head anointed with olive oil. He is also the one who has been appointed to wear the special garments that priests wear. He must not allow the hair on his [head] to remain uncombed, and he must not tear his clothes [when he is mourning for someone].
11 Il n’ira vers aucune personne morte; il ne se rendra impur ni pour son père, ni pour sa mère;
He must not enter some place where there is a corpse. He must not do that and cause himself to become unfit for his work, even if it is his father or his mother who has died.
12 et il ne sortira pas du sanctuaire, et ne profanera pas le sanctuaire de son Dieu; car la consécration de l’huile de l’onction de son Dieu est sur lui. Moi, je suis l’Éternel.
He must not leave the Sacred Tent [to join those who are mourning], because he would cause himself to become unfit for his work and would also defile/desecrate the Sacred Tent. He must not leave the Sacred Tent [at that time], because by being anointed with olive oil he has been (appointed/set apart) to serve his God [in the Sacred Tent]. I, Yahweh, [am the one who am commanding this].
13 Et il prendra pour femme une vierge.
Women whom you priests marry must be virgins.
14 Une veuve, ou une répudiée, ou une femme déshonorée, une prostituée, il ne les prendra point; mais il prendra pour femme une vierge d’entre ses peuples.
You priests must not marry widows or prostitutes or divorced women, because if you did that, [if you later have] sons, they would not be acceptable to be priests among your people. You must marry only virgins from among your own people. I am Yahweh, who sets priests apart to be holy.’”
15 Et il ne profanera pas sa semence parmi ses peuples, car moi, je suis l’Éternel qui le sanctifie.
16 Et l’Éternel parla à Moïse, disant:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
17 Parle à Aaron, en disant: Aucun homme de ta semence, en ses générations, qui a quelque défaut corporel, ne s’approchera pour présenter le pain de son Dieu;
“Say this to Aaron: 'For all future time, none of your descendants who has any defects [on his body] will be allowed to come near [the altar] to offer [sacrifices to me which will be like] [MET] my food:
18 car quiconque a un défaut corporel ne s’approchera pas: l’homme aveugle, ou boiteux, ou camus, ou qui a l’un de ses membres plus long que l’autre;
No one who is blind or lame or deformed, or whose [face is] disfigured,
19 ou l’homme qui a une fracture au pied ou une fracture à la main;
no man with a crippled foot or a crippled hand,
20 ou celui qui est bossu, ou grêle, ou qui a une tache à l’œil, ou qui a une gale, ou une dartre, ou qui a les testicules écrasés.
no man who is a hunchback or a dwarf, no man whose eyes are defective, no man who has a skin disease [DOU] or whose testicles have been damaged is allowed to brings sacrifices.
21 Nul homme de la semence d’Aaron, le sacrificateur, en qui il y aura quelque défaut corporel, ne s’approchera pour présenter les sacrifices de l’Éternel faits par feu; il y a en lui un défaut corporel: il ne s’approchera pas pour présenter le pain de son Dieu.
No descendant of Aaron, the [first Supreme] Priest, who has any defect is allowed to come to the altar to offer to me, his God, sacrifices that will be burned.
22 Il mangera du pain de son Dieu, des choses très saintes et des choses saintes;
Priests who have defects are permitted to eat the various kinds of holy food offered to me.
23 seulement il n’entrera pas vers le voile, et ne s’approchera pas de l’autel, car il y a en lui un défaut corporel, et il ne profanera pas mes sanctuaires; car moi, je suis l’Éternel qui les sanctifie.
But because of their defects, they must not go near the curtain [in the Sacred Tent] or near the altar, because if they did that, they would desecrate my Sacred Tent. I am Yahweh, the one who sets those places apart as being holy.'”
24 Moïse parla ainsi à Aaron et à ses fils, et à tous les fils d’Israël.
So Moses/I told this to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israeli people.
