Nombres 19
1 Et l’Éternel parla à Moïse et à Aaron, disant:
And YHWH speaks to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
2 C’est ici le statut de la loi que l’Éternel a commandé, en disant: Parle aux fils d’Israël, et qu’ils t’amènent une génisse rousse, sans tare, qui n’ait aucun défaut corporel, [et] qui n’ait point porté le joug.
“This [is] a statute of the law which YHWH has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and they bring a red cow to you, a perfect one, in which there is no blemish, on which no yoke has gone up;
3 Et vous la donnerez à Éléazar, le sacrificateur, et il la mènera hors du camp, et on l’égorgera devant lui.
and you have given it to Eleazar the priest, and he has brought it out to the outside of the camp, and has slaughtered it before him.
4 Et Éléazar, le sacrificateur, prendra de son sang avec son doigt et fera aspersion de son sang, sept fois, droit devant la tente d’assignation;
And Eleazar the priest has taken of its blood with his finger, and has sprinkled [it] toward the front of the face of the Tent of Meeting from its blood seven times;
5 et on brûlera la génisse devant ses yeux: on brûlera sa peau, et sa chair, et son sang, avec sa fiente.
and [one] has burned the cow before his eyes; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, besides her dung, he burns;
6 Et le sacrificateur prendra du bois de cèdre, et de l’hysope, et de l’écarlate, et les jettera au milieu du feu où brûle la génisse.
and the priest has taken cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and has cast [them] into the midst of the burning of the cow;
7 Et le sacrificateur lavera ses vêtements et lavera sa chair dans l’eau; et après, il entrera dans le camp; et le sacrificateur sera impur jusqu’au soir.
and the priest has washed his garments, and has bathed his flesh with water, and afterward comes into the camp, and the priest is unclean until the evening;
8 Et celui qui l’aura brûlée lavera ses vêtements dans l’eau, et lavera sa chair dans l’eau; et il sera impur jusqu’au soir.
and he who is burning it washes his garments with water, and has bathed his flesh with water, and is unclean until the evening.
9 Et un homme pur ramassera la cendre de la génisse, et la déposera hors du camp en un lieu pur, et elle sera gardée pour l’assemblée des fils d’Israël comme eau de séparation: c’est une purification pour le péché.
And a clean man has gathered the ashes of the cow, and has placed [them] at the outside of the camp in a clean place, and it has become a charge for the congregation of the sons of Israel for waters of separation—it [is for] sin;
10 Et celui qui aura ramassé la cendre de la génisse lavera ses vêtements, et sera impur jusqu’au soir. Ce sera un statut perpétuel pour les fils d’Israël et pour l’étranger qui séjourne au milieu d’eux.
and he who is gathering the ashes of the heifer has washed his garments and is unclean until the evening; and it has been to the sons of Israel and to the sojourner who is sojourning in their midst for a continuous statute.
11 Celui qui aura touché un mort, un cadavre d’homme quelconque, sera impur sept jours.
He who is coming against the dead body of any man is unclean [for] seven days;
12 Il se purifiera avec cette [eau] le troisième jour, et le septième jour il sera pur; mais s’il ne se purifie pas le troisième jour, alors il ne sera pas pur le septième jour.
he cleanses himself for it on the third day and on the seventh day, [and] he is clean; and if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he is not clean.
13 Quiconque aura touché un mort, le cadavre d’un homme qui est mort, et ne se sera pas purifié, a rendu impur le tabernacle de l’Éternel; et cette âme sera retranchée d’Israël, car l’eau de séparation n’a pas été répandue sur elle; elle sera impure, son impureté est encore sur elle.
Anyone who is coming against the dead, against the body of man who dies, and does not cleanse himself, he has defiled the Dwelling Place of YHWH, and that person has been cut off from Israel, for water of separation is not sprinkled on him; he is unclean; his uncleanness [is] still on him.
14 C’est ici la loi, lorsqu’un homme meurt dans une tente: quiconque entre dans la tente, et tout ce qui est dans la tente, sera impur sept jours;
This [is] the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who is coming into the tent and all that [is] in the tent are unclean [for] seven days;
15 et tout vase découvert, sur lequel il n’y a pas de couvercle attaché, sera impur.
and every open vessel which has no covering of thread on it is unclean.
16 Et quiconque touchera, dans les champs, [un homme] qui aura été tué par l’épée, ou un mort, ou un ossement d’homme, ou un sépulcre, sera impur sept jours.
And everyone on the face of the field who comes against the pierced of a sword, or against the dead, or against a bone of man, or against a grave, is unclean [for] seven days;
17 Et on prendra, pour l’homme impur, de la poudre de ce qui a été brûlé pour la purification, et on mettra dessus de l’eau vive dans un vase.
and for the unclean person they have taken from the ashes of the burning of the [cow], and he has put running water over it into a vessel;
18 Et un homme pur prendra de l’hysope, et la trempera dans l’eau, et en fera aspersion sur la tente, et sur tous les ustensiles, et sur les personnes qui sont là, et sur celui qui aura touché l’ossement, ou l’homme tué, ou le mort, ou le sépulcre;
and a clean person has taken hyssop, and has dipped [it] in water, and has sprinkled [it] on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who have been there, and on him who is coming against a bone, or against one pierced, or against the dead, or against a grave.
19 et l’homme pur fera aspersion sur l’homme impur, le troisième jour et le septième jour, et il le purifiera le septième jour; et il lavera ses vêtements, et se lavera dans l’eau, et le soir il sera pur.
And the clean has sprinkled [it] on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day, and has cleansed him on the seventh day, and he has washed his garments, and has bathed with water, and has been clean in the evening.
20 Et l’homme qui sera impur, et qui ne se sera pas purifié, cette âme-là sera retranchée du milieu de la congrégation, – car il a rendu impur le sanctuaire de l’Éternel; l’eau de séparation n’a pas été répandue sur lui; il est impur.
And the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself, indeed, that person has been cut off from the midst of the assembly; for he has defiled the sanctuary of YHWH; water of separation is not sprinkled on him; he [is] unclean.
21 Et ce sera pour eux un statut perpétuel. Et celui qui aura fait aspersion avec l’eau de séparation lavera ses vêtements, et celui qui aura touché l’eau de séparation sera impur jusqu’au soir.
And it has been for a continuous statute to them, that he who is sprinkling the water of separation washes his garments, and he who is coming against the water of separation is unclean until the evening,
22 Et tout ce que l’homme impur aura touché sera impur; et celui qui l’aura touché sera impur jusqu’au soir.
and all against which the unclean person comes is unclean, and the person who is coming against [it] is unclean until the evening.”
