Exode 21
1 Et voici les statuts que tu leur exposeras.
“Now these are the decrees that you must set before them:
2 Si tu achètes un esclave hébreu, il restera six années esclave et à la septième il sera remis en liberté sans rançon.
'If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve for six years, and in the seventh year he will go free without paying anything.
3 S’Il est venu seul, seul il sortira; s’il était marié, sa femme sortira avec lui.
If he came by himself, he must go free by himself; if he is married, then his wife must go free with him.
4 Si son maître lui a donné une femme, laquelle lui ait enfanté des fils ou des filles, la femme, avec les enfants, appartiendra à son maître et lui se retirera seul.
If his master gave him a wife and she bore him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master, and he must go free by himself.
5 Que si l’esclave dit: "J’Aime mon maître, ma femme et mes enfants, je ne veux pas être affranchi",
But if the servant plainly says, “I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,”
6 son maître l’amènera par-devant le tribunal, on le placera près d’une porte ou d’un poteau; et son maître lui percera l’oreille avec un poinçon et il le servira indéfiniment.
then his master must bring him to God. The master must bring him to a door or doorpost, and his master must bore his ear through with an awl. Then the servant will serve him for life.
7 "Si un homme vend sa fille comme esclave, elle ne quittera pas son maître à la façon des esclaves.
If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she must not go free as the male servants do.
8 Si elle lui déplaît et qu’il ne la réserve point à lui-même, il la laissera s’affranchir; il n’aura pas pouvoir de la vendre à une famille étrangère, après l’avoir déçue.
If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be bought back. He has no right to sell her to a foreign people. He has no such right, since he has treated her deceitfully.
9 Que s’il la fiance à son fils, il procédera à son égard selon. la règle des filles.
If her master designates her as a wife for his son, he must treat her the same as if she were his daughter.
10 S’Il lui en adjoint une autre, il ne devra point la frustrer de sa nourriture, de son habillement, ni du droit conjugal.
If he takes another wife for himself, he must not diminish her food, clothing, or her marital rights.
11 Et s’il ne procède pas à son égard de l’une de ces trois manières, elle se retirera gratuitement, sans rançon.
But if he does not provide these three things for her, then she can go free without paying any money.
12 "Celui qui frappe un homme et le fait mourir sera puni de mort.
Whoever strikes a man so that he dies, that person must surely be put to death.
13 S’Il n’y a pas eu guet-apens et que Dieu seul ait conduit sa main, il se réfugiera dans un des endroits que je te désignerai.
If the man did not do it with premeditation, but instead by accident, then I will fix a place to where he can flee.
14 "Mais si quelqu’un, agissant avec préméditation contre son prochain, le tue de guet-apens, du pied même de mon autel tu le conduiras à la mort.
If a man willfully attacks his neighbor and kills him according to a cunning plan, then you must take him, even if he is at God's altar, so that he may die.
15 "Celui qui frappera son père ou sa mère sera mis à mort.
Whoever hits his father or mother must surely be put to death.
16 "Celui qui aura enlevé un homme et l’aura vendu, si on l’a pris sur le fait, sera mis à mort.
Whoever kidnaps a person—whether the kidnapper sells him, or that person is found in his hand—that kidnapper must be put to death.
17 "Celui qui maudit son père ou sa mère sera puni de mort.
Whoever curses his father or his mother must surely be put to death.
18 "Si des hommes se prennent de querelle et que l’un frappe l’autre d’un coup de pierre ou de poing, sans qu’il en meure, mais qu’il soit forcé de s’aliter,
If men fight and one hits the other with a stone or with his fist, and that person does not die, but is confined to his bed;
19 s’il se relève et qu’il puisse sortir appuyé sur son bâton, l’auteur de la blessure sera absous. Toutefois, il paiera le chômage et les frais de la guérison.
then if he recovers and is able to walk about using his staff, the man who struck him must pay for the loss of his time; he must also pay for his complete recovery. But that man is not guilty of murder.
20 "Si un homme frappe du bâton son esclave mâle ou femelle et que l’esclave meure sous sa main, il doit être vengé.
If a man hits his male servant or his female servant with a staff, and if the servant dies as a result of the blow, then that man must surely be punished.
21 Si pourtant il survit un jour ou deux, il ne sera pas vengé, parce qu’il est sa propriété.
However, if the servant lives for a day or two, the master must not be punished, for he will have suffered the loss of the servant.
22 "Si, des hommes ayant une rixe, l’un d’eux heurte une femme enceinte et la fait avorter sans autre malheur, il sera condamné à l’amende que lui fera infliger l’époux de cette femme et il la paiera à dire d’experts.
If men fight together and hurt a pregnant woman so that she miscarries, but there is no other injury to her, then the guilty man must surely be fined as the woman's husband demands it from him, and he must pay as the judges determine.
23 Mais si un malheur s’ensuit, tu feras payer corps pour corps;
But if there is serious injury, then you must give a life for a life,
24 oeil pour oeil, dent pour dent, main pour main, pied pour pied;
an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,
25 brûlure pour brûlure, plaie pour plaie, contusion pour contusion.
a burn for a burn, a wound for a wound, or a bruise for a bruise.
26 "Si un homme blesse l’œil de son esclave ou de sa servante de manière à lui en ôter l’usage, il le renverra libre à cause de son œil
If a man hits the eye of his male servant or of his female servant and destroys it, then he must let the servant go free in compensation for his eye.
27 et s’il fait tomber une dent à son esclave ou à sa servante, il lui rendra la liberté à cause de sa dent.
If he knocks out a tooth of his male servant or female servant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
28 "Si un boeuf heurte un homme ou une femme et qu’ils en meurent, ce boeuf doit être lapidé et il ne sera point permis d’en manger la chair; mais le propriétaire du boeuf sera absous.
If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its flesh must not be eaten; but the ox's owner must be acquitted of guilt.
29 Si ce boeuf était sujet à heurter, déjà antérieurement, que son maître, averti, ne l’ait pas surveillé et qu’il ait fait périr un homme ou une femme, le boeuf sera lapidé et même son maître mérite la mort.
But if the ox had a habit of goring in the past, and its owner was warned but did not keep it in, and the ox has killed a man or a woman, that ox must be stoned, and its owner also must be put to death.
30 Si toutefois une amende lui est imposée, il paiera la rançon de sa vie selon ce qu’on lui aura imposé.
If a payment is required for his life, he must pay whatever he is required to pay.
31 Si un bœuf heurte soit un garçon, soit une fille, la même loi lui sera appliquée.
If the ox has gored a man's son or daughter, the ox's owner must do what this decree requires him to do.
32 Si ce bœuf heurte un esclave ou une esclave, on paiera à leur maître une somme de trente sicles et le boeuf sera lapidé.
If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the ox's owner must pay thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned.
33 "Si quelqu’un découvre une citerne, ou si, en ayant creusé une, il ne la couvre point et qu’un boeuf ou un âne y tombe,
If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
34 le propriétaire de la citerne doit payer: il remboursera la valeur au maître et l’animal mort lui restera.
the owner of the pit must repay the loss. He must give money to the dead animal's owner, and the dead animal will become his.
35 "Si le bœuf appartenant à un homme blesse celui d’un autre et le fait périr, on vendra le bœuf vivant; ils s’en partageront le prix, et partageront aussi le bœuf mort.
If one man's ox hurts another man's ox so that it dies, then they must sell the live ox and divide its price, and they must also divide the dead ox.
36 Mais si, notoirement, ce boeuf a déjà heurté à plusieurs reprises et que son maître ne l’ait pas surveillé, il devra restituer boeuf pour boeuf et le boeuf tué lui restera.
But if it was known that the ox had a habit of goring in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he must surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal will become his own.
