Lévitique 21
1 L’Éternel dit à Moïse: "Parle aux pontifes, fils d’Aaron, et dis-leur: Nul ne doit se souiller par le cadavre d’un de ses concitoyens,
Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
2 si ce n’est pour ses parents les plus proches: pour sa mère ou son père, pour son fils ou sa fille, ou 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 pour sa sœur aussi, si elle est vierge, habitant près de lui, et n’a pas encore appartenu à un homme, pour elle il peut se souiller.
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 doit pas se rendre impur, lui qui est maître parmi les siens, de manière à s’avilir.
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 feront point de tonsure à leur tête, ne raseront point l’extrémité de leur barbe, et ne pratiqueront point d’incision sur 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 doivent rester saints pour leur Dieu, et ne pas profaner le nom de leur Dieu; car ce sont les sacrifices de l’Éternel, c’est le pain de leur Dieu qu’ils ont à offrir: ils doivent être 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 Une femme prostituée ou déshonorée, ils ne l’épouseront point; une femme répudiée par son mari, ils ne l’épouseront point: car le pontife est 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 Tiens-le pour saint, car c’est lui qui offre le pain de ton Dieu; qu’il soit saint pour toi, parce que 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 de quelque pontife se déshonore par la prostitution, c’est son père qu’elle déshonore: elle périra par le 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 Quant au pontife supérieur à ses frères, sur la tête duquel aura coulé l’huile d’onction, et qu’on aura investi du droit de revêtir les insignes, il ne doit point découvrir sa tête ni déchirer 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’approchera d’aucun corps mort; pour son père même et pour sa mère il ne se souillera point;
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 quittera point le sanctuaire, pour ne pas ravaler le sanctuaire de son Dieu, car il porte le sacre de l’huile d’onction de son Dieu: 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 De plus, il devra épouser une femme qui soit vierge.
Women whom you priests marry must be virgins.
14 Une veuve, une femme répudiée ou déshonorée, une courtisane, il ne l’épousera point: il ne peut prendre pour femme qu’une vierge d’entre son peuple,
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 ne doit point dégrader sa race au milieu de son peuple: je suis l’Éternel, qui l’ai consacré!"
16 L’Éternel parla à Moïse en ces termes:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
17 "Parle ainsi à Aaron: Quelqu’un de ta postérité, dans les âges futurs, qui serait atteint d’une infirmité, ne sera pas admis à offrir 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 une infirmité ne saurait être admis: un individu aveugle ou boiteux, ayant le nez écrasé ou des organes inégaux;
No one who is blind or lame or deformed, or whose [face is] disfigured,
19 ou celui qui serait estropié, soit du pied, soit de la main;
no man with a crippled foot or a crippled hand,
20 ou un bossu, ou un nain; celui qui a une taie sur l’œil, la gale sèche ou humide, ou les testicules broyés.
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 Tout individu infirme, de la race d’Aaron le pontife, ne se présentera pas pour offrir les sacrifices de l’Éternel. Atteint d’une infirmité, il ne peut se présenter pour offrir 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 Le pain de son Dieu, provenant des offrandes très-saintes comme des offrandes saintes, il peut s’en nourrir;
Priests who have defects are permitted to eat the various kinds of holy food offered to me.
23 mais qu’il ne pénètre point jusqu’au voile, et qu’il n’approche point de l’autel, car il a une infirmité, et il ne doit point profaner mes choses saintes, car c’est moi, 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 Et Moïse le redit à Aaron et à ses fils, et à tous les enfants d’Israël.
So Moses/I told this to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israeli people.
