Deutéronome 18
1 La tribu entière de Lévi, prêtres et lévites, n'aura ni part ni héritage en Israël; ils vivront des oblations au Seigneur, selon leurs services.
“The priests, who are all from the tribe of Levi, will not receive any land in Israel. Instead, they will receive some of the food that other people offer to be burned [on the altar to be sacrificed] to Yahweh and some of the other sacrifices that will be offered to Yahweh.
2 Ils n'auront point d'héritage parmi leurs frères; le Seigneur seul est leur héritage, comme il le leur a dit.
They will not be allotted any land like the other tribes will be. What they will receive is the work/privilege of being Yahweh’s [priests], which is what he said that they should have.
3 Et voici la loi pour les prêtres, concernant les offrandes du peuple et les sacrifices des veaux ou des brebis: tu donneras au prêtre l'épaule, les joues et la poitrine,
“When the people bring an ox or a sheep to be sacrificed, they must give to the priests the shoulder, the cheeks/jaws, and the stomach of those animals.
4 Et les prémices de ton blé, de ton vin, de ton huile; tu lui donneras aussi les prémices des rejetons de tes menus troupeaux,
You must also give to them the first part of the grain that you [harvest], and the first part of the wine [that you make], and the first part of the [olive] oil [that you make], and the first part of the wool that you shear from your sheep.
5 Parce que le Seigneur l'a choisi, entre toutes les tribus, pour qu'il se tienne devant le Seigneur Dieu, pour qu'il exerce le sacerdoce, pour que lui et ses fils bénissent en son nom le peuple d'Israël.
You must do this because Yahweh our God has chosen the tribe of Levi from all of your tribes, in order that men [from that tribe] would always be the priests who would serve him.
6 Lorsque le lévite, de l'une des villes qu'il habite, partira au gré de son désir, et viendra au lieu qu'aura choisi le Seigneur,
“If any man from the tribe of Levi [who has been living] in one of the towns in Israel wants to come from there to the place of worship that Yahweh has chosen, [and start living there],
7 Il servira, au nom du Seigneur son Dieu, comme tous ses frères les lévites qui se tiendront en ce lieu devant le Seigneur.
he is permitted to serve Yahweh there as a priest, just like the other men from the tribe of Levi who have been serving there.
8 Il mangera la portion qui lui est assignée indépendamment de la vente de ce qui lui revient dans sa famille.
He must be given the same amount of food [that the other priests receive]. He is permitted to keep the money [that his relatives give him] for selling some of their possessions.
9 Lorsque tu seras entré en la terre que le Seigneur ton Dieu te donne, tu n'apprendras pas à imiter les abominations des Gentils.
When you enter the land that Yahweh our God is giving you, you must not imitate the disgusting things that the people-groups who are there now do.
10 Il ne se trouvera parmi vous personne qui, pour purifier son fils ou sa fille, les fasse passer par le feu; qui use de la divination, qui prédise, qui prenne les augures.
You must not sacrifice any of your children by burning them [on your altars]. Do not practice (divination/using supernatural power to reveal [what will happen in] the future). Do not do/practice (soothsaying/magic to find out what will happen in the future). Do not (interpret omens/say that because of something that you have seen you know what will happen). Do not practice sorcery/witchcraft. Do not practice (putting spells on people/saying things to cause bad things to happen to others).
11 Tu ne chercheras pas à charmer par des incantations magiques, à devenir sorcier ni interprète des prodiges, à interroger les morts.
Do not try to talk with spirits of dead people. Do not do/practice magic.
12 Car quiconque fait ces choses est une abomination pour le Seigneur ton Dieu; c'est à cause de ces abominations que le Seigneur exterminera les Gentils devant ta face.
Yahweh hates people who do any of those disgusting things. And as you advance through that land, he is going to expel the people-groups because they do/practice those disgusting things.
13 Tu seras parfait devant le Seigneur ton Dieu.
But you must always avoid doing any of those things.
14 Car les nations dont tu vas prendre l'héritage, écoutent les devins et ceux qui prédisent l'avenir, et tu es instruit autrement par le Seigneur ton Dieu.
The people-groups that you are about to expel [from the land that you will occupy] (consult/seek advice from) soothsayers and those who practice divination. But as for you, Yahweh our God does not allow you to do that.
15 Le Seigneur ton Dieu suscitera parmi tes frères un prophète semblable à moi; c'est lui que vous écouterez,
[Some day] he will send from among you a prophet like me. [He is the one who will tell you what will happen in the future], and he is the one whom you must heed.
16 Parce que, en Horeb, tu en as fait la demande au Seigneur ton Dieu, le jour de l'Eglise; tu as dit: Que nous ne continuions plus d'entendre la voix du Seigneur notre Dieu, que nous ne voyions plus ce grand feu, de peur que nous ne mourions.
On the day that your ancestors were gathered at the bottom of Sinai Mountain, they pleaded with me saying, ‘We do not want Yahweh to speak [MTY] to us again, and we do not want to see this huge fire [that is burning on the mountain]!’ [Your ancestors said that because they were afraid] that they would die [if Yahweh spoke to them again].
17 Et le Seigneur m'a dit: ils ont bien parlé.
Then Yahweh said to me, ‘What they have said is true/wise.
18 Je susciterai pour eux, parmi leurs frères, un prophète semblable à toi; et je mettrai mes paroles dans sa bouche, et il leur parlera selon ce que je lui prescrirai.
So I will send from among them a prophet who will be like you. I will tell him what to say, and then he will tell people everything that I tell him to say.
19 Et je tirerai vengeance de tout homme qui n'écoutera pas ce que ce prophète lui aura dit en mon nom.
He will speak for me. And I will punish anyone who does not heed what he says.
20 Tout autre prophète qui sera assez impie pour dire en mon nom une parole que je ne lui aurai point commandé de dire, ou qui parlera au nom d'autres dieux, ce prophète sera mis à mort.
But if any other [person says that he is a] prophet [and] dares to speak a message which he falsely says comes from me but which I did not tell him to speak, or if anyone who speaks a message that he says other gods [MTY] have revealed to him, he must be executed [for doing that].’
21 Et si tu dis en ton cœur: Comment discernerons-nous la parole que le Seigneur n'aura pas dite?
But if you say to yourself, ‘How can we know if a message [that someone tells us] does not come from Yahweh?’
22 Tout ce qu'aura dit ce prophète au nom du Seigneur et qui n'arrivera pas, qui ne se réalisera pas, n'aura point été dit par le Seigneur. Ce prophète aura parlé dans son impiété: vous ne le recevrez pas.
[The answer is that] when someone speaks a message [about what will happen in the future], a message that he says was revealed by Yahweh, if what he says does not happen, [you will know that] the message did not come from Yahweh. That person has wrongly claimed that it was revealed to him by Yahweh. So you do not need to be afraid of [anything that] he [says].”
