Lévitique 21
1 Et le Seigneur parla à Moïse, disant: Parle aux prêtres, fils d'Aaron, et dis-leur: Qu'ils ne se souillent point auprès des morts de votre nation,
Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
2 Si ce n'est à la mort du parent le plus proche: d'un père, d'une mère, d'un fils ou d'une fille,
‘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 D'une sœur vierge qui n'a point encore été donnée à un homme; pour ceux- là, le prêtre pourra contracter une souillure.
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 contractera pas soudainement de souillure au milieu de son peuple, de manière à être profané.
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 Vous ne vous raserez pas la tête à cause d'un mort; ils ne se raseront pas la barbe, ils ne se feront pas d'incisions dans les chairs.
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 Les prêtres seront saints, consacrés à leur Dieu; ils ne profaneront pas le nom de Dieu; car ils offrent les sacrifices du Seigneur, les oblations de leur Dieu; ils seront donc 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 n'épouseront ni prostituée, ni femme profanée, ni femme répudiée par son mari; car le prêtre est saint, consacré au Seigneur 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 Tu le sanctifieras, et c'est lui qui présentera les dons faits au Seigneur votre Dieu; il sera saint, parce que je suis saint, moi, le Seigneur qui le 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 La fille du prêtre qui se profanera par la fornication, et profanera le nom de son père, sera consumée 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 Le grand prêtre, celui qui est grand parmi ses frères, à qui l'on a versé sur la tête l'huile du Christ, celui qui a été consacré pour revêtir les ornements, n'ôtera jamais sa tiare, 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'entrera pas auprès d'un mort, et ne contractera pas de souillure même pour son père ou 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 Il ne sortira pas du lieu Saint, et ne profanera pas ce qui a été sanctifié par son Dieu, parce que l'huile du Christ de son Dieu est sur lui; je suis le Seigneur.
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 Il prendra pour femme une vierge de sa famille.
Women whom you priests marry must be virgins.
14 Il n'épousera ni veuve; ni femme répudiée, profanée en prostituée; mais il prendra pour femme une vierge de 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 Il ne profanera pas son sang au milieu du peuple: je suis le Seigneur qui le sanctifie.
16 Et le Seigneur parla à Moïse, disant:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
17 Dis à Aaron: L'homme de ta famille, en vos générations futures, qui aura une tache, n'entrera pas pour présenter les offrandes au Seigneur 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 Tout homme qui aura une tache n'entrera point: l'aveugle, le boiteux, celui qui a le nez coupé, celui a qui manque une oreille,
No one who is blind or lame or deformed, or whose [face is] disfigured,
19 Celui qui a une main ou un pied difforme,
no man with a crippled foot or a crippled hand,
20 Le bossu, celui qui a une taie sur l'œil, celui qui n'a point de cils, celui qui a la rogne ou une dartre vive, ou à qui il manque un testicule.
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 membre de la race d'Aaron qui a quelque tache, ne s'approchera point pour offrir les sacrifices à son Dieu, parce qu'il y a une tache en lui; il n'entrera point pour offrir les dons à 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 Mais il mangera 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 point devant le voile, et ne s'approchera pas de l'autel, parce qu'il a une tache, et il ne profanera pas le sanctuaire de son Dieu; car je suis le Seigneur, et c'est moi qui sanctifie les prêtres.
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 dit ces choses à Aaron et à ses fils, ainsi qu'à tous les fils d'Israël.
So Moses/I told this to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israeli people.
