Deutéronome 7
1 Lorsque l’Éternel, ton Dieu, t’aura fait entrer dans le pays dont tu vas prendre possession, et qu’il chassera devant toi beaucoup de nations, les Héthiens, les Guirgasiens, les Amoréens, les Cananéens, les Phéréziens, les Héviens et les Jébusiens, sept nations plus nombreuses et plus puissantes que toi;
“Yahweh our God will bring you to the land that you will soon enter and occupy. As you advance, he will expel from that land seven people-groups that are more powerful and more numerous than you are. He will expel the Heth people-group, the Girgash people-group, the Amor people-group, the Canaan people-group, the Periz people-group, the Hiv people-group, and the Jebus people-group.
2 lorsque l’Éternel, ton Dieu, te les aura livrées et que tu les auras battues, tu les dévoueras par interdit, tu ne traiteras point d’alliance avec elles, et tu ne leur feras point grâce.
When Yahweh our God enables you to defeat [DOU] them, you must kill all of them. You must not make (an alliance/a peace treaty) with any of them. You must not act mercifully toward them.
3 Tu ne contracteras point de mariage avec ces peuples, tu ne donneras point tes filles à leurs fils, et tu ne prendras point leurs filles pour tes fils;
You must not marry any of them. You must not allow your daughters to marry any of their sons or allow your sons to marry any of their daughters.
4 car ils détourneraient de moi tes fils, qui serviraient d’autres dieux, et la colère de l’Éternel s’enflammerait contre vous: il te détruirait promptement.
Because, if you did that, those people would cause your children to stop worshiping Yahweh and to worship other gods. If that happens, Yahweh will be very angry with you and he will get rid of you immediately.
5 Voici, au contraire, comment vous agirez à leur égard: vous renverserez leurs autels, vous briserez leurs statues, vous abattrez leurs idoles, et vous brûlerez au feu leurs images taillées.
This is what you must do to those people: Tear down their (altars/places for sacrificing animals), break apart the stone pillars [that are dedicated to their male god Baal], cut down the [poles that they use when they worship the goddess] Asherah, and burn their [wooden] idols.
6 Car tu es un peuple saint pour l’Éternel, ton Dieu; l’Éternel, ton Dieu, t’a choisi, pour que tu fusses un peuple qui lui appartînt entre tous les peuples qui sont sur la face de la terre.
You must do that because you are a group of people who belong to Yahweh our God. He has chosen you from among all the people-groups in the world to be his own special people.
7 Ce n’est point parce que vous surpassez en nombre tous les peuples, que l’Éternel s’est attaché à vous et qu’il vous a choisis, car vous êtes le moindre de tous les peuples.
“It was not because you were more numerous than any other people-group that Yahweh preferred you; you are one of the smallest people-groups on the earth.
8 Mais, parce que l’Éternel vous aime, parce qu’il a voulu tenir le serment qu’il avait fait à vos pères, l’Éternel vous a fait sortir par sa main puissante, vous a délivrés de la maison de servitude, de la main de Pharaon, roi d’Égypte.
Instead, it is because Yahweh loved you and because he wanted to do what he vowed to your ancestors. That is the reason that he rescued you by his great power [MTY], and freed you from being slaves [MTY] of the king of Egypt.
9 Sache donc que c’est l’Éternel, ton Dieu, qui est Dieu. Ce Dieu fidèle garde son alliance et sa miséricorde jusqu’à la millième génération envers ceux qui l’aiment et qui observent ses commandements.
So do not forget that Yahweh our God is the only/true God. He will do what he agreed to do for you, and he will faithfully love (for 1,000 generations/forever) all those who love him and who obey his commandments.
10 Mais il use directement de représailles envers ceux qui le haïssent, et il les fait périr; il ne diffère point envers celui qui le hait, il use directement de représailles.
But for those who hate him, he will (pay them back/do to them what they deserve); he will punish them and quickly get rid of them.
11 Ainsi, observe les commandements, les lois et les ordonnances que je te prescris aujourd’hui, et mets-les en pratique.
“So you must be sure to obey all the commandments and rules and regulations that I am giving to you today.
12 Si vous écoutez ces ordonnances, si vous les observez et les mettez en pratique, l’Éternel, ton Dieu, gardera envers toi l’alliance et la miséricorde qu’il a jurées à tes pères.
If you heed these commands and obey them faithfully, Yahweh our God will do what he has agreed to do for you, and he will faithfully love you, which is what he vowed to your ancestors that he would do.
13 Il t’aimera, il te bénira et te multipliera; il bénira le fruit de tes entrailles et le fruit de ton sol, ton blé, ton moût et ton huile, les portées de ton gros et de ton menu bétail, dans le pays qu’il a juré à tes pères de te donner.
He will love you and bless you. He will enable you to have many children [DOU]. He will bless your fields, with the result that you will have plenty of grain and [grapes to make] wine and plenty of [olive] oil. You will have many cattle and sheep. He will do all these things for you in the land that he promised to your ancestors that he would give to you.
14 Tu seras béni plus que tous les peuples; il n’y aura chez toi ni homme ni femme stérile, ni bête stérile parmi tes troupeaux.
He will bless you more than he will bless any other people-group. All of you will be able to have/produce children [LIT]. All of your livestock will be able to produce offspring.
15 L’Éternel éloignera de toi toute maladie; il ne t’enverra aucune de ces mauvaises maladies d’Égypte qui te sont connues, mais il en frappera tous ceux qui te haïssent.
And Yahweh will protect you from all illnesses. You will not be afflicted with any of the dreadful diseases that [our ancestors knew about] in Egypt, but all your enemies will be inflicted with those diseases.
16 Tu dévoreras tous les peuples que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, va te livrer, tu ne jetteras pas sur eux un regard de pitié, et tu ne serviras point leurs dieux, car ce serait un piège pour toi.
You must get rid of all the people-groups that Yahweh our God will enable you to conquer. Do not [SYN] act mercifully toward any of them. And do not worship their gods, because if you do that, it would be like falling into a trap [from which you will never be able to escape].
17 Peut-être diras-tu dans ton cœur: Ces nations sont plus nombreuses que moi; comment pourrai-je les chasser?
“Do not think to yourselves, ‘These people-groups are more numerous/powerful than we are, so we certainly cannot [RHQ] expel them.’
18 Ne les crains point. Rappelle à ton souvenir ce que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, a fait à Pharaon et à toute l’Égypte,
Do not be afraid of them. Instead, think about what Yahweh our God did to the king of Egypt and to all the people whom he [ruled].
19 les grandes épreuves que tes yeux ont vues, les miracles et les prodiges, la main forte et le bras étendu, quand l’Éternel, ton Dieu, t’a fait sortir: ainsi fera l’Éternel, ton Dieu, à tous les peuples que tu redoutes.
Do not forget the terrible plagues that your ancestors saw [Yahweh inflict on the people of Egypt], and the many [DOU] miracles [that he performed], and the very powerful [DOU, MTY] way by which he brought your ancestors out [of Egypt]. Yahweh our God will do the same kind of things to the people-groups that you are afraid of now.
20 L’Éternel, ton Dieu, enverra même les frelons contre eux, jusqu’à la destruction de ceux qui échapperont et qui se cacheront devant toi.
Furthermore, he will cause them to become terrified, and he will destroy those who remain alive and run away to hide from you.
21 Ne sois point effrayé à cause d’eux; car l’Éternel, ton Dieu, est au milieu de toi, le Dieu grand et terrible.
Do not be afraid of those people, because Yahweh our God will be with/among you. He is a great God; he is the one you should be afraid of.
22 L’Éternel, ton Dieu, chassera peu à peu ces nations loin de ta face; tu ne pourras pas les exterminer promptement, de peur que les bêtes des champs ne se multiplient contre toi.
He will expel those people-groups gradually. You should not [try to] expel all of them at one time, because if you did that, the number of wild animals would quickly increase, [and you would not be able to get rid of them].
23 L’Éternel, ton Dieu, te les livrera; et il les mettra complètement en déroute, jusqu’à ce qu’elles soient détruites.
Instead, Yahweh will enable you to defeat your enemies [one people-group at a time]. He will cause them to panic until they are destroyed.
24 Il livrera leurs rois entre tes mains, et tu feras disparaître leurs noms de dessous les cieux; aucun ne tiendra contre toi, jusqu’à ce que tu les aies détruits.
He will enable you to defeat [IDM] their kings. After you kill them, their names will be forgotten {people will forget about them}. No people-group will be able to stop you; you will destroy all of them.
25 Vous brûlerez au feu les images taillées de leurs dieux. Tu ne convoiteras point et tu ne prendras point pour toi l’argent et l’or qui sont sur elles, de peur que ces choses ne te deviennent un piège; car elles sont en abomination à l’Éternel, ton Dieu.
You must burn the wooden idols [that represent] their gods. Do not desire to take the silver or gold [decorations] that are on those idols, because if you take them for yourselves, they will be like a trap [to cause you to want to worship those idols]. Yahweh hates [the worship of those idols].
26 Tu n’introduiras point une chose abominable dans ta maison, afin que tu ne sois pas, comme cette chose, dévoué par interdit; tu l’auras en horreur, tu l’auras en abomination, car c’est une chose dévouée par interdit.
You must not bring any of those disgusting idols into your houses, because if you do that, God will curse you like he curses them. You must hate and despise [DOU] those idols, because they are things that [Yahweh] has cursed.”
