Exode 21
1 Voici les lois que tu leur présenteras.
And these [are] the judgments which you set before them:
2 Si tu achètes un esclave hébreu, il servira six années; mais la septième, il sortira libre, sans rien payer.
When you buy a Hebrew servant, he serves [for] six years, and in the seventh he goes out as a freeman for nothing;
3 S’il est entré seul, il sortira seul; s’il avait une femme, sa femme sortira avec lui.
if he comes in by himself, he goes out by himself; if he [is] owner of a wife, then his wife has gone out with him;
4 Si c’est son maître qui lui a donné une femme, et qu’il en ait eu des fils ou des filles, la femme et ses enfants seront à son maître, et il sortira seul.
if his lord gives a wife to him, and she has borne sons or daughters to him—the wife and her children are her lord’s, and he goes out by himself.
5 Si l’esclave dit: J’aime mon maître, ma femme et mes enfants, je ne veux pas sortir libre,
And if the servant really says: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons—I do not go out free,
6 alors son maître le conduira devant Dieu, et le fera approcher de la porte ou du poteau, et son maître lui percera l’oreille avec un poinçon, et l’esclave sera pour toujours à son service.
then his lord has brought him near to God, and has brought him near to the door, or to the doorpost, and his lord has bored his ear with an awl, and he has served him for all time.
7 Si un homme vend sa fille pour être esclave, elle ne sortira point comme sortent les esclaves.
And when a man sells his daughter for a handmaid, she does not go out according to the going out of the menservants;
8 Si elle déplaît à son maître, qui s’était proposé de la prendre pour femme, il facilitera son rachat; mais il n’aura pas le pouvoir de la vendre à des étrangers, après lui avoir été infidèle.
if [it is] evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he has not betrothed her, then he has let her be ransomed; he has no power to sell her to a strange people, in his dealing treacherously with her.
9 S’il la destine à son fils, il agira envers elle selon le droit des filles.
And if he betroths her to his son, he does to her according to the right of daughters.
10 S’il prend une autre femme, il ne retranchera rien pour la première à la nourriture, au vêtement, et au droit conjugal.
If he takes another [woman] for him, he does not withdraw her food, her covering, and her habitation;
11 Et s’il ne fait pas pour elle ces trois choses, elle pourra sortir sans rien payer, sans donner de l’argent.
and if he does not do these three for her, then she has gone out for nothing, without money.
12 Celui qui frappera un homme mortellement sera puni de mort.
He who strikes a man so that he has died is certainly put to death;
13 S’il ne lui a point dressé d’embûches, et que Dieu l’ait fait tomber sous sa main, je t’établirai un lieu où il pourra se réfugier.
as for him who has not laid wait, but God has brought [him] to his hand, I have even set a place for you to where he flees.
14 Mais si quelqu’un agit méchamment contre son prochain, en employant la ruse pour le tuer, tu l’arracheras même de mon autel, pour le faire mourir.
And when a man presumes against his neighbor to slay him with subtlety, you take him from My altar to die.
15 Celui qui frappera son père ou sa mère sera puni de mort.
And he who strikes his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
16 Celui qui dérobera un homme, et qui l’aura vendu ou retenu entre ses mains, sera puni de mort.
And he who steals a man, and has sold him, and he has been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.
17 Celui qui maudira son père ou sa mère sera puni de mort.
And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
18 Si des hommes se querellent, et que l’un d’eux frappe l’autre avec une pierre ou avec le poing, sans causer sa mort, mais en l’obligeant à garder le lit,
And when men contend, and a man has struck his neighbor with a stone, or with the fist, and he does not die, but has fallen on the bed;
19 celui qui aura frappé ne sera point puni, dans le cas où l’autre viendrait à se lever et à se promener dehors avec son bâton. Seulement, il le dédommagera de son interruption de travail, et il le fera soigner jusqu’à sa guérison.
if he rises, and has gone up and down outside on his staff, then the striker has been acquitted; he only gives [for] his cessation, and he is thoroughly healed.
20 Si un homme frappe du bâton son esclave, homme ou femme, et que l’esclave meure sous sa main, le maître sera puni.
And when a man strikes his manservant or his handmaid with a rod, and he has died under his hand—he is certainly avenged;
21 Mais s’il survit un jour ou deux, le maître ne sera point puni; car c’est son argent.
only if he remains a day, or two days, he is not avenged, for he [is] his money.
22 Si des hommes se querellent, et qu’ils heurtent une femme enceinte, et la fassent accoucher, sans autre accident, ils seront punis d’une amende imposée par le mari de la femme, et qu’ils paieront devant les juges.
And when men strive, and have struck a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no harm [to them], he is certainly fined as the husband of the woman lays on him, and he has given through the judges;
23 Mais s’il y a un accident, tu donneras vie pour vie,
and if there is harm [to them], then you have given life for life,
24 œil pour œil, dent pour dent, main pour main, pied pour pied,
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 brûlure pour brûlure, blessure pour blessure, meurtrissure pour meurtrissure.
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
26 Si un homme frappe l’œil de son esclave, homme ou femme, et qu’il lui fasse perdre l’œil, il le mettra en liberté, pour prix de son œil.
And when a man strikes the eye of his manservant, or the eye of his handmaid, and has destroyed it, he sends him away as a freeman for his eye;
27 Et s’il fait tomber une dent à son esclave, homme ou femme, il le mettra en liberté, pour prix de sa dent.
and if he knocks out a tooth of his manservant or a tooth of his handmaid, he sends him away as a freeman for his tooth.
28 Si un bœuf frappe de ses cornes un homme ou une femme, et que la mort en soit la suite, le bœuf sera lapidé, sa chair ne sera point mangée, et le maître du bœuf ne sera point puni.
And when an ox gores man or woman, and they have died, the ox is certainly stoned, and his flesh is not eaten, and the owner of the ox [is] acquitted;
29 Mais si le bœuf était auparavant sujet à frapper, et qu’on en ait averti le maître, qui ne l’a point surveillé, le bœuf sera lapidé, dans le cas où il tuerait un homme ou une femme, et son maître sera puni de mort.
and if the ox is [one] accustomed to gore before, and it has been testified to its owner, and he does not watch it, and it has put to death a man or woman, the ox is stoned, and its owner is also put to death.
30 Si on impose au maître un prix pour le rachat de sa vie, il paiera tout ce qui lui sera imposé.
If atonement is laid on him, then he has given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid on him;
31 Lorsque le bœuf frappera un fils ou une fille, cette loi recevra son application;
whether it gores a son or gores a daughter, according to this judgment it is done to him.
32 mais si le bœuf frappe un esclave, homme ou femme, on donnera trente sicles d’argent au maître de l’esclave, et le bœuf sera lapidé.
If the ox gores a manservant or a handmaid, he gives thirty silver shekels to their lord, and the ox is stoned.
33 Si un homme met à découvert une citerne, ou si un homme en creuse une et ne la couvre pas, et qu’il y tombe un bœuf ou un âne,
And when a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or donkey has fallen [in] there—
34 le possesseur de la citerne paiera au maître la valeur de l’animal en argent, et aura pour lui l’animal mort.
the owner of the pit repays, he gives back money to its owner, and the dead is his.
35 Si le bœuf d’un homme frappe de ses cornes le bœuf d’un autre homme, et que la mort en soit la suite, ils vendront le bœuf vivant et en partageront le prix; ils partageront aussi le bœuf mort.
And when a man’s ox strikes the ox of his neighbor and it has died, then they have sold the living ox, and halved its money, and they also halve the dead one;
36 Mais s’il est connu que le bœuf était auparavant sujet à frapper, et que son maître ne l’ait point surveillé, ce maître rendra bœuf pour bœuf, et aura pour lui le bœuf mort.
or, [if] it has been known that the ox is [one] accustomed to gore before, and its owner does not watch it, he certainly repays ox for ox, and the dead is his.
