Lévitique 21
1 L’Éternel dit à Moïse: Parle aux sacrificateurs, fils d’Aaron, et tu leur diras: Un sacrificateur ne se rendra point impur parmi son peuple pour un mort,
Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
2 excepté pour ses plus proches parents, pour sa mère, pour son père, pour son fils, 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 et aussi pour sa sœur encore vierge, qui le touche de près lorsqu’elle n’est pas mariée.
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 Chef parmi son peuple, il ne se rendra point impur en se profanant.
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 Les sacrificateurs ne se feront point de place chauve sur la tête, ils ne raseront point les coins de leur barbe, et ils ne feront point d’incisions dans 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 seront saints pour leur Dieu, et ils ne profaneront pas le nom de leur Dieu; car ils offrent à l’Éternel les sacrifices consumés par le feu, l’aliment de leur Dieu: ils seront 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 ne prendront point une femme prostituée ou déshonorée, ils ne prendront point une femme répudiée par son mari, car ils sont saints pour leur 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 regarderas un sacrificateur comme saint, car il offre l’aliment de ton Dieu; il sera saint pour toi, car 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 Si la fille d’un sacrificateur se déshonore en se prostituant, elle déshonore son père: elle sera brûlée au 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 sacrificateur qui a la supériorité sur ses frères, sur la tête duquel a été répandue l’huile d’onction, et qui a été consacré et revêtu des vêtements sacrés, ne découvrira point sa tête et ne déchirera point 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’ira vers aucun mort, il ne se rendra point impur, ni pour son père, ni pour 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 point du sanctuaire, et ne profanera point le sanctuaire de son Dieu; car l’huile d’onction de son Dieu est une couronne sur lui. 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 Il prendra pour femme une vierge.
Women whom you priests marry must be virgins.
14 Il ne prendra ni une veuve, ni une femme répudiée, ni une femme déshonorée ou prostituée; mais il prendra pour femme une vierge parmi 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 déshonorera point sa postérité parmi son peuple; car je suis l’Éternel, qui le sanctifie.
16 L’Éternel parla à Moïse, et dit:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
17 Parle à Aaron, et dis: Tout homme de ta race et parmi tes descendants, qui aura un défaut corporel, ne s’approchera point pour offrir l’aliment 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 Tout homme qui aura un défaut corporel ne pourra s’approcher: un homme aveugle, boiteux, ayant le nez camus ou un membre allongé;
No one who is blind or lame or deformed, or whose [face is] disfigured,
19 un homme ayant une fracture au pied ou à la main;
no man with a crippled foot or a crippled hand,
20 un homme bossu ou grêle, ayant une tache à l’œil, la gale, une dartre, ou les testicules écrasés.
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 homme de la race du sacrificateur Aaron, qui aura un défaut corporel, ne s’approchera point pour offrir à l’Éternel les sacrifices consumés par le feu; il a un défaut corporel: il ne s’approchera point pour offrir l’aliment 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 Il pourra manger l’aliment de son Dieu, des choses très saintes et des choses saintes.
Priests who have defects are permitted to eat the various kinds of holy food offered to me.
23 Mais il n’ira point vers le voile, et il ne s’approchera point de l’autel, car il a un défaut corporel; il ne profanera point mes sanctuaires, car je suis 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 C’est ainsi que parla Moïse 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.
