Nombres 11
1 Le peuple murmura et cela déplut aux oreilles de l’Éternel. Lorsque l’Éternel l’entendit, sa colère s’enflamma; le feu de l’Éternel s’alluma parmi eux, et dévora l’extrémité du camp.
One day the people complained to Yahweh about their troubles. When Yahweh heard what they were saying, he became angry. So he sent a fire which burned among the people at the edge of their camp.
2 Le peuple cria à Moïse. Moïse pria l’Éternel, et le feu s’arrêta.
Then the people cried out to Moses/me, and he/I prayed to Yahweh. Then the fire stopped burning.
3 On donna à ce lieu le nom de Tabeéra, parce que le feu de l’Éternel s’était allumé parmi eux.
So they called that place Taberah, [which means ‘burning’], because the fire from Yahweh had burned among them.
4 Le ramassis de gens qui se trouvaient au milieu d’Israël fut saisi de convoitise; et même les enfants d’Israël recommencèrent à pleurer et dirent: Qui nous donnera de la viande à manger?
Then some troublemakers from other people-groups [who were traveling] with the Israelis began to want better food. And [when they started complaining] the Israeli people also started to complain.
5 Nous nous souvenons des poissons que nous mangions en Égypte, et qui ne nous coûtaient rien, des concombres, des melons, des poireaux, des oignons et des aulx.
They said, “We wish we had some meat!
6 Maintenant, notre âme est desséchée: plus rien! Nos yeux ne voient que de la manne.
We remember the fish that we ate while we were in Egypt, fish that was given to us without (cost/asking us to pay for it). And we had all the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic [that we wanted]. But now we do not have any desire to eat, because all we have to eat is this manna!”
7 La manne ressemblait à de la graine de coriandre, et avait l’apparence du bdellium.
The manna resembled small white seeds.
8 Le peuple se dispersait pour la ramasser; il la broyait avec des meules, ou la pilait dans un mortier; il la cuisait au pot, et en faisait des gâteaux. Elle avait le goût d’un gâteau à l’huile.
[Each morning] the people would go out and gather some [from the surface of the ground]. Then they made flour by grinding it or pounding it with stones. Then they [added water and] boiled it in a pot, or they made flat cakes with it [and baked them]. The cakes tasted like bread that was baked with [olive] oil.
9 Quand la rosée descendait la nuit sur le camp, la manne y descendait aussi.
Each night the manna came down on their ground where their tents were, like dew [from the sky].
10 Moïse entendit le peuple qui pleurait, chacun dans sa famille et à l’entrée de sa tente. La colère de l’Éternel s’enflamma fortement.
Moses/I heard all the Israeli people complaining as they were standing in the entrances of their tents. Yahweh became very angry, and Moses/I was also very perturbed.
11 Moïse fut attristé, et il dit à l’Éternel: Pourquoi affliges-tu ton serviteur, et pourquoi n’ai-je pas trouvé grâce à tes yeux, que tu aies mis sur moi la charge de tout ce peuple?
He/I [went into the Sacred Tent and] asked Yahweh, “Why have you caused me, your servant, to experience this trouble [RHQ]? Act mercifully to me! What wrong have I done, with the result that you have appointed me to take care of all of these people [RHQ]?
12 Est-ce moi qui ai conçu ce peuple? Est-ce moi qui l’ai enfanté, pour que tu me dises: Porte-le sur ton sein, comme le nourricier porte un enfant, jusqu’au pays que tu as juré à ses pères de lui donner?
(I am not their father./Am I their father?) [RHQ] Why have you told me to take care of them like a woman carries around her baby and (nurses it/gives it her milk) [MET, RHQ]? How can I take them to the land that you promised to give to our ancestors [RHQ]?
13 Où prendrai-je de la viande pour donner à tout ce peuple? Car ils pleurent auprès de moi, en disant: Donne-nous de la viande à manger!
Where can I get meat to feed all these people? They keep complaining to me, saying, ‘Give us some meat to eat!’
14 Je ne puis pas, à moi seul, porter tout ce peuple, car il est trop pesant pour moi.
I cannot carry all these people’s burdens by myself! [They are like a heavy load [MET], and] I cannot carry this very heavy load any more.
15 Plutôt que de me traiter ainsi, tue-moi, je te prie, si j’ai trouvé grâce à tes yeux, et que je ne voie pas mon malheur.
If you intend to act like this toward me, kill me now. If you are really concerned about me, be kind to me and [kill me to] end my misery [of trying to take care of them]!”
16 L’Éternel dit à Moïse: Assemble auprès de moi soixante-dix hommes des anciens d’Israël, de ceux que tu connais comme anciens du peuple et ayant autorité sur lui; amène-les à la tente d’assignation, et qu’ils s’y présentent avec toi.
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Summon 70 men whom you know are leaders among the Israeli people. Tell them to stand with you in front of the Sacred Tent.
17 Je descendrai, et là je te parlerai; je prendrai de l’esprit qui est sur toi, et je le mettrai sur eux, afin qu’ils portent avec toi la charge du peuple, et que tu ne la portes pas à toi seul.
I will come down and talk with you there. Then I will take some of [the power of] my Spirit that you have, and I will put [that power] on them also. They will help you to take care of some of the things that the people are concerned about, in order that you will not need to do it alone.
18 Tu diras au peuple: Sanctifiez-vous pour demain, et vous mangerez de la viande, puisque vous avez pleuré aux oreilles de l’Éternel, en disant: Qui nous fera manger de la viande? Car nous étions bien en Égypte. L’Éternel vous donnera de la viande, et vous en mangerez.
“Furthermore, say to the people, ‘Make yourselves acceptable to me, and tomorrow you will have meat to eat. You were complaining, and Yahweh heard you when you were saying, “We want some meat to eat. We had better food in Egypt!” Now Yahweh will give you some meat, and you will eat it.
19 Vous en mangerez non pas un jour, ni deux jours, ni cinq jours, ni dix jours, ni vingt jours,
You will eat meat not only for one or two days, nor only for five or ten or 20 days.
20 mais un mois entier, jusqu’à ce qu’elle vous sorte par les narines et que vous en ayez du dégoût, parce que vous avez rejeté l’Éternel qui est au milieu de vous, et parce que vous avez pleuré devant lui, en disant: Pourquoi donc sommes-nous sortis d’Égypte?
[You will eat meat every day] for one month, and then you will loathe/despise it, and it will cause you to want to vomit. [This will happen] because you have rejected Yahweh who is here among you, and you have wailed in his presence, saying [“We would have had better food to eat] if we had not left Egypt [RHQ].”’”
21 Moïse dit: Six cent mille hommes de pied forment le peuple au milieu duquel je suis, et tu dis: Je leur donnerai de la viande, et ils en mangeront un mois entier!
But Moses/I replied to Yahweh, “There are 600,000 men [plus women and children] here with me, so ([why] do you say ‘I will give them plenty of meat every day for a month!’?/it does not seem right for you to say ‘I will give them plenty of meat every day for a month!’) [RHQ]
22 Égorgera-t-on pour eux des brebis et des bœufs, en sorte qu’ils en aient assez? Ou rassemblera-t-on pour eux tous les poissons de la mer, en sorte qu’ils en aient assez?
Even if we killed all the sheep and cattle, that would not [RHQ] be enough [to provide meat for all of them] Even if we caught all the fish in the sea [and gave it to them], that would not be enough [RHQ]!”
23 L’Éternel répondit à Moïse: La main de l’Éternel serait-elle trop courte? Tu verras maintenant si ce que je t’ai dit arrivera ou non.
But Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Do you think that I [SYN] have no power? You will now see if I can do what I say I will do.”
24 Moïse sortit, et rapporta au peuple les paroles de l’Éternel. Il assembla soixante-dix hommes des anciens du peuple, et les plaça autour de la tente.
So Moses/I went out [from the Sacred Tent] and told the people what Yahweh had said. Then he/I gathered together the 70 leaders and told them to stand around the Sacred Tent.
25 L’Éternel descendit dans la nuée, et parla à Moïse; il prit de l’esprit qui était sur lui, et le mit sur les soixante-dix anciens. Et dès que l’esprit reposa sur eux, ils prophétisèrent; mais ils ne continuèrent pas.
Then Yahweh came down in the cloud [that was above the tent] and spoke to Moses/me. He took some of [the power of] the Spirit that he had given to Moses/me and gave it to the 70 leaders. By means of the power of the Spirit within them, they (prophesied/spoke messages that Yahweh gave them), but they did that only once.
26 Il y eut deux hommes, l’un appelé Eldad, et l’autre Médad, qui étaient restés dans le camp, et sur lesquels l’esprit reposa; car ils étaient parmi les inscrits, quoiqu’ils ne fussent point allés à la tente; et ils prophétisèrent dans le camp.
Two of the leaders whom Moses/I appointed, Eldad and Medad, were not there when the rest of them gathered together. They had not left [their tents] to go and stand around the Sacred Tent. But Yahweh’s Spirit came on them also, and they started to (prophesy/speak messages from Yahweh).
27 Un jeune garçon courut l’annoncer à Moïse, et dit: Eldad et Médad prophétisent dans le camp.
So a young man ran and told Moses/me, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in all their tents!”
28 Et Josué, fils de Nun, serviteur de Moïse depuis sa jeunesse, prit la parole et dit: Moïse, mon seigneur, empêche-les!
Joshua, who had helped Moses/me since he was a young man, said, “Sir, tell them to stop doing that!”
29 Moïse lui répondit: Es-tu jaloux pour moi? Puisse tout le peuple de l’Éternel être composé de prophètes; et veuille l’Éternel mettre son esprit sur eux!
But Moses/I replied, “(Are you worried that they might injure my reputation/Do you think that I want to be the only one who prophesies) [RHQ]? I wish that all Yahweh’s people could (prophesy/speak messages from Yahweh). I wish that Yahweh would give the power of his Spirit to all of them!”
30 Et Moïse se retira au camp, lui et les anciens d’Israël.
Then Moses/I and all the leaders went back to their/our tents.
31 L’Éternel fit souffler de la mer un vent, qui amena des cailles, et les répandit sur le camp, environ une journée de chemin d’un côté et environ une journée de chemin de l’autre côté, autour du camp. Il y en avait près de deux coudées au-dessus de la surface de la terre.
Then Yahweh sent a strong wind from the sea. It blew quail into the area all around the camp for miles in every direction, [and caused the quail to fall onto the ground]. They were piled up on the ground about (3 feet/1 meter) high!
32 Pendant tout ce jour et toute la nuit, et pendant toute la journée du lendemain, le peuple se leva et ramassa les cailles; celui qui en avait ramassé le moins en avait dix homers. Ils les étendirent pour eux autour du camp.
So the people went out and gathered up the quail all that day, and all that night, and all of the following day. [It seemed as though] everyone gathered at least 50 bushels! They spread the quail out on the ground all around the camp, [so that the quail would dry out].
33 Comme la chair était encore entre leurs dents sans être mâchée, la colère de l’Éternel s’enflamma contre le peuple, et l’Éternel frappa le peuple d’une très grande plaie.
[Then they cooked them and started to eat them]. But while they were still eating the meat [MTY], Yahweh [showed that he] was very angry with them. He struck them with a severe plague/sickness, [and many people died].
34 On donna à ce lieu le nom de Kibroth-Hattaava, parce qu’on y enterra le peuple que la convoitise avait saisi.
The people who died and were buried were the ones who had said they wanted to eat meat [like they had formerly eaten in Egypt]. So they called that place Kibroth-Hattaavah, [which means ‘graves of those who craved’].
35 De Kibroth-Hattaava le peuple partit pour Hatséroth, et il s’arrêta à Hatséroth.
From there, the Israelis continued walking [east] until they arrived at Hazeroth [town], where they stopped and stayed [for a long time].
