Nombres 19
1 L’Éternel parla à Moïse et à Aaron, et dit:
Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses/me,
2 Voici ce qui est ordonné par la loi que l’Éternel a prescrite, en disant: Parle aux enfants d’Israël, et qu’ils t’amènent une vache rousse, sans tache, sans défaut corporel, et qui n’ait point porté le joug.
“I am now giving to you another regulation. Tell the Israeli people to bring to you one reddish-brown cow that has no defects. It must be an animal that (has never been/no one has ever) used for plowing ground.
3 Vous la remettrez au sacrificateur Éléazar, qui la fera sortir du camp, et on l’égorgera devant lui.
Give it to Eleazar, the priest. He must take it outside the camp and slaughter it [and drain the blood in a basin].
4 Le sacrificateur Éléazar prendra du sang de la vache avec le doigt, et il en fera sept fois l’aspersion sur le devant de la tente d’assignation.
He must dip one of his fingers in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times [on the ground] near the Sacred Tent.
5 On brûlera la vache sous ses yeux; on brûlera sa peau, sa chair et son sang, avec ses excréments.
Then, while Eleazar watches, the cow must be burned completely—its hide, its meat, [the rest of] its blood, and even its dung.
6 Le sacrificateur prendra du bois de cèdre, de l’hysope et du cramoisi, et il les jettera au milieu des flammes qui consumeront la vache.
Eliezer then must take a stick of cedar wood, a stalk of [a plant named] hyssop, and some scarlet/red yarn, and throw them into the fire where the cow is burning.
7 Le sacrificateur lavera ses vêtements, et lavera son corps dans l’eau; puis il rentrera dans le camp, et sera impur jusqu’au soir.
“Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe. After doing that, he may return to the camp. But he will be unfit for doing any sacred work until that evening.
8 Celui qui aura brûlé la vache lavera ses vêtements dans l’eau, et lavera son corps dans l’eau; et il sera impur jusqu’au soir.
The man who burns the cow must also wash his clothes and bathe, and he will also be unacceptable to me until that evening.
9 Un homme pur recueillera la cendre de la vache, et la déposera hors du camp, dans un lieu pur; on la conservera pour l’assemblée des enfants d’Israël, afin d’en faire l’eau de purification. C’est une eau expiatoire.
“Then someone who has not become unacceptable to me must gather up the ashes of the cow and put them in a (sacred place/place that is acceptable to me) outside the camp. The ashes must be kept there for the people of Israel to [use when they] mix it with water for the ritual to remove the guilt of sin.
10 Celui qui aura recueilli la cendre de la vache lavera ses vêtements, et sera impur jusqu’au soir. Ce sera une loi perpétuelle pour les enfants d’Israël et pour l’étranger en séjour au milieu d’eux.
The man who gathers up the ashes of the cow must [also] wash his clothes, and he [also] will be unfit to do any more sacred work until that evening. That is a regulation that will never be changed. It must be obeyed by you Israeli people and by any foreigners who live among you.
11 Celui qui touchera un mort, un corps humain quelconque, sera impur pendant sept jours.
“All those who touch a corpse will be unacceptable to me for seven days.
12 Il se purifiera avec cette eau le troisième jour et le septième jour, et il sera pur; mais, s’il ne se purifie pas le troisième jour et le septième jour, il ne sera pas pur.
On the third day and on the seventh day [after touching a corpse], in order to become acceptable to me again, [they must have sprinkled on them] some of that water for removing the guilt of their sin. If they do not do that on both of those days, they will continue to be unacceptable to me.
13 Celui qui touchera un mort, le corps d’un homme qui sera mort, et qui ne se purifiera pas, souille le tabernacle de l’Éternel; celui-là sera retranché d’Israël. Comme l’eau de purification n’a pas été répandue sur lui, il est impur, et son impureté est encore sur lui.
All those who touch a corpse, and do not perform in the correct way the ritual to become acceptable to me again, defile Yahweh’s Sacred Tent. They will no longer be permitted to live among the Israeli people. The water to remove the guilt of sin was not sprinkled on them, so they continue to be unacceptable to me.
14 Voici la loi. Lorsqu’un homme mourra dans une tente, quiconque entrera dans la tente, et quiconque se trouvera dans la tente, sera impur pendant sept jours.
“There is another ritual that must be performed when someone dies inside a tent. All those who were inside that tent when that person died or who enter that tent will be unacceptable to me for seven days.
15 Tout vase découvert, sur lequel il n’y aura point de couvercle attaché, sera impur.
Any jars that are inside that tent that are not covered are not permitted to be used.
16 Quiconque touchera, dans les champs, un homme tué par l’épée, ou un mort, ou des ossements humains, ou un sépulcre, sera impur pendant sept jours.
If someone who is out in a field touches the corpse of someone who was murdered, or who died from natural causes, or if someone touches a bone from some human or touches a grave, that person will be unacceptable to me for seven days.
17 On prendra, pour celui qui est impur, de la cendre de la victime expiatoire qui a été brûlée, et on mettra dessus de l’eau vive dans un vase.
“For someone like that to become acceptable to me again, some of the ashes from [the cow] that was burned must be taken and put in a jar. Then some fresh water must be poured over the ashes.
18 Un homme pur prendra de l’hysope, et la trempera dans l’eau; puis il en fera l’aspersion sur la tente, sur tous les ustensiles, sur les personnes qui sont là, sur celui qui a touché des ossements, ou un homme tué, ou un mort, ou un sépulcre.
Then someone who is still acceptable to me must take a stalk of [a plant named] hyssop and dip it into the water. Then that person must sprinkle some of the water on the tent where that person died, on the things that are in the tent, and on the people who were in the tent. He must also sprinkle some of that water on any person who touched a human bone or who touched a person who died, or who touched a grave.
19 Celui qui est pur fera l’aspersion sur celui qui est impur, le troisième jour et le septième jour, et il le purifiera le septième jour. Il lavera ses vêtements, et se lavera dans l’eau; et le soir, il sera pur.
On the third day and on the seventh day after that, the person who is acceptable to me must sprinkle some of that water on those who have become unacceptable to me. On the seventh day, the people who are performing that ritual to become acceptable to me again must wash their clothes and bathe. If they do that, on that evening they will become acceptable to me again.
20 Un homme qui sera impur, et qui ne se purifiera pas, sera retranché du milieu de l’assemblée, car il a souillé le sanctuaire de l’Éternel; comme l’eau de purification n’a pas été répandue sur lui, il est impur.
“If those who have become unacceptable to me do not become acceptable to me again by doing this, they will no longer be permitted to live among the Israeli people, because they have defiled my Sacred Tent. They did not sprinkle on themselves the water that removes the guilt of their sins, so they remain unacceptable to me.
21 Ce sera pour eux une loi perpétuelle. Celui qui fera l’aspersion de l’eau de purification lavera ses vêtements, et celui qui touchera l’eau de purification sera impur jusqu’au soir.
That is a law for the Israeli people that will never be changed. Those who sprinkle that water on themselves must then wash their clothes. And anyone who touches that water which removes guilt for sins will remain unacceptable to God until that evening.
22 Tout ce que touchera celui qui est impur sera souillé, et la personne qui le touchera sera impure jusqu’au soir.
“If someone touches a thing or a person that has become unacceptable to me, that person will remain unacceptable to me until that evening.”
