Lévitique 21
1 L'Eternel dit aussi à Moïse: Parle aux Sacrificateurs, fils d'Aaron, et leur dis: [Qu'aucun d'eux] ne se souille entre ses peuples pour un mort.
Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
2 Sinon pour son proche parent, qui le touche de près, [savoir] pour sa mère, pour son père, pour son fils, pour sa fille, et 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 quant à sa sœur vierge, qui le touche de près, et qui n'aura point eu de mari, il se souillera pour elle.
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 S'il est marié il ne se souillera point [pour sa femme] parmi son peuple, en se rendant impur.
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 Ils n'arracheront point les cheveux de leur tête pour la rendre chauve, et ils ne raseront point les coins de leur barbe, ni ne feront d'incision en 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 à leur Dieu, et ils ne profaneront point le nom de leur Dieu; car ils offrent les sacrifices de l'Eternel faits par feu, qui est la viande de leur Dieu; c'est pourquoi ils seront très-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 paillarde, ou déshonorée; ils ne prendront point aussi une femme répudiée par son mari; car ils sont saints à 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 feras donc que chacun d'eux soit saint, parce qu'ils offrent la viande de ton Dieu. Ils te seront donc saints, car je suis saint, moi l'Eternel 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 du Sacrificateur se souille en commettant paillardise, elle souille son père; qu'elle soit [donc] 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 Et le souverain Sacrificateur d'entre ses frères, sur la tête duquel l'huile de l'onction aura été répandue, et qui se sera consacré pour vêtir les [saints] vêtements, 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 point vers aucune personne morte; il ne se rendra point impur 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 Et il ne sortira point du Sanctuaire, et ne souillera point le Sanctuaire de son Dieu; parce que la couronne, [et] l'huile de l'onction de son Dieu est sur lui. Je [suis] l'Eternel.
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 point une veuve; ni une répudiée, ni une femme déshonorée, [ni] une paillarde; mais il prendra pour femme une vierge d'entre ses peuples.
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 souillera point sa postérité entre ses peuples; car je suis l'Eternel qui le sanctifie.
16 L'Eternel parla aussi à Moïse, en disant:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
17 Parle à Aaron, et lui dis: Si quelqu'un de ta postérité dans ses âges a quelque défaut [en son corps], il ne s'approchera point pour offrir la viande 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 Car aucun homme en qui il y aura quelque défaut n'en approchera; [savoir] l'homme aveugle, ou boiteux, ou camus, ou qui aura quelque superfluité dans ses membres.
No one who is blind or lame or deformed, or whose [face is] disfigured,
19 Ou l'homme qui aura quelque fracture aux pieds, ou aux mains.
no man with a crippled foot or a crippled hand,
20 Ou qui sera bossu, ou grêle, ou qui aura quelque suffusion en l'œil, ou qui aura une gâle sèche, ou une gâle d'ulcère, ou qui sera rompu.
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 Nul homme donc de la postérité d'Aaron Sacrificateur en qui il y aura quelque défaut, ne s'approchera pour offrir les offrandes faites par feu à l'Eternel; il y a un défaut en lui, il ne s'approchera donc point pour offrir la viande 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 bien manger de la viande de son Dieu, [savoir] 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'entrera point vers le voile, ni ne s'approchera point de l'autel, parce qu'il y a en lui une défectuosité, de peur de souiller mes Sanctuaires; car je suis l'Eternel 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 Moïse donc parla ainsi 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.
