Exode 21
1 Ce sont ici les lois que tu leur présenteras:
Now these are the laws which you are to put before them.
2 Si tu achètes un esclave hébreu, il servira six années, mais la septième il sortira libre, sans rien payer.
If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.
3 S'il est venu seul, il sortira seul; s'il avait une femme, sa femme sortira avec lui.
If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.
4 Si son maître lui donne une femme, et qu'elle lui enfante des fils ou des filles, la femme et ses enfants seront au maître, et il sortira seul.
If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.
5 Que si l'esclave dit: J'aime mon maître, ma femme et mes enfants; je ne veux pas sortir pour être libre;
But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:
6 Alors son maître l'amènera devant Dieu et le fera approcher de la porte ou du poteau, et son maître lui percera l'oreille avec un poinçon, et il le servira toujours.
Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.
7 Si quelqu'un vend sa fille pour être esclave, elle ne sortira point comme sortent les esclaves.
And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.
8 Si elle déplaît à son maître, qui se l'était destinée, il la fera racheter; il n'aura point le pouvoir de la vendre à un peuple étranger, après l'avoir trompée.
If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.
9 Mais s'il la destine à son fils, il fera pour elle selon le droit des filles.
And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.
10 S'il en prend une autre, il ne retranchera rien pour la première à la nourriture, au vêtement, ni à la cohabitation.
And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.
11 Et s'il ne lui fait pas ces trois choses, elle sortira gratuitement, sans argent.
And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.
12 Celui qui frappe un homme à mort, sera puni de mort.
He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.
13 Que s'il ne lui a point dressé d'embûches, mais que Dieu l'ait fait se rencontrer sous sa main, je t'établirai un lieu où il se réfugiera.
But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.
14 Mais si quelqu'un s'est élevé contre son prochain, pour le tuer par ruse, tu le prendras même d'auprès de mon autel, afin qu'il meure.
But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.
15 Celui qui frappe son père ou sa mère, sera puni de mort.
Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.
16 Celui qui dérobe un homme et le vend, et celui entre les mains duquel il est trouvé, sera puni de mort.
Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.
17 Celui qui maudit son père ou sa mère, sera puni de mort.
Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.
18 Quand des hommes se querelleront, et que l'un frappera l'autre d'une pierre, ou du poing, de telle sorte qu'il n'en meure pas, mais qu'il soit obligé de se mettre au lit;
If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;
19 S'il se lève, et marche dehors, appuyé sur son bâton, celui qui l'aura frappé sera absous; seulement il paiera son chômage, et le fera guérir entièrement.
If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for till he is well.
20 Quand un homme frappera son serviteur, ou sa servante, avec le bâton, et qu'ils mourront sous sa main, il ne manquera pas d'être puni.
If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.
21 Mais s'ils survivent un jour ou deux, il ne sera pas puni, car c'est son argent.
But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.
22 Si des hommes se battent, et frappent une femme enceinte, et qu'elle en accouche, sans qu'il arrive malheur, celui qui l'aura frappée sera condamné à l'amende que le mari de la femme lui imposera; et il la donnera devant des juges.
If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges.
23 Mais s'il arrive malheur, tu donneras vie pour vie,
But if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment 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, plaie pour plaie, meurtrissure pour meurtrissure.
Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow.
26 Et si quelqu'un frappe l'œil de son serviteur ou l'œil de sa servante, et le leur gâte, il les laissera aller libres pour leur œil.
If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant a blow in the eye, causing its destruction, he is to let him go free on account of the damage to his eye.
27 Que s'il fait tomber une dent à son serviteur ou à sa servante, il les laissera aller libres pour leur dent.
Or if the loss of a tooth is caused by his blow, he will let him go free on account of his tooth.
28 Si un bœuf heurte de sa corne un homme ou une femme, qui en meure, le bœuf sera lapidé, et l'on ne mangera point sa chair, et le maître du bœuf sera absous.
If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible.
29 Mais si auparavant le bœuf avait accoutumé de heurter de sa corne, et que son maître en ait été averti, et qu'il ne l'ait point surveillé, et qu'il tue un homme ou une femme, le bœuf sera lapidé, et son maître aussi sera mis à mort.
But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death.
30 Si on lui impose un prix pour se racheter, il donnera en rançon de sa vie tout ce qui lui sera imposé.
If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed.
31 Si le bœuf heurte de sa corne un fils ou une fille, on le traitera selon cette même loi.
If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule.
32 Si le bœuf heurte de sa corne un esclave, soit homme, soit femme, le possesseur du bœuf donnera trente sicles d'argent à son maître, et le bœuf sera lapidé.
If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.
33 Si quelqu'un ouvre une fosse ou si quelqu'un creuse une fosse, et ne la couvre point, et qu'il y tombe un bœuf ou un âne,
If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death;
34 Le maître de la fosse fera restitution; il rendra de l'argent à leur maître; mais ce qui est mort sera à lui.
The owner of the hole is responsible; he will have to make payment to their owner, but the dead beast will be his.
35 Et si le bœuf de quelqu'un blesse le bœuf de son prochain, et qu'il en meure, ils vendront le bœuf vivant et en partageront l'argent, et ils partageront aussi le bœuf mort.
And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one.
36 S'il est notoire qu'auparavant le bœuf avait accoutumé de heurter de sa corne, et que son maître ne l'ait point gardé, il devra rendre bœuf pour bœuf; mais le bœuf mort sera à lui.
But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.
