Exode 34
1 Et ensuite: Taille-toi, dit-il, deux tables de pierre à l’instar des premières, et j’écrirai dessus les paroles que contenaient les tables que tu as rompues.
Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Cut two slabs of stone that will be like the first slabs, the ones that you broke. Then I will engrave on them the words that were on the first slabs.
2 Sois prêt dès le matin, pour monter aussitôt sur la montagne de Sinaï, et tu te tiendras avec moi sur le sommet de la montagne.
Get ready tomorrow morning, and come up to the top of Sinai Mountain again to talk with me there.
3 Que nul ne monte avec toi, et que personne ne soit vu sur toute la montagne; que les bœufs même et les brebis ne paissent point contre.
Do not allow anyone to come up with you. I do not want anyone [else] to be anywhere on the mountain. Do not allow any sheep or cattle to graze (at the base of/near) the mountain.”
4 Il tailla donc deux tables de pierre, comme celles qui avaient été auparavant; et se levant de nuit, il monta sur la montagne de Sinaï, comme lui avait ordonné le Seigneur, portant avec lui les tables.
So Moses/I cut two slabs of stone that were like the first ones. He/I arose early the next morning. He/I took the slabs and carried them in his/my hands up to the top of Sinai Mountain, as Yahweh had commanded.
5 Et lorsque le Seigneur fut descendu dans la nuée. Moïse se tint avec lui, invoquant le nom du Seigneur.
Then Yahweh descended in the [tall] cloud and stood with Moses/me there. He proclaimed that it was he, Yahweh, [who was going to speak to Moses/me].
6 Et le Seigneur passant devant lui, Moïse dit: Dominateur, Seigneur Dieu, miséricordieux et clément, patient et d’une abondante miséricorde, et très véritable,
Then Yahweh passed in front of him/me and proclaimed, “I am Yahweh God. I always act mercifully and kindly [toward people]. I do not get angry quickly. I [truly] love [people] and I do what I promise to do for them, without changing.
7 Qui gardez votre miséricorde pour des milliers de créatures; qui effacez l’iniquité, les crimes et les péchés, et nul auprès de vous n’est innocent par lui-même; qui rendez l’iniquité des pères aux fils et aux petits-fils, jusqu’à la troisième et la quatrième génération.
I love people for thousands of generations. I forgive people for all kinds of sins [TRI]. But I will certainly punish [LIT] those who are guilty. I will punish not only them, but I will punish (their descendants, down to the third and fourth generation/their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren).”
8 Et aussitôt Moïse se prosterna incliné vers la terre, et adorant,
Moses/I quickly prostrated himself/myself on the ground and worshiped [Yahweh].
9 Dit: Si j’ai trouvé grâce en votre présence. Seigneur, je vous conjure de marcher avec nous (car Ce peuple est d’un cou roide), d’effacer nos iniquités et nos péchés, et de nous prendre en possession.
He/I said, “Yahweh, if you are now pleased with me, I ask that you go with us. These people are very stubborn [IDM], but forgive us for all our sins [DOU], and accept us to be people who belong to you [forever].”
10 Le Seigneur répondit: Moi, je ferai alliance, tous le voyant, je ferai des signes, qui n’ont jamais été vus sur la terre, ni dans aucune nation, afin qu’il voie, ce peuple au milieu duquel tu es, l’œuvre terrible du Seigneur que je dois faire.
Yahweh replied, “Note this: I am going to make a solemn agreement [with the Israeli people]. As they are watching, I will perform great miracles. They will be miracles that no one has ever done on the earth in any nation. All the people who are near you will see the great things that I, Yahweh, will do. I will do awesome things for you [all].
11 Observe tout ce qu’aujourd’hui je te commande; moi-même, je chasserai devant ta face l’Amorrhéen, le Chananéen, l’Héthéen, le Phérézéen aussi, l’Hévéen et le Jébuséen.
[Each Israeli] person must obey what I am commanding you this day. Do not forget that [if you obey me], I will expel the Amor, Canaan, Heth, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus people-groups [from the land]. But be careful that you do not make any [peace] agreements with any of the people who live in the land into which you are going, because if you do that, [you will begin to do the evil things that they do]. It will be [like] falling into a trap.
12 Prends garde de ne jamais lier des amitiés avec les habitants de cette terre, lesquelles soient pour toi une ruine;
13 Mais détruis leurs autels, brise leurs statues et coupe leurs bois sacrés.
You must tear down their altars, destroy their sacred pillars, and cut down [the poles that they use to worship their female goddess] Asherah.
14 N’adore point de dieu étranger. Le Seigneur, son nom est: jaloux; Dieu est jaloux.
You must worship only me, [and] not worship any other god, because I, Yahweh, cannot endure any rivals.
15 Ne fais point d’alliance avec les hommes de ces pays-là, de peur que lorsqu’ils auront forniqué avec leurs dieux, et qu’ils auront adoré leurs simulacres, quelqu’un ne t’invite à manger des victimes immolées.
Do not make peace agreements with [any group] that lives in that land. When they worship their gods and offer sacrifices to their gods, and they invite you to join them, do not join them. If [you join them], you will eat the food that they sacrifice to their gods, and [you will not be faithful to me. You will be like people who] commit adultery, [who are not being faithful to their spouses] [MET].
16 Tu ne prendras point de femmes d’entre leurs filles pour tes fils, de peur qu’après qu’elles-mêmes auront forniqué, elles ne fassent forniquer aussi tes fils avec leurs dieux.
If you take some of their women to be wives for your sons, and these women worship their own gods, they will persuade your sons also to worship their gods.
17 Tu ne feras point de dieux jetés en fonte.
Do not pour melted metal into molds to make statues for you to worship.
18 Tu garderas la solennité des azymes. Pendant sept jours tu mangeras des azymes, comme je t’ai ordonné, au temps du mois des nouveaux fruits; car c’est au mois du printemps que tu es sorti de l’Egypte.
[Each year], during the month [of/named] Abib, celebrate the Festival of Eating Bread Made Without Yeast. [During that festival], for seven days you must not eat bread made with yeast, as I commanded you, because it was in that month that you left Egypt.
19 Tout mâle qui ouvre un sein, sera à moi. Le premier-né d’entre tous les animaux, tant des bœufs que des brebis, sera à moi.
Your firstborn sons and the firstborn [male] animals of your cattle and sheep [and goats] belong to me.
20 Tu rachèteras le premier-né de l’âne avec une brebis; mais si tu ne donnes pas de rançon pour lui, il sera tué. Tu rachèteras le premier-né de tes fils; et tu ne paraîtras point devant moi les mains vides.
The firstborn of your [male] donkeys [also belong to me]. But you may buy them back by [offering to me] lambs [in their place]. If you do not do that, you must [kill these animals by] breaking their necks. You must also buy back your firstborn sons. You must bring an offering to me [LIT] each time you come to [worship] me.
21 Pendant six jours tu travailleras; au septième jour, tu cesseras de labourer et de moissonner.
[Each week] you may work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest. [Even] during the times when you plow [the ground] and harvest [your crops], you must rest [on the seventh day].
22 Tu feras la solennité des semaines, à l’époque des prémices des fruits de ta moisson de froment, et la solennité de la récolte, quand, le temps de l’année revenant, tout se serre.
[Each year] celebrate the Harvest Festival, when you begin to harvest the first crop of wheat, and also celebrate the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters, when you finish harvesting [the grain and fruit].
23 À trois époques de l’année tous tes mâles paraîtront en la présence du tout-puissant Seigneur Dieu d’Israël.
Three times each year all the men must come to worship me, Yahweh, the God of the Israeli people.
24 Car lorsque j’aurai enlevé les nations de devant ta face, et que j’aurai étendu tes limites, nul ne cherchera à surprendre ta terre, toi montant, et paraissant en la présence du Seigneur ton Dieu trois fois l’année.
I will expel the people-groups that live in the land [where you will be], and I will cause your territory to become very large. As a result, no group will try to conquer your country if you come to worship me each year during those three festivals.
25 Tu ne sacrifieras point sur du levain le sang de mon hostie, et il ne restera pas le matin de la victime de la solennité de la Pâque.
When you sacrifice an animal [MTY] to me, do not offer with it bread that is made with yeast. And during the Passover Festival, when you sacrifice lambs, do not keep any of the meat until the next morning.
26 Tu offriras les prémices des fruits de ta terre dans la maison du Seigneur ton Dieu. Tu ne feras point cuire un chevreau dans le lait de sa mère.
I am Yahweh God. You must bring to my Sacred Tent the first part of the grain that you harvest each year. When you kill a young animal/kid [either a lamb or a calf], do not [prepare to eat it by] boiling it in its mother’s milk.”
27 Le Seigneur dit encore à Moïse: Ecris pour toi ces paroles par lesquelles j’ai fait alliance et avec toi et avec Israël.
Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Write down the words that I have told you. By giving you these commands, I have made a solemn agreement with you and with the [other] Israeli people.”
28 Il fut donc là avec le Seigneur quarante jours et quarante nuits: il ne mangea point de pain et il ne but point d’eau, et il écrivit sur les tables les dix paroles de l’alliance.
Moses/I was there [on the top of the mountain] with Yahweh for 40 days and nights. During that time he/I did not eat or drink anything [SYN]. He/I engraved on the stone slabs the words of the Ten Commandments, [which were part of Yahweh’s] solemn agreement.
29 Et lorsque Moïse descendait de la montagne de Sinaï, il tenait les deux tables du témoignage, et il ignorait que sa face était rayonnante de lumière, depuis l’entretien du Seigneur avec lui.
When Moses/I came back down the mountain, carrying in his/my hand the two stone slabs on which were written the Ten Commandments, his/my face was shining because he/I had been talking with Yahweh, but he/I did not know that his/my face was shining.
30 Or Aaron et les enfants d’Israël, voyant la face de Moïse rayonnante, craignirent de s’approcher.
When Aaron and the [other] Israeli people saw Moses/me, they were amazed/surprised that his/my face was shining. So they were afraid to come near him/me.
31 Mais appelés par lui, ils revinrent, tant Aaron que les princes de la synagogue. Et après qu’il leur eut parlé,
But Moses/I called to them. Then Aaron and the other Israeli leaders came to him/me, and he/I talked with them.
32 Vinrent aussi vers lui tous les enfants d’Israël, auxquels il ordonna toutes les choses qu’il avait entendues du Seigneur sur la montagne de Sinaï.
Afterwards, all the other Israeli people came near, and he/I told them all the laws that Yahweh had given to him/me on Sinai Mountain.
33 Et, ces discours achevés, il mit un voile sur sa face.
When Moses/I finished talking to the people, he/I put a veil over his/my face.
34 Entré auprès du Seigneur, et parlant avec lui, il ôtait ce voile jusqu’à ce qu’il en sortît, et c’est alors qu’il disait aux enfants d’Israël toutes les choses qui lui avaient été commandées.
But whenever Moses/I entered the Sacred Tent to talk with Yahweh, he/I removed the veil. When he/I came back out, he/I would always tell to the Israeli people everything that Yahweh had commanded him/me [to tell them].
35 Ceux-ci voyaient que la face de Moïse rayonnait, lorsqu’il sortait, mais lui la voilait de nouveau, s’il avait à leur parler.
The Israeli people would see that Moses’/my face was [still] shining. Then he/I would put the veil back on his/my face again until the next time that he/I went into [the Sacred Tent] to talk with Yahweh.
