Lévitique 21
1 Le Seigneur dit aussi à Moïse: Parle aux prêtres, fils d’Aaron, et tu leur diras: Qu’un prêtre ne se souille point à la mort de ses concitoyens;
Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
2 Or, il s’y souillera, à moins qu’il ne s’agisse seulement de ses consanguins et de ses proches, c’est-à-dire, de son père et de sa mère, de son fils et de sa fille, de 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 de sa sœur vierge, qui n’a pas été mariée à un homme;
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 Mais il ne se souillera pas non plus pour le prince de son peuple.
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 ne raseront point leur tête, ni leur barbe, et dans leur chair ils ne feront point d’incisions.
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 pour leur Dieu et ils ne souilleront point son nom; car ils offrent l’holocauste du Seigneur, et les pains de leur Dieu, et c’est pour cela qu’ils seront 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 n’épouseront point une femme déshonorée et une fille prostituée, ni celle qui a été répudiée par son mari; parce qu’ils sont consacrés 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 Et qu’ils offrent les pains de proposition. Qu’ils soient donc saints, parce que je suis saint, moi aussi, le Seigneur qui les 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 d’un prêtre est surprise en fornication et qu’elle ait déshonoré le nom de son père, elle sera complètement brûlée par les flammes.
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 Le pontife, c’est-à-dire, le grand-prêtre parmi ses frères, sur la tête duquel l’huile de l’onction a été répandue, dont les mains ont été consacrées à son sacerdoce et qui est revêtu des 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 Et il n’entrera absolument auprès d’aucun mort: pour son père même et pour sa mère il ne se souillera point.
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 Une sortira point des lieux saints, afin qu’il ne souille pas le sanctuaire du Seigneur, parce que l’huile de la sainte onction de son Dieu est sur lui. Je suis le Seigneur.
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 C’est une vierge qu’il prendra pour femme;
Women whom you priests marry must be virgins.
14 Mais il ne prendra point une veuve, et une femme répudiée, ou déshonorée, ni une prostituée, mais une jeune fille de son peuple.
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 Qu’il ne mêle point le sang de sa race avec le vulgaire de sa nation, parce que je suis le Seigneur qui le sanctifie.
16 Le Seigneur parla encore à Moïse, disant:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
17 Dis à Aaron: Un homme de ta lignée dans tes familles, qui aura une tache, n’offrira point des pains à 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 Et il ne s’approchera point de son ministère, s’il est aveugle, s’il est boiteux, s’il a le nez petit, ou grand, ou tordu,
No one who is blind or lame or deformed, or whose [face is] disfigured,
19 S’il a le pied rompu ou la main,
no man with a crippled foot or a crippled hand,
20 S’il est bossu, s’il est chassieux, s’il a une taie sur l’œil, s’il a une gale continue, ou une dartre vive sur le corps, ou une hernie.
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 Quiconque de la race d’Aaron, le prêtre, aura une tache, ne s’approchera point pour offrir des hosties au Seigneur, ni des pains à 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 mangera néanmoins des pains qui sont offerts dans le sanctuaire,
Priests who have defects are permitted to eat the various kinds of holy food offered to me.
23 De telle sorte seulement, qu’il n’entre pas au dedans du voile, et qu’il ne s’approche pas de l’autel, parce qu’il a une tache et qu’il ne doit point souiller mon sanctuaire. Je suis le Seigneur qui vous 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 dit donc à Aaron, à ses fils et à tout Israël tout ce qui lui avait été commandé.
So Moses/I told this to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israeli people.
