Lévitique 23
1 Le Seigneur parla encore à Moïse, disant:
Yahweh said to Moses/me,
2 Parle aux enfants d’Israël, et tu leur diras: Voici les fêtes du Seigneur que vous appellerez saintes.
“Tell the Israeli people about the festivals that I have chosen, the days when you all must gather together [to worship me].”
3 Pendant six jours vous travaillerez; le septième jour, parce qu’il est le repos du sabbat, sera appelé saint: vous ne ferez aucun ouvrage en ce jour. C’est le sabbat du Seigneur dans toutes vos habitations.
“You may work for six days [each week], but on the seventh day you must not do any work. You must rest. It is a sacred/holy day when you must gather together [to worship me]. Wherever you live, you must rest on that day.”
4 Voici donc les fêtes saintes du Seigneur que vous devez célébrer en leurs temps.
“There are festivals that I have established for you. Those will also be sacred/holy days when you must gather together [to worship me].
5 Au premier mois, au quatorzième jour du mois vers le soir, est la Pâque du Seigneur;
[The first festival is] (the Passover/when you remember that I spared your ancestors when I killed all the firstborn Egyptian sons). That festival will begin at twilight/dusk/sunset on the chosen day (each spring/in March or April each year), [and end on the following day].
6 Et au quinzième jour de ce mois est la solennité des azymes du Seigneur. Pendant sept jours vous mangerez des azymes.
The next day, the Festival of Eating Bread That Has No Yeast will begin. That festival will continue for seven days. During that time, the bread that you eat must be made without yeast.
7 Le premier jour sera pour vous très solennel et saint; vous ne ferez aucune oeuvre servile en ce jour;
On the first day of that festival, you all must stop your regular work and you must gather together [to worship me].
8 Mais vous offrirez un sacrifice avec du feu au Seigneur pendant sept jours; mais le septième jour sera plus solennel et plus saint; et vous ne ferez aucune œuvre servile en ce jour.
On each of the seven days, you must present to me [several animals to be] an offering/sacrifice to be completely burned [on the altar]. On the seventh day, you all must again stop your regular work and gather to worship me.”
9 Le Seigneur parla encore à Moïse, disant:
Yahweh also told Moses/me
10 Parle aux enfants d’Israël, et tu leur diras: Lorsque vous entrerez dans la terre que je vous donnerai moi-même, et que vous aurez moissonné le blé, vous apporterez des gerbes d’épis, prémices de votre moisson, au prêtre,
to tell the Israeli people [about other festivals]. He said, “When you arrive in the land which I am giving to you, and you harvest your crops [for the first time] there, bring to the priest some of the first grain that you harvest.
11 Qui élèvera la botte devant le Seigneur, le second jour du sabbat, afin qu’elle soit acceptable en votre faveur, et il la sanctifiera.
On the day after the [next] Sabbath/rest day, the priest will lift it up [high to dedicate it] to me, in order that I will accept it as your [gift].
12 Et au même jour que la gerbe sera consacrée, un agneau sans tache, d’un an, sera immolé pour l’holocauste du Seigneur.
That same day, you must sacrifice to me a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects. You must burn it [on the altar].
13 Et seront offertes avec lui les libations: deux décimes de fleur de farine arrosée d’huile pour l’holocauste du Seigneur, et en odeur très suave; et aussi les libations de vin, la quatrième partie du hin.
You must also burn an offering of grain. That offering must consist of (three quarts/3.5 liters) of good flour mixed with [olive] oil. The smell [of those things burning] will be very pleasing to me. Along with that, you must also offer one quart/liter of wine, which will be a liquid offering.
14 Vous ne mangerez ni pain, ni farine desséchée, ni bouillie provenant du blé, jusqu’au jour que vous en offrirez à votre Dieu. C’est un précepte perpétuel en toutes vos générations et en toutes vos habitations.
Do not eat any bread or any roasted grain or unroasted grain on that day until after you have brought those offerings to me, your God. You must always obey [LIT] those commands, wherever you live.”
15 Vous compterez donc depuis le second jour du sabbat dans lequel vous aurez offert la gerbe des prémices, sept semaines pleines,
“Seven weeks after the priest offers that grain to me,
16 Jusqu’au jour d’après la fin de la septième semaine, c’est-à-dire, cinquante jours; et c’est ainsi que vous offrirez un sacrifice nouveau au Seigneur,
on the next/50th day after he offers it, [each family] must bring to me an offering from the new crop of grain.
17 De toutes vos habitations, deux pains de prémices de deux décimes de fleur de farine fermentée, que vous cuirez pour les prémices du Seigneur;
From your homes, bring two loaves of bread [to the priest]. He will lift them up [high to dedicate them] as an offering to me. Those loaves must be baked from three quarts/liters of good flour that has yeast mixed with it. That bread will be an offering to me from the first wheat that you harvest [each year].
18 Et vous offrirez avec les pains sept agneaux sans tache d’un an, et un veau pris du troupeau de gros bétail, et deux béliers, et ils seront avec leurs libations pour un holocauste, en odeur suave pour le Seigneur.
Along with this bread, you must present to me seven one-year-old lambs with no defects, one young bull, and two rams. They must all be completely burned [on the altar]. All those offerings, with the grain offering and the wine offering, will be burned, and the smell [of all those things burning] will be very pleasing to me.
19 Vous sacrifierez aussi un bouc pour le péché et deux agneaux d’un an, hosties de sacrifices pacifiques.
Then you must also kill one male goat to be an offering/sacrifice for your sins, and two one-year-old male lambs to be an offering to enable you to maintain fellowship with me.
20 Et lorsque le prêtre les aura élevés avec les pains des prémices devant le Seigneur, ils deviendront à son usage.
The priest will lift up these offerings [high to dedicate them] to me. He will also offer the loaves of bread that were baked from the first wheat that you harvest. Those offerings are sacred to me, but they are for the priests [to eat].
21 Et vous appellerez ce jour très solennel et très saint; vous ne ferez aucune œuvre servile en ce jour. Ce sera une loi éternelle en toutes vos habitations et en toutes vos générations.
On that day, you must stop your regular work and gather to worship me. You must always obey those instructions/commands, and you must obey them wherever you live.
22 Quand vous moissonnerez le blé de votre terre, vous ne le couperez pas jusqu’au sol, et vous ne ramasserez point les épis restants, mais vous les laisserez pour les pauvres et les étrangers. C’est moi qui suis le Seigneur votre Dieu.
“When you harvest the grain in your fields, do not harvest the grain along the edges of the fields, and do not pick up the grain that the harvesters drop. Leave that grain for the poor people and for the foreigners who are living among you. [Do not forget that it is] I, Yahweh your God, [who am commanding those things]!”
23 Le Seigneur parla encore à Moïse, disant:
Yahweh also told Moses/me
24 Dis aux enfants d’Israël: Au septième mois, au premier jour du mois, sera pour vous un sabbat, un souvenir, les trompettes sonnant; et il sera appelé saint.
to give these instructions/commands to the Israeli people: “[Each year] in September, on the day that I have chosen, you all must celebrate it by completely resting. You must not do any work on that day. When [the priests] blow their trumpets loudly, you all must gather together to worship me.
25 Vous ne ferez aucune œuvre servile en ce jour, et vous offrirez un holocauste au Seigneur.
All of you must not do your regular work on that day. Instead, you must present offerings to me that will be burned [on the altar].”
26 Le Seigneur parla encore à Moïse, disant:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
27 Au dixième jour de ce septième mois, sera le jour très très solennel des expiations, et il sera appelé saint; or, vous affligerez vos âmes en ce jour, et vous offrirez un holocauste au Seigneur.
“You must celebrate a day [on which you request that I] forgive you for the sins that you have committed. That day will be nine days after the festival [when the priests blow] the trumpets. On that day you must (fast/abstain from eating food). You must gather together to worship me and present offerings to me that will be burned [on the altar].
28 Vous ne ferez aucune œuvre servile pendant tout ce jour, parce que c’est un jour de propitiation, afin que le Seigneur votre Dieu vous devienne propice.
You must not do any work on that day, because it is the day when the priests will offer sacrifices to me to (atone for/ask me to forgive) your sins.
29 Tout homme qui ne sera point affligé en ce jour-là périra du milieu de ses peuples;
You must expel from your group anyone who does not (fast/abstain from eating food) on that day.
30 Et celui qui fera quelque œuvre que ce soit, je le retrancherai du milieu de son peuple.
I will get rid of anyone who does any kind of work on that day.
31 Vous ne ferez donc aucune œuvre en ce jour; ce sera une loi perpétuelle pour vous en toutes vos générations et en toutes vos habitations.
You must not work at all! You must always obey those instructions/commands, and you must obey them wherever you live.
32 C’est un sabbat de repos, et vous affligerez vos âmes au neuvième jour du mois: c’est depuis un soir jusqu’à un soir que vous célébrerez vos sabbats.
That day will be a day of complete rest for all of you, and on that day you must (fast/abstain from eating food) [to show that you are sorry for having sinned]. That day of rest and (fasting/abstaining from eating food) will begin on the evening before the day in which you ask me to forgive you for your sins, and it will end on the evening of the following day.”
33 Le Seigneur parla encore à Moïse, disant:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
34 Dis aux enfants d’Israël: Depuis le quinzième jour de ce septième mois, seront les fêtes des Tabernacles pendant sept jours en l’honneur du Seigneur.
“Tell the Israeli people that [each year] they must also celebrate a festival of living in temporary shelters. That festival will begin five days after the day in which they request me to forgive them for their sins. It will last for seven days.
35 Le premier jour sera appelé très solennel et très saint: vous ne ferez aucune œuvre servile en ce jour.
On the first day of that festival, the people must gather together to worship me, and they must not do any regular work on that day.
36 Et pendant sept jours vous offrirez des holocaustes au Seigneur: le huitième jour aussi sera très solennel et très saint, et vous offrirez un holocauste au! Seigneur; car c’est une assemblée et des réunions: vous ne ferez aucune œuvre servile en ce jour.
On each of the seven days of the festival, they must present to me an offering [of animals] that will be burned [on the altar]. On the next day, they must gather again to worship me and present to me another animal that will be burned [on the altar]. That also will be a sacred gathering, and they must not work on that day, either.
37 Ce sont là les fêtes du Seigneur que vous appellerez très solennelles et très saintes, et vous y offrirez des oblations au Seigneur, des holocaustes et des libations selon le rite de chaque jour;
“[To summarize], those are the festivals that I have appointed. Celebrate those sacred festivals by gathering together to present to me all the various offerings that will be burned [on the altar]—animals that will be burned completely, and offerings of grain, and offerings to enable the Israeli people to maintain fellowship with me, and offerings of wine. Each offering must be brought on the day that I have indicated.
38 Outre le sabbat du Seigneur, et vos dons et les choses que vous offrirez en vertu d’un vœu, ou que vous donnerez spontanément au Seigneur.
(Those festivals must be celebrated/You must celebrate those festivals) in addition to [worshiping on] the (Sabbath days/days of rest). And all those offerings must be given in addition to the offerings that people personally decide to give, and in addition to the offerings that people make to accompany the solemn promises that they have made, or offerings that people make (voluntarily/because they themselves want to).
39 Depuis donc le quinzième jour du septième mois, quand vous aurez rassemblé tous les fruits de votre terre, vous célébrerez les fêtes du Seigneur pendant sept jours; au premier et au huitième jour sera un sabbat, c’est-à-dire un repos.
“[Returning to my instructions about] the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters, you must celebrate this festival after you have harvested all the crops. On the first day and on the last day of that festival, you must rest completely.
40 Or, au premier jour vous prendrez des fruits de l’arbre le plus beau, des petites spathes de palmiers, des rameaux d’un arbre au feuillage épais et des saules du torrent, et vous vous réjouirez devant le Seigneur votre Dieu:
But on the first day, you are permitted to pick fruit from trees. Cut palm fronds/branches and other leafy branches from trees or from bushes that grow by the streams, [and make shelters/huts to live in for that week]. Then rejoice in my presence for those seven days.
41 Et vous célébrerez sa solennité pendant sept jours par an: ce sera une loi perpétuelle en vos générations. Au septième mois vous célébrerez ces fêtes,
You must celebrate this festival for seven days every year. You must never stop obeying my commands/instructions for that festival. You must celebrate it in September.
42 Et vous habiterez sous les ombrages pendant sept jours. Quiconque est de la race d’Israël demeurera sous les tentes;
During the seven days of that festival, all of you people who have been Israelis your entire lives must live in shelters/huts.
43 Afin que vos descendants apprennent que c’est sous les tentes que j’ai fait habiter les enfants d’Israël, lorsque je les retirai de la terre d’Egypte. Je suis le Seigneur votre Dieu.
That will remind your descendants that their ancestors lived in shelters [for many years] after I rescued them from Egypt. [Do not forget that] I, Yahweh your God, [am the one who is commanding this].”
44 C’est ainsi que Moïse parla sur les solennités du Seigneur aux enfants d’Israël.
So Moses/I gave to the Israeli people all those instructions concerning the festivals that Yahweh [wanted them to celebrate] each year.
