Lévitique 27
1 Le Seigneur parla encore à Moïse, disant:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
2 Parle aux enfants d’Israël, et tu leur diras: Un homme qui aura fait un vœu et qui aura promis à Dieu son âme donnera, selon l’estimation, le prix.
“Tell the Israeli people [that this is what I am saying to them]: If anyone solemnly promises to dedicate another person to [work solely] for me, the person who is dedicated to me is allowed to be free from having to do that by someone paying [to the priest] a fixed amount of money. The money that is given must be calculated by comparing it with the official pieces of silver in the Sacred Tent.
3 Si c’est un homme depuis la vingtième année jusqu’à la soixantième année, il donnera cinquante sicles d’argent, selon la mesure du sanctuaire;
[These are the amounts that must be paid]: 50 pieces of silver for men who are between 20 and 60 years old,
4 Si c’est une femme, trente.
30 pieces of silver for adult women [who are between 20 and 60 years old],
5 Mais depuis la cinquième année jusqu’à la vingtième, l’homme donnera vingt sicles, la femme, dix.
20 pieces of silver for young men who are between five and 20 years old, ten pieces of silver for young women who are between five and 20 years old,
6 Depuis un mois jusqu’à la cinquième année, pour l’homme on donnera cinq sicles, pour la femme, trois.
five pieces of silver for boys who are between one month and five years old, three pieces of silver for girls who are between one month and five years old,
7 Un homme de soixante ans et au-dessus donnera quinze sicles; la femme, dix.
15 pieces of silver for men who are more than 60 years old, ten pieces of silver for women who are more than 60 years old.
8 S’il est pauvre, et s’il ne peut payer l’estimation, il se présentera devant le prêtre; et autant celui-ci aura estimé et aura vu qu’il peut payer, autant il donnera.
‘If anyone who has made such a solemn promise is very poor and unable to pay, to free that person from doing what he had promised, he must take that person to the priest. The priest will set the price [for freeing him] to be what the person who made that solemn promise is able to pay.
9 Mais un animal, qui peut être immolé au Seigneur, si quelqu’un le voue, sera saint,
‘If someone solemnly promises to give an animal that is acceptable to be an offering to me, that animal becomes sacred [and belongs to me].
10 Et il ne pourra être changé, c’est-à-dire, ni un meilleur pour un mauvais, ni un pire pour un bon; que s’il le change, et celui qui a été changé et celui pour lequel le premier a été changé sera consacré au Seigneur.
The person who promised to give it must not give another animal instead of the one that he promised; he must not substitute a bad animal for a good one or even a better one than the one offered. If he would substitute one animal for the other, both animals would belong to me.
11 Un animal impur, qui ne peut être immolé au Seigneur, si quelqu’un le voue, sera amené devant le prêtre,
If the animal that he wishes to dedicate to me is a kind that is unacceptable to be an offering to me, he must take that animal to the priest.
12 Qui jugeant s’il est bon ou mauvais, fixera le prix.
The priest will then decide what its value is, according to the animal’s good and bad points. Whatever value the priests sets will be the value of the animal, [and that is the price that the priest must pay for the animal].
13 Si celui qui offre veut le donner, il ajoutera au-dessus de l’estimation la cinquième partie.
If the man who gave the animal later decides that he wants to buy it back, he must pay [to the priest] that price plus an additional 20 percent.
14 Si un homme voue sa maison et la consacre au Seigneur, le prêtre considérera si elle est bonne ou mauvaise, et selon le prix qui aura été assigné par lui, elle sera vendue;
‘[Similarly], if someone dedicates his house to be a sacred gift to belong to me, the priest will decide how much it is worth, which will depend on whether the house is in good condition. Whatever the priest says that it is worth, that will be its value [and that is the price that the priest must pay for it].
15 Mais, si celui qui l’a vouée, veut la racheter, il donnera la cinquième partie de l’estimation en sus, et il aura la maison.
If the man who dedicated his house to me later wants to buy it back, he must pay that price plus an additional 20 percent, and then the house will belong to him again.
16 Que s’il voue le champ de sa possession, et qu’il le consacre au Seigneur, c’est selon la mesure des semences que sera estimé le prix; si la terre est semée de trente boisseaux d’orge, qu’elle soit vendue cinquante sicles d’argent.
‘If someone dedicates to me some of the property that belongs to him and his family, its value will be determined by the number of bushels of seed that will be needed to plant seeds on that land: Its value will be ten pieces of silver for each bushel of seed.
17 Si c’est dès l’année du jubilé commençant qu’il voue son champ, autant il peut valoir, autant il sera estimé.
If he dedicates the land during the Year of Celebration, its full value will be that amount.
18 Mais, si c’est après quelque temps, le prêtre supputera l’argent, selon le nombre des années qui restent jusqu’au jubilé, et il sera fait un retranchement dans le prix.
But if he dedicates the field after the Year of Celebration, the priest will count the number of years until the next Year of Celebration, and if there are not many years that remain, the price will be much lower [than the full price].
19 Que si celui qui l’a voué, veut racheter le champ, il ajoutera la cinquième partie de l’argent estimé, et il le possédera.
If the person who dedicated the field later wants to buy it back, he must pay [to the priest] the price that the priest says it is worth, plus an added one-fifth, and then the field will belong to that man again.
20 Mais s’il ne veut pas le racheter, et qu’il ait été vendu à quelque autre, celui qui l’avait voué ne pourra plus le racheter,
However, if he does not buy it back, or if it has been sold (OR, the priest has sold it) to someone else, that person will never be permitted to buy it back again.
21 Parce que, lorsque le jour du jubilé sera venu, il sera consacré au Seigneur, et qu’une possession consacrée appartient au droit des prêtres.
In the Year of Celebration, it will become sacred again, and it will be given to the priest.
22 Si le champ a été acheté, et qu’il n’ait pas été consacré au Seigneur comme possession des aïeux,
‘If someone dedicates to me some land that he has bought, land which is not part of the land that his family has always owned,
23 Le prêtre supputera le prix selon le nombre des années qu’il y aura jusqu’au jubilé, et celui qui l’avait voué, donnera ce prix au Seigneur;
the priest will count the number of years until the next Year of Celebration to determine how much it is worth, and the man must pay that amount to the priest on that day, [and then that land will belong to that man again].
24 Mais au jubilé, le champ retournera au premier maître qui l’avait vendu, et qui l’avait eu pour lot de sa possession.
But in the Year of Celebration, the land will again be owned by the person from whom he bought it, the person whose family had always owned that land.
25 Toute estimation se fera au poids du sicle du sanctuaire. Le sicle a vingt oboles.
All the silver that is paid must be compared with the official pieces of silver in the Sacred Tent.
26 Les premiers-nés, qui appartiennent au Seigneur, personne ne pourra les consacrer et les vouer: que ce soit un bœuf ou une brebis, ils sont au Seigneur.
‘No one is permitted to dedicate to me the firstborn of any cow or sheep, because the firstborn already belongs to me [DOU].
27 Que si l’animal est impur, celui qui l’a offert le rachètera selon ton estimation, et il ajoutera la cinquième partie du prix; s’il ne veut pas le racheter, il sera vendu à un autre, autant qu’il aura été estimé par loi.
If someone gives to me a kind of animal that is not acceptable to me, that person may later buy it back by paying what it is worth plus an additional 20 percent of its value. If he does not buy it back, it must be sold (OR, the priest must sell it) for its standard price.
28 Tout ce qui est consacré au Seigneur, que ce soit un homme, ou un animal, ou un champ, ne sera point vendu, et ne pourra être racheté. Tout ce qui aura été une fois consacré, étant très saint, sera pour le Seigneur.
‘However, no slave or animal or family land that someone owns can be sold or bought back after it has been dedicated to me [and no price has been paid for it]. That kind of gift belongs to me permanently/forever.
29 Rien de consacré, qui est offert par un homme, ne sera racheté, mais il mourra de mort.
‘No person who has [done something that I consider to be very wicked] is permitted to be freed [from being punished]; that person must surely be executed.
30 Toutes les dîmes de la terre, soit des grains, soit des fruits des arbres, sont au Seigneur et lui sont consacrées.
‘One tenth of all the crops and grain or fruit that is produced on anyone’s land is sacred and belongs to me.
31 Mais si quelqu’un veut racheter ses dîmes, il en ajoutera la cinquième partie.
If anyone wants to buy back any of that tenth, he must pay [to the priest] what it is worth plus an additional 20 percent.
32 Dans les dîmes des bœufs, des brebis et des chèvres qui passent sous la verge du pasteur, tout ce qui viendra comme dixième, sera consacré au Seigneur.
One of every ten domestic animals belongs to me. When a shepherd counts his animals [MTY] [to decide which ones he will give to me], he must mark every tenth one as belonging to me.
33 Ni le bon, ni le mauvais ne sera choisi, et il ne sera point changé pour un autre; si quelqu’un le change, et ce qui aura été changé, et ce pour quoi il aura été changé, sera consacré au Seigneur, et ne sera pas racheté,
When he does that, he must not pick out the good ones for himself or leave the bad ones, or substitute bad ones for good ones. If he substitutes one animal for another, both animals will belong to me, and he will not be permitted to buy them back (OR, the shepherd cannot buy them back).’”
34 Ce sont là les préceptes qu’a donnés le Seigneur à Moïse pour les enfants d’Israël sur la montagne de Sinaï.
Those are the commands that Yahweh gave to Moses/me on Sinai Mountain [to tell to the people].
