Nombres 19
1 Le Seigneur parla encore à Moïse et à Aaron, disant:
Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses/me,
2 Voici la cérémonie de la victime qu’a déterminée le Seigneur. Ordonne aux enfants d’Israël qu’ils t’amènent une vache rousse, dans l’intégrité de l’âge, en laquelle il n’y ait aucune tache, et qui n’ait point porté le joug;
“I am now giving to you another regulation. Tell the Israeli people to bring to you one reddish-brown cow that has no defects. It must be an animal that (has never been/no one has ever) used for plowing ground.
3 Et vous la livrerez à Eléazar, le prêtre, qui après l’avoir menée hors du camp, l’immolera en présence de tous;
Give it to Eleazar, the priest. He must take it outside the camp and slaughter it [and drain the blood in a basin].
4 Et, trempant le doigt dans son sang, il fera l’aspersion contre la porte du tabernacle par sept fois.
He must dip one of his fingers in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times [on the ground] near the Sacred Tent.
5 Puis il la brûlera, tous le voyant, en livrant aux flammes tant sa peau et sa chair, que son sang et sa fiente.
Then, while Eleazar watches, the cow must be burned completely—its hide, its meat, [the rest of] its blood, and even its dung.
6 Le prêtre jettera aussi du bois de cèdre, de l’hysope et de l’écarlate deux fois teinte, dans la flamme qui brûle la vache.
Eliezer then must take a stick of cedar wood, a stalk of [a plant named] hyssop, and some scarlet/red yarn, and throw them into the fire where the cow is burning.
7 Et alors enfin, ses vêtements et son corps lavés, il entrera dans le camp et il sera souillé jusqu’au soir.
“Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe. After doing that, he may return to the camp. But he will be unfit for doing any sacred work until that evening.
8 Mais celui aussi qui l’aura brûlée, lavera ses vêtements et son corps, et il sera impur jusqu’au soir.
The man who burns the cow must also wash his clothes and bathe, and he will also be unacceptable to me until that evening.
9 Et un homme pur recueillera les cendres de la vache, et les déposera hors du camp dans un lieu très net, afin qu’elles soient à la garde de la multitude des enfants d’Israël, et qu’elles servent pour une eau d’aspersion; parce que c’est pour le péché que la vache a été brûlée.
“Then someone who has not become unacceptable to me must gather up the ashes of the cow and put them in a (sacred place/place that is acceptable to me) outside the camp. The ashes must be kept there for the people of Israel to [use when they] mix it with water for the ritual to remove the guilt of sin.
10 Et lorsque celui qui avait porté les cendres de la vache, aura lavé ses vêtements, il sera impur jusqu’au soir. Les enfants d’Israël et les étrangers qui habitent parmi eux tiendront cette ordonnance pour sainte par un droit perpétuel.
The man who gathers up the ashes of the cow must [also] wash his clothes, and he [also] will be unfit to do any more sacred work until that evening. That is a regulation that will never be changed. It must be obeyed by you Israeli people and by any foreigners who live among you.
11 Celui qui aura touché le cadavre d’un homme, et qui pour cela sera impur pendant sept jours,
“All those who touch a corpse will be unacceptable to me for seven days.
12 Sera aspergé de cette eau au troisième et au septième jour, et c’est ainsi qu’il sera purifié. Si au troisième jour il n’a pas été aspergé, au septième il ne pourra être purifié.
On the third day and on the seventh day [after touching a corpse], in order to become acceptable to me again, [they must have sprinkled on them] some of that water for removing the guilt of their sin. If they do not do that on both of those days, they will continue to be unacceptable to me.
13 Quiconque aura touché le corps mort du ne âme humaine, et n’aura pas été aspergé de cette eau ainsi mêlée, souillera le tabernacle du Seigneur, et périra du milieu d’Israël: parce qu’il n’a pas été aspergé d’eau d’expiation, il sera impur et son impureté demeurera sur lui.
All those who touch a corpse, and do not perform in the correct way the ritual to become acceptable to me again, defile Yahweh’s Sacred Tent. They will no longer be permitted to live among the Israeli people. The water to remove the guilt of sin was not sprinkled on them, so they continue to be unacceptable to me.
14 Voici la loi de l’homme qui meurt dans une tente: Tous ceux qui entrent dans sa tente, et tous les vases qui y sont, seront souillés pendant sept jours.
“There is another ritual that must be performed when someone dies inside a tent. All those who were inside that tent when that person died or who enter that tent will be unacceptable to me for seven days.
15 Un vase qui n’aurait point de couvercle, ni d’attache par-dessus, sera impur.
Any jars that are inside that tent that are not covered are not permitted to be used.
16 Si quelqu’un dans un champ touche le cadavre d’un homme tué, ou mort de lui-même, ou bien un de ses os, ou son sépulcre, il sera impur pendant sept jours.
If someone who is out in a field touches the corpse of someone who was murdered, or who died from natural causes, or if someone touches a bone from some human or touches a grave, that person will be unacceptable to me for seven days.
17 On prendra des cendres de la combustion et du péché, et l’on mettra de l’eau vive sur ces cendres dans un vase;
“For someone like that to become acceptable to me again, some of the ashes from [the cow] that was burned must be taken and put in a jar. Then some fresh water must be poured over the ashes.
18 Et un homme pur y ayant trempé de l’hysope, il en aspergera toute la tente, tous les meubles et tous les hommes souillés par un tel contact
Then someone who is still acceptable to me must take a stalk of [a plant named] hyssop and dip it into the water. Then that person must sprinkle some of the water on the tent where that person died, on the things that are in the tent, and on the people who were in the tent. He must also sprinkle some of that water on any person who touched a human bone or who touched a person who died, or who touched a grave.
19 Et de cette manière le pur purifiera l’impur au troisième et au septième jour; et celui qui aura été purifié au septième jour, se lavera, lui et ses vêtements, et il sera impur jusqu’au soir.
On the third day and on the seventh day after that, the person who is acceptable to me must sprinkle some of that water on those who have become unacceptable to me. On the seventh day, the people who are performing that ritual to become acceptable to me again must wash their clothes and bathe. If they do that, on that evening they will become acceptable to me again.
20 Si quelqu’un n’est pas purifié selon ce rite, son âme périra du milieu de l’assemblée, parce qu’il a souillé le sanctuaire du Seigneur, et qu’il n’a pas été aspergé d’eau de purification.
“If those who have become unacceptable to me do not become acceptable to me again by doing this, they will no longer be permitted to live among the Israeli people, because they have defiled my Sacred Tent. They did not sprinkle on themselves the water that removes the guilt of their sins, so they remain unacceptable to me.
21 Cette ordonnance sera une loi perpétuelle. Celui aussi qui aura fait les aspersions de l’eau, lavera ses vêtements. Quiconque aura touché l’eau de l’expiation sera impur jusqu’au soir.
That is a law for the Israeli people that will never be changed. Those who sprinkle that water on themselves must then wash their clothes. And anyone who touches that water which removes guilt for sins will remain unacceptable to God until that evening.
22 Tout ce que touchera un impur, il le rendra impur: et l’homme qui touchera quelqu’une de ces choses, sera impur jusqu’au soir.
“If someone touches a thing or a person that has become unacceptable to me, that person will remain unacceptable to me until that evening.”
