Deuteronomy 18
1 “The priests, who are all from the tribe of Levi, will not receive any land in Israel. Instead, they will receive some of the food that other people offer to be burned [on the altar to be sacrificed] to Yahweh and some of the other sacrifices that will be offered to Yahweh.
Les Prêtres, les Lévites, la Tribu de Lévi entière, n'auront ni portion ni lot au milieu d'Israël: ils jouiront des sacrifices ignés de l'Éternel et de Sa part;
2 They will not be allotted any land like the other tribes will be. What they will receive is the work/privilege of being Yahweh’s [priests], which is what he said that they should have.
ils n'auront aucune propriété parmi leurs frères.
3 “When the people bring an ox or a sheep to be sacrificed, they must give to the priests the shoulder, the cheeks/jaws, and the stomach of those animals.
L'Éternel est leur lot, comme Il le leur a dit. Et voici ce que les Prêtres ont le droit de réclamer du peuple et de ceux qui sacrifient des victimes, soit gros, soit menu bétail: on donnera au Prêtre l'épaule et les deux mâchoires et le ventricule gras.
4 You must also give to them the first part of the grain that you [harvest], and the first part of the wine [that you make], and the first part of the [olive] oil [that you make], and the first part of the wool that you shear from your sheep.
Tu leur donneras les prémices de ton froment, de ton moût et de ton huile, et les prémices de la tonte de tes moutons.
5 You must do this because Yahweh our God has chosen the tribe of Levi from all of your tribes, in order that men [from that tribe] would always be the priests who would serve him.
Car l'Éternel, ton Dieu, l'a choisi entre toutes tes Tribus pour porter présence officiant de par l'Éternel, lui et ses fils à perpétuité.
6 “If any man from the tribe of Levi [who has been living] in one of the towns in Israel wants to come from there to the place of worship that Yahweh has chosen, [and start living there],
Et si le Lévite sort de l'une de tes villes où il est domicilié, dans tout Israël, et que suivant tout le désir de son âme il arrive au lieu qu'aura choisi l'Éternel,
7 he is permitted to serve Yahweh there as a priest, just like the other men from the tribe of Levi who have been serving there.
et y officie de par l'Éternel, son Dieu, ainsi que tous ses frères les Lévites présents pour servir l'Éternel,
8 He must be given the same amount of food [that the other priests receive]. He is permitted to keep the money [that his relatives give him] for selling some of their possessions.
ils jouiront de portions égales, outre ce qu'ils peuvent vendre de leur patrimoine.
9 When you enter the land that Yahweh our God is giving you, you must not imitate the disgusting things that the people-groups who are there now do.
Lorsque tu seras entré dans le pays que l'Éternel, ton Dieu, te donne, tu n'apprendras pas à imiter les abominations de ces nations-là.
10 You must not sacrifice any of your children by burning them [on your altars]. Do not practice (divination/using supernatural power to reveal [what will happen in] the future). Do not do/practice (soothsaying/magic to find out what will happen in the future). Do not (interpret omens/say that because of something that you have seen you know what will happen). Do not practice sorcery/witchcraft. Do not practice (putting spells on people/saying things to cause bad things to happen to others).
Qu'on ne trouve chez toi personne qui fasse passer par le feu son fils ou sa fille, qui pratique la divination, les maléfices, les enchantements et les conjurations,
11 Do not try to talk with spirits of dead people. Do not do/practice magic.
personne qui fasse des nœuds magiques, évoque les morts, se livre aux sciences occultes, interroge les trépassés.
12 Yahweh hates people who do any of those disgusting things. And as you advance through that land, he is going to expel the people-groups because they do/practice those disgusting things.
Car quiconque fait ces choses est l'abomination de l'Éternel, et c'est à cause de cette abomination-là que l'Éternel, ton Dieu, va les chasser devant toi.
13 But you must always avoid doing any of those things.
C'est sans partage que tu dois appartenir à l'Éternel, ton Dieu.
14 The people-groups that you are about to expel [from the land that you will occupy] (consult/seek advice from) soothsayers and those who practice divination. But as for you, Yahweh our God does not allow you to do that.
Car ces nations que tu vas expulser, écoutent les enchanteurs et les devins; mais à toi, l'Éternel, ton Dieu, ne le permet pas.
15 [Some day] he will send from among you a prophet like me. [He is the one who will tell you what will happen in the future], and he is the one whom you must heed.
C'est un prophète de ton sein, d'entre tes frères, semblable à moi que te suscitera l'Éternel, ton Dieu, c'est Lui que vous écouterez;
16 On the day that your ancestors were gathered at the bottom of Sinai Mountain, they pleaded with me saying, ‘We do not want Yahweh to speak [MTY] to us again, and we do not want to see this huge fire [that is burning on the mountain]!’ [Your ancestors said that because they were afraid] that they would die [if Yahweh spoke to them again].
ainsi que tu l'as demandé à l'Éternel, ton Dieu, en Horeb, le jour de l'Assemblée, lorsque tu dis: Désormais je ne veux plus entendre la voix de l'Éternel, mon Dieu, ni voir ce grand feu, afin de ne pas mourir.
17 Then Yahweh said to me, ‘What they have said is true/wise.
Et l'Éternel me dit: Ce qu'ils ont dit est bien;
18 So I will send from among them a prophet who will be like you. I will tell him what to say, and then he will tell people everything that I tell him to say.
je leur susciterai un prophète du sein de leurs frères, semblable à toi, et je mettrai mes paroles en sa bouche, et il leur dira tout ce dont je le chargerai.
19 He will speak for me. And I will punish anyone who does not heed what he says.
Et à quiconque n'écoutera pas mes paroles qu'il prononcera en mon nom, je lui en demanderai compte.
20 But if any other [person says that he is a] prophet [and] dares to speak a message which he falsely says comes from me but which I did not tell him to speak, or if anyone who speaks a message that he says other gods [MTY] have revealed to him, he must be executed [for doing that].’
Mais le prophète qui aura l'audace de dire en mon nom ce que je ne lui aurai point commandé de dire, et celui qui parlera au nom de dieux étrangers, ce prophète mourra.
21 But if you say to yourself, ‘How can we know if a message [that someone tells us] does not come from Yahweh?’
Et si tu dis en ton cœur: A quoi reconnaîtrons-nous la parole que l'Éternel n'aura point prononcée?…
22 [The answer is that] when someone speaks a message [about what will happen in the future], a message that he says was revealed by Yahweh, if what he says does not happen, [you will know that] the message did not come from Yahweh. That person has wrongly claimed that it was revealed to him by Yahweh. So you do not need to be afraid of [anything that] he [says].”
ce que dira ce prophète au nom de l'Éternel et qui n'aura pas lieu, et ne s'accomplira pas, telle sera la parole que l'Éternel n'aura pas dite; le prophète l'a dite par audace: n'aie pas peur de lui.
