Deuteronomy 25
1 If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges judge them, then they will acquit the righteous and condemn the wicked.
"Si un débat s’élève entre des individus, ils se présenteront devant le tribunal et on les jugera; on déclarera innocent l’innocent, et coupable celui qui a tort.
2 If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, then the judge will make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the ordered number of blows, as was his crime.
Or, si le coupable a mérité la flagellation, le juge le fera coucher par terre et battre, en sa présence, d’un nombre de coups proportionné à son délit.
3 The judge may give him forty blows, but he may not exceed that number; for if he should exceed that number and beat him with many more blows, then your fellow Israelite would be humiliated before your eyes.
Il lui en infligera quarante, sans plus; autrement, en dépassant ce nombre, on lui infligerait trop de coups, et ton frère serait avili à tes yeux.
4 You must not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
Ne muselle point le bœuf pendant qu’il foule le grain.
5 If brothers live together and one of them dies, not having any son, then the wife of the dead man must not be married off to someone else outside the family. Instead, her husband's brother must sleep with her and take her to himself as a wife, and do the duty of a husband's brother to her.
Si des frères demeurent ensemble et que l’un d’eux vienne à mourir sans postérité, la veuve ne pourra se marier au dehors à un étranger; c’est son beau-frère qui doit s’unir à elle. Il la prendra donc pour femme, exerçant le lévirat à son égard.
6 This is so that the firstborn that she bears will succeed in the name of that man's dead brother, so that his name will not perish from Israel.
Et le premier fils qu’elle enfantera sera désigné par le nom du frère mort, afin que ce nom ne périsse pas en Israël.
7 But if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife for himself, then his brother's wife must go up to the gate to the elders and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to raise up for his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'
Que s’il déplaît à l’homme d’épouser sa belle-sœur, celle-ci montera au tribunal, par-devant les anciens, et dira: "Mon beau-frère refuse de relever en Israël le nom de son frère, il ne veut pas m’accorder le lévirat."
8 Then the elders of his city must call him and speak to him. But suppose that he insists and says, 'I do not wish to take her.'
Alors les anciens de sa ville le manderont et l’interpelleront; et lui, debout, dira: "II ne me plaît point de l’épouser."
9 Then his brother's wife must come up to him in the presence of the elders, take off his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She must answer him and say, 'This is what is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'
Et sa belle-sœur s’avancera vers lui à la vue des anciens, lui ôtera sa chaussure du pied, crachera devant lui et dira à haute voix: "Ainsi est traité l’homme qui ne veut pas édifier la maison de son frère!"
10 His name will be called in Israel, 'The house of him whose sandal has been taken off.'
Et la sienne sera surnommée, en Israël, la maison du déchaussé.
11 If men fight with each other, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband out of the hand of him who struck him, and if she stretches out her hand and takes him by the private parts,
Si des individus ont une rixe ensemble, un homme avec un autre, et que la femme de l’un, intervenant pour soustraire son mari à celui qui le frappe, porte la main sur ce dernier et le saisisse par les parties honteuses,
12 then you must cut off her hand; your eye must have no pity.
tu lui couperas le poing sans lui accorder aucune pitié.
13 You must not have in your bag different weights, a large and a small.
N’Aie point dans ta bourse deux poids inégaux, un grand et un petit.
14 You must not have in your house different measures, a large and a small.
N’Aie point dans ta maison deux mesures inégales, une grande et une petite.
15 A perfect and just weight you must have; a perfect and just measure you must have, so that your days may be long in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you.
Des poids exacts et loyaux, des mesures exactes et loyales, doivent seuls être en ta possession, si tu veux avoir une longue existence dans le pays que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, te donne.
16 For all who do such things, all that act unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Car l’Éternel, ton Dieu, a en horreur quiconque agit ainsi, quiconque fait une chose déloyale.
17 Call to mind what Amalek did to you on the road as you came out of Egypt,
Souviens-toi de ce que t’a fait Amalec, lors de votre voyage, au sortir de l’Egypte;
18 how he met you on the road and attacked those of you at the rear, all who were feeble in your rear, when you were faint and weary; he did not honor God.
comme il t’a surpris chemin faisant, et s’est jeté sur tous tes traînards par derrière. Tu étais alors fatigué, à bout de forces, et lui ne craignait pas Dieu.
19 Therefore, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you must not forget that you must blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Aussi, lorsque l’Éternel, ton Dieu, t’aura débarrassé de tous tes ennemis d’alentour, dans le pays qu’il te donne en héritage pour le posséder, tu effaceras la mémoire d’Amalec de dessous le ciel: ne l’oublie point.
