Deuteronomy 19
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Deutéronome 19
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| When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses; | Lorsque l`Éternel, ton Dieu, aura exterminé les nations dont l`Éternel, ton Dieu, te donne le pays, lorsque tu les auras chassées et que tu habiteras dans leurs villes et dans leurs maisons, |
| You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage. | tu sépareras trois villes au milieu du pays dont l`Éternel, ton Dieu, te donne la possession. |
| You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight. | Tu établiras des routes, et tu diviseras en trois parties le territoire du pays que l`Éternel, ton Dieu, va te donner en héritage. Il en sera ainsi afin que tout meurtrier puisse s`enfuir dans ces villes. |
| This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate; | Cette loi s`appliquera au meurtrier qui s`enfuira là pour sauver sa vie, lorsqu`il aura involontairement tué son prochain, sans avoir été auparavant son ennemi. |
| For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe: | Un homme, par exemple, va couper du bois dans la forêt avec un autre homme; la hache en main, il s`élance pour abattre un arbre; le fer échappe du manche, atteint le compagnon de cet homme, et lui donne la mort. Alors il s`enfuira dans l`une de ces villes pour sauver sa vie, |
| For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate. | de peur que le vengeur du sang, échauffé par la colère et poursuivant le meurtrier, ne finisse par l`atteindre s`il y avait à faire beaucoup de chemin, et ne frappe mortellement celui qui ne mérite pas la mort, puisqu`il n`était point auparavant l`ennemi de son prochain. |
| And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this purpose. | C`est pourquoi je te donne cet ordre: Tu sépareras trois villes. |
| And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers; | Lorsque l`Éternel, ton Dieu, aura élargi tes frontières, comme il l`a juré à tes pères, et qu`il t`aura donné tout le pays qu`il a promis à tes pères de te donner, - |
| If you keep and do all these orders which I give you today, loving the Lord your God and walking ever in his ways; then let three more towns, in addition to these three, be marked out for you: | pourvu que tu observes et mettes en pratique tous ces commandements que je te prescris aujourd`hui, en sorte que tu aimes l`Éternel, ton Dieu, et que tu marches toujours dans ses voies, -tu ajouteras encore trois villes à ces trois-là, |
| So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible. | afin que le sang innocent ne soit pas répandu au milieu du pays que l`Éternel, ton Dieu, te donne pour héritage, et que tu ne sois pas coupable de meurtre. |
| But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns; | Mais si un homme s`enfuit dans une de ces villes, après avoir dressé des embûches à son prochain par inimitié contre lui, après l`avoir attaqué et frappé de manière à causer sa mort, |
| The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death. | les anciens de sa ville l`enverront saisir et le livreront entre les mains du vengeur du sang, afin qu`il meure. |
| Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you. | Tu ne jetteras pas sur lui un regard de pitié, tu feras disparaître d`Israël le sang innocent, et tu seras heureux. |
| Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you. | Tu ne reculeras point les bornes de ton prochain, posées par tes ancêtres, dans l`héritage que tu auras au pays dont l`Éternel, ton Dieu, te donne la possession. |
| One witness may not make a statement against a man in relation to any sin or wrongdoing which he has done: on the word of two or three witnesses a question is to be judged. | Un seul témoin ne suffira pas contre un homme pour constater un crime ou un péché, quel qu`il soit; un fait ne pourra s`établir que sur la déposition de deux ou de trois témoins. |
| If a false witness makes a statement against a man, saying that he has done wrong, | Lorsqu`un faux témoin s`élèvera contre quelqu`un pour l`accuser d`un crime, |
| Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power; | les deux hommes en contestation comparaîtront devant l`Éternel, devant les sacrificateurs et les juges alors en fonctions. |
| And the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness is seen to be false and to have made a false statement against his brother, | Les juges feront avec soin des recherches. Le témoin est-il un faux témoin, a-t-il fait contre son frère une fausse déposition, |
| Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you. | alors vous le traiterez comme il avait dessein de traiter son frère. Tu ôteras ainsi le mal du milieu de toi. |
| And the rest of the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and never again do such evil among you. | Les autres entendront et craindront, et l`on ne commettra plus un acte aussi criminel au milieu de toi. |
| Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. | Tu ne jetteras aucun regard de pitié: oeil pour oeil, dent pour dent, main pour main, pied pour pied. |
