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La célébration de la Pâque
Célébration
9 Le premier mois de la deuxième année après la sortie d’Egypte[a], l’Eternel s’adressa à Moïse dans le désert du Sinaï. Il lui dit : 2 Que les Israélites célèbrent la Pâque à la date fixée, 3 c’est-à-dire le soir du quatorzième jour de ce mois à la nuit tombante ; vous la célébrerez en vous conformant exactement à toutes les ordonnances et les lois qui la concernent.
4 Moïse demanda donc aux Israélites de célébrer la Pâque, 5 et ils la célébrèrent dans le désert du Sinaï le soir du quatorzième jour du premier mois à la nuit tombante, en se conformant à tout ce que l’Eternel avait ordonné à Moïse[b].
Les personnes en état d’impureté rituelle
6 Or, il arriva que des hommes qui s’étaient rendus rituellement impurs par le contact avec un mort, ne purent célébrer la Pâque ce jour-là. Ils allèrent trouver Moïse et Aaron ce même jour 7 et leur dirent : Nous sommes en état d’impureté rituelle parce que nous avons été en contact avec un mort, pourquoi n’avons-nous pas le droit d’apporter notre offrande à l’Eternel à la date fixée, avec les autres Israélites ?
8 Moïse leur répondit : Attendez là pendant que j’écouterai ce que l’Eternel ordonne à votre sujet.
9 L’Eternel dit à Moïse : 10 Dis aux Israélites : Si quelqu’un d’entre vous – maintenant ou dans les générations à venir – se trouve en état d’impureté rituelle par son contact avec un mort, ou s’il est en voyage au loin, il pourra quand même célébrer la Pâque en l’honneur de l’Eternel[c]. 11 C’est le soir du quatorzième jour du second mois qu’ils la célébreront, à la nuit tombante, en mangeant l’agneau avec des pains sans levain et des herbes amères. 12 Ils n’en laisseront rien jusqu’au matin et n’en briseront aucun os. Ils se conformeront à toutes les ordonnances relatives à la Pâque[d]. 13 Mais si quelqu’un qui est rituellement pur et qui n’est pas en voyage néglige de célébrer la Pâque, il sera retranché de la communauté de son peuple : il portera la responsabilité de sa faute parce qu’il n’a pas présenté l’offrande à l’Eternel à la date fixée. 14 Si un étranger installé chez vous veut célébrer la Pâque de l’Eternel, il se conformera au rituel de la Pâque et aux ordonnances qui s’y rapportent. Il y aura un seul et même rituel pour l’immigré et pour l’autochtone.
La nuée : signe de la présence de Dieu
15 Le jour où l’on érigea le tabernacle, qui sert de tente aux tablettes de l’acte de l’alliance, la nuée[e] le couvrit ; le soir, cette nuée au-dessus du tabernacle devint comme du feu et resta là jusqu’au matin. 16 Il en fut continuellement ainsi : le jour, la nuée couvrait le tabernacle, et pendant la nuit, elle avait l’apparence d’un feu. 17 Chaque fois que la nuée s’élevait au-dessus de la tente, les Israélites levaient le camp ; et là où elle s’arrêtait, ils dressaient leurs campements. 18 Ainsi, c’est au signal de l’Eternel que les Israélites levaient le camp et à son signal qu’ils le réinstallaient. Aussi longtemps que la nuée restait sur le tabernacle, ils ne bougeaient pas de l’endroit. 19 Même si elle s’attardait longtemps sur le tabernacle, ils observaient fidèlement les indications de l’Eternel et ne partaient pas. 20 Parfois la nuée ne s’arrêtait que quelques jours sur le tabernacle ; c’était toujours au signal de l’Eternel qu’ils dressaient le camp, et qu’ils le levaient. 21 Il arrivait même qu’elle ne s’arrête que durant une nuit : lorsqu’elle s’élevait le matin, ils levaient le camp ; ou bien elle s’élevait après un jour et une nuit, aussitôt ils partaient. 22 Qu’elle demeure deux jours ou un mois ou plus longtemps encore sur le tabernacle, les Israélites restaient campés sans partir ; ils levaient seulement le camp lorsqu’elle s’élevait. 23 C’est sur l’ordre de l’Eternel qu’ils dressaient le camp et le levaient. Ainsi ils observaient ce que l’Eternel indiquait, conformément aux instructions qu’il leur avait données par l’intermédiaire de Moïse.
Footnotes
Numbers 9
New International Version
The Passover
9 The Lord spoke to Moses in the Desert of Sinai in the first month(A) of the second year after they came out of Egypt.(B) He said, 2 “Have the Israelites celebrate the Passover(C) at the appointed time.(D) 3 Celebrate it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month,(E) in accordance with all its rules and regulations.(F)”
4 So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover,(G) 5 and they did so in the Desert of Sinai(H) at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.(I) The Israelites did everything just as the Lord commanded Moses.(J)
6 But some of them could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were ceremonially unclean(K) on account of a dead body.(L) So they came to Moses and Aaron(M) that same day 7 and said to Moses, “We have become unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be kept from presenting the Lord’s offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?(N)”
8 Moses answered them, “Wait until I find out what the Lord commands concerning you.”(O)
9 Then the Lord said to Moses, 10 “Tell the Israelites: ‘When any of you or your descendants are unclean because of a dead body(P) or are away on a journey, they are still to celebrate(Q) the Lord’s Passover, 11 but they are to do it on the fourteenth day of the second month(R) at twilight. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.(S) 12 They must not leave any of it till morning(T) or break any of its bones.(U) When they celebrate the Passover, they must follow all the regulations.(V) 13 But if anyone who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, they must be cut off from their people(W) for not presenting the Lord’s offering at the appointed time. They will bear the consequences of their sin.
14 “‘A foreigner(X) residing among you is also to celebrate the Lord’s Passover in accordance with its rules and regulations. You must have the same regulations for both the foreigner and the native-born.’”
The Cloud Above the Tabernacle
15 On the day the tabernacle, the tent of the covenant law,(Y) was set up,(Z) the cloud(AA) covered it. From evening till morning the cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire.(AB) 16 That is how it continued to be; the cloud covered it, and at night it looked like fire.(AC) 17 Whenever the cloud lifted from above the tent, the Israelites set out;(AD) wherever the cloud settled, the Israelites encamped.(AE) 18 At the Lord’s command the Israelites set out, and at his command they encamped. As long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle, they remained(AF) in camp. 19 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a long time, the Israelites obeyed the Lord’s order(AG) and did not set out.(AH) 20 Sometimes the cloud was over the tabernacle only a few days; at the Lord’s command they would encamp, and then at his command they would set out. 21 Sometimes the cloud stayed only from evening till morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they set out. Whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud lifted, they set out. 22 Whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle for two days or a month or a year, the Israelites would remain in camp and not set out; but when it lifted, they would set out. 23 At the Lord’s command they encamped, and at the Lord’s command they set out. They obeyed the Lord’s order, in accordance with his command through Moses.
Numbers 9
King James Version
9 And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
6 And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
7 And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the Lord in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.
9 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the Lord.
11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
13 But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the Lord; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.
16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
18 At the commandment of the Lord the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the Lord they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.
19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the Lord, and journeyed not.
20 And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the Lord they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the Lord they journeyed.
21 And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
23 At the commandment of the Lord they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the Lord they journeyed: they kept the charge of the Lord, at the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
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