souiller

Aucun trait d’infériorité ne souillait sa personnalité.
No trace of inferiority stained His personality.
Comme le monde se souillait par le péché, cependant, la durée de vie a également été raccourcie.
As the world was getting stained by sin, however, the life span was also shortened.
Aussi, les Samaritains furent-ils placés sous Bannissement majeur ; même en prenant un morceau de pain à un Samaritain, un Judaïte enfreignait toutes les lois et jugements des Lévites et se souillait d'une manière abominable.
Thus the Samaritans were put under the major ban; even by taking a piece of bread from a Samaritan a Judahite broke all the statutes and judgments of the Levites and abominably defiled himself.
Aussi, les Samaritains furent-ils placés sous Bannissement majeur ; même en prenant un morceau de pain à un Samaritain, un Judaïte enfreignait toutes les lois et jugements des Lévites et se souillait d’une manière abominable.
Thus the Samaritans were put under the major ban; even by taking a piece of bread from a Samaritan a Judahite broke all the statutes and judgments of the Levites and abominably defiled himself.
38.9 Onan, sachant que cette postérité ne serait pas à lui, se souillait à terre lorsqu'il allait vers la femme de son frère, afin de ne pas donner de postérité à son frère.
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
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