Genesis 11
1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
Toute la terre avait alors une même parole; il y avait une seule langue pour tous.
2 It happened, as they traveled from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they settled there.
Et il arriva qu'en s'éloignant de l'Orient, ils trouvèrent en la terre de Sennaar une plaine où ils s'établirent.
3 And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
Et chacun dit à son voisin: Allons, façonnons des briques et faisons-les cuire au feu. La brique leur servit donc de pierre, et le bitume de ciment.
4 They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
Puis ils dirent: Allons, bâtissons-nous une ville et une tour dont la tête ira jusqu'au ciel, et faisons-nous un nom, avant de nous disséminer sur toute la face de la terre.
5 And God came down to see the city and the tower, that humankind was building.
Le Seigneur descendit voir la ville et la tour que bâtissaient les fils des hommes.
6 And God said, "Look, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. So now nothing which they plan to do will be too difficult for them.
Et il dit: Les voilà une seule famille, avec une seule et même langue, et s'ils ont commencé par de tels travaux, rien désormais ne pourra échouer de tout ce qu'ils entreprendront.
7 Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
Allons, et étant descendus, confondons ici leur langage de telle sorte que nul n'entende plus la parole de son voisin.
8 Then God scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth; so they ceased building the city.
Et de ce lieu, Dieu les dispersa sur la face de toute la terre, et ils cessèrent de bâtir la ville et la tour.
9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there God confused the language of all the earth. From there he scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
À cause de cela, ce lieu fut appelé Babel (confusion), parce que là le Seigneur confondit les langues de toute la terre, et dispersa les hommes sur la face de toute la terre.
10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
Or, voici les générations de Sem: le fils Sem avait cent ans lorsqu il engendra Arphaxad, deux ans après le déluge.
11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and fathered sons and daughters.
Sem vécut, après avoir engendré Arphaxad, cinq cents ans; il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut.
12 And Arpachshad lived one hundred and thirty-five years and became the father of Kenan.
Arphaxad vécut cent trente-cinq ans, et il engendra Caïnan.
13 And Arpachshad lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Kenan, and fathered sons and daughters. And Kenan lived one hundred and thirty years and became the father of Shelah. And Kenan lived three hundred and thirty years after he had become the father of Shelah, and fathered sons and daughters.
Arphaxad vécut, après avoir engendré Caïnan, quatre cent trente ans, et il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut. Caïnan vécut trente ans, et il engendra Salé. Caïnan vécut, après avoir engendré Salé, cent trente ans, et il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut.
14 Shelah lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
Salé vécut cent trente ans, et il engendra Héber.
15 and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and fathered sons and daughters.
Et Salé vécut, après avoir engendré Héber, trois cent trente ans; il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut.
16 Eber lived one hundred and thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
Héber vécut cent trente-quatre ans, et il engendra Phaleg.
17 Eber lived three hundred and seventy years after he became the father of Peleg, and fathered sons and daughters.
Et Héber vécut, après avoir engendré Phaleg, deux cent soixante-dix ans; il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut.
18 Peleg lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
Phaleg vécut cent trente ans, et il engendra Réhu.
19 Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and fathered sons and daughters.
Et Phaleg vécut, après avoir engendré Réhu, deux cent neuf ans; il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut.
20 Reu lived one hundred and thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
Réhu vécut cent trente-deux ans, et il engendra Sarug.
21 Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and fathered sons and daughters.
Et Réhu vécut, après avoir engendré Sarug, deux cent sept ans; il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut.
22 Serug lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
Sarug vécut cent trente ans, et il engendra Nachor.
23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and fathered sons and daughters.
Et Sarug vécut, après avoir engendré Nachor, deux cents ans; il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut.
24 Nahor lived seventy-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
Nachor vécut soixante-dix-neuf ans, et il engendra Tharé.
25 Nahor lived one hundred and twenty-nine years after he became the father of Terah, and fathered sons and daughters.
Et Nachor vécut, après avoir engendré Tharé, cent vingt-neuf ans; il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut.
26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Tharé vécut soixante-dix ans, et il engendra Abram, Nachor et Aram.
27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
Or voici les générations de Tharé: Tharé engendra Abram, Nachor et Aram, lequel engendra Lot.
28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur Kasdim.
Et Aram mourut devant son père Tharé, en la terre où il était né, au pays des Chaldéens.
29 And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.
Et Abram ainsi que Nachor épousèrent des femmes. Le nom de la femme d'Abram était Sara; et le nom de la femme de Nachor, Melcha, fille d'Aran, père de Melcha et d'Iescha.
30 And Sarai was barren. She had no child.
Sara était stérile, et elle n'enfanta point.
31 And Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and with them he set out from Ur Kasdim to go into the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Tharé prit Abram son fils, et Lot fils d'Aran, son petit-fils, et Sara, femme d'Abram, son fils, et il les emmena du pays des Chaldéens pour être transportés en la terre de Chanaan; ils allèrent ainsi jusqu'à Haran et ils y demeurèrent.
32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years. And Terah died in Haran.
Et tous les jours de Tharé, en la terre de Haran, formèrent deux cent cinq ans, et il mourut à Haran.
