Deuteronomy 2
1 “Then we turned around and went through the desert toward the (Red Sea/Gulf of Aqaba), as Yahweh told us to do, and we wandered in the Edom area for many years.
Nous nous tournâmes, et nous partîmes pour le désert, par le chemin de la mer Rouge, comme l’Éternel me l’avait ordonné; nous suivîmes longtemps les contours de la montagne de Séir.
2 Then Yahweh said to me,
L’Éternel me dit:
3 ‘You have been wandering around this hilly area for a long enough time. Now turn [and travel] toward the north.
Vous avez assez suivi les contours de cette montagne. Tournez-vous vers le nord.
4 And tell the people that they are about to travel near the land that belongs to the descendants of Esau, who are also descendants of Isaac. They live in the [hilly] Edom region. They will be afraid of you,
Donne cet ordre au peuple: Vous allez passer à la frontière de vos frères, les enfants d’Ésaü, qui habitent en Séir. Ils vous craindront; mais soyez bien sur vos gardes.
5 but do not start to fight against them, because I am not going to give you even a tiny bit [HYP] of their land. I have given that land to the descendants of Esau.
Ne les attaquez pas; car je ne vous donnerai dans leur pays pas même de quoi poser la plante du pied: j’ai donné la montagne de Séir en propriété à Ésaü.
6 [When you travel near their land], buy food and water from them.’
Vous achèterez d’eux à prix d’argent la nourriture que vous mangerez, et vous achèterez d’eux à prix d’argent même l’eau que vous boirez.
7 Do not forget that Yahweh our God has blessed you in everything that you [SYN] have done. He knows [what has happened to you while] you have wandered in this huge desert. But he has been with you during those 40 years, and as a result you have had everything that you needed [LIT].
Car l’Éternel, ton Dieu, t’a béni dans tout le travail de tes mains, il a connu ta marche dans ce grand désert. Voilà quarante années que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, est avec toi: tu n’as manqué de rien.
8 So we continued to travel. We avoided going through the hilly area where the descendants of Esau live. We stayed away from the road through the Jordan [River] Valley past Ezion-Geber and Elath [towns], and we turned and traveled northeast toward the desert area where the Moab people-group lives.
Nous passâmes à distance de nos frères, les enfants d’Ésaü, qui habitent en Séir, et à distance du chemin de la plaine, d’Élath et d’Étsjon-Guéber, puis nous nous tournâmes, et nous prîmes la direction du désert de Moab.
9 Yahweh said to me, ‘Do not bother/harass the people of Moab, and do not start to fight against them, because I am not going to give you any of their land. [Do not forget that] they are descendants of [Abraham’s nephew] Lot, and I have given to them Ar [city, their capital, and the other areas in that country].’”
L’Éternel me dit: N’attaque pas Moab, et ne t’engage pas dans un combat avec lui; car je ne te donnerai rien à posséder dans son pays: c’est aux enfants de Lot que j’ai donné Ar en propriété.
10 A large group of giants called Emim formerly lived there. They were strong and numerous, and as tall as the giants who were descendants of Anak.
(Les Émim y habitaient auparavant; c’était un peuple grand, nombreux et de haute taille, comme les Anakim.
11 They and the descendants of Anak are also called the Repha giants, but the people of Moab call them Emim.
Ils passaient aussi pour être des Rephaïm, de même que les Anakim; mais les Moabites les appelaient Émim.
12 The Hor people-group also formerly lived in the Edom area, but the descendants of Esau chased them out. They defeated and killed them and (settled in/occupied) their land, just as the Israeli people later expelled their enemies from the land that Yahweh gave to them.
Séir était habité autrefois par les Horiens; les enfants d’Ésaü les chassèrent, les détruisirent devant eux, et s’établirent à leur place, comme l’a fait Israël dans le pays qu’il possède et que l’Éternel lui a donné.)
13 [I also said to the Israeli people], “Then we crossed the Zered Gorge, as Yahweh told us to do.
Maintenant levez-vous, et passez le torrent de Zéred. Nous passâmes le torrent de Zéred.
14 It had been thirty-eight years from the time we first left Kadesh-Barnea until we crossed the Zered Gorge. During those years, all the Israeli (fighting men/soldiers) of that generation had died, as Yahweh had vowed would happen.
Le temps que durèrent nos marches de Kadès-Barnéa au passage du torrent de Zéred fut de trente-huit ans, jusqu’à ce que toute la génération des hommes de guerre eût disparu du milieu du camp, comme l’Éternel le leur avait juré.
15 They died because Yahweh opposed them, until he had gotten rid of all of them.
La main de l’Éternel fut aussi sur eux pour les détruire du milieu du camp, jusqu’à ce qu’ils eussent disparu.
16 After all the men who had been old enough to fight in wars had died [DOU],
Lorsque tous les hommes de guerre eurent disparu par la mort du milieu du peuple,
17 Yahweh said to me,
l’Éternel me parla, et dit:
18 ‘Today you all must cross the border into the Moab region, near Ar, [their capital city].
Tu passeras aujourd’hui la frontière de Moab, à Ar,
19 When you come near the border of the land where the Ammon people-group live, do not bother/harass them or start to fight against them. They are also descendants of Lot, so I am not going to give you any of the land that I have given to them.’”
et tu approcheras des enfants d’Ammon. Ne les attaque pas, et ne t’engage pas dans un combat avec eux; car je ne te donnerai rien à posséder dans le pays des enfants d’Ammon: c’est aux enfants de Lot que je l’ai donné en propriété.
20 That region is also called the land of the Repha giants, who formerly lived there. The Ammon people-group call them the Zamzum group.
(Ce pays passait aussi pour un pays de Rephaïm; des Rephaïm y habitaient auparavant, et les Ammonites les appelaient Zamzummim:
21 They were a large and powerful group, who were as tall as the descendants of Anak. But Yahweh got rid of them, and the Ammon people-group expelled them and took their land away from them and started to live there.
c’était un peuple grand, nombreux et de haute taille, comme les Anakim. L’Éternel les détruisit devant les Ammonites, qui les chassèrent et s’établirent à leur place.
22 Yahweh had done the same thing for the descendants of Esau who live in the hilly area of Edom. He got rid of the Hor people-group, with the result that the Edom people-group took their land from them and started to live there. They still live there.
C’est ainsi que fit l’Éternel pour les enfants d’Ésaü qui habitent en Séir, quand il détruisit les Horiens devant eux; ils les chassèrent et s’établirent à leur place, jusqu’à ce jour.
23 People who came from Crete [Island] got rid of the Av group [who previously lived in the land close to the Mediterranean Sea], as far south as Gaza. They took their land from them and started to live there.
Les Avviens, qui habitaient dans des villages jusqu’à Gaza, furent détruits par les Caphtorim, sortis de Caphtor, qui s’établirent à leur place.)
24 “[After we had gone through the Moab region], Yahweh said to us, ‘Now cross the Arnon [River]. I will help you to defeat [IDM] [the army of] Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, who lives in Heshbon [city]. So attack their army and start to take their land from them.
Levez-vous, partez, et passez le torrent de l’Arnon. Vois, je livre entre tes mains Sihon, roi de Hesbon, l’Amoréen et son pays. Commence la conquête, fais-lui la guerre!
25 Today I will begin to cause everyone, everywhere, to be afraid of you. Everyone who hears about you will tremble and be terrified.’
Je vais répandre dès aujourd’hui la frayeur et la crainte de toi sur tous les peuples qui sont sous le ciel; et, au bruit de ta renommée, ils trembleront et seront saisis d’angoisse à cause de toi.
26 Then I sent messengers to go from the desert to King Sihon at Heshbon. I told them to give this peaceful message to the king:
J’envoyai, du désert de Kedémoth, des messagers à Sihon, roi de Hesbon, avec des paroles de paix. Je lui fis dire:
27 ‘Please allow us to travel through your land. We [promise that we] will stay on the road; we will not turn off to the right or to the left.
Laisse-moi passer par ton pays; je suivrai la grande route, sans m’écarter ni à droite ni à gauche.
28 We will pay for any food or water that you allow us to buy. We want only to walk through your country,
Tu me vendras à prix d’argent la nourriture que je mangerai, et tu me donneras à prix d’argent l’eau que je boirai; je ne ferai que passer avec mes pieds.
29 until we cross the Jordan [River] into the land that Yahweh our God is giving to us. Do for us just as the descendants of Esau who live in the Edom area and the Moab people-group did for us when they allowed us to go through their areas.’
C’est ce que m’ont accordé les enfants d’Ésaü qui habitent en Séir, et les Moabites qui demeurent à Ar. Accorde-le aussi, jusqu’à ce que je passe le Jourdain pour entrer au pays que l’Éternel, notre Dieu, nous donne.
30 But King Sihon would not allow us to go through his country. That was because Yahweh our God caused him to be stubborn [IDM]. The result was that Yahweh enabled us to defeat his army and take his land [IDM], which we still live in.
Mais Sihon, roi de Hesbon, ne voulut point nous laisser passer chez lui; car l’Éternel, ton Dieu, rendit son esprit inflexible et endurcit son cœur, afin de le livrer entre tes mains, comme tu le vois aujourd’hui.
31 Yahweh said to me, ‘Listen! I am about to allow you to defeat Sihon’s [army] and to take the people’s land from them. So start to occupy it!’
L’Éternel me dit: Vois, je te livre dès maintenant Sihon et son pays.
32 Then Sihon came out [of the city] with all his army to fight against us at Jahaz [town].
Sihon sortit à notre rencontre, avec tout son peuple, pour nous combattre à Jahats.
33 But God enabled us to defeat [DOU] them, and we killed Sihon and his sons and all his soldiers.
L’Éternel, notre Dieu, nous le livra, et nous le battîmes, lui et ses fils, et tout son peuple.
34 We captured all their cities and destroyed them all. We killed all the men and women and children; we did not allow any of them to remain alive.
Nous prîmes alors toutes ses villes, et nous les dévouâmes par interdit, hommes, femmes et petits enfants, sans en laisser échapper un seul.
35 We took the valuable things that were in the cities that we captured and also their cattle.
Seulement, nous pillâmes pour nous le bétail et le butin des villes que nous avions prises.
36 Yahweh our God enabled us to capture [IDM] all their towns from Aroer [in the south], which is at the edge of the Arnon River [Valley], to the Gilead [region in the north]. Some of their cities had [walls around them], but we were able to [climb over them].
Depuis Aroër sur les bords du torrent de l’Arnon, et la ville qui est dans la vallée, jusqu’à Galaad, il n’y eut pas de ville trop forte pour nous: l’Éternel, notre Dieu, nous livra tout.
37 But we did not go near the area where the Ammon people-group live, or the banks of the Jabbok riverbed, or the towns in the hilly area, or any other place where Yahweh our God told us not to go.”
Mais tu n’approchas point du pays des enfants d’Ammon, de tous les bords du torrent de Jabbok, des villes de la montagne, de tous les lieux que l’Éternel, notre Dieu, t’avait défendu d’attaquer.
