Genesis 12
1 Then Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave this country where you are now living. Leave your father’s clan and his family. Go to a land that I will show you.
Yahweh dit à Abram: « Va-t-en de ton pays, de ta famille et de la maison de ton père, dans le pays que je te montrerai.
2 I will cause your descendants to become a large nation. I will bless you and cause you to become (famous/highly esteemed). What I do for you will be a blessing to others.
Je ferai de toi une grande nation, je te bénirai et je rendrai grand ton nom. Tu seras une bénédiction:
3 I will bless those who (bless/ask God to do good things for) you, and I will (curse/ask God to punish) those who do evil things to you. And because of what you do, groups of people all over the earth will receive blessings (OR, people will wish that God will bless others as much as he has blessed you).”
Je bénirai ceux qui te béniront, et celui qui te maudira, je le maudirai, et toutes les familles de la terre seront bénies en toi. »
4 So Abram left Haran [town], as Yahweh told him to do. Abram was 75 years old when he left there along with his wife, Sarai, and his nephew, Lot.
Abram partit, comme Yahweh le lui avait dit, et Lot s’en alla avec lui. Abram avait soixante-quinze ans quand il sortit de Haran.
5 Abram also took along all the possessions and slaves that they had accumulated/acquired in Haran [town], and they left there and went to Canaan land.
Abram prit Saraï, sa femme, et Lot, fils de son frère, ainsi que tous les biens qu’ils possédaient et les serviteurs qu’ils avaient acquis à Haran, et ils partirent pour aller au pays de Canaan. Et ils arrivèrent au pays de Canaan.
6 In Canaan they traveled as far as Shechem [town] and camped by a huge tree called the tree of Moreh. The Canaan people-group were still living in that land.
Abram traversa le pays jusqu’au lieu nommé Sichem, jusqu’au chêne de Moré. — Les Chananéens étaient alors dans le pays. —
7 Then Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I will give this land to your descendants.” Then Abram built a stone altar to offer a sacrifice to Yahweh because Yahweh had appeared to him.
Yahweh apparut à Abram et lui dit: « je donnerai ce pays à ta postérité. » Et Abram bâtit là un autel à Yahweh qui lui était apparu.
8 From Shechem, Abram and his family traveled to the hills that were east of Bethel [town]. Bethel [town] was to the west of where they set up their tent, and Ai [town] was further to the east. There he built another stone altar and offered a sacrifice and worshiped Yahweh there.
Il passa de là à la montagne, à l’orient de Béthel, et il dressa sa tente, ayant Béthel au couchant et Haï à l’orient. Là encore il bâtit un autel à Yahweh, et il invoqua le nom de Yahweh.
9 Then they left there and started traveling south to the Negev [Desert].
Puis Abram s’avança, de campement en campement, vers le Midi.
10 There was (a famine/very little food to eat) in Canaan, so they went south to live in Egypt for a while.
Il y eut une famine dans le pays, et Abram descendit en Égypte pour y séjourner; car la famine était grande dans le pays.
11 Just as they were about to enter Egypt, Abram said to his wife Sarai, “Listen, I know that you are a very beautiful woman.
Comme il était près d’entrer en Égypte, il dit à Saraï, sa femme: « Voici, je sais que tu es une belle femme;
12 When the people in Egypt see you, they will say, ‘This woman is his wife!’ and they will kill me in order to get you, but they will not kill you.
quand les Egyptiens te verront, ils diront: C’est sa femme, et ils me tueront et te laisseront vivre.
13 So I ask you to tell them that you are my sister, so that because of you telling them that, they will (spare my life/not kill me).”
Dis donc que tu es ma sœur, afin que je sois bien traité à cause de toi, et qu’on me laisse la vie par égard pour toi. »
14 And as soon as they arrived in Egypt, the people in Egypt saw that his wife was indeed very beautiful.
Lorsque Abram fut arrivé en Égypte, les Egyptiens virent que sa femme était fort belle.
15 When the king’s officials saw her, they told the king how beautiful she was. And they took her to the king’s palace.
Les grands de Pharaon, l’ayant vue, la vantèrent à Pharaon, et cette femme fut prise et emmenée dans la maison de Pharaon.
16 The king treated Abram kindly because of Sarai, and he gave Abram many sheep and cattle and donkeys and male and female slaves and camels.
Il traita bien Abram à cause d’elle, et Abram reçut des brebis, des bœufs, des ânes, des serviteurs et des servantes, des ânesses et des chameaux.
17 But because the king had taken Sarai, Abram’s wife, Yahweh caused the king and the others in his household to be inflicted with terrible diseases.
Mais Yahweh frappa de grandes plaies Pharaon et sa maison, à cause de Saraï, femme d’Abram.
18 When the king realized why that was happening, he summoned Abram and said to him, “Why did you do this to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
Pharaon appela alors Abram et lui dit: « Qu’est-ce que tu m’as fait? Pourquoi ne m’as-tu pas déclaré qu’elle était ta femme?
19 Why did you lie, saying she is your sister, with the result that I took her to be my wife? You should not have done that! So now take your wife, leave here and go!”
Pourquoi as-tu dit: C’est ma sœur; de sorte que je l’ai prise pour femme? Maintenant, voici ta femme; prends-la et va-t’en! »
20 Then the king told his officials/servants to take Abram and his wife and all his possessions out of Egypt.
Et Pharaon, ayant donné des ordres à ses gens au sujet d’Abram, ils le renvoyèrent, lui et sa femme, et tout ce qui lui appartenait.
