Genesis 26
1 Some time later there was a severe (famine/scarcity of food) there. That was different from the famine that occurred when Abraham was alive. So Isaac went [southeast] to Gerar [town, to talk] to Abimelech, the king of the Philistine people-group. [What happened was this: Isaac considered going to Egypt],
Et il y eut une famine dans le pays, outre la première famine qui avait eu lieu aux jours d’Abraham; et Isaac s’en alla vers Abimélec, roi des Philistins, à Guérar.
2 but Yahweh appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt! Live in the land where I will tell you to go!
Et l’Éternel lui apparut, et dit: Ne descends pas en Égypte; demeure dans le pays que je t’ai dit;
3 Stay in this land for a while, and I will help you and bless you, because it is to you and your descendants that I will give all these lands, and I will do what I solemnly promised to your father.
séjourne dans ce pays-ci, et je serai avec toi, et je te bénirai; car à toi et à ta semence je donnerai tous ces pays, et j’accomplirai le serment que j’ai juré à Abraham, ton père,
4 I will cause your descendants to be as numerous as the stars in the sky. I will give to your descendants all these lands, and I will cause your descendants to be a blessing to the people of [MTY] all nations on the earth.
et je multiplierai ta semence comme les étoiles des cieux, et je donnerai tous ces pays à ta semence, et toutes les nations de la terre se béniront en ta semence,
5 I will do that because your father Abraham obeyed me. He obeyed everything that I told him to do, everything that I declared and all the laws that I gave him.” So Isaac [went and asked King Abimelech if he would permit him to live in the Gerar area. The king said, “Okay,”]
– parce qu’Abraham a écouté ma voix, et a gardé mon ordonnance, mes commandements, mes statuts et mes lois.
6 [so Isaac] stayed there [along with his wife and sons].
Et Isaac habita à Guérar.
7 When the men in Gerar [town] asked who Rebekah was, Isaac said, “She is my sister.” He said that because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “Rebekah is very beautiful, so they will want her. [If I say that she is my sister, they know they will have to negotiate about a bride price because I am her older brother; but if I say that she is my wife, no negotiation will be possible]. They will just kill me to get her.”
Et les hommes du lieu s’enquirent au sujet de sa femme, et il dit: C’est ma sœur, car il craignait de dire: ma femme; de peur, [pensait-il], que les hommes du lieu ne me tuent à cause de Rebecca, car elle est belle de visage.
8 When Isaac had been there a long time, one day Abimelech, the king of the Philistine people-group, looked down from a window [in his palace] and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
Et il arriva, comme son séjour dans ce [lieu] se prolongeait, qu’Abimélec, roi des Philistins, regarda par la fenêtre; et il vit, et voici, Isaac se jouait avec Rebecca sa femme.
9 So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said to him, “Now I realize that she is really your wife! So why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied to him, “I said that because I thought that someone here might kill me to get her.”
Et Abimélec appela Isaac, et dit: Voici, assurément c’est ta femme; et comment as-tu dit: C’est ma sœur? Et Isaac lui dit: Parce que je disais: De peur que je ne meure à cause d’elle.
10 Abimelech said, “(You should not have done this to us!/Why did you do this?) [RHQ] One of our people might have (had sex with/slept with) [EUP] your wife, and you would have caused us to be guilty of a great sin!”
Et Abimélec dit: Qu’est-ce que tu nous as fait? Car peu s’en est fallu que quelqu’un du peuple n’ait couché avec ta femme, et tu aurais fait venir la culpabilité sur nous.
11 Then Abimelech commanded all his people, saying, “Do not harm/molest this man or his wife! Anyone who does that will surely be executed!”
Et Abimélec commanda à tout le peuple, disant: Celui qui touchera cet homme ou sa femme sera certainement mis à mort.
12 Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop, because Yahweh blessed him.
Et Isaac sema dans cette terre; et il recueillit cette année-là le centuple; et l’Éternel le bénit.
13 Isaac continued to acquire more and more possessions, until finally he became very wealthy.
Et l’homme grandissait, et il allait grandissant de plus en plus, jusqu’à ce qu’il devint fort grand;
14 He had large herds of sheep and goats and cattle, and many slaves. Because of that, the Philistine people envied him.
et il eut des troupeaux de menu bétail, et des troupeaux de gros bétail, et beaucoup de serviteurs; et les Philistins lui portèrent envie;
15 So all the wells that the servants of his father Abraham had dug during the time when he was alive, the people filled up with dirt.
et tous les puits que les serviteurs de son père avaient creusés aux jours d’Abraham, son père, les Philistins les bouchèrent et les remplirent de terre.
16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “You people have become more numerous than we are, so I want you to get out of our area.”
Et Abimélec dit à Isaac: Va-t’en d’avec nous; car tu es beaucoup plus puissant que nous.
17 So Isaac [and his family] moved from there. They set up their tents in Gerar Valley [and started to live there].
Et Isaac partit de là, et campa dans la vallée de Guérar, et y habita.
18 There were several wells in that area that had been dug when Isaac’s father Abraham was living, but Philistine people had filled them up [with dirt] after Abraham died. Now Isaac and his servants removed the dirt, and Isaac gave the wells the same names that his father had given to them.
Et Isaac recreusa les puits d’eau qu’on avait creusés aux jours d’Abraham, son père, et que les Philistins avaient bouchés après la mort d’Abraham; et il leur donna des noms selon les noms que son père leur avait donnés.
19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water.
Et les serviteurs d’Isaac creusèrent dans la vallée, et ils y trouvèrent un puits d’eau vive.
20 But other men who lived in Gerar [Valley] who took care of their animals argued/quarreled with the men who took care of Isaac’s animals, and said, “The water in this well is ours!” So Isaac named the well Esek, which means ‘dispute’, because they disputed about who owned it.
Et les bergers de Guérar contestèrent avec les bergers d’Isaac, disant: L’eau est à nous. Et il appela le nom du puits Ések, parce qu’ils s’étaient disputés avec lui.
21 Then Isaac’s servants dug another well, but they quarreled about who owned that one also. So Isaac named it Sitnah, [which means ‘opposition]’.
Et ils creusèrent un autre puits, et ils contestèrent aussi pour celui-là; et il appela son nom Sitna.
22 They moved on from there and dug another well, but this time no one quarreled about who owned it. So Isaac named it Rehoboth, [which means ‘uninhabited place’], saying, “Yahweh has given us an uninhabited place to live in, a place that is not wanted by other people, and we will become very prosperous here.”
Et il se transporta de là, et creusa un autre puits, et ils ne contestèrent pas pour celui-là; et il appela son nom Rehoboth, parce que, dit-il, l’Éternel nous a maintenant donné de l’espace, et nous fructifierons dans le pays.
23 From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.
Et de là il monta à Beër-Shéba.
24 The first night that he was there, Yahweh appeared to him and said, “I am God, whom your father Abraham worshiped. Do not be afraid of anything. I will help you and bless you, and because of what I promised my servant Abraham, I will greatly increase the number of your descendants.”
Et l’Éternel lui apparut cette nuit-là, et dit: Je suis le Dieu d’Abraham ton père; ne crains pas, car je suis avec toi; et je te bénirai, et je multiplierai ta semence, à cause d’Abraham, mon serviteur.
25 So Isaac built a stone altar there [and offered a sacrifice] to worship Yahweh. He [and his servants] set up their tents there, and his servants started to dig a well.
Et il bâtit là un autel, et invoqua le nom de l’Éternel; et il y dressa sa tente; et les serviteurs d’Isaac y creusèrent un puits.
26 [While they were digging the well], King Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, along with Ahuzzath, his advisor, and Phicol, the commander of his army.
Et Abimélec alla de Guérar vers lui, avec Akhuzzath, son ami, et Picol, chef de son armée.
27 Isaac asked them, “You (acted in a hostile way toward me/treated me like an enemy) before, and sent me away. So why have you come to me now?”
Et Isaac leur dit: Pourquoi venez-vous vers moi, puisque vous me haïssez et que vous m’avez renvoyé d’auprès de vous?
28 One of them answered, “We have seen that Yahweh helps you. So we said to each other, ‘We should have an agreement between us and you. We should make a peace treaty with you,
Et ils dirent: Nous avons vu clairement que l’Éternel est avec toi, et nous avons dit: Qu’il y ait donc un serment entre nous, entre nous et toi; et nous ferons une alliance avec toi:
29 stating that you will not harm us, in the same way that we did not molest [EUP] you.’ We always treated you well and sent you away peacefully. And now Yahweh is blessing you.”
que tu ne nous feras pas de mal, comme nous ne t’avons pas touché, et comme nous ne t’avons fait que du bien, et t’avons renvoyé en paix. Tu es maintenant le béni de l’Éternel.
30 So Isaac made a feast for them, and they all ate and drank.
Et il leur fit un festin, et ils mangèrent et burent.
31 Early the next morning they all (swore/solemnly promised) each other that they would do what they had promised. Then Isaac sent them home peacefully.
Et ils se levèrent de bon matin, et se jurèrent l’un à l’autre; et Isaac les renvoya, et ils s’en allèrent d’avec lui en paix.
32 That day Isaac’s servants came to him and told him about the well that they had finished digging. They said, “We found water in the well!”
Et il arriva, en ce jour-là, que les serviteurs d’Isaac vinrent, et l’avertirent au sujet du puits qu’ils avaient creusé, et lui dirent: Nous avons trouvé de l’eau.
33 Isaac named the well Shibah, [which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘oath’]. To the present time the town there has the name Beersheba [which means ‘Friendship Agreement Well’].
Et il l’appela Shéba; c’est pourquoi le nom de la ville a été Beër-Shéba, jusqu’à aujourd’hui.
34 When Esau was 40 years old, he married Judith, the daughter of Beeri, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon. Both of those women were descendants of Heth, [not from Isaac’s clan].
Et Ésaü était âgé de 40 ans, et il prit pour femmes Judith, fille de Beéri, le Héthien, et Basmath, fille d’Élon, le Héthien;
35 Esau’s two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
et elles furent une amertume d’esprit pour Isaac et pour Rebecca.
