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],
Or il y eut une famine au pays, outre la première famine qui avait été du temps 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!
Car l'Eternel lui était apparu, et lui avait dit: Ne descends point en Egypte; demeure au pays que je te dirai.
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.
Demeure dans ce pays-là, et je serai avec toi, et je te bénirai; car je te donnerai et à ta postérité tous ces pays-ci, et je ratifierai le serment que j'ai fait à ton père Abraham.
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.
Je multiplierai ta postérité comme les étoiles des cieux; et je donnerai ces pays-ci à ta postérité; et toutes les nations de la terre seront bénies 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 obéi à ma voix, et qu'il a gardé mon ordonnance, mes commandements, mes statuts, et mes lois.
6 [so Isaac] stayed there [along with his wife and sons].
Isaac donc demeura 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 quand les gens du lieu s'enquirent qui était sa femme, il répondit: C'est ma sœur; car il craignait de dire: C'est ma femme; de peur, [disait-il], qu'il n'arrive que les habitants du lieu ne me tuent à cause de Rébecca; car elle est belle à voir.
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.
Or il arriva après qu'il y eut passé quelques jours qu'Abimélec, Roi des Philistins, regardait par la fenêtre, et voici, il vit Isaac, qui se jouait avec Rébecca 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.”
Alors Abimélec appela Isaac, et lui dit: Voici, c'est véritablement ta femme; et comment as-tu dit: C'est ma sœur? Et Isaac lui répondit: C'est parce que j'ai dit: Afin que peut-être 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: Que nous as-tu fait? Il s'en est peu fallu que quelqu'un du peuple n'ait couché avec ta femme, et que tu ne nous aies fait tomber dans le crime.
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!”
Abimélec donc fit une ordonnance à tout le peuple, en disant: Celui qui touchera cet homme, ou sa femme, sera certainement puni de mort.
12 Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop, because Yahweh blessed him.
Et Isaac sema en cette terre-là, et il recueillit cette année-là le centuple; car l'Eternel le bénit.
13 Isaac continued to acquire more and more possessions, until finally he became very wealthy.
Cet homme donc accrut, et allait toujours en augmentant, jusqu'à ce qu'il fût merveilleusement accru.
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 du menu et du gros bétail, et un grand nombre 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.
Tellement qu'ils bouchèrent les puits que les serviteurs de son père avaient creusés du temps de son père Abraham, 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.”
Abimélec aussi dit à Isaac: Retire-toi d'avec nous; car tu es devenu 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].
Isaac donc partit de là, et alla camper dans la vallée de Guérar, et y demeura.
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 creusa encore les puits d'eau qu'on avait creusés du temps d'Abraham son père, lesquels les Philistins avaient bouchés après la mort d'Abraham, et les appela des mêmes noms dont son père les avait appelés.
19 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water.
Et les serviteurs d'Isaac creusèrent dans cette vallée, et 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.
Mais les bergers de Guérar eurent un démêlé avec les bergers d'Isaac, disant: L'eau est à nous. Et il appela le puits, Hések; parce qu'ils avaient contesté 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]’.
Ensuite ils creusèrent un autre puits, pour lequel ils contestèrent aussi; et il appela son nom, Sitnah.
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.”
Alors il se retira de là, et creusa un autre puits, pour lequel ils ne contestèrent point, et il le nomma Réhoboth, en disant: C'est parce que l'Eternel nous a maintenant mis au large, et que nous nous sommes agrandis dans ce pays.
23 From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.
Et de là il monta à Béer-Sébah.
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'Eternel lui apparut cette même nuit, et lui dit: Je suis le Dieu d'Abraham ton père, ne crains point; car je [suis) avec toi, je te bénirai, et je multiplierai ta postérité 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'Eternel, et il y dressa ses tentes; 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 vint à lui de Guérar avec Ahuzat 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?”
Mais 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 répondirent: Nous avons vu clairement que l'Eternel est avec toi; et nous avons dit: Qu'il y ait maintenant un serment avec exécration entre nous, [c'est-à-dire], entre nous et toi; et traitons 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.”
Si tu nous fais du mal, comme nous ne t'avons point touché, et comme nous ne t'avons fait que du bien, et t'avons laissé aller en paix; toi qui es maintenant béni de l'Eternel.
30 So Isaac made a feast for them, and they all ate and drank.
Alors 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 jurèrent l'un à l'autre. Puis 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!”
Il arriva en ce même jour, que les serviteurs d'Isaac vinrent, et lui parlèrent touchant ce 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 Sibah; c'est pourquoi le nom de la ville a été Béer-Sébah 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].
Or Esaü, âgé de quarante ans, prit pour femmes Judith, fille de Béeri Héthien, et Basmath fille d'Elon Héthien;
35 Esau’s two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
Lesquelles furent en amertume d'esprit à Isaac et à Rébecca.
