Genesis 31
1 Someone told Jacob that Laban’s sons were complaining and saying, “Jacob has become very rich by taking everything [HYP] that belonged to our father.”
Or, il fut instruit des propos des fils de Laban, qui disaient: "Jacob s’est emparé de tout ce que possédait notre père; c’est des biens de notre père qu’il a créé toute cette opulence."
2 And Jacob noticed that Laban was not acting friendly toward him as he had done before.
Jacob remarqua que la face de Laban n’était plus à son égard comme précédemment.
3 Then Yahweh said to Jacob, “Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will help you there.”
Et l’Éternel dit à Jacob: "Retourne au pays de tes pères, dans ton lieu natal; je serai avec toi."
4 So Jacob sent a message to Rachel and Leah, telling them to come out to the pastures where his flocks of sheep and goats were.
Alors Jacob envoya quérir Rachel et Léa aux champs, près de son troupeau;
5 When they arrived, he said to them, “I see that your father does not act friendly toward me as he did previously. But God, whom my father worshiped, has helped me.
et il leur dit: "Je vois, au visage de votre père, qu’il n’est plus pour moi comme hier ni avant hier; mais le Dieu de mon père a été avec moi.
6 You two know that I have worked very hard for your father,
Pour vous, vous savez que j’ai servi votre père de toutes mes forces,
7 but many times [HYP] he has cheated me by decreasing my wages. But God has not allowed him to harm me.
tandis que votre père s’est joué de moi et dix fois a changé mon salaire; mais Dieu n’a pas permis qu’il me fit du tort.
8 When Laban said, ‘The speckled animals are the ones that I will give you to be your wages,’ then all the animals gave birth to young ones that were speckled. When he changed and said, ‘The ones that have black and white stripes on them will be your wages,’ then all the animals gave birth to young ones that were striped.
Lorsqu’il parlait ainsi: ‘Les bêtes pointillées seront ton salaire’, tout le bétail produisait des animaux pointillés; disait-il: ‘Les rayés seront ton salaire’, tout le bétail en produisait des rayés.
9 In that way, God has taken away the livestock that belonged to your father and has given them to me.
C’Est Dieu qui a dégagé le bétail de votre père et me l’a donné.
10 “One time, when the animals were mating, I had a dream. In my dream I [looked up and was surprised to] see that some of the male goats that were mating with the female goats had black and white stripes on them, some were speckled, and some were spotted.
Or, à l’époque où les troupeaux s’accouplent, je levai les yeux et j’eus une vision et voici que les mâles qui fécondaient le bétail étaient rayés, pointillés et grivelés.
11 An angel who was sent by God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob!’ I replied, ‘I am here!’
Un envoyé du Seigneur me dit dans la vision: ‘Jacob!’ Je répondis: ‘Me voici.’
12 He said to me, ‘Look up and you will see that all the male goats that are mating have black and white stripes on them, or are speckled or spotted. This is happening because I have seen all that Laban has done to you.
II reprit: ‘Lève les yeux et regarde; tous les mâles qui fécondent le bétail sont rayés, pointillés et grivelés. C’Est que j’ai vu la conduite de Laban à ton égard.
13 I am God who appeared to you at Bethel, where you set up a stone to show that the place was holy, and you poured [olive] oil on the stone and made a solemn promise to me. So now leave this land immediately, and return to the land where you were born.’”
Je suis la Divinité de Béthel, où tu as consacré un monument, où tu as prononcé un vœu en mon honneur. Maintenant, dispose-toi à sortir de ce pays et retourne au pays de ta naissance.’"
14 Rachel and Leah replied, “Our father will not give us anything more when he dies [RHQ].
Pour réponse, Rachel et Léa lui dirent: "Est il encore pour nous une part et un héritage dans la maison de notre père?
15 He treats us as though we were foreigners [RHQ]! [Your working for him all these years was like a payment] that you gave him as a price for us, but we will not inherit any of that money that he got as a price for us. He has spent it all!
N’Avons nous pas été considérées par lui comme des étrangères, puisqu’il nous a vendues? Il a consommé, oui, consommé notre bien!
16 Surely all of the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you to do!”
Certes, toute la fortune que Dieu a retirée à notre père, elle est à nous et à nos enfants; et maintenant, tout ce que Dieu t’a dit, fais le."
17 Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels.
Jacob s’y disposa. Il fit monter ses fils et ses femmes sur les chameaux;
18 He made all his livestock go ahead of him. Besides the livestock, he took along all the other things that he had acquired while living in Paddan-Aram. And they prepared to return to his father Isaac, in the Canaan region.
il emmena tout son bétail avec tous les biens qu’il avait amassés, possessions à lui, qu’il avait acquises dans le territoire d’Aram et s’achemina vers son père Isaac au pays de Canaan.
19 Before they left, while Laban was shearing his sheep, Rachel stole the [small wooden] idols [that were in her father’s tent].
Comme Laban était allé faire la tonte de ses brebis, Rachel déroba les pénates de son père.
20 Furthermore, Jacob deceived Laban, who belonged to the Aram people-group, by not telling him that they were planning to leave.
Jacob trompa l’esprit de Laban l’Araméen, en s’enfuyant sans lui rien dire.
21 So Jacob and his family fled with all their possessions, and they crossed the Euphrates River, and then started traveling south toward the hilly Gilead region.
II s’enfuit donc, lui et tout ce qui lui appartenait; il se mit en devoir de passer le fleuve, puis il se dirigea vers le mont Galaad.
22 On the third day after they left, someone told Laban that Jacob and his family had left.
Laban fut informé, le troisième jour, que Jacob s’était enfui.
23 So he took some of his relatives with him and started to pursue Jacob. They continued walking for seven days.
Il prit ses frères avec lui, le poursuivit l’espace de sept journées et le joignit au mont Galaad.
24 Then God appeared to Laban in a dream at night, and said to him, “When you catch up to Jacob, be sure that you do not say anything at all [HYP] to him in an angry manner!”
Mais Dieu visita Laban l’Araméen dans un songe nocturne et lui dit: "Garde toi d’interpeller Jacob, en bien ou en mal."
25 The next day, by the time Laban caught up with Jacob, Jacob and his household had set up their tents in the hilly Gilead region. So Laban and his relatives set up their tents there, too.
Laban arriva jusqu’à Jacob. Or, Jacob avait dressé sa tente sur la montagne et Laban posta ses frères sur la même montagne de Galaad.
26 Then Laban went to Jacob and said to him, “Why have you done this? You have deceived me by carrying away my daughters as though you had captured them in a war [MTY]!
Laban dit à Jacob: "Qu’as-tu fait? Tu as abusé mon esprit et tu as emmené mes filles comme des prisonnières de guerre!
27 Why did you run away and deceive me? Why did you not tell me that you were going to leave, so that we could have rejoiced and sung while people played music on tambourines and harps before I said ‘goodbye’ to you?
Pourquoi t’es tu enfui furtivement et m’as tu trompé et ne m’as tu rien dit? Mais je t’aurais reconduit avec allégresse, avec des chants, au son du tambourin et de la harpe!
28 (You did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye before they left!/Why did you not allow me to kiss my grandchildren and daughters goodbye before they left?) [RHQ] What you have done was foolish!
Et puis, tu ne m’as pas laissé embrasser mes fils et mes filles! Certes, tu as agi en insensé.
29 My relatives and I have the power to harm you, but last night the God whom your father worships said to me in a dream, ‘Be sure that you do not say anything at all to Jacob in an angry way.’
Il serait au pouvoir de ma main de vous faire du mal; mais le Dieu de votre père, cette nuit, m’a parlé ainsi: ‘Garde toi d’interpeller Jacob, soit en bien, soit en mal.’
30 Now, I know you have left because you long to go back home. But why did you steal my [wooden] idols?”
Et maintenant que tu t’en vas, parce que tu soupires après la maison de ton père, pourquoi as tu dérobé mes dieux?"
31 Jacob replied to Laban, saying, “I did not tell you that we were planning to leave, because I was afraid. I thought that [if I told you], you would forcefully take your daughters away from me.
Jacob répondit en ces termes à Laban: "J’Ai craint, parce que je me disais que tu pourrais m’enlever de force tes filles.
32 But if you find anyone here who has your wooden idols, we will execute that person. While our relatives are watching, search for yourself to see if there is anything that belongs to you that is here with me. If you find anything, you can take it!” When Jacob said that, he did not know that Rachel had stolen the wooden idols.
Quant à celui que tu trouverais en possession de tes dieux, qu’il cesse de vivre! En présence de nos frères, vérifie toi même ce qui est par devers moi et reprends ton bien." Or, Jacob ne savait pas que Rachel les avait dérobés.
33 Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and then into Leah’s tent, and then into the tents of the two female slaves and searched for the idols, but he did not find them. After he left their tents, he entered Rachel’s tent.
Laban entra dans la tente de Jacob, dans celle de Léa, dans celle des deux servantes et ne les trouva point. Étant sorti de la tente de Léa, il entra dans celle de Rachel.
34 But Rachel had previously taken the idols and put them in the saddle of a camel, and she was sitting on the saddle. So when Laban searched all over for them inside Rachel’s tent, he did not find them.
Mais Rachel avait pris les pénates, les avait cachés dans la selle du chameau et s’était assise dessus. Laban fouilla toute la tente et ne les trouva point.
35 Rachel said to her father, “Do not be angry with me, sir, but I cannot get up in your presence [to show respect for you], because I am having my monthly menstrual period. [EUP]” So when Laban searched some more, he did not find the [wooden] idols.
Elle dit à son père: "Ne sois pas offensé, mon seigneur, si je ne puis me lever devant toi à cause de l’incommodité habituelle des femmes." II chercha encore et il ne trouva point les pénates.
36 Then Jacob became angry. He rebuked Laban, saying, “What crime did I commit? For what sin that I committed have you pursued me?
Jacob s’emporta en plaintes contre Laban; il se récria, disant à Laban: "Quel est mon crime, quelle est ma faute, pour que tu t’acharnes après moi?
37 Now you have searched through all my possessions, and what did you find from all these possessions that belongs to you? Put it here in front of my relatives and your relatives, so that they can decide who is right, you or me!
Après avoir fureté tout mon ménage, qu’as tu découvert qui appartienne à ta maison? Éxpose le ici, en présence de mes frères et des tiens et qu’ils se prononcent entre nous deux!
38 I was with you for 20 years. In all that time, your sheep and goats have (not miscarried/always given birth to animals safely). I have not [killed and] eaten any rams from your flocks.
Ces vingt ans que j’ai été chez toi, tes brebis, ni tes chèvres n’ont avorté et les béliers de ton troupeau, je n’en ai point mangé.
39 When one of your animals was attacked and mauled/killed by a wild animal, I did not bring it to you. I replaced the dead animal with a living one of my own animals. Whenever one of your animals was stolen, during the day or during the night, you demanded that I replace it with one of my own animals.
La bête mise en pièces, je ne te l’ai point rapportée; c’est moi qui en souffrais le dommage, tu me la faisais payer, qu’elle eût été prise le jour, qu’elle eût été ravie la nuit.
40 I suffered from the heat during the day and from the cold at night. I was often not even able to sleep [PRS]!
J’Étais, le jour, en proie au hâle et aux frimas la nuit; et le sommeil fuyait de mes yeux.
41 I lived in your household for 20 years. I worked for you for 14 years to buy your two daughters, and for six more years to buy some of your sheep and goats. During that time, you changed and reduced my wages many times [HYP].
J’Ai passé ainsi vingt années dans ta maison! Je t’ai servi quatorze ans pour tes deux filles et six ans pour ton menu bétail et tu as changé dix fois mon salaire.
42 If God, the one whom my grandfather Abraham worshiped and before whom my father Isaac trembled in fear, had not been with me and helped me, you would have sent me away (with nothing in my hands/owning nothing)! But God saw how much I was suffering and how hard I was working, so last night he told you that what you have done to me was wrong.”
Si le Dieu de mon père, le Dieu d’Abraham et celui que révère Isaac ne m’était venu en aide, certes, actuellement tu m’aurais laissé partir les mains vides. Dieu a vu mon humiliation et le labeur de mes mains et il a prononcé hier."
43 Laban replied, “These two women are my daughters, and their children are my grandchildren, and the animals are my animals. Everything you see here is mine [HYP]! But what can I do today to keep my daughters or the children they have given birth to [RHQ]?
Laban répondit à Jacob: "Ces filles sont mes filles et ces fils sont mes fils et ce bétail est le mien; tout ce que tu vois m’appartient. Étant mes filles, comment agirais je contre elles, dès lors, ou contre les fils qu’elles ont enfantés?
44 I cannot do anything in order to keep them, so hey, we should make a peace agreement, you and I, and do something that will remind us about our agreement.”
Maintenant, tiens, concluons une alliance, moi et toi, ce sera une alliance entre nous deux."
45 So Jacob took a [large] stone and set it on its end.
Jacob prit une pierre et l’érigea en monument.
46 Then Jacob said to his relatives, “You also gather some stones.” So they gathered some rocks and put them in a heap, and they ate some food there near the heap.
Et il dit à ses frères: "Ramassez des pierres." Ils prirent des pierres et en firent un monceau et l’on mangea là, sur le monceau.
47 Laban gave the heap the Aramaic name Jegar-Sahadutha, [which means ‘rock-pile to remind us’, ] but Jacob gave the rock-pile the Hebrew name Galeed, [which has the same meaning].
Laban l’appela Yegar Sahadouthâ et Jacob le nomma Galed.
48 Laban said to Jacob, “This pile of rocks we have put here today will help us to remember our agreement.” That is why Jacob called it Galeed.
Laban avait dit: "Ce monceau est un témoin entre nous deux dès aujourd’hui." De là on énonça son nom Galed;
49 They also named the place Mizpah, [which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘watchtower’, ] because Laban said, “We will ask Yahweh to watch you and me while we are separated from each other, [so that we do not try to harm each other].
et aussi Miçpa, parce qu’il dit: "L’Éternel sera présent entre nous deux, alors que nous serons cachés l’un à l’autre.
50 If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take other women to be your wives, even if no one tells me about it, don’t forget that God sees what you and I are doing!”
Si tu outrageais mes filles; si tu associais d’autres épouses à mes filles nul n’est avec nous; mais vois! Dieu est témoin entre moi et toi!"
51 Laban also said to Jacob, “You see this large stone and this pile of rocks that we have set up to be between us.
Laban dit à Jacob: "Tu vois ce monceau, tu vois ce monument que j’ai posé entre nous deux; soit témoin ce monceau,
52 Both this pile of rocks and this large stone will remind us, that I will not go past these rocks to harm you, and you will not go past these rocks to harm me.
soit témoin cette pierre, que je ne dépasserai point de ton côté ce monceau, que tu ne dépasseras point de mon côté ce monceau ni cette pierre, dans des vues mauvaises.
53 We will ask the God whom [your grandfather] Abraham and [his father] Nahor worshiped to punish [MTY] either one of us, [if we harm the other one].” So Jacob solemnly promised to do what they said in their peace agreement. And he asked God, the one before whom his father Isaac trembled, to listen to what they promised.
Puissent nous juger le Dieu d’Abraham et le dieu de Nahor, les divinités de leur père!" Et Jacob jura par le Dieu révéré de son père Isaac.
54 He offered a sacrifice to God there in the hilly area, and he invited his relatives to eat with him. After they had eaten, they slept there that night.
Jacob égorgea des animaux sur la montagne et invita ses parents au festin. Ils y prirent part et passèrent la nuit sur la montagne.
55 The next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters [goodbye] and asked God to bless them. Then he [and his men] left them and returned home.
Laban se leva de bon matin, embrassa ses fils et ses filles et les bénit; puis il partit et s’en retourna chez lui.
