Genèse 12
1 Yahvé dit à Abram: « Quitte ton pays, ta famille et la maison de ton père, et va dans le pays que je te montrerai.
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.
2 Je ferai de toi une grande nation. Je te bénirai et je rendrai ton nom grand. Tu seras une bénédiction.
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.
3 Je bénirai ceux qui te béniront, et je maudirai celui qui te traitera avec mépris. Toutes les familles de la terre seront bénies par toi. »
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).”
4 Et Abram partit, comme Yahvé le lui avait dit. Lot partit avec lui. Abram était âgé de soixante-quinze ans lorsqu'il partit de Haran.
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.
5 Abram prit Saraï, sa femme, Lot, le fils de son frère, tous les biens qu'ils avaient rassemblés, et le peuple qu'ils avaient acquis à Haran, et ils partirent pour aller au pays de Canaan. Ils entrèrent dans le pays de Canaan.
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.
6 Abram traversa le pays jusqu'au lieu-dit Sichem, au chêne de Moreh. En ce temps-là, les Cananéens étaient dans le pays.
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.
7 Yahvé apparut à Abram et dit: « Je donnerai ce pays à ta descendance. » Il y bâtit un autel à Yahvé, qui lui était apparu.
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.
8 Il partit de là pour aller sur la montagne à l'est de Béthel et planta sa tente, ayant Béthel à l'ouest et Aï à l'est. Là, il bâtit un autel à Yahvé et invoqua le nom de Yahvé.
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.
9 Abram voyagea, toujours en direction du sud.
Then they left there and started traveling south to the Negev [Desert].
10 Il y eut une famine dans le pays. Abram descendit en Égypte pour y vivre comme un étranger, car la famine sévissait dans le pays.
There was (a famine/very little food to eat) in Canaan, so they went south to live in Egypt for a while.
11 Lorsqu'il fut sur le point d'entrer en Égypte, il dit à Saraï, sa femme: « Voici, je sais que tu es une femme belle à regarder.
Just as they were about to enter Egypt, Abram said to his wife Sarai, “Listen, I know that you are a very beautiful woman.
12 Quand les Égyptiens te verront, ils diront: « C'est sa femme ». Ils me tueront, mais ils te laisseront la vie sauve.
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.
13 Dis, je t'en prie, que tu es ma sœur, afin que je sois heureux à cause de toi et que mon âme vive grâce à toi. »
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).”
14 Quand Abram fut arrivé en Égypte, les Égyptiens virent que la femme était très belle.
And as soon as they arrived in Egypt, the people in Egypt saw that his wife was indeed very beautiful.
15 Les princes de Pharaon la virent et la louèrent à Pharaon; et la femme fut emmenée dans la maison de Pharaon.
When the king’s officials saw her, they told the king how beautiful she was. And they took her to the king’s palace.
16 Il traita bien Abram à cause d'elle. Il eut des moutons, du bétail, des ânes mâles, des serviteurs mâles, des servantes, des ânesses et des chameaux.
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.
17 Yahvé affligea Pharaon et sa maison de grandes plaies à cause de Saraï, la femme d'Abram.
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.
18 Pharaon appela Abram et dit: « Qu'est-ce que tu m'as fait? Pourquoi ne m'as-tu pas dit qu'elle était ta femme?
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?
19 Pourquoi as-tu dit: « C'est ma sœur », pour que je la prenne pour femme? Maintenant donc, va voir ta femme, prends-la, et va-t'en. »
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!”
20 Pharaon donna des ordres aux hommes à son sujet, et ils l'emmenèrent avec sa femme et tout ce qui lui appartenait.
Then the king told his officials/servants to take Abram and his wife and all his possessions out of Egypt.
