Genèse 26
1 Il y eut une famine dans le pays, qui s'ajouta à la première famine qui eut lieu du temps d'Abraham. Isaac alla chez Abimélec, roi des Philistins, à Guérar.
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],
2 Yahvé lui apparut et lui dit: « Ne descends pas en Égypte. Habite dans le pays dont je te parlerai.
but Yahweh appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt! Live in the land where I will tell you to go!
3 Habite dans ce pays, et je serai avec toi, et je te bénirai. Car je te donnerai, à toi et à ta postérité, tous ces pays, et j'accomplirai le serment que j'ai fait à Abraham, ton père.
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.
4 Je multiplierai ta descendance comme les étoiles du ciel, et je donnerai tous ces pays à ta descendance. En ta descendance seront bénies toutes les nations de la terre,
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.
5 parce qu'Abraham a obéi à ma voix, et qu'il a gardé mes exigences, mes commandements, mes statuts et mes lois. »
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,”]
6 Isaac habitait à Guérar.
[so Isaac] stayed there [along with his wife and sons].
7 Les gens du lieu l'interrogèrent sur sa femme. Il répondit: « C'est ma sœur », car il avait peur de dire: « Ma femme », de peur, pensait-il, que les gens du lieu ne me tuent pour Rebecca, car elle est belle à regarder. »
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.”
8 Comme il était là depuis longtemps, Abimélec, roi des Philistins, regarda par une fenêtre et vit, et voici, Isaac caressait Rebecca, sa femme.
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.
9 Abimélec appela Isaac et dit: « Voici, elle est bien ta femme. Pourquoi as-tu dit: « C'est ma sœur »? » Isaac lui dit: « Parce que j'ai dit: « De peur que je ne meure à cause d'elle ».
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.”
10 Abimélec dit: « Qu'est-ce que tu nous as fait? L'un des gens du peuple aurait pu facilement coucher avec ta femme, et tu nous aurais rendus coupables! ».
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!”
11 Abimélec donna un ordre à tout le peuple, en disant: « Celui qui touchera cet homme ou sa femme sera certainement mis à mort. »
Then Abimelech commanded all his people, saying, “Do not harm/molest this man or his wife! Anyone who does that will surely be executed!”
12 Isaac sema dans ce pays, et il récolta la même année cent fois ce qu'il avait planté. L'Éternel le bénit.
Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop, because Yahweh blessed him.
13 L'homme devint grand, et il grandit de plus en plus jusqu'à devenir très grand.
Isaac continued to acquire more and more possessions, until finally he became very wealthy.
14 Il possédait des troupeaux, des troupeaux de bétail et une grande maison. Les Philistins l'enviaient.
He had large herds of sheep and goats and cattle, and many slaves. Because of that, the Philistine people envied him.
15 Or, tous les puits que les serviteurs de son père avaient creusés du temps d'Abraham, son père, les Philistins les avaient bouchés et remplis de terre.
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.
16 Abimélec dit à Isaac: « Va-t'en loin de nous, car tu es beaucoup plus puissant que nous. »
Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “You people have become more numerous than we are, so I want you to get out of our area.”
17 Isaac partit de là, campa dans la vallée de Gerar et y demeura.
So Isaac [and his family] moved from there. They set up their tents in Gerar Valley [and started to live there].
18 Isaac creusa de nouveau les puits d'eau qu'on avait creusés du temps d'Abraham, son père, car les Philistins les avaient arrêtés après la mort d'Abraham. Il leur donna des noms semblables à ceux par lesquels son père les avait appelés.
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.
19 Les serviteurs d'Isaac creusèrent dans la vallée et y trouvèrent un puits d'eau vive.
Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water.
20 Les bergers de Gerar discutèrent avec les bergers d'Isaac, en disant: « L'eau est à nous. » Isaac donna donc au puits le nom d'Esek, parce qu'ils se disputaient avec lui.
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.
21 Ils creusèrent un autre puits, et ils se disputèrent aussi à son sujet. Il l'appela donc Sitna.
Then Isaac’s servants dug another well, but they quarreled about who owned that one also. So Isaac named it Sitnah, [which means ‘opposition]’.
22 Il quitta ce lieu, et creusa un autre puits. Ils ne se disputèrent pas pour celui-là. Il l'appela donc Rehoboth. Il dit: « Car maintenant Yahvé nous a fait une place, et nous serons féconds dans le pays. »
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.”
23 De là, il monta à Beer Schéba.
From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.
24 Yahvé lui apparut la même nuit, et dit: « Je suis le Dieu d'Abraham, ton père. Ne crains pas, car je suis avec toi, je te bénirai et je multiplierai ta descendance à cause de mon serviteur Abraham. »
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.”
25 Il y bâtit un autel, invoqua le nom de Yahvé et y dressa sa tente. Les serviteurs d'Isaac y creusèrent un puits.
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.
26 Alors Abimélec vint à lui de Guérar, avec Ahuzzath, son ami, et Phicol, le chef de son armée.
[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.
27 Isaac leur dit: « Pourquoi êtes-vous venus vers moi, puisque vous me haïssez et que vous m'avez chassé de chez vous? ».
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?”
28 Ils dirent: « Nous avons vu clairement que Yahvé était avec toi. Nous avons dit: « Qu'il y ait maintenant un serment entre nous, même entre nous et toi, et faisons alliance avec toi,
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,
29 que tu ne nous fasses aucun mal, comme nous ne t'avons pas touché, et comme nous ne t'avons fait que du bien, et que nous t'avons renvoyé en paix. Vous êtes maintenant les bénis de Yahvé. »
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.”
30 Il leur fit un festin, et ils mangèrent et burent.
So Isaac made a feast for them, and they all ate and drank.
31 Ils se levèrent un peu plus tard dans la matinée et se jurèrent l'un à l'autre. Isaac les renvoya, et ils s'éloignèrent de lui en paix.
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.
32 Le même jour, les serviteurs d'Isaac vinrent lui parler du puits qu'ils avaient creusé, et lui dirent: « Nous avons trouvé de l'eau. »
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!”
33 Il l'appela « Shibah ». C'est pourquoi le nom de la ville est encore aujourd'hui « Beersheba ».
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’].
34 Lorsque Ésaü eut quarante ans, il prit pour femme Judith, fille de Beeri, le Hittite, et Basemath, fille d'Élon, le Hittite.
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].
35 Elles affligèrent l'esprit d'Isaac et de Rebecca.
Esau’s two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
