Juges 12
1 Les hommes d'Éphraïm se rassemblèrent et passèrent au nord. Ils dirent à Jephté: « Pourquoi es-tu passé pour combattre les enfants d'Ammon, et ne nous as-tu pas appelés pour t'accompagner? Nous allons brûler par le feu ta maison autour de toi! ».
The men of the tribe of Ephraim summoned their soldiers, and they crossed [the Jordan River] to [the town of] Zaphon [to talk with] Jephthah. They said to him, “(Why did you not ask us for help?/You should have requested us) to help your army fight the Ammon people-group. So we will burn down your house while you are in it.”
2 Jephté leur dit: « Moi et mon peuple, nous étions en grande querelle avec les fils d'Ammon; et quand je vous ai appelés, vous ne m'avez pas sauvé de leur main.
Jephthah replied, “The Ammon people-group were oppressing us greatly. When we were prepared to start to attack them, I requested you to come and help us, but you refused. My men and I defeated the Ammon people-group, but you did not help us.
3 Quand j'ai vu que vous ne me sauviez pas, j'ai pris ma vie en main, j'ai passé contre les fils d'Ammon, et Yahvé les a livrés entre mes mains. Pourquoi donc êtes-vous venus aujourd'hui jusqu'à moi, pour me combattre? »
When I saw that you would not help us, I was willing to be killed in the battle against the Ammon people-group. But Yahweh helped us to defeat them. [You did not help us when we requested it before], so (why have you come here today to fight against me?/you should not have come here today to fight against me.)” [RHQ]
4 Alors Jephté rassembla tous les hommes de Galaad, et il combattit Éphraïm. Les hommes de Galaad frappèrent Éphraïm, car ils disaient: « Vous êtes des fugitifs d'Éphraïm, Galaadites, au milieu d'Éphraïm et au milieu de Manassé. »
Then Jephthah summoned the men of [the] Gilead [region] to fight [against the men of the tribe of] Ephraim. The men of the tribe of Ephraim said, “You men from [the] Gilead [region] are men who deserted us. Long ago you left us and moved to the area between our tribe and the tribe of Manasseh.” [Because of their saying that], the men of [the] Gilead [region] attacked the men of the tribe of Ephraim.
5 Les Galaadites prirent les gués du Jourdain contre les Ephraïmites. Chaque fois qu'un fugitif d'Ephraïm disait: « Laisse-moi passer », les hommes de Galaad lui disaient: « Es-tu Ephraïmite? » S'il répondait: « Non »;
The men of Gilead captured that (ford/place where people can walk across) at the Jordan [River] to go to the land where the tribe of Ephraim live. Whenever one of the soldiers from the tribe of Ephraim came to the ford to try to escape, he would say, “Let me cross the river.” Then the men of Gilead would ask him, “Are you from the tribe of Ephraim?” If he said “No,”
6 alors ils lui disaient: « Maintenant, dis « Shibboleth »; » et il répondait « Sibboleth », car il ne parvenait pas à le prononcer correctement, alors ils le saisissaient et le tuaient aux gués du Jourdain. A ce moment-là, quarante-deux mille Ephraïm tombèrent.
they would say to him, “Say the word ‘Shibboleth’.” The men of Ephraim could not pronounce that word correctly. So if the person from the tribe of Ephraim said ‘Sibboleth’, [they would know that he was lying and that he was really from the tribe of Ephraim, and] they would kill him there at the ford. So the men of Gilead killed 42,000 people from the tribe of Ephraim at that time.
7 Jephthé fut juge en Israël pendant six ans. Puis Jephté, le Galaadite, mourut et fut enterré dans les villes de Galaad.
Jephthah, the man from [the] Gilead [region], was a leader of the Israeli people for six years. Then he died and was buried in a town in [the] Gilead [region].
8 Après lui, Ibzan, de Bethléem, fut juge en Israël.
After Jephthah died, a man named Ibzan, from Bethlehem, became the leader of the Israeli people.
9 Il avait trente fils. Il envoya ses trente filles hors de son clan et il fit venir trente filles hors de son clan pour ses fils. Il fut juge en Israël pendant sept ans.
He had 30 sons and 30 daughters. He forced all his daughters to marry men who were not in his clan, and brought women from outside his clan to marry his sons. He was the leader of the Israeli people for seven years.
10 Ibzan mourut et fut enterré à Bethléem.
When he died, he was buried in Bethlehem.
11 Après lui, Elon, le Zabulonite, fut juge en Israël; il fut juge en Israël pendant dix ans.
After Ibzan died, a man named Elon, from the tribe of Zebulun, became the leader of the Israeli people. He was their leader for ten years.
12 Elon, le Zabulonite, mourut et fut enterré à Ajalon, dans le pays de Zabulon.
Then he died and was buried in Aijalon [city] in the area where the tribe of Zebulun lives.
13 Après lui, Abdon, fils de Hillel, le Pirathonien, fut juge en Israël.
After Elon died, a man named Abdon who was the son of Hillel, from Pirathon [city, in the area where the tribe of Ephraim live] became the leader of the Israeli people.
14 Il avait quarante fils et trente fils de fils qui montaient sur soixante-dix ânes. Il fut juge en Israël pendant huit ans.
He had 40 sons and 30 grandsons. Each of them had his own donkey on which to ride. Abdon was the leader of the Israeli people for eight years.
15 Abdon, fils de Hillel, le Pirathonien, mourut et fut enterré à Pirathon, au pays d'Ephraïm, dans la montagne des Amalécites.
When Abdon died, he was buried in Pirathon, in the hilly area where the descendants of Amalek lived previously, [but now it is the area where the tribe of Ephraim lives].
