Genèse 12
1 Yahweh dit à Abram: « Va-t-en de ton pays, de ta famille et de la maison de ton père, dans le pays que je te montrerai.
Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get you out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you:
2 Je ferai de toi une grande nation, je te bénirai et je rendrai grand ton nom. Tu seras une bénédiction:
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:
3 Je bénirai ceux qui te béniront, et celui qui te maudira, je le maudirai, et toutes les familles de la terre seront bénies en toi. »
And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.
4 Abram partit, comme Yahweh le lui avait dit, et Lot s’en alla avec lui. Abram avait soixante-quinze ans quand il sortit de Haran.
So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
5 Abram prit Saraï, sa femme, et Lot, fils de son frère, ainsi que tous les biens qu’ils possédaient et les serviteurs qu’ils avaient acquis à Haran, et ils partirent pour aller au pays de Canaan. Et ils arrivèrent au pays de Canaan.
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
6 Abram traversa le pays jusqu’au lieu nommé Sichem, jusqu’au chêne de Moré. — Les Chananéens étaient alors dans le pays. —
And Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
7 Yahweh apparut à Abram et lui dit: « je donnerai ce pays à ta postérité. » Et Abram bâtit là un autel à Yahweh qui lui était apparu.
And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your seed will I give this land: and there built he an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him.
8 Il passa de là à la montagne, à l’orient de Béthel, et il dressa sa tente, ayant Béthel au couchant et Haï à l’orient. Là encore il bâtit un autel à Yahweh, et il invoqua le nom de Yahweh.
And he removed from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he built an altar to the LORD, and called on the name of the LORD.
9 Puis Abram s’avança, de campement en campement, vers le Midi.
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
10 Il y eut une famine dans le pays, et Abram descendit en Égypte pour y séjourner; car la famine était grande dans le pays.
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
11 Comme il était près d’entrer en Égypte, il dit à Saraï, sa femme: « Voici, je sais que tu es une belle femme;
And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that you are a fair woman to look on:
12 quand les Egyptiens te verront, ils diront: C’est sa femme, et ils me tueront et te laisseront vivre.
Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see you, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save you alive.
13 Dis donc que tu es ma sœur, afin que je sois bien traité à cause de toi, et qu’on me laisse la vie par égard pour toi. »
Say, I pray you, you are my sister: that it may be well with me for your sake; and my soul shall live because of you.
14 Lorsque Abram fut arrivé en Égypte, les Egyptiens virent que sa femme était fort belle.
And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
15 Les grands de Pharaon, l’ayant vue, la vantèrent à Pharaon, et cette femme fut prise et emmenée dans la maison de Pharaon.
The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
16 Il traita bien Abram à cause d’elle, et Abram reçut des brebis, des bœufs, des ânes, des serviteurs et des servantes, des ânesses et des chameaux.
And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
17 Mais Yahweh frappa de grandes plaies Pharaon et sa maison, à cause de Saraï, femme d’Abram.
And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.
18 Pharaon appela alors Abram et lui dit: « Qu’est-ce que tu m’as fait? Pourquoi ne m’as-tu pas déclaré qu’elle était ta femme?
And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that you have done to me? why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
19 Pourquoi as-tu dit: C’est ma sœur; de sorte que je l’ai prise pour femme? Maintenant, voici ta femme; prends-la et va-t’en! »
Why said you, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold your wife, take her, and go your way.
20 Et Pharaon, ayant donné des ordres à ses gens au sujet d’Abram, ils le renvoyèrent, lui et sa femme, et tout ce qui lui appartenait.
And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
