Genèse 15
1 Après ces événements, la parole de Yahweh fut adressée à Abram en vision: « Ne crains point, Abram; je suis ton bouclier; ta récompense sera très grande. »
Some time later, Abram had a vision in which Yahweh spoke to him and said, “Do not be afraid of (anything/your enemies). I will protect you [MTY], and I will give a great reward.”
2 Abram répondit: « Seigneur Yahweh, que me donnerez-vous? Je m’en vais sans enfants, et l’héritier de ma maison, c’est Eliézer de Damas. »
But Abram replied, “Yahweh God, how can you give me what I truly want, because I have no children, and the one who will be like a son and inherit all my possessions is my servant Eliezer from Damascus!”
3 Et Abram dit: « Voici, vous ne m’avez pas donné de postérité, et un homme attaché à ma maison sera mon héritier. »
Abram added, “You have not given me any children, so think about this: A servant in my household will inherit all I own!”
4 Alors la parole de Yahweh lui fut adressée en ces termes: « Ce n’est pas lui qui sera ton héritier, mais celui qui sortira de tes entrailles sera ton héritier. »
Yahweh replied, “No! He will not be the one who will inherit it. Instead, you yourself will be the father of the one who will inherit everything you own.”
5 Et, l’ayant conduit dehors, il dit: « Lève ton regard vers le ciel et compte les étoiles, si tu peux les compter. » Et il lui dit: « Telle sera ta postérité. »
Then Yahweh took Abram outside [of his tent] and said, “Look up at the sky! Can you count the stars? No, you cannot count them because there are so many of them, and your descendants will be as numerous as the stars.”
6 Abram eut foi à Yahweh, et Yahweh le lui imputa à justice.
Abram believed that what Yahweh said would happen. And because of that, Yahweh considered that Abram was righteous.
7 Et il lui dit: « Je suis Yahweh, qui t’ai fait sortir d’Ur des Chaldéens, afin de te donner ce pays pour le posséder. »
Yahweh also said to him, “I am Yahweh. I am the one who brought you from Ur in Chaldea land. I brought you here to give you this land to possess.”
8 Abram répondit: « Seigneur Yahweh, à quoi connaîtrai-je que je le posséderai? »
But Abram replied, “Yahweh God, how can I know for sure that this land will belong to me?”
9 Et Yahweh lui dit: « Prends une génisse de trois ans, une chèvre de trois ans, un bélier de trois ans, une tourterelle et un jeune pigeon. »
God said to him, “Bring a three-year-old heifer and a three-year-old goat to me, and a dove and a pigeon.”
10 Abram lui amena tous ces animaux et, les ayant partagés par le milieu, il mit chaque moitié vis-à-vis de l’autre; mais il ne partagea pas les oiseaux.
So Abram brought all of them and killed them and cut each of the animals in half. He arranged the halves of each one, side by side. But he did not cut the pigeon and dove in half.
11 Les oiseaux de proie s’abattirent sur les cadavres, et Abram les chassa.
Birds that eat dead flesh came down to eat the carcasses, but Abram shooed them away.
12 Comme le soleil se couchait, un profond sommeil tomba sur Abram; une terreur, une obscurité profonde tombèrent sur lui.
As the sun was going down, Abram fell sound asleep, and suddenly everything around him became dark and frightening.
13 Yahweh dit à Abram: « Sache bien que tes descendants seront étrangers dans un pays qui ne sera pas à eux; ils y seront en servitude et on les opprimera pendant quatre cents ans.
Then God said to Abram, “I want you to know that your descendants will become foreigners living in a land that does not belong to them. They will become slaves of the owners of that land. The owners of the land will mistreat them for 400 years.
14 Mais je jugerai la nation à laquelle ils auront été asservis, et ensuite ils sortiront avec de grands biens.
But then I will punish the people of that country that made them become slaves, and then your descendants will leave that country, taking many possessions with them.
15 Toi, tu t’en iras en paix vers tes pères; tu seras mis en terre dans une heureuse vieillesse.
But as for you, you will die [EUP] peacefully when you are very old.
16 À la quatrième génération ils reviendront ici; car jusqu’à présent l’iniquité de l’Amorrhéen n’est pas à son comble. »
After your descendants have been slaves for 400 years, they will return here, and take control of this land and defeat the Amor people-group. Those people will, because those people have not yet sinned enough to deserve to be punished now.”
17 Lorsque le soleil fut couché et qu’une profonde obscurité fut venue, voici qu’un four fumant et un brandon de feu passaient entre les animaux partagés.
When the sun had set and it had become dark, [unexpectedly] a blazing torch and a clay pot containing burning coals from which smoke was rising appeared and went between the halves of the animals.
18 En ce jour-là, Yahweh fit alliance avec Abram, en disant: « Je donne à ta postérité ce pays, depuis le fleuve d’Égypte jusqu’au grand fleuve, au fleuve de l’Euphrate:
And on that day Yahweh made an agreement with Abram. Yahweh told him, “I will give to your descendants all the land between the river that is on the eastern border of Egypt to the south, and north to the huge Euphrates River.
19 le pays des Cinéens, des Cénézéens, des Cadmonéens,
That is the land where the Ken, the Keniz, the Kidmon,
20 des Héthéens, des Phéréséens, des Rephaïm,
the Heth, the Periz, the Repha,
21 des Amorrhéens, des Chananéens, des Gergéséens et des Jébuséens.
the Amor, the Canaan, the Girgash, and the Tebus people-groups live.”
