Genèse 12
1 Et l’Éternel avait dit à Abram: Va-t’en de ton pays, et de ta parenté, et de la maison de ton père, dans le pays que je te montrerai;
Then the Lord said to Abram: “Depart from your land, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, and come into the land that I will show you.
2 et je te ferai devenir une grande nation, et je te bénirai, et je rendrai ton nom grand, et tu seras une bénédiction;
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you will be blessed.
3 et je bénirai ceux qui te béniront, et je maudirai ceux qui te maudiront; et en toi seront bénies toutes les familles de la terre.
I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
4 Et Abram s’en alla, comme l’Éternel lui avait dit; et Lot s’en alla avec lui. Et Abram était âgé de 75 ans lorsqu’il sortit de Charan.
And so Abram departed just as the Lord had instructed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
5 Et Abram prit Saraï, sa femme, et Lot, fils de son frère, et tout leur bien qu’ils avaient amassé, et les âmes qu’ils avaient acquises à Charan, et ils sortirent pour aller au pays de Canaan; et ils entrèrent au pays de Canaan.
And he took his wife Sarai, and Lot, the son of his brother, and all the substance which they had come to possess, and the lives which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed in order to go to the land of Canaan. And when they arrived in it,
6 Et Abram passa au travers du pays, jusqu’au lieu de Sichem, jusqu’au chêne de Moré. Et le Cananéen était alors dans le pays.
Abram passed through the land even to the place of Shechem, as far as the famous steep valley. Now at that time, the Canaanite was in the land.
7 Et l’Éternel apparut à Abram, et dit: Je donnerai ce pays à ta semence. Et [Abram] bâtit là un autel à l’Éternel, qui lui était apparu.
Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and he said to him, “To your offspring, I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
8 Et il se transporta de là vers la montagne, à l’orient de Béthel, et tendit sa tente, [ayant] Béthel à l’occident et Aï à l’orient; et il bâtit là un autel à l’Éternel et invoqua le nom de l’Éternel.
And passing on from there to a mountain, which was opposite the east of Bethel, he pitched his tent there, having Bethel to the west, and Hai on the east. He also built an altar there to the Lord, and he called upon his name.
9 Et Abram partit, marchant et allant vers le midi.
And Abram traveled, going out and continuing further on, toward the south.
10 Et il y eut une famine dans le pays; et Abram descendit en Égypte pour y séjourner, car la famine pesait sur le pays.
But a famine occurred in the land. And Abram descended to Egypt, to sojourn there. For famine prevailed over the land.
11 Et il arriva, comme il était près d’entrer en Égypte, qu’il dit à Saraï, sa femme: Voici, je sais que tu es une femme belle de visage;
And when he was close to entering Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai: “I know you to be a beautiful woman.
12 et il arrivera que lorsque les Égyptiens te verront, ils diront: C’est sa femme; et ils me tueront, et te laisseront vivre.
And when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘She is his wife.’ And they will put me to death, and retain you.
13 Dis, je te prie, que tu es ma sœur, afin qu’il m’arrive du bien en considération de toi, et que mon âme vive à cause de toi.
Therefore, I beg you to say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me because of you, and so that my soul may live by your favor.”
14 Et il arriva que, lorsque Abram entra en Égypte, les Égyptiens virent sa femme, qu’elle était très belle.
And so, when Abram had arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was exceedingly beautiful.
15 Et les princes du Pharaon la virent, et la louèrent devant le Pharaon; et la femme fut emmenée dans la maison du Pharaon.
And the princes reported it to Pharaoh, and they praised her to him. And the woman was inducted into the house of Pharaoh.
16 Et il traita bien Abram à cause d’elle; et il eut du menu bétail et du gros bétail, et des ânes, et des serviteurs et des servantes, et des ânesses, et des chameaux.
In truth, they treated Abram well because of her. And he had sheep and oxen and male donkeys, and men servants, and women servants, and female donkeys, and camels.
17 Et l’Éternel frappa de grandes plaies le Pharaon et sa maison, à cause de Saraï, femme d’Abram.
But the Lord scourged Pharaoh and his house with great wounds because of Sarai, the wife of Abram.
18 Et le Pharaon appela Abram, et 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 he said to him: “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me she was your wife?
19 Pourquoi as-tu dit: Elle est ma sœur, de sorte que je l’ai prise pour ma femme; et maintenant, voici ta femme: prends-la, et va-t’en.
For what reason did you claim her to be your sister, so that I would take her to me as a wife? Now therefore, behold your mate, receive her and go.”
20 Et le Pharaon donna ordre à ses gens à son sujet, et ils le renvoyèrent, lui, et sa femme, et tout ce qui était à lui.
And Pharaoh instructed his men about Abram. And they led him away with his wife and all that he had.
