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 Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave this country where you are now living. Leave your father’s clan and his family. Go to a 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;
I will cause your descendants to become a large nation. I will bless you and cause you to become (famous/highly esteemed). What I do for you will be a blessing to others.
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/ask God to do good things for) you, and I will (curse/ask God to punish) those who do evil things to you. And because of what you do, groups of people all over the earth will receive blessings (OR, people will wish that God will bless others as much as he has blessed you).”
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.
So Abram left Haran [town], as Yahweh told him to do. Abram was 75 years old when he left there along with his wife, Sarai, and his nephew, Lot.
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.
Abram also took along all the possessions and slaves that they had accumulated/acquired in Haran [town], and they left there and went to Canaan land.
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.
In Canaan they traveled as far as Shechem [town] and camped by a huge tree called the tree of Moreh. The Canaan people-group were still living in that 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 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I will give this land to your descendants.” Then Abram built a stone altar to offer a sacrifice to Yahweh because Yahweh 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.
From Shechem, Abram and his family traveled to the hills that were east of Bethel [town]. Bethel [town] was to the west of where they set up their tent, and Ai [town] was further to the east. There he built another stone altar and offered a sacrifice and worshiped Yahweh there.
9 Et Abram partit, marchant et allant vers le midi.
Then they left there and started traveling south to the Negev [Desert].
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.
There was (a famine/very little food to eat) in Canaan, so they went south to live in Egypt for a while.
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;
Just as they were about to enter Egypt, Abram said to his wife Sarai, “Listen, I know that you are a very 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.
When the people in Egypt see you, they will say, ‘This woman is his wife!’ and they will kill me in order to get you, but they will not kill 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.
So I ask you to tell them that you are my sister, so that because of you telling them that, they will (spare my life/not kill me).”
14 Et il arriva que, lorsque Abram entra en Égypte, les Égyptiens virent sa femme, qu’elle était très belle.
And as soon as they arrived in Egypt, the people in Egypt saw that his wife was indeed very 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.
When the king’s officials saw her, they told the king how beautiful she was. And they took her to the king’s palace.
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.
The king treated Abram kindly because of Sarai, and he gave Abram many sheep and cattle and donkeys and male and female slaves and camels.
17 Et l’Éternel frappa de grandes plaies le Pharaon et sa maison, à cause de Saraï, femme d’Abram.
But because the king had taken Sarai, Abram’s wife, Yahweh caused the king and the others in his household to be inflicted with terrible diseases.
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?
When the king realized why that was happening, he summoned Abram and said to him, “Why did you do this to me? Why did you not tell me that 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.
Why did you lie, saying she is your sister, with the result that I took her to be my wife? You should not have done that! So now take your wife, leave here 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.
Then the king told his officials/servants to take Abram and his wife and all his possessions out of Egypt.
