Genèse 26
1 Et il y eut une famine dans le pays, outre la première famine qui avait eu lieu aux jours d’Abraham; et Isaac s’en alla vers Abimélec, roi des Philistins, à Guérar.
Some time later there was a severe (famine/scarcity of food) there. That was different from the famine that occurred when Abraham was alive. So Isaac went [southeast] to Gerar [town, to talk] to Abimelech, the king of the Philistine people-group. [What happened was this: Isaac considered going to Egypt],
2 Et l’Éternel lui apparut, et dit: Ne descends pas en Égypte; demeure dans le pays que je t’ai dit;
but Yahweh appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt! Live in the land where I will tell you to go!
3 séjourne dans ce pays-ci, et je serai avec toi, et je te bénirai; car à toi et à ta semence je donnerai tous ces pays, et j’accomplirai le serment que j’ai juré à Abraham, ton père,
Stay in this land for a while, and I will help you and bless you, because it is to you and your descendants that I will give all these lands, and I will do what I solemnly promised to your father.
4 et je multiplierai ta semence comme les étoiles des cieux, et je donnerai tous ces pays à ta semence, et toutes les nations de la terre se béniront en ta semence,
I will cause your descendants to be as numerous as the stars in the sky. I will give to your descendants all these lands, and I will cause your descendants to be a blessing to the people of [MTY] all nations on the earth.
5 – parce qu’Abraham a écouté ma voix, et a gardé mon ordonnance, mes commandements, mes statuts et mes lois.
I will do that because your father Abraham obeyed me. He obeyed everything that I told him to do, everything that I declared and all the laws that I gave him.” So Isaac [went and asked King Abimelech if he would permit him to live in the Gerar area. The king said, “Okay,”]
6 Et Isaac habita à Guérar.
[so Isaac] stayed there [along with his wife and sons].
7 Et les hommes du lieu s’enquirent au sujet de sa femme, et il dit: C’est ma sœur, car il craignait de dire: ma femme; de peur, [pensait-il], que les hommes du lieu ne me tuent à cause de Rebecca, car elle est belle de visage.
When the men in Gerar [town] asked who Rebekah was, Isaac said, “She is my sister.” He said that because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “Rebekah is very beautiful, so they will want her. [If I say that she is my sister, they know they will have to negotiate about a bride price because I am her older brother; but if I say that she is my wife, no negotiation will be possible]. They will just kill me to get her.”
8 Et il arriva, comme son séjour dans ce [lieu] se prolongeait, qu’Abimélec, roi des Philistins, regarda par la fenêtre; et il vit, et voici, Isaac se jouait avec Rebecca sa femme.
When Isaac had been there a long time, one day Abimelech, the king of the Philistine people-group, looked down from a window [in his palace] and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
9 Et Abimélec appela Isaac, et dit: Voici, assurément c’est ta femme; et comment as-tu dit: C’est ma sœur? Et Isaac lui dit: Parce que je disais: De peur que je ne meure à cause d’elle.
So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said to him, “Now I realize that she is really your wife! So why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied to him, “I said that because I thought that someone here might kill me to get her.”
10 Et Abimélec dit: Qu’est-ce que tu nous as fait? Car peu s’en est fallu que quelqu’un du peuple n’ait couché avec ta femme, et tu aurais fait venir la culpabilité sur nous.
Abimelech said, “(You should not have done this to us!/Why did you do this?) [RHQ] One of our people might have (had sex with/slept with) [EUP] your wife, and you would have caused us to be guilty of a great sin!”
11 Et Abimélec commanda à tout le peuple, disant: Celui qui touchera cet homme ou sa femme sera certainement mis à mort.
Then Abimelech commanded all his people, saying, “Do not harm/molest this man or his wife! Anyone who does that will surely be executed!”
12 Et Isaac sema dans cette terre; et il recueillit cette année-là le centuple; et l’Éternel le bénit.
Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop, because Yahweh blessed him.
13 Et l’homme grandissait, et il allait grandissant de plus en plus, jusqu’à ce qu’il devint fort grand;
Isaac continued to acquire more and more possessions, until finally he became very wealthy.
14 et il eut des troupeaux de menu bétail, et des troupeaux de gros bétail, et beaucoup de serviteurs; et les Philistins lui portèrent envie;
He had large herds of sheep and goats and cattle, and many slaves. Because of that, the Philistine people envied him.
15 et tous les puits que les serviteurs de son père avaient creusés aux jours d’Abraham, son père, les Philistins les bouchèrent et les remplirent de terre.
So all the wells that the servants of his father Abraham had dug during the time when he was alive, the people filled up with dirt.
16 Et Abimélec dit à Isaac: Va-t’en d’avec nous; car tu es beaucoup plus puissant que nous.
Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “You people have become more numerous than we are, so I want you to get out of our area.”
17 Et Isaac partit de là, et campa dans la vallée de Guérar, et y habita.
So Isaac [and his family] moved from there. They set up their tents in Gerar Valley [and started to live there].
18 Et Isaac recreusa les puits d’eau qu’on avait creusés aux jours d’Abraham, son père, et que les Philistins avaient bouchés après la mort d’Abraham; et il leur donna des noms selon les noms que son père leur avait donnés.
There were several wells in that area that had been dug when Isaac’s father Abraham was living, but Philistine people had filled them up [with dirt] after Abraham died. Now Isaac and his servants removed the dirt, and Isaac gave the wells the same names that his father had given to them.
19 Et les serviteurs d’Isaac creusèrent dans la vallée, et ils y trouvèrent un puits d’eau vive.
Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water.
20 Et les bergers de Guérar contestèrent avec les bergers d’Isaac, disant: L’eau est à nous. Et il appela le nom du puits Ések, parce qu’ils s’étaient disputés avec lui.
But other men who lived in Gerar [Valley] who took care of their animals argued/quarreled with the men who took care of Isaac’s animals, and said, “The water in this well is ours!” So Isaac named the well Esek, which means ‘dispute’, because they disputed about who owned it.
21 Et ils creusèrent un autre puits, et ils contestèrent aussi pour celui-là; et il appela son nom Sitna.
Then Isaac’s servants dug another well, but they quarreled about who owned that one also. So Isaac named it Sitnah, [which means ‘opposition]’.
22 Et il se transporta de là, et creusa un autre puits, et ils ne contestèrent pas pour celui-là; et il appela son nom Rehoboth, parce que, dit-il, l’Éternel nous a maintenant donné de l’espace, et nous fructifierons dans le pays.
They moved on from there and dug another well, but this time no one quarreled about who owned it. So Isaac named it Rehoboth, [which means ‘uninhabited place’], saying, “Yahweh has given us an uninhabited place to live in, a place that is not wanted by other people, and we will become very prosperous here.”
23 Et de là il monta à Beër-Shéba.
From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.
24 Et l’Éternel lui apparut cette nuit-là, et dit: Je suis le Dieu d’Abraham ton père; ne crains pas, car je suis avec toi; et je te bénirai, et je multiplierai ta semence, à cause d’Abraham, mon serviteur.
The first night that he was there, Yahweh appeared to him and said, “I am God, whom your father Abraham worshiped. Do not be afraid of anything. I will help you and bless you, and because of what I promised my servant Abraham, I will greatly increase the number of your descendants.”
25 Et il bâtit là un autel, et invoqua le nom de l’Éternel; et il y dressa sa tente; et les serviteurs d’Isaac y creusèrent un puits.
So Isaac built a stone altar there [and offered a sacrifice] to worship Yahweh. He [and his servants] set up their tents there, and his servants started to dig a well.
26 Et Abimélec alla de Guérar vers lui, avec Akhuzzath, son ami, et Picol, chef de son armée.
[While they were digging the well], King Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, along with Ahuzzath, his advisor, and Phicol, the commander of his army.
27 Et Isaac leur dit: Pourquoi venez-vous vers moi, puisque vous me haïssez et que vous m’avez renvoyé d’auprès de vous?
Isaac asked them, “You (acted in a hostile way toward me/treated me like an enemy) before, and sent me away. So why have you come to me now?”
28 Et ils dirent: Nous avons vu clairement que l’Éternel est avec toi, et nous avons dit: Qu’il y ait donc un serment entre nous, entre nous et toi; et nous ferons une alliance avec toi:
One of them answered, “We have seen that Yahweh helps you. So we said to each other, ‘We should have an agreement between us and you. We should make a peace treaty with you,
29 que tu ne nous feras pas de mal, comme nous ne t’avons pas touché, et comme nous ne t’avons fait que du bien, et t’avons renvoyé en paix. Tu es maintenant le béni de l’Éternel.
stating that you will not harm us, in the same way that we did not molest [EUP] you.’ We always treated you well and sent you away peacefully. And now Yahweh is blessing you.”
30 Et il leur fit un festin, et ils mangèrent et burent.
So Isaac made a feast for them, and they all ate and drank.
31 Et ils se levèrent de bon matin, et se jurèrent l’un à l’autre; et Isaac les renvoya, et ils s’en allèrent d’avec lui en paix.
Early the next morning they all (swore/solemnly promised) each other that they would do what they had promised. Then Isaac sent them home peacefully.
32 Et il arriva, en ce jour-là, que les serviteurs d’Isaac vinrent, et l’avertirent au sujet du puits qu’ils avaient creusé, et lui dirent: Nous avons trouvé de l’eau.
That day Isaac’s servants came to him and told him about the well that they had finished digging. They said, “We found water in the well!”
33 Et il l’appela Shéba; c’est pourquoi le nom de la ville a été Beër-Shéba, jusqu’à aujourd’hui.
Isaac named the well Shibah, [which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘oath’]. To the present time the town there has the name Beersheba [which means ‘Friendship Agreement Well’].
34 Et Ésaü était âgé de 40 ans, et il prit pour femmes Judith, fille de Beéri, le Héthien, et Basmath, fille d’Élon, le Héthien;
When Esau was 40 years old, he married Judith, the daughter of Beeri, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon. Both of those women were descendants of Heth, [not from Isaac’s clan].
35 et elles furent une amertume d’esprit pour Isaac et pour Rebecca.
Esau’s two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
