Genèse 35
1 Et Dieu dit à Jacob: Lève-toi, monte à Béthel, et habite là, et fais-y un autel au Dieu qui t’apparut comme tu t’enfuyais de devant la face d’Ésaü, ton frère.
[Some time later] God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel, and live there. Build an altar to worship me, God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your older brother Esau.”
2 Et Jacob dit à sa maison et à tous ceux qui étaient avec lui: Ôtez les dieux étrangers qui sont au milieu de vous, et purifiez-vous, et changez vos vêtements;
So Jacob said to his household and to all the others who were with him, “Get rid of the idols you brought from Mesopotamia. Also, bathe yourselves and put on clean clothes.
3 et nous nous lèverons, et nous monterons à Béthel, et je ferai là un autel à Dieu, qui m’a répondu au jour de ma détresse, et qui a été avec moi dans le chemin où j’ai marché.
Then we will get ready and go up to Bethel. There I will make an altar to worship God. He is the one who helped me at the time when I was greatly distressed and afraid, and he has been with me wherever I have gone.”
4 Et ils donnèrent à Jacob tous les dieux étrangers qui étaient en leurs mains, et les anneaux qui étaient à leurs oreilles, et Jacob les cacha sous le térébinthe qui était près de Sichem.
So they gave to Jacob all the idols that they had brought, and all their earrings. Jacob buried them in the ground under the big oak tree that was near Shechem [town].
5 Et ils partirent; et la frayeur de Dieu fut sur les villes qui les entouraient, et on ne poursuivit pas les fils de Jacob.
As they prepared to leave there, God caused the people who lived in the cities around them to be extremely afraid of Jacob’s family [PRS], so that they did not pursue and attack them.
6 Et Jacob vint à Luz (c’est Béthel), qui est dans le pays de Canaan, lui et tout le peuple qui était avec lui;
Jacob and all those who were with him came to Luz, which is now called Bethel, in the Canaan region.
7 et il bâtit là un autel, et il appela le lieu El-Béthel; car c’est là que Dieu s’était révélé à lui comme il s’enfuyait de devant la face de son frère.
There he built an altar. He named the place El-Bethel, [which means ‘God of Bethel]’, because it was there that God revealed himself to Jacob when he was fleeing from his older brother Esau.
8 Et Debora, la nourrice de Rebecca, mourut; et elle fut enterrée au-dessous de Béthel, sous un chêne dont le nom fut appelé Allon-Bacuth.
Deborah, who had taken care of Isaac’s wife Rebekah when Rebekah was a small girl, was now very old. She died and was buried under an oak tree south of Bethel. So they named that place Allon-Bacuth, [which means ‘oak of weeping’].
9 Et Dieu apparut encore à Jacob, à son retour de Paddan-Aram, et le bénit;
After Jacob and his family returned from Paddan-Aram/Mesopotamia, while they were still at Bethel, God appeared to Jacob again and blessed him.
10 et Dieu lui dit: Ton nom est Jacob; ton nom ne sera plus appelé Jacob, mais Israël sera ton nom. Et il appela son nom Israël.
God said to him again, “Your name will no longer be Jacob. It will be Israel.” So Jacob was then called ‘Israel’.
11 Et Dieu lui dit: Je suis le Dieu Tout-puissant; fructifie et multiplie; une nation, et une multitude de nations, proviendra de toi; et des rois sortiront de tes reins.
Then God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Produce many children. Your descendants will become many nations, and some of your descendants will be kings.
12 Et le pays que j’ai donné à Abraham et à Isaac, je te le donnerai, et je donnerai le pays à ta semence après toi.
The land that I promised to give to [your grandfather] Abraham and [your father] Isaac, I will give to you. I will also give it to your descendants.”
13 Et Dieu monta d’auprès de lui, dans le lieu où il avait parlé avec lui.
When God finished talking there with Jacob, he left him.
14 Et Jacob érigea une stèle au lieu où il avait parlé avec lui, une stèle de pierre, et il répandit dessus une libation, et y versa de l’huile.
Jacob set up a large stone at the place where God had talked with him. He poured some wine and some [olive] oil on it to dedicate it to God.
15 Et Jacob appela le nom du lieu où Dieu avait parlé avec lui Béthel.
Jacob named that place Bethel, [which means ‘house of God]’, because God had spoken to him there.
16 Et ils partirent de Béthel; et il y avait encore quelque espace de pays pour arriver à Éphrath, et Rachel enfanta, et elle eut un enfantement pénible.
Jacob and his family left Bethel and traveled south toward Ephrath [town]. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to have severe childbirth pains.
17 Et comme elle était en grand travail pour enfanter, la sage-femme lui dit: Ne crains point, car tu as ici encore un fils.
When her pain was the most severe, the (midwife/woman who helped her to give birth) said to Rachel, “Do not be afraid, because now you have given birth to another son!”
18 Et il arriva, comme son âme s’en allait (car elle mourut), qu’elle appela le nom du fils Ben-oni; et son père l’appela Benjamin.
But she was dying, and with her last breath she said, “Name him Benoni,” [which means ‘son of my sorrow]’, but his father named him Benjamin, [which means ‘son of my right hand]’.
19 Et Rachel mourut; et elle fut enterrée au chemin d’Éphrath, qui est Bethléhem.
After Rachel died, she was buried alongside the road to Ephrath, which is [now called] Bethlehem.
20 Et Jacob érigea une stèle sur son sépulcre: c’est la stèle du sépulcre de Rachel, jusqu’à aujourd’hui.
Jacob set up a large stone over her grave, and it is still there, showing where Rachel’s grave is.
21 Et Israël partit, et dressa sa tente au-delà de Migdal-Éder.
Jacob, whose new name was Israel, continued traveling with his family, and he set up his tents on the south side of the watchtower at Eder [town].
22 Et il arriva, pendant qu’Israël demeurait dans ce pays-là, que Ruben alla et coucha avec Bilha, concubine de son père; et Israël l’apprit. Et les fils de Jacob étaient douze.
While they were living in that area, Jacob’s son Reuben had sex [EUP] with Bilhah, one of his father’s (concubines/female slaves whom he had taken as a secondary wife). Someone told Jacob about it, and it made him very angry. (I will now give you/Here is) a list of Jacob’s twelve sons.
23 Les fils de Léa: Ruben, premier-né de Jacob, et Siméon, et Lévi, et Juda, et Issacar, et Zabulon;
The sons of Leah were Reuben, who was Jacob’s oldest son, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulon.
24 les fils de Rachel: Joseph et Benjamin;
The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
25 et les fils de Bilha, la servante de Rachel: Dan et Nephthali;
The sons of Rachel’s female slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
26 et les fils de Zilpa, la servante de Léa: Gad et Aser. Ce sont là les fils de Jacob, qui lui naquirent à Paddan-Aram.
The sons of Leah’s female slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. All those sons of Jacob, except Benjamin, were born while he was living in Paddan-Aram/Mesopotamia.
27 Et Jacob vint vers Isaac, son père, à Mamré, à Kiriath-Arba, qui est Hébron, où Abraham et Isaac avaient séjourné.
Jacob had returned back home to see his father Isaac at Mamre, which is also named Kiriath-Arba, and which is now named Hebron. Isaac’s father Abraham had also lived there.
28 Et les jours d’Isaac furent 180 ans.
Isaac lived until he was 180 years old.
29 Et Isaac expira et mourut, et fut recueilli vers ses peuples, âgé et rassasié de jours; et Ésaü et Jacob, ses fils, l’enterrèrent.
He was very old when he died, joining his ancestors who had died previously. His sons Esau and Jacob buried his body.
