Genèse 19
1 Les deux envoyés arrivèrent à Sodome le soir. Loth était assis à la porte de Sodome; à leur vue, il se leva au devant d’eux et se prosterna la face contre terre.
That evening, the two angels arrived in Sodom. Lot was sitting at the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to greet them, and prostrated himself with his face on the ground.
2 Il dit "Ah! de grâce, mes seigneurs, venez dans la maison de votre serviteur, passez-y la nuit, lavez vos pieds; puis, demain matin, vous pourrez continuer votre route." Ils répondirent: "Non, nous coucherons sur la voie publique."
He said to them, “Gentlemen, please stay in my house tonight. You can wash your feet, and tomorrow you can continue your journey.” But they said, “No, we will just sleep in the city square.”
3 Sur ses vives instances, ils tournèrent de son côté et entrèrent dans sa maison. II leur prépara un repas, fit cuire des galettes et ils mangèrent.
But Lot kept insisting strongly that they sleep in his house. So they entered his house with him, and he prepared a meal for them. He baked some bread without yeast, and they ate it.
4 Ils n’étaient pas encore couchés, lorsque les gens de la ville, les gens de Sodome, s’attroupèrent autour de la maison, jeunes et vieux; le peuple entier, de tous les coins de la ville.
After they finished eating, before they went to bed, the men of Sodom [city], all of them, from the young ones to the old ones, surrounded the house.
5 Ils appelèrent Loth et lui dirent: "Où sont les hommes qui sont venus chez toi cette nuit? Fais-les sortir vers nous, que nous les connaissions!"
They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to your house this evening? Bring them out, so that we can have sex with them!” [EUP]
6 Loth alla à leur rencontre, à l’entrée de sa maison, dont il ferma la porte sur lui;
Lot went outside the house and shut the door behind him, so that they could not go inside.
7 et il dit: "De grâce, mes frères, ne leur faites point de mal!
He said to them, “My friends, don’t do such an evil thing!
8 Ecoutez! j’ai deux filles qui n’ont pas encore connu d’homme, je vais vous les amener, faites-leur ce que bon vous semblera; mais ces hommes, ne leur faites rien, car enfin ils sont venus s’abriter sous mon toit."
Listen to me. I have two daughters who have never had sex with any man. Let me bring them out to you now, and you can do with them whatever pleases you. But don’t do anything to these men, because they are guests in my house, [so I must protect them]!”
9 Ils répondirent: "Va-t’en loin d’ici! Cet homme, ajoutèrent-ils, est venu séjourner ici et maintenant il se fait juge! Eh bien, nous te ferons plus de mal qu’à eux!" Ils assaillirent Loth avec violence et s’avancèrent pour briser la porte.
But they replied, “Get out of our way! You are a foreigner; so you have no right to tell us what is right! [If you don’t get out of our way], we will do worse things to you than we will do to them!” Then they lunged towards Lot, and tried forcefully to break down the door.
10 Les voyageurs étendirent la main, firent rentrer Loth dans la maison et fermèrent la porte.
But the two angels opened the door carefully, reached out their hands, and pulled Lot to them inside the house. Then they quickly shut the door.
11 Et les hommes qui assiégeaient l’entrée de la maison, ils les frappèrent d’éblouissements, petits et grands, qui se fatiguèrent à chercher l’entrée.
Then they caused all the men who were outside the door of the house, young and old, to become blind, so that they could not find the door.
12 Les voyageurs dirent à Loth: "Quiconque des tiens est encore ici, un gendre, tes fils, tes filles, tout ce que tu as dans cette ville, fais les sortir d’ici.
Then the two angels said to Lot, “Who else is with you here? If you have sons or sons-in-law or daughters or anyone else in the city who is related to you, take them out of the city,
13 Car nous allons détruire cette contrée, la clameur contre elle a été grande devant le Seigneur et le Seigneur nous a donné mission de la détruire."
because we are the ones who are going to destroy this place. Yahweh considers that these people are so evil that he sent us to destroy the city.”
14 Loth sortit, alla parler à ses gendres, époux de ses filles et dit: "Venez, abandonnez ce lieu, car l’Éternel va détruire la cité!" Mais il fut, aux yeux de ses gendres, comme un homme qui plaisante.
So Lot went and spoke to the men who had pledged to marry his daughters. He said to them, “Hurry! Get out of this city, because Yahweh is about to destroy it!” But his future sons-in-law thought he was joking.
15 Comme l’aube paraissait, les envoyés pressèrent Loth, en disant: "Debout! emmène ta femme et tes deux filles ici présentes, si tu ne veux point périr pour les crimes de cette ville."
As it was about to dawn the next morning, the two angels urged Lot, saying, “Get up quickly! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here with you and leave! If you don’t, you will die when [we destroy/Yahweh destroys] the city!”
16 Comme il tardait, ces hommes le prirent par la main, ainsi que sa femme et ses deux filles, l’Éternel voulant l’épargner; ils l’emmenèrent et le laissèrent hors de la ville.
When Lot hesitated, the angels grasped his hand and his wife’s hand and the hands of his two daughters. They led them outside the city safely. The angels did that because Yahweh was acting mercifully toward them.
17 Lorsqu’ils les eurent conduits dehors, l’un d’eux lui dit: "Songe à sauver ta vie; ne regarde pas en arrière et ne t’arrête pas dans toute cette région; fuis vers la montagne, de crainte de périr."
When they were outside the city, one of the angels said, “[If you want to remain alive], run away quickly! Don’t look back! And don’t stop anywhere in the valley! Flee to the hills! If you don’t, you will die!”
18 Loth leur répondit: "Oh! non, mes seigneurs!
But Lot said to one of the angels, “No, sir, don’t make me do that!
19 Certes, déjà ton serviteur a trouvé grâce à tes yeux et tu m’as accordé une grande faveur en me conservant la vie; mais moi, je ne saurais fuir jusque sur la montagne, le fléau m’atteindrait auparavant et je mourrais.
Please, listen. You have been pleased with me and have been very kind to me and spared my life. But I cannot flee to the mountain. If I try to do that, I will die in this disaster [PRS].
20 Vois plutôt, cette ville-ci est assez proche pour que je m’y réfugie et elle est peu importante; puissé-je donc y fuir, vu son peu d’importance et y avoir la vie sauve!"
But listen to me. There is a town nearby. Let me run to that small town. Let me go there now. It is a small town, but our lives will be saved if we go there.”
21 II lui répondit: "Eh bien! je te favoriserai encore en ceci, en ne bouleversant point la ville dont tu parles.
One of the angels said to Lot, “I will allow you to do what you have requested [MTY]. I will not destroy the little town you are speaking about.
22 Hâte-toi, cours-y! car je ne puis agir que tu n’y sois arrivé." Voilà pourquoi l’on a appelé cette ville Çoar.
But hurry! Run there, because I cannot destroy anything until you arrive there.” People later called the name of the town Zoar [which means ‘small’, ] because Lot said it was small.
23 Le soleil avait paru sur la terre, lorsque Loth arriva à Çoar.
As the sun was rising, Lot and his family arrived in the town which is now called Zoar.
24 L’Éternel fit pleuvoir sur Sodome et sur Gommorrhe du soufre et du feu; l’Éternel lui-même, du haut des cieux.
Then Yahweh caused fire and [burning] sulfur to fall down on Sodom and Gomorrah like rain.
25 II détruisit ces villes, toute la plaine, tous les habitants de ces villes et la végétation du sol.
In that way, he destroyed those cities and all the people who were living in those cities. He also destroyed everything in the valley, including all the plants/vegetation.
26 La femme de Loth, ayant regardé en arrière, devint une statue de sel.
But Lot’s wife stopped and looked back [to see what was happening], so she died, and her body [later] became a pillar of salt.
27 Abraham se dirigea de bon matin vers l’endroit où il s’était tenu devant le Seigneur.
That morning, Abraham got up and went to the place where he had stood in front of Yahweh.
28 II considéra l’aspect de Sodome et de Gommorrhe et l’aspect de toute la plaine; et il remarqua qu’une exhalaison s’élevait de la terre, semblable à la fumée d’une fournaise.
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and he [was surprised to] see that all over the valley, smoke was rising, like the smoke of a huge furnace.
29 Mais, lorsque Dieu détruisit les villes de la plaine, il s’était souvenu d’Abraham; il avait fait échapper Loth du milieu de la subversion, tandis qu’il bouleversait la contrée où avait demeuré Loth.
So, when God destroyed those cities in the valley, he remembered what he had promised Abraham, and he rescued Lot from the disaster that occurred in the cities where Lot had lived.
30 Loth monta de Çoar et s’établit dans la montagne avec ses deux filles, car il n’osait rester à Çoar; iI demeura dans une caverne, lui et ses deux filles.
Lot was afraid to stay in Zoar, so he left there and moved with his two daughters to the mountain, and they lived in a cave.
31 L’Aînée dit à la plus jeune: "Notre père est âgé et il n’y a plus d’homme dans le monde, pour s’unir à nous selon l’usage de toute la terre.
One day the older daughter said to (the younger daughter/her sister), “Our father is old, and there is no man in this area who can have sex [EUP] with us, as people all over the earth do.
32 Eh bien! enivrons de vin notre père, partageons sa couche et par notre père nous obtiendrons une postérité."
Let’s make our father drink wine until he gets drunk. Then we can have sex with him [EUP] [without him knowing it]. In that way [he will cause us to become pregnant] and we can bear children.”
33 Elles firent boire du vin à leur père cette même nuit; la fille aînée vint partager sa couche et il ne la reconnut point lorsqu’elle se coucha ni lorsqu’elle se leva.
So that night they caused their father to become drunk. And the older daughter went in and lay in bed with her father, and he had sex with her, but he was so drunk that he did not know when she lay down with him or when she got up.
34 Puis, le lendemain, l’aînée dit à la plus jeune: "Voici, j’ai partagé hier la couche de mon père; enivrons-le encore cette nuit, tu iras partager son lit et nous recevrons de notre père une postérité."
The next day, his older daughter said to (his younger daughter/her sister), “Listen to me. Last night I slept with our father. Let’s cause him to become drunk again tonight! This time you can go and sleep with him. If he has sex with you, you can become pregnant, and that way you can have a child, too.”
35 Elles firent boire, cette nuit encore du vin à leur père; la cadette se leva, vint à ses côtés et il ne la reconnut point lors de son coucher et de son lever.
So that night, they caused their father to become drunk with wine again, and then his younger daughter went and slept with him. But again, he was so drunk that he did not know when she lay down with him or when she got up.
36 Les deux filles de Loth conçurent du fait de leur père.
So Lot caused his two daughters to become pregnant.
37 La première eut un fils, qu’elle appela Moab; ce fut le père des Moabites qui subsistent aujourd’hui.
The older one later gave birth to a son, whom she named Moab. He became the ancestor of the Moab people-group.
38 La seconde, elle aussi, enfanta un fils et le nomma Ben-Ammi; ce fut le père des Ammonites qui subsistent aujourd’hui.
The younger one also gave birth to a son, whom she named Ben-Ammi. He became the ancestor of the Ammon people-group.
