Genèse 3
1 Mais le serpent était rusé, plus qu’aucun des animaux terrestres qu’avait faits l’Éternel-Dieu. Il dit à la femme: "Est-il vrai que Dieu a dit: vous ne mangerez rien de tous les arbres du jardin?"
The serpent was more cunning than any of the other wild animals that the Lord God had made. He asked Eve, “Did God really say that you can't eat fruit from every tree in the garden?”
2 La femme répondit au serpent: "Les fruits des arbres du jardin, nous pouvons en manger;
Eve replied to the serpent, “We can eat from the trees in the garden, but not the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden.
3 mais quant au fruit de l’arbre qui est au milieu du jardin, Dieu a dit: Vous n’en mangerez pas, vous n’y toucherez point, sous peine de mourir."
God told us, ‘You mustn't eat from that tree, or even touch it, otherwise you'll die.’”
4 Le serpent dit à la femme: "Non, vous ne mourrez point;
“You certainly won't die,” the serpent told Eve.
5 mais Dieu sait que, du jour où vous en mangerez, vos yeux seront dessillés, et vous serez comme Dieu, connaissant le bien et le mal."
“It's because God knows that as soon as you eat it, you'll see things differently, and you'll be like God, knowing both what is good and what is evil.”
6 La femme jugea que l’arbre était bon comme nourriture, qu’il était attrayant à la vue et précieux pour l’intelligence; elle cueillit de son fruit et en mangea; puis en donna à son époux, et il mangea.
Eve saw that the fruit of the tree appeared good to eat. It looked very attractive. She really wanted it so she could become wise. So she took some of its fruit and ate it, and she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it too.
7 Leurs yeux à tous deux se dessillèrent, et ils connurent qu’ils étaient nus; ils cousirent ensemble des feuilles de figuier, et s’en firent des pagnes.
Immediately they saw everything differently and realized they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves up.
8 Ils entendirent la voix de l’Éternel-Dieu, parcourant le jardin du côté d’où vient le jour. L’Homme et sa compagne se cachèrent de la face de l’Éternel-Dieu, parmi les arbres du jardin.
Later they heard the Lord walking in the garden in the evening when the breeze was blowing. Adam and Eve went and hid out of sight of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
9 L’Éternel-Dieu appela l’homme, et lui dit: "Où es-tu?"
The Lord God called out to Adam, “Where are you?”
10 Il répondit: "J’Ai entendu ta voix dans le jardin; j’ai eu peur, parce que je suis nu, et je me suis caché."
“I heard you walking in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid,” he replied.
11 Alors il dit: "Qui t’a appris que tu étais nu? Cet arbre dont je t’avais défendu de manger, tu en as donc mangé?"
“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the Lord God. “Did you eat fruit from the tree I ordered you not to?”
12 L’Homme répondit; "La femme—que tu m’as associée—c’est elle qui m’a donné du fruit de l’arbre, et j’ai mangé,"
“It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit from the tree, and I ate it,” Adam replied.
13 L’Éternel-Dieu dit à la femme: "Pourquoi as-tu fait cela?" La femme répondit: "Le serpent m’a entraînée, et j’ai mangé."
The Lord God asked Eve, “Why have you done this?” “The serpent tricked me, and so I ate it,” she replied.
14 L’Éternel-Dieu dit au serpent "Parce que tu as fait cela, tu es maudit entre tous les animaux et entre toutes les créatures terrestres: tu te traîneras sur le ventre, et tu te nourriras de poussière tous les jours de ta vie.
Then the Lord God told the serpent, “Because of what you've done, you are cursed more than any of the other animals. You will slide along on your belly and eat dust as long as you live.
15 Je ferai régner la haine entre toi et la femme, entre ta postérité et la sienne: celle-ci te visera à la tète, et toi, tu l’attaqueras au talon."
I will make sure you and your children, and the woman and her children, are enemies. One of her children will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
16 A la femme il dit: "J’Aggraverai tes labeurs et ta grossesse; tu enfanteras avec douleur; la passion t’attirera, vers ton époux, et lui te dominera."
He told Eve, “I will make pregnancy much more difficult, and giving birth will be very painful. However, you will still desire your husband, but he will have control over you.”
17 Et à l’homme il dit: "Parce que tu as cédé à la voix de ton épouse, et que tu as mangé de l’arbre dont je t’avais enjoint de ne pas manger, maudite est la terre à cause de toi: c’est avec effort que tu en tireras ta nourriture, tant que tu vivras.
He told Adam, “Because you did what your wife told you, and ate fruit from the tree after I ordered you, ‘Don't eat fruit from this tree,’ the ground is now cursed because of you. You will have to work painfully hard to grow food from it throughout your whole life.
18 Elle produira pour toi des buissons et de l’ivraie, et tu mangeras de l’herbe des champs.
It will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you will have to eat wild plants.
19 C’Est à la sueur de ton visage que tu mangeras du pain, —jusqu’à ce que tu retournes à la terre d’où tu as été tiré: car poussière tu fus, et poussière tu redeviendras!"
You will have to sweat to grow enough food to eat until you die and return to the ground. For you were made from dust and you will return to dust.”
20 L’Homme donna pour nom à sa compagne "Ève" parce qu’elle fut la mère de tous les vivants.
Adam named his wife Eve, because she was to be the mother of all human beings.
21 L’Éternel-Dieu fit pour l’homme et pour sa femme des tuniques de peau, et les en vêtit.
The Lord God made Adam and Eve clothes from animal skins and dressed them.
22 L’Éternel-Dieu dit: "Voici l’homme devenu comme l’un de nous, en ce qu’il connait le bien et le mal. Et maintenant, il pourrait étendre sa main et cueillir aussi du fruit de l’arbre de vie; il en mangerait, et vivrait à jamais."
Then the Lord God observed, “Look, the human beings have become like one of us, knowing both what is good and what is evil. Now if they take the fruit from the tree of life and eat it, then they'll live forever!”
23 Et l’Éternel-Dieu le renvoya du jardin d’Éden, pour cultiver la terre d’où il avait été tiré.
So the Lord God expelled them from the Garden of Eden. He sent Adam to cultivate the ground from which he'd been made.
24 Ayant chassé l’homme, il posta en avant du jardin d’Éden les chérubins, avec la lame de l’épée flamboyante, pour garder les abords de l’arbre de vie.
After he drove them out, the Lord God placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden angels and a sword that flashed in every direction. They were to prevent access to the tree of life.
