Genèse 32
1 Pour Jacob, il poursuivit son voyage; des envoyés du Seigneur se trouvèrent sur ses pas.
And Jacob has gone on his way, and messengers of God come on him;
2 Jacob dit en les voyant: "Ceci est la légion du Seigneur!" Et il appela cet endroit Mahanayim.
and Jacob says, when he has seen them, “This [is] the camp of God”; and he calls the name of that place “Two Camps.”
3 Jacob envoya des messagers en avant, vers Ésaü son frère, au pays de Séir, dans la campagne d’Édom.
And Jacob sends messengers before him to his brother Esau, toward the land of Seir, the field of Edom,
4 Il leur avait donné cet ordre: "Vous parlerez ainsi à mon seigneur, à Ésaü: ‘Ainsi parle ton serviteur Jacob:
and commands them, saying, “Thus you say to my lord, to Esau, Thus said your servant Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and I linger until now;
5 J’Ai séjourné chez Laban et prolongé mon séjour jusqu’à présent. J’Ai acquis boeufs et ânes, menu bétail, esclaves mâles et femelles; je l’envoie annoncer à mon seigneur, pour obtenir faveur à ses yeux.’"
and I have ox, and donkey, flock, and manservant, and maidservant, and I send to declare to my lord, to find grace in his eyes.”
6 Les messagers revinrent près de Jacob, en disant: "Nous sommes allés trouver ton frère Ésaü; lui même vient à ta rencontre et quatre cents hommes l’accompagnent."
And the messengers return to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is also coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him”;
7 Jacob fut fort effrayé et plein d’anxiété. II distribua son monde, le menu, le gros bétail et les chameaux en deux bandes,
and Jacob fears exceedingly, and is distressed, and he divides the people who [are] with him, and the flock, and the herd, and the camels, into two camps,
8 se disant: "Si Ésaü attaque l’une des bandes et la met en pièces, la bande restante deviendra une ressource."
and says, “If Esau comes to one camp, and has struck it—then the camp which is left has been for an escape.”
9 Puis Jacob dit "O Divinité de mon père Abraham, Divinité d’Isaac mon père! Éternel, toi qui m’as dit: ‘Retourne à ton pays et à ton lieu natal, je te comblerai;’
And Jacob says, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, YHWH who says to me, Return to your land and to your family, and I do good with you:
10 je suis peu digne de toutes les faveurs et de toute la fidélité que tu as témoignées à ton serviteur, moi qui, avec mon bâton, avais passé ce Jourdain et qui à présent possède deux légions.
I have been unworthy of all the kind acts and of all the truth which You have done with your servant—for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.
11 Sauve moi, de grâce, de la main de mon frère, de la main d’Ésaü; car je crains qu’il ne m’attaque et ne me frappe, joignant la mère aux enfants!
Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I am fearing him, lest he come and has struck me—mother beside sons;
12 Pourtant, tu as dit: ‘Je te comblerai de faveurs et j’égalerai ta descendance au sable de la mer, dont la quantité est incalculable.’"
and You have said, I certainly do good with you, and have set your seed as the sand of the sea, which is not numbered because of the multitude.”
13 Il établit là son gîte pour cette nuit et il choisit, dans ce qui se trouvait en sa possession un hommage pour Ésaü son frère:
And he lodges there during that night, and takes from that which is coming into his hand, a present for his brother Esau:
14 deux cents chèvres et vingt boucs, deux cents brebis et vingt béliers;
female goats two hundred, and male goats twenty, ewes two hundred, and rams twenty,
15 trente chamelles laitières avec leurs petits, quarante vaches et dix taureaux, vingt ânesses et dix ânes.
suckling camels and their young ones thirty, cows forty, and bullocks ten, female donkeys twenty, and foals ten;
16 Il remit aux mains de ses esclaves chaque troupeau à part et il leur dit: "Marchez en avant et laissez un intervalle entre un troupeau et l’autre."
and he gives into the hand of his servants every drove by itself, and says to his servants, “Pass over before me, and a space you put between drove and drove.”
17 Il donna au premier l’ordre suivant: "Lorsqu’Ésaü, mon frère, te rencontrera et te demandera: ‘A qui es-tu? où vas tu? et pour qui ce bétail qui te précède?’
And he commands the first, saying, “When my brother Esau meets you, and has asked you, saying, Whose [are] you? And to where do you go? And whose [are] these before you?
18 Tu répondras: ‘A ton serviteur Jacob; ceci est un hommage adressé à mon seigneur Ésaü; et Jacob lui même nous suit.’"
Then you have said, Your servant Jacob’s: it [is] a present sent to my lord, to Esau; and behold, he also [is] behind us.”
19 II ordonna de même au second, de même au troisième, de même à tous ceux qui conduisaient les troupeaux, en disant: "C’Est ainsi que vous parlerez à Ésaü quand vous le rencontrerez.
And he commands also the second, also the third, also all who are going after the droves, saying, “According to this manner do you speak to Esau in your finding him,
20 Et vous direz: ‘Voici que lui même, ton serviteur Jacob nous suit" car il disait: "Je veux rasséréner son visage par le présent qui me devance et puis je regarderai son visage, peut être deviendra t il bienveillant pour moi."
and you have also said, Behold, your servant Jacob [is] behind us”; for he said, “I pacify his face with the present which is going before me, and afterward I see his face; it may be he lifts up my face”;
21 Le présent défila devant lui et lui, demeura cette nuit dans le camp.
and the present passes over before his face, and he has lodged during that night in the camp.
22 Il se leva, quant à lui, pendant la nuit; il prit ses deux femmes, ses deux servantes et ses onze enfants et passa le gué de Jaboc.
And he rises in that night, and takes his two wives, and his two maidservants, and his eleven children, and passes over the passage of Jabbok;
23 Puis il les aida à traverser le torrent et fit passer ce qui lui appartenait.
and he takes them, and causes them to pass over the brook, and he causes that which he has to pass over.
24 Jacob étant resté seul, un homme lutta avec lui, jusqu’au lever de l’aube.
And Jacob is left alone, and One wrestles with him until the ascending of the dawn;
25 Voyant qu’il ne pouvait le vaincre, il lui pressa la cuisse; et la cuisse de Jacob se luxa tandis qu’il luttait avec lui.
and He sees that He is not able for him, and He comes against the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh is disjointed in his wrestling with Him;
26 Il dit: "Laisse moi partir, car l’aube est venue." II répondit: "Je ne te laisserai point, que tu ne m’aies béni."
and He says, “Send Me away, for the dawn has ascended”: and he says, “I do not send You away, except You have blessed me.”
27 Il lui dit alors: "Quel est ton nom?" II répondit: "Jacob."
And He says to him, “What [is] your name?” And he says, “Jacob.”
28 Il reprit: "Jacob ne sera plus désormais ton nom, mais bien Israël; car tu as jouté contre des puissances célestes et humaines et tu es resté fort."
And He says, “Your name is no longer called Jacob, but Israel; for you have reigned with God and with men, and prevail.”
29 Jacob l’interrogea en disant: "Apprends-moi, je te prie, ton nom." II répondit: "Pourquoi t’enquérir de mon nom?" Et il le bénit alors.
And Jacob asks and says, “Please declare Your Name”; and He says, “Why [is] this, you ask for My Name?” And He blesses him there.
30 Jacob appela ce lieu Penïel "parce que j’ai vu un être divin face à face et que ma vie est restée sauve."
And Jacob calls the name of the place Peniel: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is delivered”;
31 Le soleil commençait à l’éclairer lorsqu’il eut quitté Penïél; il boitait alors à cause de sa cuisse.
and the sun rises on him when he has passed over Penuel, and he is halting on his thigh;
32 C’Est pourquoi les enfants d’Israël ne mangent point aujourd’hui encore le nerf sciatique, qui tient à la cavité de la cuisse; parce que Jacob fut touché à la cavité de la cuisse, sur le nerf sciatique.
therefore the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew which shrank, which [is] on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because He came against the hollow of Jacob’s thigh, against the sinew which shrank.
