Genèse 33
1 Jacob, levant les yeux, aperçut Ésaü qui venait, accompagné de quatre cents hommes. II répartit les enfants entre Léa, Rachel et les deux servantes.
And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he distributed the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maidservants:
2 Il plaça les servantes avec leurs enfants au premier rang, Léa et ses enfants derrière, Rachel et Joseph les derniers.
and he put the maidservants and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.
3 Pour lui, il prit les devants et se prosterna contre terre, sept fois, avant d’aborder son frère.
And he passed on before them, and bowed to the earth seven times, until he came near to his brother.
4 Ésaü courut à sa rencontre, l’embrassa, se jeta à son cou et le baisa; et ils pleurèrent.
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept.
5 En levant les yeux, il vit les femmes et les enfants et dit: "Que te sont ceux là?" II répondit: "Ce sont les enfants dont Dieu a gratifié ton serviteur."
And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, The children that God has graciously given thy servant.
6 Les servantes s’approchèrent ainsi que leurs enfants et se prosternèrent.
And the maidservants drew near, they and their children, and they bowed.
7 Léa aussi s’approcha avec ses enfants et ils se prosternèrent; puis, Joseph s’approcha avec Rachel et ils seprosternèrent.
And Leah also, with her children, drew near, and they bowed. And lastly Joseph drew near, and Rachel, and they bowed.
8 II reprit: "Qu’est ce que toute cette troupe, venant de ta part, que j’ai rencontrée?" II répondit: "Pour obtenir la bienveillance de mon seigneur."
And he said, What [meanest] thou by all the drove which I met? And he said, To find favour in the eyes of my lord.
9 Ésaü dit: "J’En ai amplement; mon frère, garde ce que tu as."
And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let what thou hast be thine.
10 Jacob répondit: "Oh non! Si toutefois j’ai trouvé grâce à tes yeux, tu accepteras cet hommage de ma main; puisque aussi bien j’ai regardé ta face comme on regarde la face d’un puissant et que tu m’as agréé.
And Jacob said, No, I pray thee; if now I have found favour in thine eyes, then receive my gift from my hand; for therefore have I seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou hast received me with pleasure.
11 Reçois donc le présent que de ma part on t’a offert, puisque Dieu m’a favorisé et que je possède suffisamment." Sur ses instances Ésaü accepta.
Take, I pray thee, my blessing which has been brought to thee; because God has been gracious to me, and because I have everything. And he urged him, and he took [it].
12 Il dit: "Partons et marchons ensemble; je me conformerai à ton pas."
And he said, Let us take our journey, and go on, and I will go before thee.
13 Il lui répondit: "Mon seigneur sait que ces enfants sont délicats, que ce menu et ce gros bétail qui allaitent exigent mes soins; si on les surmène un seul jour, tout le jeune bétail périra.
And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the suckling sheep and kine are with me; and if they should overdrive them only one day, all the flock would die.
14 Que mon seigneur veuille passer devant son serviteur; moi, je cheminerai à ma commodité, selon le pas de la suite qui m’accompagne et selon le pas des enfants, jusqu’à ce que je rejoigne mon seigneur à Séir."
Let my lord, I pray thee, pass on before his servant, and I will drive on at my ease according to the pace of the cattle that is before me, and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord, to Seir.
15 Ésaü dit: "Je veux alors te faire escorter par une partie de mes hommes." II répondit: "A quoi bon? Je voudrais trouver grâce aux yeux de mon seigneur!"
And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee [some] of the people that are with me. And he said, What need? Let me find favour in the eyes of my lord.
16 Ce jour même, Ésaü reprit le chemin de Séir.
And Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
17 Quant à Jacob, il se dirigea vers Soukkoth; il s’y bâtit une demeure et pour son bétail il fit des enclos: c’est pourquoi l’on appela cet endroit Soukkoth.
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house, and for his cattle he made booths. Therefore the name of the place was called Succoth.
18 Jacob arriva ensuite à Salem, ville de Sichem, dans le pays de Canaan, à son retour du territoire d’Aram; et il se fixa à l’entrée de cette ville.
And Jacob came safely [to the] city Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-Aram; and he encamped before the city.
19 Il acquit la portion de terrain ou il établit sa tente, de la main des enfants de Hamor, père de Sichem pour cent kesita.
And he bought the portion of the field where he had spread his tent, of the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred kesitahs.
20 Il y érigea un autel qu’il dénomma: "le Seigneur est le Dieu d’Israël."
And there he set up an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
