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.
[Then Jacob joined the rest of his family]. [Later that day] Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and there were 400 men with him. [Jacob was worried because of that], so he separated the children. He put Leah’s children with Leah, Rachel’s children with Rachel, and the two female slaves’ children with their mothers.
2 Il plaça les servantes avec leurs enfants au premier rang, Léa et ses enfants derrière, Rachel et Joseph les derniers.
He put the two female slaves and their children in front. He put Leah and her children next. He put Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
3 Pour lui, il prit les devants et se prosterna contre terre, sept fois, avant d’aborder son frère.
He himself went ahead of them all, and as he continued to approach his older brother, he prostrated himself with his face on the ground seven times.
4 Ésaü courut à sa rencontre, l’embrassa, se jeta à son cou et le baisa; et ils pleurèrent.
But Esau ran to Jacob. He hugged him, put his arms around his neck, and kissed him on the cheek. And they both cried.
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."
Then Esau looked up and saw the women and the children. He asked, “Who are these people who are with you?” Jacob replied, “These are the wives and children that God has graciously/kindly given to me.”
6 Les servantes s’approchèrent ainsi que leurs enfants et se prosternèrent.
Then the female slaves and their children came near and bowed in front of Esau.
7 Léa aussi s’approcha avec ses enfants et ils se prosternèrent; puis, Joseph s’approcha avec Rachel et ils seprosternèrent.
Then Leah and her children came and bowed down. Finally Joseph and Rachel came near and bowed down.
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."
Esau asked, “What is the meaning of all the animals that I saw?” Jacob replied, “I am giving them to you, sir, so that you will feel good toward me.”
9 Ésaü dit: "J’En ai amplement; mon frère, garde ce que tu as."
But Esau replied, “My [younger] brother, I have enough animals! Keep for yourself the animals that you have!”
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.
But Jacob said, “No, please, if you feel good toward me, accept these gifts from me. You have greeted me very kindly. Seeing your smiling face assures me [that you have forgiven me]. It is like seeing the face of God!
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.
Please accept these gifts that I have brought to you, because God has acted kindly toward me, and I still have plenty of animals!” Jacob kept on urging him to accept the animals, and finally he accepted them.
12 Il dit: "Partons et marchons ensemble; je me conformerai à ton pas."
Then Esau said, “Let’s continue traveling together, and I will show the road to you.”
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.
Jacob [had no intention to go with Esau], but he said, “You know, sir, that the children are weak, and that I must take care of the female sheep and cows that are (sucking their mother’s milk/nursing their young). If I force them to walk fast for a long distance in just one day, the animals will all 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."
You go ahead of me. I will lead the animals slowly, but I will walk as fast as the children and animals can walk. I will catch up with you in Seir, [in the land where the descendants of Edom live].”
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!"
Esau said, “Then allow me to leave with you some of the men who came with me, [to protect you].” But Jacob replied, “(Why do that?/There is no need to do that!) [RHQ] The only thing that I want is for you to act friendly toward me.”
16 Ce jour même, Ésaü reprit le chemin de Séir.
So on that day Esau left to return 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.
But [instead of going to Seir], Jacob and his family went to [a place called] Succoth. There he built a house for himself and his family, and built shelters for his livestock. That is the reason they named the place Succoth, [which means ‘shelters’].
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.
[Some time later, ] Jacob and his family left Paddan-Aram [in Mesopotamia], and they traveled safely to the Canaan region. There they set up their tents in a field near Shechem 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.
One of the leaders of the people in that area was named Hamor. Hamor had several sons. Jacob paid the sons of Hamor 100 pieces of silver for the piece of ground on which they set up their tents.
20 Il y érigea un autel qu’il dénomma: "le Seigneur est le Dieu d’Israël."
He built a stone altar there, and named it El-Elohe Israel, [which means ‘God, the God of Israel].’
