Genèse 11
1 Toute la terre avait alors une même parole; il y avait une seule langue pour tous.
And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
2 Et il arriva qu'en s'éloignant de l'Orient, ils trouvèrent en la terre de Sennaar une plaine où ils s'établirent.
And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they lived there.
3 Et chacun dit à son voisin: Allons, façonnons des briques et faisons-les cuire au feu. La brique leur servit donc de pierre, et le bitume de ciment.
And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
4 Puis ils dirent: Allons, bâtissons-nous une ville et une tour dont la tête ira jusqu'au ciel, et faisons-nous un nom, avant de nous disséminer sur toute la face de la terre.
And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.
5 Le Seigneur descendit voir la ville et la tour que bâtissaient les fils des hommes.
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
6 Et il dit: Les voilà une seule famille, avec une seule et même langue, et s'ils ont commencé par de tels travaux, rien désormais ne pourra échouer de tout ce qu'ils entreprendront.
And the Lord said, Behold, [there is] one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do.
7 Allons, et étant descendus, confondons ici leur langage de telle sorte que nul n'entende plus la parole de son voisin.
Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour.
8 Et de ce lieu, Dieu les dispersa sur la face de toute la terre, et ils cessèrent de bâtir la ville et la tour.
And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
9 À cause de cela, ce lieu fut appelé Babel (confusion), parce que là le Seigneur confondit les langues de toute la terre, et dispersa les hommes sur la face de toute la terre.
On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.
10 Or, voici les générations de Sem: le fils Sem avait cent ans lorsqu il engendra Arphaxad, deux ans après le déluge.
And these [are] the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
11 Sem vécut, après avoir engendré Arphaxad, cinq cents ans; il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut.
And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
12 Arphaxad vécut cent trente-cinq ans, et il engendra Caïnan.
And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.
13 Arphaxad vécut, après avoir engendré Caïnan, quatre cent trente ans, et il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut. Caïnan vécut trente ans, et il engendra Salé. Caïnan vécut, après avoir engendré Salé, cent trente ans, et il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut.
And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Cainan, four hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died. And Cainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Sala; and Canaan lived after he had begotten Sala, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
14 Salé vécut cent trente ans, et il engendra Héber.
And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
15 Et Salé vécut, après avoir engendré Héber, trois cent trente ans; il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut.
And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
16 Héber vécut cent trente-quatre ans, et il engendra Phaleg.
And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
17 Et Héber vécut, après avoir engendré Phaleg, deux cent soixante-dix ans; il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut.
And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
18 Phaleg vécut cent trente ans, et il engendra Réhu.
And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
19 Et Phaleg vécut, après avoir engendré Réhu, deux cent neuf ans; il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut.
And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
20 Réhu vécut cent trente-deux ans, et il engendra Sarug.
And Ragau lived and hundred and thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.
21 Et Réhu vécut, après avoir engendré Sarug, deux cent sept ans; il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut.
And Raau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
22 Sarug vécut cent trente ans, et il engendra Nachor.
And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.
23 Et Sarug vécut, après avoir engendré Nachor, deux cents ans; il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut.
And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
24 Nachor vécut soixante-dix-neuf ans, et il engendra Tharé.
And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
25 Et Nachor vécut, après avoir engendré Tharé, cent vingt-neuf ans; il engendra des fils et des filles, et il mourut.
And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, an hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.
26 Tharé vécut soixante-dix ans, et il engendra Abram, Nachor et Aram.
And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
27 Or voici les générations de Tharé: Tharé engendra Abram, Nachor et Aram, lequel engendra Lot.
And these [are] the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.
28 Et Aram mourut devant son père Tharé, en la terre où il était né, au pays des Chaldéens.
And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.
29 Et Abram ainsi que Nachor épousèrent des femmes. Le nom de la femme d'Abram était Sara; et le nom de la femme de Nachor, Melcha, fille d'Aran, père de Melcha et d'Iescha.
And Abram and Nachor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sara, and the name of the wife of Nachor, Malcha, daughter of Arrhan, and he was the father of Malcha, the father of Jescha.
30 Sara était stérile, et elle n'enfanta point.
And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
31 Tharé prit Abram son fils, et Lot fils d'Aran, son petit-fils, et Sara, femme d'Abram, son fils, et il les emmena du pays des Chaldéens pour être transportés en la terre de Chanaan; ils allèrent ainsi jusqu'à Haran et ils y demeurèrent.
And Tharrha took Abram his son, and Lot the son Arrhan, the son of his son, and Sara his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan, and they came as far as Charrhan, and he lived there.
32 Et tous les jours de Tharé, en la terre de Haran, formèrent deux cent cinq ans, et il mourut à Haran.
And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.
