Genèse 12
1 Le Seigneur dit alors à Abram: Sors de ta terre, de ta famille, et de la maison de ton père, pour te rendre en la terre que je te montrerai.
And the Lord said to Abram, Go forth out of your land and out of your kindred, and out of the house of your father, and come into the land which I will show you.
2 Je ferai sortir de toi un grand peuple; je te bénirai, je glorifierai ton nom, et il sera béni.
And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you shall be blessed.
3 Je bénirai ceux qui te béniront; ceux qui je maudiront, je les maudirai, et en toi seront bénies toutes les tribus de la terre.
And I will bless those that bless you, and curse those that curse you, and in you shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.
4 Et Abram s'en alla, comme avait dit le Seigneur, et Lot partit avec lui. Or, Abram avait soixante-quinze ans lorsqu'il sortit de Haran.
And Abram went as the Lord spoke to him, and Lot departed with him, and Abram was seventy-five years old, when he went out of Charrhan.
5 Abram prit donc Sara, sa femme, Lot, fils de son frère, tout ce qui leur appartenait, tout ce qu'ils avaient acquis, toutes les âmes qu'ils avaient acquises dans Haran; et ils partirent pour passer en la terre de Chanaan.
And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot the son of his brother, and all their possessions, as many as they had got, and every soul which they had got in Charrhan, and they went forth to go into the land of Chanaan.
6 Abram traversa cette terre dans toute sa longueur jusqu'au territoire de Sichem, vers le grand chêne. Or, les Chananéens habitaient alors cette terre.
And Abram traversed the land lengthwise as far as the place Sychem, to the high oak, and the Chananites then inhabited the land.
7 Et le Seigneur apparut à Abram, et il lui dit: À ta face je donnerai cette terre; c'est pourquoi Abram bâtit là un autel au Seigneur qui lui était apparu.
And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, I will give this land to your seed. And Abram built an altar there to the Lord who appeared to him.
8 Et il alla de ce lieu vers la montagne, à l'orient de Béthel, il y dressa ses tentes, ayant Béthel à l'occident, et Angaï à l'orient; puis il éleva là un autel au Seigneur, et il invoqua le nom du Seigneur.
And he departed thence to the mountain eastward of Baethel, and there he pitched his tent in Baethel near the sea, and Aggai towards the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord, and called on the name of the Lord.
9 Ensuite Abram partit, et, ayant marché, il campa dans le désert.
And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness.
10 Il y eut alors une famine en la contrée, et Abram descendit en Égypte pour y séjourner, parce que la famine avait prévalu dans le pays.
And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land.
11 Or, il arriva qu'Abram, près d'entrer en Égypte, dit à Sara, sa femme: Je sais que tu es une femme très belle;
And it came to pass when Abram drew near to enter into Egypt, Abram said to Sara his wife, I know that you are a fair woman.
12 Il adviendra donc, quand les Égyptiens t'auront vue, qu'ils diront: C'est sa femme; alors ils me tueront, et ils s'empareront de toi.
It shall come to pass then that when the Egyptians shall see you, they shall say, This is his wife, and they shall kill me, but they shall save you alive.
13 Dis donc: Je suis sa sœur, afin qu'à cause de toi je sois mieux traité, et qu'en ta considération j'aie la vie sauve.
Say, therefore, I am his sister, that it may be well with me on account of you, and my soul shall live because of you.
14 Et lorsque Abram fut entré en Égypte, les Égyptiens virent que sa femme était très belle.
And it came to pass when Abram entered into Egypt—the Egyptians having seen his wife that she was very beautiful—
15 Les officiers du Pharaon la virent aussi; ils la vantèrent devant le Pharaon, et ils la conduisirent en sa demeure.
that the princes of Pharao saw her, and praised her to Pharao and brought her into the house of Pharao.
16 À cause d'elle, ils traitèrent bien Abram, et il eut des brebis, des bœufs, des ânes, des serviteurs, des servantes, des mulets et des chameaux.
And they treated Abram well on her account, and he had sheep, and calves, and asses, and menservants, and women-servants, and mules, and camels.
17 Mais Dieu envoya au Pharaon et à sa famille de grandes et cruelles afflictions, à cause de Sara, femme d'Abram.
And God afflicted Pharao with great and severe afflictions, and his house, because of Sara, Abram's wife.
18 Et le Pharaon ayant appelé Abram, lui dit: Pourquoi as-tu fait cela, et ne m'as-tu pas dit: C'est ma femme?
And Pharao having called Abram, said, What is this you have done to me, that you did not tell me that she was your wife?
19 Pourquoi as-tu dit: C'est ma sœur? Alors je l'ai prise pour qu'elle fût ma femme; or, maintenant voici ta femme devant toi; reprends-la, et pars aussitôt.
Therefore did you say, She is my sister? and I took her for a wife to myself; and now, behold, your wife is before you, take her and go quickly away.
20 Le Pharaon prescrivit à des hommes d'escorter Abram, sa femme, et tout ce qui lui appartenait.
And Pharao gave charge to men concerning Abram, to join in sending him forward, and his wife, and all that he had.
