Genèse 26
1 Il y eu alors une famine dans la contrée, outre la première qui avait eu lieu du temps d'Abraham. Isaac s'en alla chez Abimélech, roi des Philistins, en Gérare.
Some time later there was a severe (famine/scarcity of food) there. That was different from the famine that occurred when Abraham was alive. So Isaac went [southeast] to Gerar [town, to talk] to Abimelech, the king of the Philistine people-group. [What happened was this: Isaac considered going to Egypt],
2 Car le Seigneur lui apparut et lui dit: Ne descends pas en Égypte, mais demeure en la terre que je te dirai.
but Yahweh appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt! Live in the land where I will tell you to go!
3 Demeure en cette terre, je serai avec toi, je te bénirai; je donnerai toute cette terre à toi et à ta race; je maintiendrai le serment que j'ai fait à ton père Abraham.
Stay in this land for a while, and I will help you and bless you, because it is to you and your descendants that I will give all these lands, and I will do what I solemnly promised to your father.
4 Je multiplierai la postérité comme les étoiles du ciel, je donnerai à ta race toute cette terre, et toutes les nations de la terre seront bénies en ta postérité;
I will cause your descendants to be as numerous as the stars in the sky. I will give to your descendants all these lands, and I will cause your descendants to be a blessing to the people of [MTY] all nations on the earth.
5 Parce que ton père Abraham a écouté ma parole, a gardé mes commandements, mes préceptes, mes jugements et mes lois.
I will do that because your father Abraham obeyed me. He obeyed everything that I told him to do, everything that I declared and all the laws that I gave him.” So Isaac [went and asked King Abimelech if he would permit him to live in the Gerar area. The king said, “Okay,”]
6 Et Isaac demeura en Gérare.
[so Isaac] stayed there [along with his wife and sons].
7 Les hommes de la ville l'interrogèrent au sujet de Rébécca sa femme, et il dit: C'est ma sœur; car il avait crainte de dire: C'est ma femme; de peur que les hommes de la ville ne vinssent à le tuer à cause de Rébécca, parce qu'elle était d'une grande beauté.
When the men in Gerar [town] asked who Rebekah was, Isaac said, “She is my sister.” He said that because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “Rebekah is very beautiful, so they will want her. [If I say that she is my sister, they know they will have to negotiate about a bride price because I am her older brother; but if I say that she is my wife, no negotiation will be possible]. They will just kill me to get her.”
8 Il fut longtemps en ce lieu, et Abimélech, roi de Gérare, s'étant penché à sa fenêtre, vit Isaac jouant avec Rébécca, sa femme.
When Isaac had been there a long time, one day Abimelech, the king of the Philistine people-group, looked down from a window [in his palace] and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
9 Et il appela Isaac, et il lui dit: Elle est donc ta femme? Pourquoi as- tu dit: C'est ma sœur? Isaac répondit: Je l'ai dit, de peur de mourir à cause d'elle.
So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said to him, “Now I realize that she is really your wife! So why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied to him, “I said that because I thought that someone here might kill me to get her.”
10 Abimélech lui dit: Pourquoi nous as-tu traités de la sorte? Peu s'en est fallu que quelqu'un de notre race n'ait dormi avec ta femme, et tu nous aurais fait tomber par ignorance.
Abimelech said, “(You should not have done this to us!/Why did you do this?) [RHQ] One of our people might have (had sex with/slept with) [EUP] your wife, and you would have caused us to be guilty of a great sin!”
11 Abimélech aussitôt donna ses ordres à son peuple, disant: Quiconque touchera à cet homme ou à sa femme périra.
Then Abimelech commanded all his people, saying, “Do not harm/molest this man or his wife! Anyone who does that will surely be executed!”
12 Isaac ensemença cette terre, et il obtint, cette année, de l'orge au centuple, car le Seigneur le bénit.
Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop, because Yahweh blessed him.
13 Et l'homme fut glorifié; il prospéra avec le temps jusqu'à devenir très grand.
Isaac continued to acquire more and more possessions, until finally he became very wealthy.
14 Il eut des menus troupeaux de brebis, des troupeaux de bœufs et beaucoup de terres. Les Philistins lui portèrent même envie.
He had large herds of sheep and goats and cattle, and many slaves. Because of that, the Philistine people envied him.
15 Et tous les puits que les serviteurs de son père avaient creusés de son vivant, ils les bouchèrent et les remplirent de terre.
So all the wells that the servants of his father Abraham had dug during the time when he was alive, the people filled up with dirt.
16 Alors, Abimélech dit à Isaac: Éloigne-toi, car tu es devenu beaucoup plus puissant que nous.
Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “You people have become more numerous than we are, so I want you to get out of our area.”
17 Isaac partit donc; il vint camper dans la vallée de Gérare, et il y demeura.
So Isaac [and his family] moved from there. They set up their tents in Gerar Valley [and started to live there].
18 Là, il déblaya les puits que les serviteurs de son père avaient creusés, et qui avaient été comblés par les Philistins après la mort d'Abraham; et il donna à ces puits les mêmes noms que leur avait donnés son père.
There were several wells in that area that had been dug when Isaac’s father Abraham was living, but Philistine people had filled them up [with dirt] after Abraham died. Now Isaac and his servants removed the dirt, and Isaac gave the wells the same names that his father had given to them.
19 Les serviteurs d'Isaac creusèrent encore dans la gorge de Gérare; et ils y trouvèrent un puits d'eau vive.
Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water.
20 Sur ce, les pâtres de Gérare combattirent contre les pâtres d'Isaac, disant que l'eau leur appartenait; aussi les serviteurs d'Isaac donnèrent-ils à ce puits le nom de puits de l'Iniquité; les Philistins, en effet, avaient été injustes envers lui.
But other men who lived in Gerar [Valley] who took care of their animals argued/quarreled with the men who took care of Isaac’s animals, and said, “The water in this well is ours!” So Isaac named the well Esek, which means ‘dispute’, because they disputed about who owned it.
21 S'étant éloigné, il creusa un autre puits; comme ils contestèrent aussi celui-là, il lui donna le nom de puits de l'Inimitié.
Then Isaac’s servants dug another well, but they quarreled about who owned that one also. So Isaac named it Sitnah, [which means ‘opposition]’.
22 Et, s'étant éloigné, il creusa un puits nouveau pour lequel il n'y eut point de combat, et il le nomma puits de Latitude, disant: Le Seigneur maintenant nous a dilatés et agrandis sur cette terre.
They moved on from there and dug another well, but this time no one quarreled about who owned it. So Isaac named it Rehoboth, [which means ‘uninhabited place’], saying, “Yahweh has given us an uninhabited place to live in, a place that is not wanted by other people, and we will become very prosperous here.”
23 Enfin, de là il remonta vers le puits du Serment.
From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.
24 Dès la première nuit, le Seigneur lui apparut, et il lui dit: Je suis le Dieu d'Abraham ton père; n'aie point de crainte, car je suis avec toi; je te bénirai, et je multiplierai ta race, à cause d'Abraham ton père.
The first night that he was there, Yahweh appeared to him and said, “I am God, whom your father Abraham worshiped. Do not be afraid of anything. I will help you and bless you, and because of what I promised my servant Abraham, I will greatly increase the number of your descendants.”
25 En conséquence, il bâtit en ce lieu un autel; il y invoqua le nom du Seigneur; il y dressa ses tentes, et ses serviteurs y creusèrent un puits, toujours dans la gorge de Gérare.
So Isaac built a stone altar there [and offered a sacrifice] to worship Yahweh. He [and his servants] set up their tents there, and his servants started to dig a well.
26 Abimélech vint le trouver de Gérare, avec Ochosath, gardien de ses femmes, et Phichol, général en chef de ses armées.
[While they were digging the well], King Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, along with Ahuzzath, his advisor, and Phicol, the commander of his army.
27 Et Isaac leur dit: Pourquoi venez-vous vers moi, vous qui m'avez haï et chassé loin de vous?
Isaac asked them, “You (acted in a hostile way toward me/treated me like an enemy) before, and sent me away. So why have you come to me now?”
28 Ils répondirent: Nous avons vu que le Seigneur est avec toi, et nous avons dit: Qu'un jugement intervienne entre nous et toi; nous voulons faire avec toi une alliance;
One of them answered, “We have seen that Yahweh helps you. So we said to each other, ‘We should have an agreement between us and you. We should make a peace treaty with you,
29 Pour que tu ne nous veuilles pas plus de mal que nous ne t'en avons voulu, et que tu agisses envers nous comme nous envers toi, nous qui même t'avons si bien traité et t'avons congédié en paix; maintenant béni sois-tu du Seigneur.
stating that you will not harm us, in the same way that we did not molest [EUP] you.’ We always treated you well and sent you away peacefully. And now Yahweh is blessing you.”
30 Il leur fit donc un festin, et ils mangèrent, et ils burent.
So Isaac made a feast for them, and they all ate and drank.
31 Puis, s'étant levés de grand matin, ils se firent un serment mutuel; Isaac les congédia, et ils partirent avec une sauvegarde.
Early the next morning they all (swore/solemnly promised) each other that they would do what they had promised. Then Isaac sent them home peacefully.
32 Or, il arriva en ce même jour que les serviteurs d'Isaac survenant lui donnèrent des nouvelles du puits qu'ils avaient creusé, et ils dirent: Nous n'avons point trouvé d'eau.
That day Isaac’s servants came to him and told him about the well that they had finished digging. They said, “We found water in the well!”
33 Et Isaac appela ce puits: puits du Serment; c'est pourquoi encore de nos jours la ville qui s'y trouve s'appelle puits du Serment (Bersabée).
Isaac named the well Shibah, [which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘oath’]. To the present time the town there has the name Beersheba [which means ‘Friendship Agreement Well’].
34 Or, Esaü avait quarante ans, et il prit pour femmes: Judith, fille de l'Hettéen Beoch, et Basemath, fille de l'Hettéen Elon.
When Esau was 40 years old, he married Judith, the daughter of Beeri, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon. Both of those women were descendants of Heth, [not from Isaac’s clan].
35 Mais elles étaient en désaccord avec Isaac et avec Rébécca.
Esau’s two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
