Genèse 32
1 Jacob, de son côté, reprit sa route, et, ayant levé les yeux, il vit un camp de Dieu déployé. Les anges de Dieu vinrent à sa rencontre.
As Jacob and his family continued traveling, some angels, whom God sent, met him.
2 Jacob en les voyant s'écria: Voici un camp de Dieu; et il nomma ce lieu les Camps.
When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is God’s army camp!” So he named that place Mahanaim, [which means ‘two camps’].
3 Et Jacob envoya des messagers à son frère Esaü, en la terre de Séir, dans le pays d'Édom.
Jacob told some of the men to go ahead of him to his older brother Esau, who was living in Seir, the land where the descendants of Edom lived.
4 Et il leur donna ses ordres, disant: Vous parlerez ainsi à mon seigneur Esaü: Ton serviteur Jacob te parle ainsi: J'ai habité auprès de Laban; j'y suis resté jusqu'à cette heure.
He told them, “This is what I want you to say to Esau: 'I, Jacob, want to be your servant and I want you to be my master. I have been living with our uncle Laban, and I have stayed there until now.
5 J'y ai acquis des bœufs, et des ânes, et du menu bétail, et des serviteurs et des servantes; j'envoie des messagers à mon seigneur Esaü, afin que son serviteur trouve grâce devant lui.
I now own many cattle, donkeys, sheep, goats, and male and female slaves. Now I am sending this message to you, sir, hoping that you will (be friendly toward me/treat me kindly) when I arrive.’ “
6 Les messagers revinrent vers Jacob, disant: Nous sommes allés chez ton frère Esaü, et voici qu'il vient à ta rencontre avec quatre cents hommes.
The messengers went and gave that message to Esau. When they returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your older brother Esau. Now he is coming to you, and 400 men are coming with him.”
7 Jacob eut grande crainte, et il était très indécis; il divisa en deux troupes les hommes qui l'accompagnaient, ainsi que les bœufs, et les chamelles, et les brebis.
Jacob was very afraid and worried. So he divided the people who were with him into two groups. He also divided the sheep and goats, the cattle, and the camels, into two groups.
8 Jacob se disait: Si Esaü marche sur l'une des troupes et la combat, la seconde du moins pourra être sauvée.
He was thinking, “If Esau and his men come and attack us, perhaps one of the groups will be left and will be able to escape.”
9 Et Jacob dit: Dieu de mon père Abraham, Dieu de mon père Isaac, Seigneur, vous qui m'avez dit: Retourne en la terre où tu es né, et je te serai favorable,
Then Jacob prayed, “O Yahweh God, whom my grandfather Abraham worshiped and my father Isaac worships, you said to me, ‘Go back to your own land and to your relatives, and I will (cause good things happen to/do good things for) you.’
10 C'est assez pour moi de toute la justice et de toute la vérité dont vous avez usé envers votre serviteur; car j'ai traversé le Jourdain n'ayant que ce bâton, et je reviens possesseur de deux troupes.
I am not worthy for you to have been so kind and faithful to me in so many ways, your servant. I had only this walking stick with me when I crossed the Jordan [River on my way to Haran], but now I am so wealthy that there are two large groups of my family and possessions.
11 Délivrez-moi de la main de mon frère, de la main d'Esaü, car je le crains; je crains qu'en arrivant il ne frappe et moi, et la mère avec ses enfants.
So now I pray that you will rescue me from [MTY] my [older] brother Esau, because I am afraid that he and his men will come and attack and kill me and the children and their mothers.
12 C'est vous qui avez dit: Je te serai favorable, et je rendrai ta race aussi nombreuse que le sable de la mer, dont nul ne saurait compter l'abondance.
But do not forget that you have said, ‘I will certainly enable you to prosper, and I will cause your descendants to be as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore, which are so many that no one can count them.’”
13 Il dormit cette nuit dans l'endroit où il était, il prit ensuite des biens qu'il portait, pour en faire des présents, et il envoya à son frère Esaü
Jacob slept there that night. The next morning he selected some animals to give to his brother Esau.
14 Deux cents chèvres, vingt boucs, deux cents brebis, vingt béliers,
He selected 200 female goats and 20 male goats, 200 female sheep and 20 male sheep,
15 Quarante chamelles à lait et leurs petits, quarante bœufs, dix taureaux, vingt ânes et dix poulains.
30 female camels and their offspring, 40 cows and ten bulls, 20 female donkeys and 10 male donkeys.
16 Il les envoya par des serviteurs, chaque espèce formant un troupeau; et il dit à ses serviteurs: Marchez devant moi, et laissez un intervalle entre deux troupeaux.
He divided them into small herds, and put each herd into the care of one of his servants. He said to his servants, “Go ahead of me, one group at a time, and keep some space between each herd.”
17 Puis, il donna ses ordres à celui qui était en tête, disant: Lorsque Esaü mon frère te rencontrera et t'interrogera, disant: De qui es-tu? où vas- tu? à qui sont les bêtes qui marchent devant toi?
He said to the servant who was going with the first group, “When my brother Esau meets you, and he asks you, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and to whom do these animals in front of you belong?’
18 Tu répondras: À ton serviteur Jacob; il envoie des présents à mon seigneur Esaü, et voici qu'il vient derrière nous.
tell him, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. He has sent them to you as a gift, sir. And he is coming behind us.’”
19 Il donna ensuite ses ordres au premier serviteur, au second, au troisième et à tous ceux qui marchaient avec les troupeaux, disant: Répondez en ces termes à Esaü, lorsque vous le rencontrerez;
He also said the same thing to the servants who were taking care of the second and third groups, and to the other herdsmen. He said to them, “When you meet Esau, I want you to say to him the same thing that I told the first servant.
20 Dites: Voici ton serviteur Jacob qui vient derrière nous. Car, se dit- il, je l'apaiserai par les présents qui vont au devant de lui, et, après cela, je le verrai face à face, et il m'accueillera favorablement.
And be sure to say ‘Jacob, who wants to serve you, is coming behind us.’” Jacob told them to say that because he was thinking, “Perhaps these gifts that I am sending ahead of me will cause him to (act peacefully toward/stop being angry with) me. Then later, when I see him, perhaps he will be kind to me.”
21 Les présents partirent en avant et s'éloignèrent de lui; et cette nuit- là il coucha dans le camp.
So the men taking the gifts [PRS] went ahead, but Jacob himself stayed in the camp that night.
22 Et, s'étant levé pendant la nuit, il prit les deux femmes, les deux servantes et les onze garçons; puis, il traversa le gué de Jaboch:
Some time during that night, Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his eleven sons and his daughter, and he sent them across the ford at the Jabbok River.
23 Il les prit, puis il traversa le fleuve, et tout ce qui lui appartenait traversa aussi.
After he had done that, he sent other slaves, carrying all his possessions, across the river.
24 Jacob resta seul; alors un homme lutta contre lui jusqu'au matin,
So Jacob was left there alone. But a man came and wrestled with him until dawn.
25 Et, voyant qu'il ne pouvait l'emporter, il toucha le gras de la cuisse de Jacob, qui s'engourdit dans la lutte.
When the man realized that he was not winning against Jacob, he struck Jacob’s hip and caused the thigh bone to pull away from the hip socket.
26 L'ange lui dit: Laisse-moi partir, car l'aurore s'est levée; il répondit: Je ne te laisserai point partir que tu ne m'aies béni.
Then the man said, “Let me go, because it will soon be daylight.” [Then Jacob realized who he was really wrestling with]. So he replied, “No, if you will not bless me, I will not let you go!”
27 L'ange repartit: Quel est ton nom? il répondit Jacob.
The man said to him, “What is your name?” He replied, “Jacob.”
28 Tu ne te nommeras plus Jacob, reprit l'ange, Israël sera ton nom: parce que tu as été fort contre Dieu, et que tu seras fort contre les hommes.
The man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob. Your name will be Israel, [which means ‘he struggles with God’, ] because you have struggled with God and with people, and you have won.”
29 Jacob lui fit cette question: Apprends-moi ton nom. Pourquoi, répondit- il, me demandes-tu mon nom? et sur le lieu même il le bénit.
Jacob said, “Now, please tell me your name!” The man replied, “(Why do you ask me what my name is?/You should not have to ask me what my name is!)” [RHQ] But he blessed Jacob there.
30 Jacob nomma cet endroit Vision de Dieu; car, dit-il, j'ai vu Dieu face à face, et la vie m'a été conservée.
So Jacob named the place Peniel, [which means ‘God’s face’, ] saying “I looked directly at God, but I did not die because of doing that.”
31 La vision de Dieu s'étant évanouie, le soleil se leva sur lui, et Jacob boitait de la cuisse.
The sun was rising as Jacob left Peniel, and he was limping because of what had happened to his hip.
32 À cause de cela les fils d'Israël, aujourd'hui encore, ne mangent point le nerf du gras de la cuisse qui fut engourdi, parce que le gras de la cuisse de Jacob fut touché et que le nerf s'engourdit.
The muscle on his hip joint had been injured. So to this present time, because of what happened to Jacob, the Israeli people do not eat the muscle/tendon that is attached to the socket of the hips of animals.
