Genèse 11
1 Toute la terre avait une seule langue et les mêmes mots.
And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
2 Comme ils étaient partis de l’orient, ils trouvèrent une plaine au pays de Schinear, et ils y habitèrent.
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 Ils se dirent l’un à l’autre: Allons! Faisons des briques, et cuisons-les au feu. Et la brique leur servit de pierre, et le bitume leur servit de ciment.
And a man said to his neighbor, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
4 Ils dirent encore: Allons! Bâtissons-nous une ville et une tour dont le sommet touche au ciel, et faisons-nous un nom, afin que nous ne soyons pas dispersés sur la face de toute 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 L’Éternel descendit pour 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 l’Éternel dit: Voici, ils forment un seul peuple et ont tous une même langue, et c’est là ce qu’ils ont entrepris; maintenant rien ne les empêcherait de faire tout ce qu’ils auraient projeté.
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! Descendons, et là confondons leur langage, afin qu’ils n’entendent plus la langue, les uns des autres.
Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbor.
8 Et l’Éternel les dispersa loin de là sur la face de toute la terre; et ils cessèrent de bâtir la ville.
And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
9 C’est pourquoi on l’appela du nom de Babel, car c’est là que l’Éternel confondit le langage de toute la terre, et c’est de là que l’Éternel les dispersa 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 Voici la postérité de Sem. Sem, âgé de cent ans, engendra Arpacschad, 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 la naissance d’Arpacschad, cinq cents ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
12 Arpacschad, âgé de trente-cinq ans, engendra Schélach.
And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.
13 Arpacschad vécut, après la naissance de Schélach, quatre cent trois ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
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 Schélach, âgé de trente ans, engendra Héber.
And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
15 Schélach vécut, après la naissance d’Héber, quatre cent trois ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
16 Héber, âgé de trente-quatre ans, engendra Péleg.
And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
17 Héber vécut, après la naissance de Péleg, quatre cent trente ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
18 Péleg, âgé de trente ans, engendra Rehu.
And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
19 Péleg vécut, après la naissance de Rehu, deux cent neuf ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
20 Rehu, âgé de trente-deux ans, engendra Serug.
And Ragau lived and hundred thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.
21 Rehu vécut, après la naissance de Serug, deux cent sept ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
And Raau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
22 Serug, âgé de trente ans, engendra Nachor.
And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.
23 Serug vécut, après la naissance de Nachor, deux cents ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
24 Nachor, âgé de vingt-neuf ans, engendra Térach.
And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
25 Nachor vécut, après la naissance de Térach, cent dix-neuf ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, an hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.
26 Térach, âgé de soixante-dix ans, engendra Abram, Nachor et Haran.
And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
27 Voici la postérité de Térach. Térach engendra Abram, Nachor et Haran. Haran engendra Lot.
And these [are] the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.
28 Et Haran mourut en présence de Térach, son père, au pays de sa naissance, à Ur en Chaldée.
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 Abram et Nachor prirent des femmes: le nom de la femme d’Abram était Saraï, et le nom de la femme de Nachor était Milca, fille d’Haran, père de Milca et père de Jisca.
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 Saraï était stérile: elle n’avait point d’enfants.
And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
31 Térach prit Abram, son fils, et Lot, fils d’Haran, fils de son fils, et Saraï, sa belle-fille, femme d’Abram, son fils. Ils sortirent ensemble d’Ur en Chaldée, pour aller au pays de Canaan. Ils vinrent jusqu’à Charan, et ils y habitèrent.
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 Les jours de Térach furent de deux cent cinq ans; et Térach mourut à Charan.
And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.
