Genèse 2
1 Ainsi furent achevés les cieux et la terre, et toute leur armée.
That is the way God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Dieu acheva au septième jour son œuvre, qu’il avait faite: et il se reposa au septième jour de toute son œuvre, qu’il avait faite.
By the time it was the seventh day, God had finished the work of creating everything, so he did not work any more on that day.
3 Dieu bénit le septième jour, et il le sanctifia, parce qu’en ce jour il se reposa de toute son œuvre qu’il avait créée en la faisant.
God blessed each seventh day, and he set those days apart to be special days, because on the seventh day God did not work any more, after finishing all his work of creating everything.
4 Voici les origines des cieux et de la terre, quand ils furent créés. Lorsque l’Éternel Dieu fit une terre et des cieux,
That is how God created the heavens and the earth. God, whose name is Yahweh, made the heavens and the earth.
5 aucun arbuste des champs n’était encore sur la terre, et aucune herbe des champs ne germait encore: car l’Éternel Dieu n’avait pas fait pleuvoir sur la terre, et il n’y avait point d’homme pour cultiver le sol.
At first there were no plants growing, because Yahweh God had not yet caused rain to fall on the ground. Furthermore, there was no one to till the ground for planting crops.
6 Mais une vapeur s’éleva de la terre, et arrosa toute la surface du sol.
Instead, mist rose up from the ground, so that it watered the surface of the ground.
7 L’Éternel Dieu forma l’homme de la poussière de la terre, il souffla dans ses narines un souffle de vie et l’homme devint un être vivant.
Then Yahweh God took some soil and formed a man. He breathed into the man’s nostrils his own breath that gives life, and as a result the man became a living person.
8 Puis l’Éternel Dieu planta un jardin en Éden, du côté de l’orient, et il y mit l’homme qu’il avait formé.
Yahweh God made a park/garden in a place named Eden, which was east of the land of Canaan, and he put there the man that he had created.
9 L’Éternel Dieu fit pousser du sol des arbres de toute espèce, agréables à voir et bons à manger, et l’arbre de la vie au milieu du jardin, et l’arbre de la connaissance du bien et du mal.
Yahweh God also put there every kind of tree that is beautiful to see and that produced fruit that was good to eat. He also placed in the middle of the park/garden a tree [whose fruit would enable those who ate it] to live forever. He also placed there another tree whose fruit would enable those who ate it to know what actions were good [to do] and what actions were evil [to do].
10 Un fleuve sortait d’Éden pour arroser le jardin, et de là il se divisait en quatre bras.
A river flowed from Eden to provide water for the park/garden. Outside of Eden, the river divided into four rivers.
11 Le nom du premier est Pischon; c’est celui qui entoure tout le pays de Havila, où se trouve l’or.
The name of the first river is Pishon. That river flows through all the land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12 L’or de ce pays est pur; on y trouve aussi le bdellium et la pierre d’onyx.
That gold (is very pure/has no impurities in it). There is [also a sweet-smelling gum called] bdellium, and valuable stones called onyx.
13 Le nom du second fleuve est Guihon; c’est celui qui entoure tout le pays de Cusch.
The name of the second river is Gihon. That river flows through all the land of Cain.
14 Le nom du troisième est Hiddékel; c’est celui qui coule à l’orient de l’Assyrie. Le quatrième fleuve, c’est l’Euphrate.
The name of the third river is Tigris. It flows east of [the city of] Asshur. The name of the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 L’Éternel Dieu prit l’homme, et le plaça dans le jardin d’Éden pour le cultiver et pour le garder.
Yahweh God took the man and put him in Eden park/garden to till/cultivate it and take care of it.
16 L’Éternel Dieu donna cet ordre à l’homme: Tu pourras manger de tous les arbres du jardin;
But Yahweh said to him, “You must not eat the fruit of the tree that will enable you to know what actions are good to do and what actions are evil to do. If you eat any fruit from that tree, on that day your relationship with me will end. But I will permit you to eat the fruit of any of the other trees in the park/garden.”
17 mais tu ne mangeras pas de l’arbre de la connaissance du bien et du mal, car le jour où tu en mangeras, tu mourras.
18 L’Éternel Dieu dit: Il n’est pas bon que l’homme soit seul; je lui ferai une aide semblable à lui.
Then Yahweh God said, “It is not good for this man to be alone. So I will make someone who will be a suitable partner for him.”
19 L’Éternel Dieu forma de la terre tous les animaux des champs et tous les oiseaux du ciel, et il les fit venir vers l’homme, pour voir comment il les appellerait, et afin que tout être vivant portât le nom que lui donnerait l’homme.
Yahweh God had taken some soil and had formed from it all kinds of animals and birds, and he brought them to the man to hear what names he would give them.
20 Et l’homme donna des noms à tout le bétail, aux oiseaux du ciel et à tous les animaux des champs; mais, pour l’homme, il ne trouva point d’aide semblable à lui.
Then the man gave names to all the kinds of livestock and birds and wild animals, but none of these creatures was a partner that was suitable for the man.
21 Alors l’Éternel Dieu fit tomber un profond sommeil sur l’homme, qui s’endormit; il prit une de ses côtes, et referma la chair à sa place.
So Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man was sleeping, Yahweh took out one of the man’s ribs. Then he immediately closed the opening in his body [and healed it].
22 L’Éternel Dieu forma une femme de la côte qu’il avait prise de l’homme, et il l’amena vers l’homme.
Yahweh then made a woman from the rib that he had taken from the man’s body, and he brought her to the man.
23 Et l’homme dit: Voici cette fois celle qui est os de mes os et chair de ma chair! On l’appellera femme, parce qu’elle a été prise de l’homme.
The man exclaimed, “[Wow]! This is truly (someone like me/what I was looking for!) She is truly from my bones and from my flesh. So I will call her woman, because she was taken from me, a man.”
24 C’est pourquoi l’homme quittera son père et sa mère, et s’attachera à sa femme, et ils deviendront une seule chair.
[The first woman was taken from the man’s body, ] so that is why when a man and a woman marry, they must leave their parents. The man will join very closely to his wife, so that the two of them will be as though they are one person.
25 L’homme et sa femme étaient tous deux nus, et ils n’en avaient point honte.
Although the man and his wife were naked, they were not ashamed about that.
