Genèse 28
1 Isaac appela Jacob, le bénit, et lui donna cet ordre: Tu ne prendras pas une femme parmi les filles de Canaan.
Then Isaac summoned Jacob, and gave him a blessing. He told him, “Do not marry a woman of the Canaan people-group.
2 Lève-toi, va à Paddan-Aram, à la maison de Bethuel, père de ta mère, et prends-y une femme d’entre les filles de Laban, frère de ta mère.
Instead, go right away to Paddan-Aram [in northwest Mesopotamia], to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Ask one of the daughters of your mother’s brother Laban to marry you.
3 Que le Dieu tout-puissant te bénisse, te rende fécond et te multiplie, afin que tu deviennes une multitude de peuples!
I will pray that God Almighty will bless you, and enable you to [get married and] have many descendants, in order that they will become many people-groups.
4 Qu’il te donne la bénédiction d’Abraham, à toi et à ta postérité avec toi, afin que tu possèdes le pays où tu habites comme étranger, et qu’il a donné à Abraham!
I also will pray that he will bless you and your descendants by enabling you to possess/seize the land in which you are now living as a foreigner, the land that God promised to give to [my father] Abraham and his descendants.”
5 Et Isaac fit partir Jacob, qui s’en alla à Paddan-Aram, auprès de Laban, fils de Bethuel, l’Araméen, frère de Rebecca, mère de Jacob et d’Ésaü.
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-Aram, to live with Rebekah’s brother Laban, the son of Bethuel, who belonged to the Aram people-group.
6 Ésaü vit qu’Isaac avait béni Jacob, et qu’il l’avait envoyé à Paddan-Aram pour y prendre une femme, et qu’en le bénissant il lui avait donné cet ordre: Tu ne prendras pas une femme parmi les filles de Canaan.
Esau found out that his father Isaac had blessed Jacob and then sent him to Paddan-Aram. He also found out that when he blessed Isaac, he told him, “Do not marry a woman of the Canaan people-group,”
7 Il vit que Jacob avait obéi à son père et à sa mère, et qu’il était parti pour Paddan-Aram.
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother, and had gone to Paddan-Aram.
8 Ésaü comprit ainsi que les filles de Canaan déplaisaient à Isaac, son père.
Esau also realized that his father Isaac did not approve of women from the Canaan people-group.
9 Et Ésaü s’en alla vers Ismaël. Il prit pour femme, outre les femmes qu’il avait, Mahalath, fille d’Ismaël, fils d’Abraham, et sœur de Nebajoth.
Because of that, Esau went to see his uncle Ishmael, and married Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael. Mahalath was the sister of Nabaioth and the granddaughter of Abraham.
10 Jacob partit de Beer-Schéba, et s’en alla à Charan.
Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and started walking along the road to Haran.
11 Il arriva dans un lieu où il passa la nuit; car le soleil était couché. Il y prit une pierre, dont il fit son chevet, et il se coucha dans ce lieu-là.
When he arrived at a certain place, he stopped there, because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones there and put it under his head to use as a pillow. Then he lay down and slept there.
12 Il eut un songe. Et voici, une échelle était appuyée sur la terre, et son sommet touchait au ciel. Et voici, les anges de Dieu montaient et descendaient par cette échelle.
While he was sleeping, he had a dream, in which he [was surprised to] see a stairway. The bottom of the stairway was on the earth and the top was in the sky. Jacob also saw that God’s angels were going up and down the stairway.
13 Et voici, l’Éternel se tenait au-dessus d’elle; et il dit: Je suis l’Éternel, le Dieu d’Abraham, ton père, et le Dieu d’Isaac. La terre sur laquelle tu es couché, je la donnerai à toi et à ta postérité.
And he [was surprised to] see Yahweh standing at the top of the stairway, saying “I am Yahweh God, whom your grandfather Abraham worshiped, and whom Isaac worships. I will give to you and to your descendants the land on which you are lying.
14 Ta postérité sera comme la poussière de la terre; tu t’étendras à l’occident et à l’orient, au septentrion et au midi; et toutes les familles de la terre seront bénies en toi et en ta postérité.
Your descendants will be as numerous as the particles of dirt that are on the earth, and their territory will be very large. It will extend in all directions, to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south. And people of all people-groups on earth will receive blessings because of [what happens to] you and to your descendants.
15 Voici, je suis avec toi, je te garderai partout où tu iras, et je te ramènerai dans ce pays; car je ne t’abandonnerai point, que je n’aie exécuté ce que je te dis.
I will help you and protect you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you; I will continue to do for you all that I have promised to do.”
16 Jacob s’éveilla de son sommeil et il dit: Certainement, l’Éternel est en ce lieu, et moi, je ne le savais pas!
[During the night], when Jacob woke up from sleeping, he thought, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and until now I was not aware of it!”
17 Il eut peur, et dit: Que ce lieu est redoutable! C’est ici la maison de Dieu, c’est ici la porte des cieux!
He was afraid, and he said, “This place is very awesome! This is surely the place where God lives, and this is the entrance to heaven!”
18 Et Jacob se leva de bon matin; il prit la pierre dont il avait fait son chevet, il la dressa pour monument, et il versa de l’huile sur son sommet.
In the morning Jacob got up and took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up on its end to show that the place was a holy place. He poured some olive oil on top of the stone [to dedicate it to God].
19 Il donna à ce lieu le nom de Béthel; mais la ville s’appelait auparavant Luz.
He named that place Bethel, [which means ‘house of God’.] Previously its name was Luz.
20 Jacob fit un vœu, en disant: Si Dieu est avec moi et me garde pendant ce voyage que je fais, s’il me donne du pain à manger et des habits pour me vêtir,
Jacob solemnly promised God, saying, “God, if you will help me and protect me while I am taking this journey, and if you give me enough food to eat and clothes to wear,
21 et si je retourne en paix à la maison de mon père, alors l’Éternel sera mon Dieu;
in order that I can later return safely to my father’s house, then you, Yahweh, will be the God that I will worship.
22 cette pierre, que j’ai dressée pour monument, sera la maison de Dieu; et je te donnerai la dîme de tout ce que tu me donneras.
This stone that I have set up will mark the place where people can worship you. And I will give back to you a tenth of everything that you give to me.”
