Genèse 33
1 Jacob leva les yeux, et regarda; et voici, Ésaü arrivait, avec quatre cents hommes. Il répartit les enfants entre Léa, Rachel, et les deux servantes.
Jacob [Supplanter] lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau [Hairy] was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah [Weary], Rachel [Ewe sheep], and the two servants.
2 Il plaça en tête les servantes avec leurs enfants, puis Léa avec ses enfants, et enfin Rachel avec Joseph.
He put the servants and their children in front, Leah [Weary] and her children after, and Rachel [Ewe sheep] and Joseph [May he add] at the rear.
3 Lui-même passa devant eux; et il se prosterna en terre sept fois, jusqu’à ce qu’il fût près de son frère.
He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
4 Ésaü courut à sa rencontre; il l’embrassa, se jeta à son cou, et le baisa. Et ils pleurèrent.
Esau [Hairy] ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
5 Ésaü, levant les yeux, vit les femmes et les enfants, et il dit: Qui sont ceux que tu as là? Et Jacob répondit: Ce sont les enfants que Dieu a accordés à ton serviteur.
He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”
6 Les servantes s’approchèrent, elles et leurs enfants, et se prosternèrent;
Then the servants came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.
7 Léa et ses enfants s’approchèrent aussi, et se prosternèrent; ensuite Joseph et Rachel s’approchèrent, et se prosternèrent.
Leah [Weary] also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph [May he add] came near with Rachel [Ewe sheep], and they bowed themselves.
8 Ésaü dit: A quoi destines-tu tout ce camp que j’ai rencontré? Et Jacob répondit: A trouver grâce aux yeux de mon seigneur.
Esau [Hairy] said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob [Supplanter] said, “To find chen ·grace· in the sight of my lord.”
9 Ésaü dit: Je suis dans l’abondance, mon frère; garde ce qui est à toi.
Esau [Hairy] said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”
10 Et Jacob répondit: Non, je te prie, si j’ai trouvé grâce à tes yeux, accepte de ma main mon présent; car c’est pour cela que j’ai regardé ta face comme on regarde la face de Dieu, et tu m’as accueilli favorablement.
Jacob [Supplanter] said, “Please, now, if I have now found chen ·grace· in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
11 Accepte donc mon présent qui t’a été offert, puisque Dieu m’a comblé de grâces, et que je ne manque de rien. Il insista auprès de lui, et Ésaü accepta.
Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.
12 Ésaü dit: Partons, mettons-nous en route; j’irai devant toi.
Esau [Hairy] said, “Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you.”
13 Jacob lui répondit: Mon seigneur sait que les enfants sont délicats, et que j’ai des brebis et des vaches qui allaitent; si l’on forçait leur marche un seul jour, tout le troupeau périrait.
Jacob [Supplanter] said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
14 Que mon seigneur prenne les devants sur son serviteur; et moi, je suivrai lentement, au pas du troupeau qui me précédera, et au pas des enfants, jusqu’à ce que j’arrive chez mon seigneur, à Séir.
Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.”
15 Ésaü dit: Je veux au moins laisser avec toi une partie de mes gens. Et Jacob répondit: Pourquoi cela? Que je trouve seulement grâce aux yeux de mon seigneur!
Esau [Hairy] said, “Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me.” He said, “Why? Let me find chen ·grace· in the sight of my lord.”
16 Le même jour, Ésaü reprit le chemin de Séir.
So Esau [Hairy] teshuvah ·completely returned· that day on his way to Seir.
17 Jacob partit pour Succoth. Il bâtit une maison pour lui, et il fit des cabanes pour ses troupeaux. C’est pourquoi l’on a appelé ce lieu du nom de Succoth.
Jacob [Supplanter] traveled to Sukkot, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Sukkot [Booths].
18 A son retour de Paddan-Aram, Jacob arriva heureusement à la ville de Sichem, dans le pays de Canaan, et il campa devant la ville.
Jacob [Supplanter] came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan [Humbled], when he came from Paddan Aram [Elevated]; and encamped before the city.
19 Il acheta la portion du champ où il avait dressé sa tente, des fils d’Hamor, père de Sichem, pour cent kesita.
He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.
20 Et là, il éleva un autel, qu’il appela El-Élohé-Israël.
He erected an altar there, and called it El-Elohei-Isra'el [God the God of God prevails].
