Genèse 38
1 En ce temps-là, Juda s’éloigna de ses frères, et se retira vers un homme d’Adullam, nommé Hira.
And it comes to pass, at that time, that Judah goes down from his brothers, and turns aside to a man, an Adullamite, whose name [is] Hirah;
2 Là, Juda vit la fille d’un Cananéen, nommé Schua; il la prit pour femme, et alla vers elle.
and Judah sees there the daughter of a man, a Canaanite, whose name [is] Shuah, and takes her, and goes in to her.
3 Elle devint enceinte, et enfanta un fils, qu’elle appela Er.
And she conceives, and bears a son, and he calls his name Er;
4 Elle devint encore enceinte, et enfanta un fils, qu’elle appela Onan.
and she conceives again, and bears a son, and calls his name Onan;
5 Elle enfanta de nouveau un fils, qu’elle appela Schéla; Juda était à Czib quand elle l’enfanta.
and she adds again, and bears a son, and calls his name Shelah; and he was in Chezib in her bearing him.
6 Juda prit pour Er, son premier-né, une femme nommée Tamar.
And Judah takes a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name [is] Tamar;
7 Er, premier-né de Juda, était méchant aux yeux de l’Éternel; et l’Éternel le fit mourir.
and Er, Judah’s firstborn, is evil in the eyes of YHWH, and YHWH puts him to death.
8 Alors Juda dit à Onan: Va vers la femme de ton frère, prends-la, comme beau-frère, et suscite une postérité à ton frère.
And Judah says to Onan, “Go in to the wife of your brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to your brother”;
9 Onan, sachant que cette postérité ne serait pas à lui, se souillait à terre lorsqu’il allait vers la femme de son frère, afin de ne pas donner de postérité à son frère.
and Onan knows that the seed is not [reckoned] his; and it has come to pass, if he has gone in to his brother’s wife, that he has destroyed [it] to the earth, so as not to give seed to his brother;
10 Ce qu’il faisait déplut à l’Éternel, qui le fit aussi mourir.
and that which he has done is evil in the eyes of YHWH, and He puts him also to death.
11 Alors Juda dit à Tamar, sa belle-fille: Demeure veuve dans la maison de ton père, jusqu’à ce que Schéla, mon fils, soit grand. Il parlait ainsi dans la crainte que Schéla ne mourût comme ses frères. Tamar s’en alla, et elle habita dans la maison de son père.
And Judah says to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Abide [as] a widow at your father’s house, until my son Shelah grows up”; for he said, “Lest he die—even he—like his brothers”; and Tamar goes and dwells at her father’s house.
12 Les jours s’écoulèrent, et la fille de Schua, femme de Juda, mourut. Lorsque Juda fut consolé, il monta à Thimna, vers ceux qui tondaient ses brebis, lui et son ami Hira, l’Adullamite.
And the days are multiplied, and the daughter of Shuah, Judah’s wife, dies; and Judah is comforted, and goes up to his sheep-shearers, he and Hirah his friend the Adullamite, to Timnath.
13 On en informa Tamar, et on lui dit: Voici ton beau-père qui monte à Thimna, pour tondre ses brebis.
And it is declared to Tamar, saying, “Behold, your husband’s father is going up to Timnath to shear his flock”;
14 Alors elle ôta ses habits de veuve, elle se couvrit d’un voile et s’enveloppa, et elle s’assit à l’entrée d’Énaïm, sur le chemin de Thimna; car elle voyait que Schéla était devenu grand, et qu’elle ne lui était point donnée pour femme.
and she turns aside the garments of her widowhood from off her, and covers herself with a veil, and wraps herself up, and sits in the opening of Enayim, which [is] by the way to Timnath, for she has seen that Shelah has grown up, and she has not been given to him for a wife.
15 Juda la vit, et la prit pour une prostituée, parce qu’elle avait couvert son visage.
And Judah sees her, and reckons her for a harlot, for she has covered her face,
16 Il l’aborda sur le chemin, et dit: Laisse-moi aller vers toi. Car il ne connut pas que c’était sa belle-fille. Elle dit: Que me donneras-tu pour venir vers moi?
and he turns aside to her by the way and says, “Please come, let me come in to you,” for he has not known that she [is] his daughter-in-law; and she says, “What do you give to me, that you may come in to me?”
17 Il répondit: Je t’enverrai un chevreau de mon troupeau. Elle dit: Me donneras-tu un gage, jusqu’à ce que tu l’envoies?
And he says, “I send a kid of the goats from the flock.” And she says, “Do you give a pledge until you send [it]?”
18 Il répondit: Quel gage te donnerai-je? Elle dit: Ton cachet, ton cordon, et le bâton que tu as à la main. Il les lui donna. Puis il alla vers elle; et elle devint enceinte de lui.
And he says, “What [is] the pledge that I give to you?” And she says, “Your seal, and your ribbon, and your staff which [is] in your hand”; and he gives to her, and goes in to her, and she conceives to him;
19 Elle se leva, et s’en alla; elle ôta son voile, et remit ses habits de veuve.
and she rises, and goes, and turns aside her veil from off her, and puts on the garments of her widowhood.
20 Juda envoya le chevreau par son ami l’Adullamite, pour retirer le gage des mains de la femme. Mais il ne la trouva point.
And Judah sends the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the hand of the woman, and he has not found her.
21 Il interrogea les gens du lieu, en disant: Où est cette prostituée qui se tenait à Énaïm, sur le chemin? Ils répondirent: Il n’y a point eu ici de prostituée.
And he asks the men of her place, saying, “Where [is] the separated one—she in Enayim, by the way?” And they say, “There has not been in this [place] a separated one.”
22 Il retourna auprès de Juda, et dit: Je ne l’ai pas trouvée, et même les gens du lieu ont dit: Il n’y a point eu ici de prostituée.
And he turns back to Judah and says, “I have not found her; and the men of the place also have said, There has not been in this [place] a separated one,”
23 Juda dit: Qu’elle garde ce qu’elle a! Ne nous exposons pas au mépris. Voici, j’ai envoyé ce chevreau, et tu ne l’as pas trouvée.
and Judah says, “Let her take to herself, lest we become despised; behold, I sent this kid, and you have not found her.”
24 Environ trois mois après, on vint dire à Juda: Tamar, ta belle-fille, s’est prostituée, et même la voilà enceinte à la suite de sa prostitution. Et Juda dit: Faites-la sortir, et qu’elle soit brûlée.
And it comes to pass about three months [after], that it is declared to Judah, saying, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has committed fornication; and also, behold, she has conceived by fornication”: and Judah says, “Bring her out—and she is burned.”
25 Comme on l’amenait dehors, elle fit dire à son beau-père: C’est de l’homme à qui ces choses appartiennent que je suis enceinte; reconnais, je te prie, à qui sont ce cachet, ces cordons et ce bâton.
She is brought out, and she has sent to her husband’s father, saying, “To a man whose these [are], I [am] pregnant”; and she says, “Please discern whose these [are]—the seal, and the ribbons, and the staff.”
26 Juda les reconnut, et dit: Elle est moins coupable que moi, puisque je ne l’ai pas donnée à Schéla, mon fils. Et il ne la connut plus.
And Judah discerns and says, “She has been more righteous than I, because that I did not give her to my son Shelah”; and he has not added to know her again.
27 Quand elle fut au moment d’accoucher, voici, il y avait deux jumeaux dans son ventre.
And it comes to pass in the time of her bearing, that behold, twins [are] in her womb;
28 Et pendant l’accouchement il y en eut un qui présenta la main; la sage-femme la prit, et y attacha un fil cramoisi, en disant: Celui-ci sort le premier.
and it comes to pass in her bearing, that [one] gives out a hand, and the midwife takes and binds on his hand a scarlet thread, saying, “This has come out first.”
29 Mais il retira la main, et son frère sortit. Alors la sage-femme dit: Quelle brèche tu as faite! Et elle lui donna le nom de Pérets.
And it comes to pass as he draws back his hand, that behold, his brother has come out, and she says, “What! You have broken forth—the breach [is] on you”; and he calls his name Perez;
30 Ensuite sortit son frère, qui avait à la main le fil cramoisi; et on lui donna le nom de Zérach.
and afterward his brother has come out, on whose hand [is] the scarlet thread, and he calls his name Zerah.
