Ruth 4
1 Boaz monta à la porte, et s’y arrêta. Or voici, celui qui avait droit de rachat, et dont Boaz avait parlé, vint à passer. Boaz lui dit: Approche, reste ici, toi un tel. Et il s’approcha, et s’arrêta.
Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.
2 Boaz prit alors dix hommes parmi les anciens de la ville, et il dit: Asseyez-vous ici. Et ils s’assirent.
Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down.
3 Puis il dit à celui qui avait le droit de rachat: Naomi, revenue du pays de Moab, a vendu la pièce de terre qui appartenait à notre frère Élimélec.
He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s.
4 J’ai cru devoir t’en informer, et te dire: Acquiers-la, en présence des habitants et en présence des anciens de mon peuple. Si tu veux racheter, rachète; mais si tu ne veux pas, déclare-le-moi, afin que je le sache. Car il n’y a personne avant toi qui ait le droit de rachat, et je l’ai après toi. Et il répondit: je rachèterai.
I thought I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.” He said, “I will redeem it.”
5 Boaz dit: Le jour où tu acquerras le champ de la main de Naomi, tu l’acquerras en même temps de Ruth la Moabite, femme du défunt, pour relever le nom du défunt dans son héritage.
Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”
6 Et celui qui avait le droit de rachat répondit: Je ne puis pas racheter pour mon compte, crainte de détruire mon héritage; prends pour toi mon droit de rachat, car je ne puis pas racheter.
The near kinsman said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I cannot redeem it.”
7 Autrefois en Israël, pour valider une affaire quelconque relative à un rachat ou à un échange, l’un ôtait son soulier et le donnait à l’autre: cela servait de témoignage en Israël.
Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his sandal, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of formalizing transactions in Israel.
8 Celui qui avait le droit de rachat dit donc à Boaz: Acquiers pour ton compte! Et il ôta son soulier.
So the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” then he took off his sandal.
9 Alors Boaz dit aux anciens et à tout le peuple: Vous êtes témoins aujourd’hui que j’ai acquis de la main de Naomi tout ce qui appartenait à Élimélec, à Kiljon et à Machlon,
Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.
10 et que je me suis également acquis pour femme Ruth la Moabite, femme de Machlon, pour relever le nom du défunt dans son héritage, et afin que le nom du défunt ne soit point retranché d’entre ses frères et de la porte de son lieu. Vous en êtes témoins aujourd’hui!
Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”
11 Tout le peuple qui était à la porte et les anciens dirent: Nous en sommes témoins! Que l’Éternel rende la femme qui entre dans ta maison semblable à Rachel et à Léa, qui toutes les deux ont bâti la maison d’Israël! Manifeste ta force dans Éphrata, et fais-toi un nom dans Bethléhem!
All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.
12 Puisse la postérité que l’Éternel te donnera par cette jeune femme rendre ta maison semblable à la maison de Pérets, qui fut enfanté à Juda par Tamar!
Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring which the LORD will give you by this young woman.”
13 Boaz prit Ruth, qui devint sa femme, et il alla vers elle. L’Éternel permit à Ruth de concevoir, et elle enfanta un fils.
So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.
14 Les femmes dirent à Naomi: Béni soit l’Éternel, qui ne t’a point laissé manquer aujourd’hui d’un homme ayant droit de rachat, et dont le nom sera célébré en Israël!
The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.
15 Cet enfant restaurera ton âme, et sera le soutien de ta vieillesse; car ta belle-fille, qui t’aime, l’a enfanté, elle qui vaut mieux pour toi que sept fils.
He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”
16 Naomi prit l’enfant et le mit sur son sein, et elle fut sa garde.
Naomi took the child, laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to him.
17 Les voisines lui donnèrent un nom, en disant: Un fils est né à Naomi! Et elles l’appelèrent Obed. Ce fut le père d’Isaï père de David.
The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, “A son is born to Naomi”. They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
18 Voici la postérité de Pérets. Pérets engendra Hetsron;
Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,
19 Hetsron engendra Ram; Ram engendra Amminadab;
and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab,
20 Amminadab engendra Nachschon; Nachschon engendra Salmon;
and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon,
21 Salmon engendra Boaz; Boaz engendra Obed;
and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed,
22 Obed engendra Isaï; et Isaï engendra David.
and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.
