Genèse 1
1 Au commencement Dieu créa les cieux et la terre.
Long, long ago God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Et la terre était le désert et le vide, et il y avait des ténèbres à la surface de l'abîme, mais l'Esprit de Dieu posait couvant à la surface des eaux.
When he began to create the earth, it was shapeless and completely desolate/chaotic. Darkness covered the deep water that surrounded the earth. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the water.
3 Et Dieu dit: Que la lumière soit! Et la lumière fut.
God said, “I want light to shine!” And light shone.
4 Et Dieu vit que la lumière était bonne. Et Dieu sépara la lumière et les ténèbres.
God was pleased with the light. Then he made the light to shine in some places, and in other places there was still darkness.
5 Et Dieu nomma la lumière jour, et nomma les ténèbres nuit. Et il y eut soir, et il y eut matin: premier jour.
He gave to the light the name ‘day’, and he gave to the darkness the name ‘night’. After that, there was an evening which was followed by a morning. He called that whole period of time ‘the first day’.
6 Puis Dieu dit: Qu'il y ait un firmament entre les eaux, et qu'il sépare les eaux les unes des autres.
Then God said, “I command that there be an empty space like a huge dome to separate the water that is above it from the water on the earth that is below it!”
7 Et Dieu fit le firmament, et sépara les eaux qui sont au-dessous du firmament, des eaux qui sont au-dessus du firmament. Et ainsi fut. Et Dieu nomma le firmament cieux.
And that is what happened. God gave to the space the name ‘sky’.
8 Et il y eut soir, et il y eut matin: second jour.
Then there was another evening, which was followed by another morning. He called that period of time ‘the second day’.
9 Puis Dieu dit: Que les eaux se rassemblent sous les cieux en un lieu unique, et que le sec apparaisse. Et ainsi fut.
Then God said, “I want the water that is below the sky to come together, and dry ground to appear and rise above the water.” And that is what happened.
10 Et Dieu nomma le sec terre, et nomma l'amas des eaux mer. Et Dieu vit que cela était bon.
God gave to the ground the name ‘earth’, and he gave to the water that came together the name ‘oceans’. God was pleased with the earth and the oceans.
11 Puis Dieu dit: Que la terre fasse germer la verdure, la plante portant graine, l'arbre fruitier donnant selon son espèce un fruit qui ait en lui sa graine, au-dessus de la terre. Et ainsi fut.
Then God said, “I want the earth to produce plants, including plants that will produce seeds and trees that will produce fruit. Each kind of tree will bear its own kind of fruit.”
12 Et la terre produisit verdure, plante portant graine selon son espèce, et arbre donnant du fruit ayant en lui sa graine selon son espèce. Et Dieu vit que cela était bon.
Then plants grew on the earth; each kind of plant began to produce its own kind of seed.
13 Et il y eut soir, et il y eut matin: troisième jour.
Then there was another evening which was followed by another morning. God called that period of time ‘the third day’.
14 Puis Dieu dit: Qu'il y ait des luminaires au firmament des cieux pour séparer le jour et la nuit,
Then God said, “I want a sun, a moon, and many stars to shine in the sky. The sun will shine in the daytime and the moon and stars will shine during the nighttime. By the changes in their appearance they will indicate the various seasons (OR, the times for special celebrations), and will enable people to know when days and years begin.
15 et qu'ils servent pour signes, et époques, et jours et années, et soient pour luminaires au firmament des cieux pour luire sur la terre.
I want them also to be like lights in the sky that will shine on the earth.” And that is what happened.
16 Et ainsi fut. Et Dieu fit les deux grands luminaires, le grand luminaire pour présider au jour et le petit luminaire pour présider à la nuit, et les étoiles.
God made two of them that were like big lights. The bigger one, the sun, shines during the day and the smaller one, the moon, shines during the night. He also made the stars.
17 Et Dieu les plaça au firmament des cieux pour luire sur la terre
God set all of them in the sky to shine on the earth,
18 et présider au jour et à la nuit et pour séparer la lumière et les ténèbres. Et Dieu vit que cela était bon.
to rule the day and the night, and to separate the light of the daytime from the darkness of the nighttime. God was pleased with these things he had made.
19 Et il y eut soir, et il y eut matin: quatrième jour.
Then there was another evening which was followed by another morning. He called that period of time ‘the fourth day’.
20 Puis Dieu dit: Que les eaux fourmillent d'une multitude d'animaux vivants, et que les volatiles volent au-dessus de la terre au firmament des cieux.
Then God said, “I want many creatures to live in all the oceans, and I also want birds to fly in the sky above the earth.”
21 Et Dieu créa les grands poissons de mer et tous les animaux vivants qui se meuvent, dont les eaux fourmillent, selon leurs espèces, et tous les volatiles à ailes selon leurs espèces. Et Dieu vit que cela était bon.
So God created huge sea creatures and every other kind of creature that moves in the water, and caused them to live in all the oceans. He also created many kinds of birds. God was pleased with all those creatures.
22 Et Dieu les bénit en disant: Soyez féconds, et vous multipliez, et remplissez les eaux dans les mers et que les volatiles multiplient sur la terre.
God blessed them. He said, “Produce offspring and become very numerous. I want the creatures in the water to live in all the oceans, and birds also to become very numerous.” And that is what happened.
23 Et il y eut soir et il y eut matin: cinquième jour.
Then there was another evening that was followed by another morning. He called that period of time ‘the fifth day’.
24 Puis Dieu dit: Que la terre produise des animaux vivants selon leurs espèces, des bestiaux et des reptiles, et des bêtes terrestres selon leurs espèces. Et ainsi fut.
Then God said, “I want various kinds of creatures to appear on the earth. There will be many kinds of (livestock/domestic animals), creatures that scurry across the ground, and large wild animals.” And that is what happened.
25 Et Dieu fit les animaux terrestres selon leurs espèces et les bestiaux selon leurs espèces et tous les reptiles du sol selon leurs espèces. Et Dieu vit que cela était bon.
God made all kinds of wild animals and (livestock/domestic animals) and all kinds of creatures that scurry across the ground. God was pleased with all these creatures.
26 Puis Dieu dit: Faisons l'homme à notre image, à notre ressemblance, et qu'ils dominent sur les poissons de la mer et sur les oiseaux des cieux et sur les bestiaux et sur toute la terre et sur tous les reptiles qui se meuvent sur la terre.
Then God said, “Now we will make human beings that will be like us in many ways. I want them to rule over the fish in the sea, over the birds, over all the (livestock/domestic animals), and over all the other creatures that scurry across the ground.”
27 Et Dieu créa l'homme à son image: à l'image de Dieu Il le créa! Il les créa mâle et femelle.
So God created human beings that were like him in many ways. He made them to be like himself. He created some to be male and some to be female.
28 Et Dieu les bénit, et Dieu leur dit: Soyez féconds et vous multipliez, et remplissez la terre et vous la soumettez, et dominez sur les poissons de la mer et sur les oiseaux des cieux et sur tous les animaux qui se meuvent sur la terre.
God blessed them, saying, “Produce many children, who will live all over the earth and rule over it. I want them to rule over the fish and the birds and over all creatures that scurry across the ground.”
29 Et Dieu dit: Voici, je vous donne toute plante portant graine, qui se trouve à la surface de toute la terre, et tout arbre ayant un fruit qui porte graine: ils vous serviront d'aliment;
God said to the humans, “Listen! I have given you all the plants that produce seeds, all over the earth, and all the trees that have seeds in their fruit. All these things are for you to eat.
30 et à tous les animaux de la terre, et à tous les oiseaux des cieux, et à tout ce qui se meut sur la terre ayant âme vivante, [je donne] toute la verdure des plantes pour aliment. Et ainsi fut.
I have given all the green plants to all the wild animals and to the birds and to all the creatures that scurry across the ground, to everything that breathes, for them to eat.” And that is what happened.
31 Et Dieu vit tout ce qu'il avait fait; et voici, cela était très bon. Et il y eut soir et il y eut matin: sixième jour.
God was pleased with everything that he had made. Truly, it was all very good. Then there was another evening, that was followed by another morning. He called that period of time ‘the sixth day’.
