Genèse 26
1 Et il y eut une famine dans le pays, outre la première famine qui eut lieu au temps d'Abraham; et Isaac alla a chez Abimélech, roi des Philistins, à Gérar.
Some time later there was a severe (famine/scarcity of food) there. That was different from the famine that occurred when Abraham was alive. So Isaac went [southeast] to Gerar [town, to talk] to Abimelech, the king of the Philistine people-group. [What happened was this: Isaac considered going to Egypt],
2 Et l'Éternel lui apparut et dit: Ne descends point en Egypte, reste dans le pays que je t'indique.
but Yahweh appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt! Live in the land where I will tell you to go!
3 Séjourne dans ce pays-ci, et je serai avec toi et te bénirai, car je veux te donner à toi et à ta postérité toutes ces contrées, et je maintiens le serment que j'ai fait à Abraham, ton père.
Stay in this land for a while, and I will help you and bless you, because it is to you and your descendants that I will give all these lands, and I will do what I solemnly promised to your father.
4 Et je rendrai ta postérité nombreuse comme les étoiles du ciel, et je donnerai à ta postérité toutes ces contrées-ci, et toutes les nations de la terre chercheront leur bénédiction dans ta postérité,
I will cause your descendants to be as numerous as the stars in the sky. I will give to your descendants all these lands, and I will cause your descendants to be a blessing to the people of [MTY] all nations on the earth.
5 par la raison qu'Abraham a écouté ma voix et observé mes observances, mes commandements, mes statuts et mes lois.
I will do that because your father Abraham obeyed me. He obeyed everything that I told him to do, everything that I declared and all the laws that I gave him.” So Isaac [went and asked King Abimelech if he would permit him to live in the Gerar area. The king said, “Okay,”]
6 Isaac resta donc à Gérar.
[so Isaac] stayed there [along with his wife and sons].
7 Et lorsque les gens du lieu s'informaient de sa femme, il disait: C'est ma sœur, car il craignait de dire: c'est ma femme, ayant peur que les gens du lieu ne le fissent mourir à cause de Rebecca, car elle était belle de figure.
When the men in Gerar [town] asked who Rebekah was, Isaac said, “She is my sister.” He said that because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “Rebekah is very beautiful, so they will want her. [If I say that she is my sister, they know they will have to negotiate about a bride price because I am her older brother; but if I say that she is my wife, no negotiation will be possible]. They will just kill me to get her.”
8 Et comme son séjour s'y était prolongé, il arriva qu'Abimélech, roi des Philistins, regardant par la fenêtre, aperçut Isaac qui faisait des caresses à Rebecca, sa femme.
When Isaac had been there a long time, one day Abimelech, the king of the Philistine people-group, looked down from a window [in his palace] and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
9 Alors Abimélech manda Isaac et dit: Voici, c'est assurément ta femme; et comment as-tu pu dire: C'est ma sœur? Et Isaac lui dit: Je pensais recevoir la mort à cause d'elle.
So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said to him, “Now I realize that she is really your wife! So why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied to him, “I said that because I thought that someone here might kill me to get her.”
10 Et Abimélech dit: Pourquoi nous as-tu fait cela? peu s'en est fallu que quelqu'un de ce peuple n'ait habité avec ta femme, et tu nous aurais chargés d'un crime.
Abimelech said, “(You should not have done this to us!/Why did you do this?) [RHQ] One of our people might have (had sex with/slept with) [EUP] your wife, and you would have caused us to be guilty of a great sin!”
11 Alors Abimélech donna cet ordre à tout le peuple: Qui touchera à cet homme ou à sa femme, sera mis à mort.
Then Abimelech commanded all his people, saying, “Do not harm/molest this man or his wife! Anyone who does that will surely be executed!”
12 Et Isaac fit les semailles dans ce pays, et il obtint cette année-là le centuple; car l'Éternel le bénissait.
Isaac planted grain in that land that year, and he harvested a very large crop, because Yahweh blessed him.
13 Et il s'accrut et alla en s'accroissant et en augmentant jusqu'à devenir très considérable.
Isaac continued to acquire more and more possessions, until finally he became very wealthy.
14 Et il avait des troupeaux de menu bétail et des troupeaux de gros bétail, et un nombreux domestique, et les Philistins lui portèrent envie.
He had large herds of sheep and goats and cattle, and many slaves. Because of that, the Philistine people envied him.
15 Et tous les puits qu'avaient creusés les serviteurs de son père au temps d'Abraham, les Philistins les obstruèrent et les comblèrent avec de l'arène.
So all the wells that the servants of his father Abraham had dug during the time when he was alive, the people filled up with dirt.
16 Et Abimélech dit à Isaac: Va-t-en de chez nous, car tu es devenu trop puissant pour nous.
Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “You people have become more numerous than we are, so I want you to get out of our area.”
17 Alors Isaac partit de là et campa dans le ravin de Gérar, et il y demeura.
So Isaac [and his family] moved from there. They set up their tents in Gerar Valley [and started to live there].
18 Et Isaac recreusa les puits qui avaient été creusés au temps d'Abraham, son père, et qu'avaient obstrués les Philistins après la mort d'Abraham, et il les appela des mêmes noms dont son père les avait appelés.
There were several wells in that area that had been dug when Isaac’s father Abraham was living, but Philistine people had filled them up [with dirt] after Abraham died. Now Isaac and his servants removed the dirt, and Isaac gave the wells the same names that his father had given to them.
19 Et les serviteurs d'Isaac creusèrent dans le ravin et y trouvèrent une fontaine d'eau vive.
Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water.
20 Et les bergers de Gérar cherchèrent querelle aux bergers d'Isaac, disant: Cette eau est à nous. Et il donna à la fontaine le nom de Esec (querelle), parce qu'ils lui avaient cherché querelle.
But other men who lived in Gerar [Valley] who took care of their animals argued/quarreled with the men who took care of Isaac’s animals, and said, “The water in this well is ours!” So Isaac named the well Esek, which means ‘dispute’, because they disputed about who owned it.
21 Et ils creusèrent un autre puits, et on lui chercha encore querelle pour celui-ci, et il l'appela du nom de Sitna hostilité).
Then Isaac’s servants dug another well, but they quarreled about who owned that one also. So Isaac named it Sitnah, [which means ‘opposition]’.
22 Et il partit de là, et il creusa un autre puits, et pour celui-ci on ne lui chercha pas querelle et il l'appela du nom de Rechoboth (le large) et dit: Maintenant l'Éternel nous a donné du large, et nous nous propageons dans le pays.
They moved on from there and dug another well, but this time no one quarreled about who owned it. So Isaac named it Rehoboth, [which means ‘uninhabited place’], saying, “Yahweh has given us an uninhabited place to live in, a place that is not wanted by other people, and we will become very prosperous here.”
23 Et de là il si remonta à Beersébah.
From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.
24 Alors l'Éternel lui apparut cette nuit même et dit: Je suis le Dieu d'Abraham, ton père: sois sans peur, car je suis avec toi, et je bénirai et multiplierai ta postérité en considération d'Abraham, mon serviteur.
The first night that he was there, Yahweh appeared to him and said, “I am God, whom your father Abraham worshiped. Do not be afraid of anything. I will help you and bless you, and because of what I promised my servant Abraham, I will greatly increase the number of your descendants.”
25 Et il éleva là un autel, et invoqua le nom de l'Éternel, et il y dressa sa tente, et les serviteurs d'Isaac y creusèrent un puits.
So Isaac built a stone altar there [and offered a sacrifice] to worship Yahweh. He [and his servants] set up their tents there, and his servants started to dig a well.
26 Et Abimélech vint le trouver depuis Gérar avec Achuzath, son ami, et Phichol, son général d'armée.
[While they were digging the well], King Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, along with Ahuzzath, his advisor, and Phicol, the commander of his army.
27 Et Isaac leur dit: Pourquoi venez-vous chez moi, puisque vous me haïssez et m'avez renvoyé de chez vous?
Isaac asked them, “You (acted in a hostile way toward me/treated me like an enemy) before, and sent me away. So why have you come to me now?”
28 Et ils répondirent: Nous voyons bien que l'Éternel est avec toi! c'est pourquoi nous disons: Il faut qu'un serment intervienne entre nous, entre nous et toi,
One of them answered, “We have seen that Yahweh helps you. So we said to each other, ‘We should have an agreement between us and you. We should make a peace treaty with you,
29 et nous voulons stipuler avec toi par une alliance que tu ne nous feras aucun mal, de même que nous ne t'avons point porté atteinte, et de même que nous n'avons eu pour toi que de bons procédés et que nous t'avons laissé partir sain et sauf. Tu es toujours béni de l'Éternel.
stating that you will not harm us, in the same way that we did not molest [EUP] you.’ We always treated you well and sent you away peacefully. And now Yahweh is blessing you.”
30 Alors il leur fil un festin, et ils mangèrent et burent.
So Isaac made a feast for them, and they all ate and drank.
31 Et ils se levèrent le matin, et ils se firent serment l'un à l'autre, et Isaac les congédia et ils le quittèrent en paix.
Early the next morning they all (swore/solemnly promised) each other that they would do what they had promised. Then Isaac sent them home peacefully.
32 Et le même jour il arriva que des serviteurs d'Isaac vinrent le renseigner sur le puits qu'ils creusaient et lui dirent: Nous avons trouvé de l'eau.
That day Isaac’s servants came to him and told him about the well that they had finished digging. They said, “We found water in the well!”
33 Et il l'appela Siba (sept); c'est pourquoi la ville a porté jusqu'aujourd'hui le nom de Beersébah.
Isaac named the well Shibah, [which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘oath’]. To the present time the town there has the name Beersheba [which means ‘Friendship Agreement Well’].
34 Et Esaü étant âgé de quarante ans, prit pour femmes Judith, fille de Beeri, Héthien, et Bosemath, fille de Elon, Héthien.
When Esau was 40 years old, he married Judith, the daughter of Beeri, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon. Both of those women were descendants of Heth, [not from Isaac’s clan].
35 Et elles furent un chagrin de cœur pour Isaac et Rebecca.
Esau’s two wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
