Ruth 4
1 Et Boaz se rendit à la Porte, et il y prit séance. El voilà que vint à passer le parent lignager dont Boaz avait parlé; alors il dit: Toi, un tel, viens ici et y prends séance. Et il tira de côté et y prit séance.
Then Boaz went up to the gate, and he sat there. And when he had seen the kinsman passing by, whom he had previously discussed, he spoke to him, calling him by his name, “Pause for a little while, and sit down here.” He turned aside and sat down.
2 Et Boaz fit choix de dix hommes parmi les Anciens de la ville et dit: Prenez séance. Et ils prirent séance.
But Boaz, calling aside ten men among the elders of the city, said to them, “Sit down here.”
3 Et il dit au parent lignager: La pièce de terre appartenant à notre frère Elimélech est mise en vente par Noomi revenue de Moabie.
They settled down, and he spoke to the kinsman, “Naomi, who has returned from the region of the Moabites, is selling part of a field of our brother Elimelech.
4 Et je me suis dit: Je veux t'en donner avis et te dire: Fais-en l'acquisition devant l'assistance et devant les Anciens de mon peuple; si tu veux user du droit de retrait, fais le retrait; si tu ne veux pas, déclare-le-moi, pour que je sois au fait. Car hors toi il n'y a personne pour faire le retrait, et je viens après toi. Et l'autre dit: Je veux faire le retrait.
I wanted you to hear this, and to tell you in front of everyone sitting here, including the eldest of my people. If you will take possession of it by the right of kinship, buy it and possess it. But if it displeases you, you should reveal this to me, so that I will know what I have to do. For there is no near kinsman besides you, who is before me, and I am after you.” But he answered, “I will buy the field.”
5 Et Boaz dit: En achetant le champ des mains de Noomi, et de Ruth, la Moabite, femme du décédé, tu l'achètes à la condition de faire revivre le nom du décédé sur son héritage.
And Boaz said to him, “When buying the field, you are likewise obliged to accept the hand of the woman Ruth, the Moabite, who was the wife of the deceased, so that you may raise up the name of your near kinsman through his posterity.”
6 Sur ce le parent lignager dit: Dans ce cas je ne puis exercer mon droit sans ruiner mon héritage. Use à ton profit de mon droit de retrait! car je ne puis faire le retrait.
He answered, “I yield my right of kinship, for I am obliged not to cut off the posterity of my own family. You may make use of my privilege, which I freely declare I will forego.”
7 Or voici ce qui se pratiquait jadis en Israël, lors d'un retrait ou d'une mutation, pour ratifier toute transaction: l'une des parties ôtait sa sandale et la donnait à l'autre: telle était la coutume en Israël.
Yet it was the custom between kinsmen in this former time in Israel, that if at any time one yielded his right to another, so as to confirm his permission, the man took off his shoe and gave it to his neighbor. This was a testimony of concession in Israel.
8 Le parent lignager dit donc à Boaz: Fais l'achat pour toi! et il ôta sa sandale.
And so Boaz said to his kinsman, “Take off your shoe.” And immediately he released it from his foot.
9 Et Boaz dit aux Anciens et à tout le peuple: Aujourd'hui vous êtes témoins que j'ai acquis par transmission, de Noomi tout ce qui appartenait à Elimélech, à Chilion et à Mahlon,
And he said to the eldest and to all the people, “You are witnesses this day, that I have taken possession of all that belonged to Elimelech and Chilion and Mahlon, and was bequeathed to Naomi.
10 et que j'ai aussi acquis comme ma femme Ruth, la Moabite, femme de Mahlon, pour faire revivre le nom du décédé sur son héritage afin que le nom du décédé ne soit pas extirpé de la souche de ses frères, et de la Porte de sa cité. Soyez-en témoins aujourd'hui!
And Ruth, the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, I have taken in marriage so as to raise up the name of the deceased in his posterity, so that his name will not be cut off from among his family and his brethren and his people. You, I say, are witnesses of this thing.”
11 Et tout le peuple présent dans la Porte et les Anciens dirent: Nous en sommes témoins! Que l'Éternel rende la femme qui entre dans ta maison, pareille à Rachel et à Léa qui toutes deux ont élevé la maison d'Israël! Prospère en Ephratha et fais-toi un nom en Bethléhem!
All the people who were at the gate, along with the eldest, answered, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who enters into your house, like Rachel, and Leah, who built up the house of Israel, so that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrathah, and so that her name may be honored in Bethlehem.
12 Et que ta maison soit égalée à la maison de Pérets que Thamar enfanta à Juda, par la postérité que l'Éternel te fera naître de cette jeune femme!
And may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring which the Lord will give to you from this young woman.”
13 C'est ainsi que Boaz épousa Ruth; et elle devint sa femme, et il s'approcha d'elle. Et l'Éternel lui accorda une grossesse, et elle enfanta un fils.
And so Boaz took Ruth, and received her as his wife, and he went in to her, and the Lord granted to her to conceive and bear a son.
14 Alors les femmes dirent à Noomi: Béni soit l'Éternel qui en ce jour ne t'a pas laissée sans te donner un réparateur; et que son nom soit prononcé en Israël!
And the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not permitted your family to be without a successor, and may his name be called upon in Israel.
15 Il sera un réconfort pour ton âme, et un appui pour ta vieillesse. Car ta bru qui t'aime, l'a enfanté, elle qui pour toi vaut mieux que sept fils!
And now you may have someone to comfort your soul and to care for you in old age, for he is born of your daughter-in-law, who loves you, and this is much better for you, than if you had seven sons.”
16 Et Noomi prit l'enfant, et le plaça sur son sein; et elle fut sa garde soigneuse.
And taking up the boy, Naomi placed him on her bosom, and she took on the duties of carrying him and nursing him.
17 Et les voisines lui donnèrent un nom et dirent: Un fils est né à Noomi! Et elles l'appelèrent du nom d'Obed; c'est lui qui fut le père d'Isaï, père de David.
And the women of the near future were congratulating her and saying, “There was a son born to Naomi. They called his name Obed. Here is the father of Jesse, the father of David.”
18 Et voici la généalogie de Pérets:
These are the generations of Perez: Perez conceived Hezron,
19 Pérets engendra Hetsron; et Hetsron engendra Ram; et Ram engendra Amminadab;
Hezron conceived Aram, Aram conceived Amminadab,
20 et Amminadab engendra Nahesson; et Nahesson engendra Salmon;
Amminadab conceived Nahshon, Nahshon conceived Salmon,
21 et Salmon engendra Boaz; et Boaz engendra Obed;
Salmon conceived Boaz, Boaz conceived Obed,
22 et Obed engendra Isaï; et Isaï engendra David.
Obed conceived Jesse, Jesse conceived David.
