Deutéronome 2
1 Or, partis de là, nous vînmes au désert qui conduit à la mer Rouge, comme m’avait dit le Seigneur, et nous tournâmes autour de la montagne de Séir, durant un long temps.
“Then we turned around and went through the desert toward the (Red Sea/Gulf of Aqaba), as Yahweh told us to do, and we wandered in the Edom area for many years.
2 Et le Seigneur me dit:
Then Yahweh said to me,
3 Vous avez suffisamment tourné autour de cette montagne, allez contre l’aquilon:
‘You have been wandering around this hilly area for a long enough time. Now turn [and travel] toward the north.
4 Et ordonne au peuple, disant: Vous passerez par les frontières de vos frères, les enfants d’Esaü, qui habitent à Séir, et ils vous craindront.
And tell the people that they are about to travel near the land that belongs to the descendants of Esau, who are also descendants of Isaac. They live in the [hilly] Edom region. They will be afraid of you,
5 Voyez avec soin à ne pas vous mettre en mouvement contre eux; car je ne vous donnerai pas de leur terre, et autant que la plante d’un seul pied peut en fouler, parce que j’ai donné en possession à Esaü la montagne de Séir.
but do not start to fight against them, because I am not going to give you even a tiny bit [HYP] of their land. I have given that land to the descendants of Esau.
6 Vous achèterez d’eux des vivres avec de l’argent, et vous mangerez; vous puiserez de l’eau achetée, et vous boirez.
[When you travel near their land], buy food and water from them.’
7 Le Seigneur ton Dieu t’a béni en toute œuvre de tes mains; il connaît ton chemin: comment tu as passé ce grand désert; le Seigneur ton Dieu a habité avec toi pendant quarante ans, et rien ne t’a manqué.
Do not forget that Yahweh our God has blessed you in everything that you [SYN] have done. He knows [what has happened to you while] you have wandered in this huge desert. But he has been with you during those 40 years, and as a result you have had everything that you needed [LIT].
8 Lorsque nous eûmes passé à travers nos frères, les enfants d’Esaü, qui habitaient à Séir, nous sommes venus par la voie de la plaine, d’Elath et d’Asiongaber au chemin qui conduit au désert de Moab.
So we continued to travel. We avoided going through the hilly area where the descendants of Esau live. We stayed away from the road through the Jordan [River] Valley past Ezion-Geber and Elath [towns], and we turned and traveled northeast toward the desert area where the Moab people-group lives.
9 Alors le Seigneur me dit: Ne combats point contre les Moabites, et ne leur livre point bataille; car je ne te donnerai rien de leur terre, parce que c’est aux enfants de Lot que j’ai livré Ar en possession.
Yahweh said to me, ‘Do not bother/harass the people of Moab, and do not start to fight against them, because I am not going to give you any of their land. [Do not forget that] they are descendants of [Abraham’s nephew] Lot, and I have given to them Ar [city, their capital, and the other areas in that country].’”
10 Les Emim furent ses premiers habitants, peuple grand et fort, et d’une stature si haute, que la race des Enacim
A large group of giants called Emim formerly lived there. They were strong and numerous, and as tall as the giants who were descendants of Anak.
11 Etait regardée comme leur souche, de même que celle des géants, et qu’ils étaient semblables aux enfants d’Enacim. Enfin les Moabites les appellent Emim.
They and the descendants of Anak are also called the Repha giants, but the people of Moab call them Emim.
12 Quant à Séir, les Horrhéens y avaient jadis habité; lesquels chassés et détruits, les enfants d’Esaü y habitèrent, comme a fait Israël dans la terre de sa possession que lui a donnée le Seigneur.
The Hor people-group also formerly lived in the Edom area, but the descendants of Esau chased them out. They defeated and killed them and (settled in/occupied) their land, just as the Israeli people later expelled their enemies from the land that Yahweh gave to them.
13 Nous levant donc pour passer le torrent de Zared, nous vînmes auprès.
[I also said to the Israeli people], “Then we crossed the Zered Gorge, as Yahweh told us to do.
14 Or, le temps pendant lequel nous marchâmes de Cadesbarné jusqu’au passage du torrent de Zared, fut de trente-huit ans, jusqu’à ce que toute la génération des hommes combattants eut été exterminée du camp, comme l’avait juré le Seigneur,
It had been thirty-eight years from the time we first left Kadesh-Barnea until we crossed the Zered Gorge. During those years, all the Israeli (fighting men/soldiers) of that generation had died, as Yahweh had vowed would happen.
15 Dont la main fut contre eux, pour qu’ils périssent du milieu du camp.
They died because Yahweh opposed them, until he had gotten rid of all of them.
16 Or, après que tous les combattants furent tombés,
After all the men who had been old enough to fight in wars had died [DOU],
17 Le Seigneur me parla, disant:
Yahweh said to me,
18 Tu franchiras aujourd’hui les frontières de Moab, la ville du nom d’Ar:
‘Today you all must cross the border into the Moab region, near Ar, [their capital city].
19 Et t’approchant des lieux voisins des enfants d’Ammon, garde-toi de combattre contre eux, et de les provoquer au combat; car je ne te donnerai point de la terre des enfants d’Ammon, parce que c’est aux enfants de Lot que je l’ai donnée en possession.
When you come near the border of the land where the Ammon people-group live, do not bother/harass them or start to fight against them. They are also descendants of Lot, so I am not going to give you any of the land that I have given to them.’”
20 Elle a été réputée terre des géants, et en elle autrefois ont habité des géants que les Ammonites appellent Zomzommim,
That region is also called the land of the Repha giants, who formerly lived there. The Ammon people-group call them the Zamzum group.
21 Peuple grand et nombreux, et d’une haute taille comme les Enacim, et que le Seigneur détruisit devant les Ammonites qu’il fit habiter en leur place,
They were a large and powerful group, who were as tall as the descendants of Anak. But Yahweh got rid of them, and the Ammon people-group expelled them and took their land away from them and started to live there.
22 Comme il avait fait pour les enfants d’Esaü qui habitent à Séir, détruisant les Horrhéens, et leur livrant leur terre qu’ils possèdent jusqu’à présent.
Yahweh had done the same thing for the descendants of Esau who live in the hilly area of Edom. He got rid of the Hor people-group, with the result that the Edom people-group took their land from them and started to live there. They still live there.
23 Les Hévéens aussi qui habitaient à Hasérim jusqu’à Gaza, furent chassés par les Cappadociens, qui, sortis de Cappadoce, les détruisirent et habitèrent en leur place.
People who came from Crete [Island] got rid of the Av group [who previously lived in the land close to the Mediterranean Sea], as far south as Gaza. They took their land from them and started to live there.
24 Levez-vous et passez le torrent d’Arnon: voilà que j’ai livré en ta main Séhon, roi d’Hésébon, l’Amorrhéen, et commence à posséder sa terre, et engage un combat contre lui.
“[After we had gone through the Moab region], Yahweh said to us, ‘Now cross the Arnon [River]. I will help you to defeat [IDM] [the army of] Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, who lives in Heshbon [city]. So attack their army and start to take their land from them.
25 Aujourd’hui je commencerai à envoyer la terreur et l’effroi aux peuples qui sont sous le ciel entier, afin que, ton nom ouï, ils tremblent, et que, comme les femmes qui enfantent, ils frémissent, et soient saisis par la douleur.
Today I will begin to cause everyone, everywhere, to be afraid of you. Everyone who hears about you will tremble and be terrified.’
26 J’envoyai donc des messagers du désert de Cadémoth vers Séhon, roi d’Hésébon, avec des paroles de paix, disant:
Then I sent messengers to go from the desert to King Sihon at Heshbon. I told them to give this peaceful message to the king:
27 Nous passerons à travers ta terre; nous marcherons par la voie publique; nous ne nous détournerons ni à droite ni à gauche.
‘Please allow us to travel through your land. We [promise that we] will stay on the road; we will not turn off to the right or to the left.
28 Vends-nous des vivres selon le prix, afin que nous mangions: donne-nous de l’eau pour de l’argent, et ainsi nous boirons. Le tout est que tu nous accordes le passage,
We will pay for any food or water that you allow us to buy. We want only to walk through your country,
29 Comme ont fait les enfants d’Esaü qui habitent à Séir, et les Moabites qui demeurent à Ar, jusqu’à ce que nous arrivions au Jourdain, et que nous passions dans la terre que le Seigneur notre Dieu doit nous accorder.
until we cross the Jordan [River] into the land that Yahweh our God is giving to us. Do for us just as the descendants of Esau who live in the Edom area and the Moab people-group did for us when they allowed us to go through their areas.’
30 Mais Séhon, roi d’Hésébon, ne voulut point nous donner le passage, parce que le Seigneur ton Dieu avait endurci son esprit et fermé son cœur, afin qu’il fût livré en tes mains, comme tu vois maintenant.
But King Sihon would not allow us to go through his country. That was because Yahweh our God caused him to be stubborn [IDM]. The result was that Yahweh enabled us to defeat his army and take his land [IDM], which we still live in.
31 Alors le Seigneur me dit: Voilà que j’ai commencé à te livrer Séhon et sa terre: commence à la posséder.
Yahweh said to me, ‘Listen! I am about to allow you to defeat Sihon’s [army] and to take the people’s land from them. So start to occupy it!’
32 Et Séhon sortit au-devant de nous avec tout son peuple pour nous combattre à Jasa;
Then Sihon came out [of the city] with all his army to fight against us at Jahaz [town].
33 Et le Seigneur notre Dieu nous le livra, et nous le battîmes avec ses fils et tout son peuple.
But God enabled us to defeat [DOU] them, and we killed Sihon and his sons and all his soldiers.
34 Nous prîmes en ce temps-là toutes ses villes, nous tuâmes les habitants, hommes, femmes et petits enfants, et nous n’y laissâmes rien,
We captured all their cities and destroyed them all. We killed all the men and women and children; we did not allow any of them to remain alive.
35 Excepté les bestiaux, qui devinrent la part de ceux qui les pillèrent, et les dépouilles des villes que nous prîmes.
We took the valuable things that were in the cities that we captured and also their cattle.
36 Depuis Aroër, qui est sur le bord du torrent d’Arnon, ville qui est située dans la vallée, jusqu’à Galaad, il n’y eut point de bourg ni de ville qui échappât à nos mains; le Seigneur notre Dieu nous les livra toutes,
Yahweh our God enabled us to capture [IDM] all their towns from Aroer [in the south], which is at the edge of the Arnon River [Valley], to the Gilead [region in the north]. Some of their cities had [walls around them], but we were able to [climb over them].
37 Excepté la terre des enfants d’Ammon, dont nous n’avons pas approché, et tout ce qui se trouve auprès du torrent de Jéboc, et les villes des montagnes, et tous les lieux que le Seigneur notre Dieu nous a interdits.
But we did not go near the area where the Ammon people-group live, or the banks of the Jabbok riverbed, or the towns in the hilly area, or any other place where Yahweh our God told us not to go.”
