Genèse 11
1 Or la terre n’avait qu’un seul langage et qu’une seule langue.
And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
2 Et lorsque les hommes partirent de l’orient, ils trouvèrent une plaine dans la terre de Sennaar, et ils y habitèrent.
And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they lived there.
3 Et l’un dit à l’autre: Venez, faisons des briques et cuisons-les au feu. Or ils se servirent de briques au lieu de pierres, et de bitume au lieu de ciment.
And a man said to his neighbor, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
4 Et ils dirent encore: Venez, faisons-nous une ville et une tour dont le faîte touche au ciel; et rendons notre nom célèbre, avant que nous soyons dispersés dans tous les pays.
And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.
5 Mais le Seigneur descendit pour voir la ville et la tour que bâtissaient les fils d’Adam,
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
6 Et il dit: Voici un seul peuple, et un seul langage pour tous: ils ont commencé à faire cet ouvrage, et ils n’abandonneront pas leur dessein, qu’ils ne l’aient accompli.
And the Lord said, Behold, [there is] one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do.
7 Venez donc, descendons et confondons là même leur langage, afin que l’un n’entende pas la langue de l’autre.
Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbor.
8 C’est ainsi que le Seigneur les dispersa de ce lieu dans tous les pays; et ils cessèrent de bâtir la ville.
And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
9 Et c’est pourquoi elle a été appelée du nom de Babel; parce que c’est là que fut confondu le langage de toute la terre: et de là le Seigneur les dispersa sur la face de tous les pays.
On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.
10 Voici les générations de Sem: Sem avait cent ans quand il engendra Arphaxad, deux ans après le déluge.
And these [are] the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
11 Sem vécut, après qu’il eut engendré Arphaxad, cinq cents ans, et il engendra des fils et des filles.
And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
12 Arphaxad vécut trente-cinq ans, et il engendra Salé.
And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.
13 Et Arphaxad vécut, après qu’il eut engendré Salé, trois cents trois ans, et il engendra des fils et des filles.
And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Cainan, four hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died. And Cainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Sala; and Canaan lived after he had begotten Sala, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
14 Or Salé vécut trente ans, et il engendra Héber.
And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
15 Et Salé vécut, après qu’il eut engendré Héber, quatre cent trois ans, et il engendra des fils et des filles.
And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
16 Mais Héber vécut trente-quatre ans, et il engendra Phaleg.
And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
17 Et Héber vécut, après qu’il eut engendré Phaleg, quatre cent trente ans, et il engendra des fils et des filles.
And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
18 Phaleg aussi vécut trente ans, et il engendra Reü.
And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
19 Et Phaleg vécut, après qu’il eut engendré Reü, deux cent neuf ans, et il engendra des fils et des filles.
And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
20 Reü vécut trente-deux ans, et il engendra Sarug.
And Ragau lived and hundred thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.
21 Et Reü vécut, après qu’il eut engendré Sarug, deux cent sept ans, et il engendra des fils et des filles.
And Raau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
22 Or Sarug vécut trente ans, et il engendra Nachor.
And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.
23 Et Sarug vécut, après qu’il eut engendré Nachor, deux cents ans, et il engendra des fils et des filles.
And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
24 Nachor vécut vingt-neuf ans, et il engendra Tharé.
And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
25 Et Nachor vécut, après qu’il eut engendré Tharé, cent dix-neuf ans, et il engendra des fils et des filles.
And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, an hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.
26 Tharé vécut soixante-dix ans, et il engendra Abram, Nachor et Aran.
And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
27 Mais voici les générations de Tharé. Tharé engendra Abram, Nachor et Aran. Or Aran engendra Lot.
And these [are] the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.
28 Aran mourut avant Tharé son père, dans le pays de sa naissance, à Ur des Chaldéens.
And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.
29 Abram et Nachor prirent des femmes: le nom de la femme d’Abram était Saraï, et le nom de la femme de Nachor, Melcha, fille d’Aran, père de Melcha, et père de Jescha.
And Abram and Nachor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sara, and the name of the wife of Nachor, Malcha, daughter of Arrhan, and he was the father of Malcha, the father of Jescha.
30 Or Saraï était stérile, et n’avait pas d’enfants.
And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
31 C’est pourquoi Tharé prit Abram son fils, et Lot fils d’Aran, et le fils de son fils, et Saraï, sa belle-fille, femme d’Abram son fils, et il les fit sortir d’Ur des Chaldéens pour aller dans la terre de Chanaan: or ils vinrent jusqu’à Haran, et y habitèrent.
And Tharrha took Abram his son, and Lot the son Arrhan, the son of his son, and Sara his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan, and they came as far as Charrhan, and he lived there.
32 Et les jours de Tharé furent de deux cent cinq ans, et il mourut à Haran.
And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.
