Genèse 33
1 Mais Jacob, levant les yeux, vit Esaü venant, et avec lui quatre cents hommes; il sépara aussitôt les enfants de Lia, de Rachel et des deux servantes;
[Then Jacob joined the rest of his family]. [Later that day] Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and there were 400 men with him. [Jacob was worried because of that], so he separated the children. He put Leah’s children with Leah, Rachel’s children with Rachel, and the two female slaves’ children with their mothers.
2 Il mit l’une et l’autre servante et leurs enfants en avant. Lia et ses enfants en second lieu, mais Rachel et Joseph les derniers.
He put the two female slaves and their children in front. He put Leah and her children next. He put Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
3 Et lui-même s’avançant, se prosterna, incliné vers la terre par sept fois, jusqu’à ce que son frère approchât.
He himself went ahead of them all, and as he continued to approach his older brother, he prostrated himself with his face on the ground seven times.
4 C’est pourquoi Esaü, courant au-devant de son frère, l’embrassa; et, serrant étroitement son cou et le baisant, il pleura.
But Esau ran to Jacob. He hugged him, put his arms around his neck, and kissed him on the cheek. And they both cried.
5 Puis, les yeux levés, il vit les femmes et leurs petits enfants, et dit: Que signifient ceux-ci? est-ce à toi qu’ils appartiennent? Il répondit: Ce sont les petits enfants que Dieu a donnés à votre serviteur.
Then Esau looked up and saw the women and the children. He asked, “Who are these people who are with you?” Jacob replied, “These are the wives and children that God has graciously/kindly given to me.”
6 Et s’approchant, les servantes et leurs fils se prosternèrent.
Then the female slaves and their children came near and bowed in front of Esau.
7 Lia aussi s’approcha avec ses enfants; et quand ils se furent pareillement prosternés, Joseph et Rachel se prosternèrent les derniers.
Then Leah and her children came and bowed down. Finally Joseph and Rachel came near and bowed down.
8 Alors Esaü dit: Quelles sont ces troupes que j’ai rencontrées? Jacob répondit: C’est pour trouver grâce devant mon seigneur.
Esau asked, “What is the meaning of all the animals that I saw?” Jacob replied, “I am giving them to you, sir, so that you will feel good toward me.”
9 Mais Esaü reprit: J’ai beaucoup de biens, mon frère, que les tiens restent à toi.
But Esau replied, “My [younger] brother, I have enough animals! Keep for yourself the animals that you have!”
10 Jacob répondit: Non, je vous prie, qu’il n’en soit pas ainsi; mais si j’ai trouvé grâce à vos yeux, recevez ce petit présent de mes mains; car j’ai vu votre visage, comme si j’eusse vu la face de Dieu: soyez-moi propice.
But Jacob said, “No, please, if you feel good toward me, accept these gifts from me. You have greeted me very kindly. Seeing your smiling face assures me [that you have forgiven me]. It is like seeing the face of God!
11 Et recevez cette bénédiction que je vous ai apportée et que m’a donnée Dieu qui donne toutes choses. Esaü la recevant avec peine, son frère le pressant,
Please accept these gifts that I have brought to you, because God has acted kindly toward me, and I still have plenty of animals!” Jacob kept on urging him to accept the animals, and finally he accepted them.
12 Dit: Allons ensemble, et je t’accompagnerai dans ton chemin.
Then Esau said, “Let’s continue traveling together, and I will show the road to you.”
13 Mais Jacob répondit: Vous savez, mon seigneur, que j’ai avec moi de petits enfants bien faibles encore, des brebis et des vaches pleines; si je les fatigue trop par la marche, tous mes troupeaux mourront en un jour.
Jacob [had no intention to go with Esau], but he said, “You know, sir, that the children are weak, and that I must take care of the female sheep and cows that are (sucking their mother’s milk/nursing their young). If I force them to walk fast for a long distance in just one day, the animals will all die.
14 Que mon seigneur précède son serviteur, et moi je le suivrai peu à peu, selon que je verrai que mes petits enfants le pourront faire, jusqu’à ce que je parvienne vers mon seigneur à Séir.
You go ahead of me. I will lead the animals slowly, but I will walk as fast as the children and animals can walk. I will catch up with you in Seir, [in the land where the descendants of Edom live].”
15 Esaü repartit: Je te prie, que des gens qui sont avec moi, quelques-uns restent pour t’accompagner. Non, dit Jacob, cela n’est pas nécessaire: la seule chose dont j’ai besoin, c’est de trouver grâce devant vous, mon seigneur.
Esau said, “Then allow me to leave with you some of the men who came with me, [to protect you].” But Jacob replied, “(Why do that?/There is no need to do that!) [RHQ] The only thing that I want is for you to act friendly toward me.”
16 Esaü donc retourna ce jour-là à Séir, par le même chemin qu’il était venu.
So on that day Esau left to return to Seir.
17 Et Jacob vint à Sochoth, où une maison bâtie et des tentes plantées, il appela ce lieu du nom de Socoth, c’est-à-dire, tentes.
But [instead of going to Seir], Jacob and his family went to [a place called] Succoth. There he built a house for himself and his family, and built shelters for his livestock. That is the reason they named the place Succoth, [which means ‘shelters’].
18 Ensuite il passa à Salem, ville des Sichémites, dans le pays de Chanaan, après qu’il fut revenu de la Mésopotamie de Syrie; et il habita auprès de la ville.
[Some time later, ] Jacob and his family left Paddan-Aram [in Mesopotamia], and they traveled safely to the Canaan region. There they set up their tents in a field near Shechem city.
19 Et il acheta pour cent agneaux, des enfants d’Hémor, père de Sichem, une portion du champ où il avait planté ses tentes.
One of the leaders of the people in that area was named Hamor. Hamor had several sons. Jacob paid the sons of Hamor 100 pieces of silver for the piece of ground on which they set up their tents.
20 Puis, un autel érigé en ce lieu, il invoqua le Dieu très fort d’Israël.
He built a stone altar there, and named it El-Elohe Israel, [which means ‘God, the God of Israel].’
