Juges 12
1 Mais voilà que dans Ephraïm s’éleva une sédition; car les hommes de cette tribu passant vers l’aquilon, dirent à Jephté: Pourquoi marchant au combat contre les enfants d’Ammon, n’as-tu pas voulu nous appeler, afin que nous allassions avec toi? Aussi incendierons-nous ta maison.
The men of the tribe of Ephraim summoned their soldiers, and they crossed [the Jordan River] to [the town of] Zaphon [to talk with] Jephthah. They said to him, “(Why did you not ask us for help?/You should have requested us) to help your army fight the Ammon people-group. So we will burn down your house while you are in it.”
2 Jephté leur répondit: Nous avions un grand débat moi et mon peuple Contre les enfants d’Ammon; je vous ai appelés, pour me donner du secours, et vous ne l’avez pas Voulu faire.
Jephthah replied, “The Ammon people-group were oppressing us greatly. When we were prepared to start to attack them, I requested you to come and help us, but you refused. My men and I defeated the Ammon people-group, but you did not help us.
3 Ce que voyant, j’ai mis mon âme en mes mains, j’ai passé chez les enfants d’Ammon, et le Seigneur les a livrés en mes mains. En quoi ai-je mérité que vous vous éleviez contre moi pour me faire la guerre?
When I saw that you would not help us, I was willing to be killed in the battle against the Ammon people-group. But Yahweh helped us to defeat them. [You did not help us when we requested it before], so (why have you come here today to fight against me?/you should not have come here today to fight against me.)” [RHQ]
4 C’est pourquoi ayant appelé à lui tous les hommes de Galaad, il combattit contre Ephraïm: et les hommes de Galaad battirent Ephraïm, parce qu’il avait dit: Galaad est un fugitif d’Ephraïm, et il habite au milieu d’Ephraïm et de Manassé.
Then Jephthah summoned the men of [the] Gilead [region] to fight [against the men of the tribe of] Ephraim. The men of the tribe of Ephraim said, “You men from [the] Gilead [region] are men who deserted us. Long ago you left us and moved to the area between our tribe and the tribe of Manasseh.” [Because of their saying that], the men of [the] Gilead [region] attacked the men of the tribe of Ephraim.
5 Et les Galaadites occupèrent les gués du Jourdain, par lesquels Ephraïm devait revenir; et lorsqu’il y venait quelqu’un de l’armée d’Ephraïm, fuyant, et qu’il disait: Je vous conjure de me permettre de passer, les Galaadites lui répondaient: Est-ce que tu es Ephrathéen? lequel disant: Je ne le suis pas,
The men of Gilead captured that (ford/place where people can walk across) at the Jordan [River] to go to the land where the tribe of Ephraim live. Whenever one of the soldiers from the tribe of Ephraim came to the ford to try to escape, he would say, “Let me cross the river.” Then the men of Gilead would ask him, “Are you from the tribe of Ephraim?” If he said “No,”
6 Ils lui demandaient: Dis donc Schibboleth, ce qu’on interprète par Epi. Il répondait Sibboleth, ne pouvant pas exprimer épi avec la même lettre. Et aussitôt, après l’avoir saisi, on regorgeait au passage même du Jourdain. Or, il périt en ce temps quarante-deux mille hommes d’Ephraïm.
they would say to him, “Say the word ‘Shibboleth’.” The men of Ephraim could not pronounce that word correctly. So if the person from the tribe of Ephraim said ‘Sibboleth’, [they would know that he was lying and that he was really from the tribe of Ephraim, and] they would kill him there at the ford. So the men of Gilead killed 42,000 people from the tribe of Ephraim at that time.
7 Ainsi, Jephté Galaadite jugea Israël pendant six ans; et il mourut et fut enseveli dans sa ville de Galaad.
Jephthah, the man from [the] Gilead [region], was a leader of the Israeli people for six years. Then he died and was buried in a town in [the] Gilead [region].
8 Après lui Abésan de Bethléhem jugea Israël.
After Jephthah died, a man named Ibzan, from Bethlehem, became the leader of the Israeli people.
9 Il eut trente fils et autant de filles, qu’il maria, les établissant hors de chez lui; et il reçut pour ses fils des femmes en même nombre, les admettant dans sa maison. Abésan jugea Israël pendant sept ans;
He had 30 sons and 30 daughters. He forced all his daughters to marry men who were not in his clan, and brought women from outside his clan to marry his sons. He was the leader of the Israeli people for seven years.
10 Et il mourut et fut enseveli à Bethléhem.
When he died, he was buried in Bethlehem.
11 À Abésan succéda Ahialon Zabulonite; et il jugea Israël pendant dix ans;
After Ibzan died, a man named Elon, from the tribe of Zebulun, became the leader of the Israeli people. He was their leader for ten years.
12 Et il mourut et fut enseveli dans Zabulon.
Then he died and was buried in Aijalon [city] in the area where the tribe of Zebulun lives.
13 Après lui, Abdon, fils d’Illel, Pharathonite, jugea Israël;
After Elon died, a man named Abdon who was the son of Hillel, from Pirathon [city, in the area where the tribe of Ephraim live] became the leader of the Israeli people.
14 Il eut quarante fils, et d’eux trente petits-fils, qui montaient sur soixante-dix poulains d’ânesses; et il jugea Israël pendant huit ans;
He had 40 sons and 30 grandsons. Each of them had his own donkey on which to ride. Abdon was the leader of the Israeli people for eight years.
15 Et il mourut et fut enseveli à Pharathon de la terre d’Ephraïm, sur la montagne d’Amalec.
When Abdon died, he was buried in Pirathon, in the hilly area where the descendants of Amalek lived previously, [but now it is the area where the tribe of Ephraim lives].
