Livre des Juges 15

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1 Quelque temps plus tard, au moment de la moisson des blés, Samson alla voir sa femme avec un chevreau. Il dit: “Je voudrais être avec ma femme, dans sa chambre.” Mais son beau-père lui refusa l’entrée. Il lui dit:	1 Then, after some time, when the days of the wheat harvest were near, Samson arrived, intending to visit his wife, and he brought her a kid from the goats. And when he wanted to enter her bedroom, as usual, her father prohibited him, saying:
2 “J’ai pensé que tu avais de la haine pour elle, aussi l’ai-je donnée à ton compagnon. Sa jeune sœur est plus belle, elle sera ta femme à sa place.”	2 “I thought that you would hate her, and therefore I gave her to your friend. But she has a sister, who is younger and more beautiful than she is. And she may be a wife for you, instead of her.”
3 Alors Samson leur dit à tous: “Cette fois, si je fais du mal aux Philistins, je ne leur devrai rien.”	3 And Samson answered him: “From this day, there shall be no guilt for me against the Philistines. For I will do harm to you all.”
4 Samson alla attraper 300 renards. Il prit des torches et il attacha les renards deux par deux par la queue, en plaçant une torche entre deux.	4 And he went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he joined them tail to tail. And he tied torches between the tails.
5 Ensuite il alluma les torches et lâcha les renards dans les moissons des Philistins. C’est ainsi qu’il brûla tout: les meules, les épis sur pied, jusqu’aux vignes et aux oliviers.	5 And setting these on fire, he released them, so that they might rush from place to place. And immediately they went into the grain fields of the Philistines, setting these on fire, both the grain that was already bound for carrying, and what was still standing on the stalk. These were completely burned up, so much so that the flame also consumed even the vineyards and the olive groves.
6 Les Philistins demandèrent: “Qui a fait cela?” On leur répondit: “C’est Samson, le gendre de l’homme de Timna, parce que ce dernier a repris sa femme et l’a donnée à son camarade.” Alors les Philistins montèrent et brûlèrent la femme avec son père.	6 And the Philistines said, “Who has done this thing?” And it was said: “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took away his wife, and gave her to another. He has done these things.” And the Philistines went up and burned the woman as well as her father.
7 Samson leur dit: “C’est ainsi que vous agissez? Eh bien moi, je n’arrêterai que lorsque je me serai vengé de vous.”	7 And Samson said to them, “Even though you have done this, I will still fulfill vengeance against you, and then I will be quieted.”
8 Il leur administra une incroyable volée, puis il descendit pour séjourner dans la faille du Rocher d’Étam.	8 And he struck them with a tremendous slaughter, so much so that, out of astonishment, they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And descending, he lived in a cave of the rock at Etam.
9 Les Philistins firent une incursion. Ils campèrent en territoire de Juda et s’infiltrèrent du côté de Léhi.	9 And so the Philistines, ascending into the land of Judah, made camp at the place which was later called Lehi, that is, the Jawbone, where their army spread out.
10 Les hommes de Juda leur dirent: “Pourquoi êtes-vous montés contre nous?” Ils répondirent: “Nous sommes montés pour lier Samson et le traiter comme il nous a traités.”	10 And some from the tribe of Judah said to them, “Why have you ascended against us?” And they responded, “We have come to bind Samson, and to repay him for what he has done to us.”
11 3 000 hommes de Juda descendirent à la caverne du Rocher d’Étam pour dire à Samson: “Ne sais-tu pas que les Philistins sont nos maîtres? Qu’as-tu fait?” Il leur répondit: “Je les ai traités comme ils m’ont traité.”	11 Then three thousand men of Judah descended to the cave of the rock at Etam. And they said to Samson: “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why would you want to do this?” And he said to them, “As they have done to me, so I have done to them.”
12 Les hommes de Juda lui dirent: “Nous sommes descendus pour te lier et te livrer entre les mains des Philistins.” Samson leur dit: “Jurez-moi que vous ne me tuerez pas!”	12 And they said to him, “We have come to bind you, and to deliver you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear and promise to me that you will not kill me.”
13 Ils lui répondirent: “Non, nous allons te lier et te livrer entre leurs mains, mais nous ne te tuerons pas.” Ils le ligotèrent donc avec deux cordes neuves et le ramenèrent du Rocher d’Étam.	13 They said: “We will not kill you. But we will deliver you tied.” And they bound him with two new cords. And they took him from the rock at Etam.
14 Comme il arrivait près de Léhi, les Philistins vinrent à sa rencontre en poussant des cris de joie. Alors l’esprit de Yahvé s’empara de lui. Les cordes qui étaient sur ses bras devinrent pour lui comme des fils de lin brûlés, et ses liens se défirent de ses mains.	14 And when he had arrived at the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines, shouting aloud, had met him, the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him. And just as flax is usually consumed by a hint of fire, so were the ties with which he was bound broken and released.
15 Il trouva là une mâchoire d’âne toute fraîche, il la ramassa et assomma 1 000 Philistins.	15 And finding a jawbone which was laying there, that is, the jawbone of a donkey, snatching it up, he put to death a thousand men with it.
16 Alors Samson s’écria: “Avec la mâchoire d’un âne, je les ai bien rossés. Avec la mâchoire d’un âne, j’en ai assommé 1 000.”	16 And he said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, with the jaw of the colt of a donkey, I have destroyed them, and I have struck down a thousand men.”
17 Lorsqu’il eut fini de parler, il jeta la mâchoire et appela cet endroit Ramat-Léhi.	17 And when he had completed these words, singing, he threw the jawbone from his hand. And called the name of that place Ramath-Lehi, which is translated as ‘the elevation of the jawbone.’
18 Comme il avait très soif, il invoqua Yahvé et lui dit: “Tu as accordé à ton serviteur une bien grande victoire, mais tu vois que je meurs de soif et je vais tomber entre les mains des incirconcis.”	18 And being very thirsty, he cried out to the Lord, and he said: “You have given, to the hand of your servant, this very great salvation and victory. But see that I am dying of thirst, and so I will fall into the hands of the uncircumcised.”
19 Alors Dieu fendit la caverne qui se trouve à Léhi: il en sortit de l’eau et il but. Il se ranima et il retrouva ses forces. C’est pour cela qu’on appelle cette source du nom d’En-Ha-Koré; on la voit encore aujourd’hui à Léhi.	19 And so the Lord opened a large tooth in the jawbone of the donkey, and water went out from it. And having drank it, his spirit was revived, and he recovered his strength. For this reason, the name of that place was called ‘the Spring called forth from the jawbone,’ even to the present day.
20 Il jugea Israël pendant 20 ans, au temps des Philistins.	20 And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, for twenty years.