Livre de la Genèse 20

JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Abraham partit de là pour le pays du Négeb et demeura entre Cadès et Shur. Il vint séjourner àGérar.	1 Abraham advanced from there into the southern land, and he lived between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar.
2 Abraham dit de sa femme Sara: "C'est ma sœur" et Abimélek, le roi de Gérar, fit enlever Sara.	2 And he said about his wife Sarah: “She is my sister.” Therefore, Abimelech, the king of Gerar, sent for her and took her.
3 Mais Dieu visita Abimélek en songe, pendant la nuit, et lui dit: "Tu vas mourir à cause de la femmeque tu as prise, car elle est une femme mariée."	3 Then God came to Abimelech through a dream in the night, and he said to him: “Lo, you shall die because of the woman that you have taken. For she has a husband.”
4 Abimélek, qui ne s'était pas approché d'elle, dit: "MonSeigneur, vas-tu aussi tuer quelqu'und'innocent?	4 In truth, Abimelech had not touched her, and so he said: “Lord, would you put to death a people, ignorant and just?
5 N'est-ce pas lui qui m'a dit: C'est ma sœur, et elle, oui elle-même, a dit: C'est mon frère. C'est avecune bonne conscience et des mains pures que j'ai fait cela!"	5 Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister,’ and did she not say, ‘He is my brother?’ In the sincerity of my heart and the purity of my hands, I have done this.”
6 Dieu lui répondit dans le songe: "Moi aussi je sais que tu as fait cela en bonne conscience, et c'estencore moi qui t'ai retenu de pécher contre moi; aussi n'ai-je pas permis que tu la touches.	6 And God said to him: “And I know that you have acted with a sincere heart. And therefore I kept you from sinning against me, and I did not release you to touch her.
7 Maintenant, rends la femme de cet homme: il est prophète et il intercédera pour toi afin que tuvives. Mais si tu ne la rends pas, sache que tu mourras sûrement, avec tous les tiens."	7 Now therefore, return his wife to the man, for he is a prophet. And he will pray for you, and you will live. But if you are not willing to return her, know this: you shall die a death, you and all that is yours.”
8 Abimélek se leva tôt et appela tous ses serviteurs. Il leur raconta toute cette affaire et les hommeseurent grand-peur.	8 And immediately Abimelech, rising up in the night, called all his servants. And he spoke all these words in their hearing, and all the men were very afraid.
9 Puis Abimélek appela Abraham et lui dit: "Que nous as-tu fait? Quelle offense ai-je commisecontre toi pour que tu attires une si grande faute sur moi et sur mon royaume? Tu as agi à mon égard comme onne doit pas agir."	9 Then Abimelech called also for Abraham, and he said to him: “What have you done to us? How have we sinned against you, so that you would bring so great a sin upon me and upon my kingdom? You have done to us what you ought not to have done.”
10 Et Abimélek dit à Abraham: "Qu'est-ce qui t'a pris d'agir ainsi?"	10 And remonstrating him again, he said, “What did you see, so that you would do this?”
11 Abraham répondit: "Je me suis dit: Pour sûr, il n'y a aucune crainte de Dieu dans cet endroit, et onva me tuer à cause dema femme.	11 Abraham responded: “I thought to myself, saying: Perhaps there is no fear of God in this place. And they will put me to death because of my wife.
12 Et puis, elle est vraiment ma soeur, la fille de mon père maisnon la fille de ma mère, et elle estdevenue ma femme.	12 Yet, in another way, she is also truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her as a wife.
13 Alors, quand Dieu m'a fait errer loin de ma famille, je lui aidit: Voici la faveur que tu me feras:partout où nous arriverons, dis de moi que je suis ton frère."	13 Then, after God led me out of my father’s house, I said to her: ‘You will show this mercy to me. In every place, to which we will travel, you will say that I am your brother.’ ”
14 Abimélek prit du petit et du gros bétail, des serviteurs etdes servantes et les donna à Abraham, etil lui rendit sa femme Sara.	14 Therefore, Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men servants and women servants, and he gave them to Abraham. And he returned his wife Sarah to him.
15 Abimélek dit aussi: "Vois mon pays qui est ouvert devant toi.Etablis-toi où bon te semble."	15 And he said, “The land is in your sight. Dwell wherever it will please you.”
16 A Sara il dit: "Voici mille pièces d'argent que je donne à tonfrère. Ce sera pour toi comme unvoile jeté sur les yeux detous ceux qui sont avec toi, et de tout cela tu es justifiée."	16 Then to Sarah he said: “Behold, I have given your brother one thousand silver coins. This will be for you as a veil for your eyes, to all who are with you and wherever you will travel. And so, remember that you were taken.”
17 Abraham intercéda auprès de Dieu et Dieu guérit Abimélek, safemme et ses servantes, pour qu'ilspuissent avoir desenfants.	17 Then when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they gave birth.
18 Car Yahvé avait rendu stérile le sein de toutes les femmes dans la maison d'Abimélek, à cause deSara, la femme d'Abraham.	18 For the Lord had closed every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.