Livre de la Genèse 12

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1 Yahvé dit à Abram: “Quitte ton pays, ta parenté et la maison de ton père pour le pays que je te montrerai.	1 Then the Lord said to Abram: “Depart from your land, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, and come into the land that I will show you.
2 Je ferai de toi une grande nation, je te bénirai. Je ferai que ton nom soit grand, et tu seras une source de bénédiction.	2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you will be blessed.
3 Je bénirai ceux qui te béniront, et je maudirai celui qui te maudira: en toi seront bénies toutes les familles de la terre.”	3 I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
4 Abram partit donc comme Yahvé le lui avait ordonné, et Lot partit avec lui. Abram était âgé de 75 ans lorsqu’il partit de Harrân.	4 And so Abram departed just as the Lord had instructed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
5 Abram prit Saraï, sa femme, et Lot, le fils de son frère, tous les biens qu’il avait réunis et les gens qu’il avait acquis à Harrân; ils se mirent en route pour gagner le pays de Canaan. Arrivé au pays de Canaan,	5 And he took his wife Sarai, and Lot, the son of his brother, and all the substance which they had come to possess, and the lives which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed in order to go to the land of Canaan. And when they arrived in it,
6 Abram traversa le pays jusqu’au lieu saint de Sichem, jusqu’à l’Arbre de Moré. Les Cananéens occupaient alors le pays.	6 Abram passed through the land even to the place of Shechem, as far as the famous steep valley. Now at that time, the Canaanite was in the land.
7 Yahvé apparut à Abram et lui dit: “Je donnerai cette terre à ta descendance.” Et Abram construisit là un autel à Yahvé qui lui était apparu.	7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and he said to him, “To your offspring, I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
8 De là, il passa à la montagne qui est à l’orient de Béthel; il dressa sa tente entre Béthel, à l’occident, et Aï, à l’orient. Il construisit là un autel à Yahvé et invoqua le nom de Yahvé.	8 And passing on from there to a mountain, which was opposite the east of Bethel, he pitched his tent there, having Bethel to the west, and Hai on the east. He also built an altar there to the Lord, and he called upon his name.
9 Puis, de campement en campement, Abram marcha vers le Négueb.	9 And Abram traveled, going out and continuing further on, toward the south.
10 Il y eut alors une grande famine dans le pays et Abram descendit vers l’Égypte pour s’y installer.	10 But a famine occurred in the land. And Abram descended to Egypt, to sojourn there. For famine prevailed over the land.
11 Comme il approchait de l’Égypte, il dit à Saraï, sa femme: “Tu es une belle femme, je le sais!	11 And when he was close to entering Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai: “I know you to be a beautiful woman.
12 Lorsque les Égyptiens te verront, ils diront: C’est sa femme. Alors ils me tueront et te laisseront vivre.	12 And when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘She is his wife.’ And they will put me to death, and retain you.
13 Dis-leur que tu es ma sœur: ils me feront du bien à cause de toi, et grâce à toi j’aurai la vie sauve.”	13 Therefore, I beg you to say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me because of you, and so that my soul may live by your favor.”
14 En effet, lorsque Abram entra en Égypte, les Égyptiens virent que sa femme était très belle.	14 And so, when Abram had arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was exceedingly beautiful.
15 Les officiers de Pharaon, quand ils la virent, en firent grand éloge auprès de leur maître et on emmena la femme dans le palais de Pharaon.	15 And the princes reported it to Pharaoh, and they praised her to him. And the woman was inducted into the house of Pharaoh.
16 Celui-ci combla de biens Abram à cause d’elle: il eut du petit et du gros bétail, des ânes, des serviteurs et des servantes, des ânesses et des chameaux.	16 In truth, they treated Abram well because of her. And he had sheep and oxen and male donkeys, and men servants, and women servants, and female donkeys, and camels.
17 Mais, pour cette affaire de Saraï, femme d’Abram, Yahvé frappa de grandes plaies Pharaon et sa maison.	17 But the Lord scourged Pharaoh and his house with great wounds because of Sarai, the wife of Abram.
18 Pharaon fit appeler Abram et lui dit: “Que m’as-tu fait! Pourquoi ne m’as-tu pas dit qu’elle était ta femme?	18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and he said to him: “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me she was your wife?
19 Tu m’as dit que c’était ta sœur, c’est pourquoi je l’ai prise pour femme. Maintenant donc, voilà ta femme, prends-la et va-t’en!”	19 For what reason did you claim her to be your sister, so that I would take her to me as a wife? Now therefore, behold your mate, receive her and go.”
20 Pharaon donna des ordres à ses serviteurs: ils le reconduisirent jusqu’à la frontière avec sa femme et tout ce qui était à lui.	20 And Pharaoh instructed his men about Abram. And they led him away with his wife and all that he had.