Genèse 15
1 Après ces choses, la parole de l'Eternel fut adressée à Abram dans une vision, en disant: Abram, ne crains point, je suis ton bouclier, et ta grande récompense.
Some time later, Abram had a vision in which Yahweh spoke to him and said, “Do not be afraid of (anything/your enemies). I will protect you [MTY], and I will give a great reward.”
2 Et Abram répondit: Seigneur Eternel, que me donneras-tu? je m'en vais sans [laisser] d'enfants [après moi], et celui qui a le maniement de ma maison c'est ce Dammésec Elihézer.
But Abram replied, “Yahweh God, how can you give me what I truly want, because I have no children, and the one who will be like a son and inherit all my possessions is my servant Eliezer from Damascus!”
3 Abram dit aussi: Voici, tu ne m'as point donné d'enfants; et voilà, le serviteur né dans ma maison, sera mon héritier.
Abram added, “You have not given me any children, so think about this: A servant in my household will inherit all I own!”
4 Et voici, la parole de l'Eternel lui [fut adressée] en disant: Celui-ci ne sera point ton héritier; mais celui qui sortira de tes entrailles sera ton héritier.
Yahweh replied, “No! He will not be the one who will inherit it. Instead, you yourself will be the father of the one who will inherit everything you own.”
5 Puis l'ayant fait sortir dehors, il lui dit: Lève maintenant les yeux au ciel, et compte les étoiles, si tu les peux compter; et il lui dit: Ainsi sera ta postérité.
Then Yahweh took Abram outside [of his tent] and said, “Look up at the sky! Can you count the stars? No, you cannot count them because there are so many of them, and your descendants will be as numerous as the stars.”
6 Et [Abram] crut à l'Eternel, qui lui imputa cela à justice.
Abram believed that what Yahweh said would happen. And because of that, Yahweh considered that Abram was righteous.
7 Et il lui dit: Je suis l'Eternel qui t'ai fait sortir d'Ur des Caldéens, afin de te donner ce pays-ci pour le posséder.
Yahweh also said to him, “I am Yahweh. I am the one who brought you from Ur in Chaldea land. I brought you here to give you this land to possess.”
8 Et il dit: Seigneur Eternel, à quoi connaîtrai-je que je le posséderai?
But Abram replied, “Yahweh God, how can I know for sure that this land will belong to me?”
9 Et il lui répondit: Prends une génisse de trois ans, et une chèvre de trois ans, et un bélier de trois ans, une tourterelle, et un pigeon.
God said to him, “Bring a three-year-old heifer and a three-year-old goat to me, and a dove and a pigeon.”
10 Il prit donc toutes ces choses, et les partagea par le milieu, et mit chaque moitié vis-à-vis l'une de l'autre; mais il ne partagea point les oiseaux.
So Abram brought all of them and killed them and cut each of the animals in half. He arranged the halves of each one, side by side. But he did not cut the pigeon and dove in half.
11 Et une volée d'oiseaux descendit sur ces bêtes mortes; mais Abram les chassa.
Birds that eat dead flesh came down to eat the carcasses, but Abram shooed them away.
12 Et il arriva comme le soleil se couchait, qu'un profond sommeil tomba sur Abram, et voici, une frayeur d'une grande obscurité tomba sur lui.
As the sun was going down, Abram fell sound asleep, and suddenly everything around him became dark and frightening.
13 Et [l'Eternel] dit à Abram: Sache comme une chose certaine que ta postérité habitera quatre cents ans comme étrangère dans un pays qui ne lui appartiendra point, et qu'elle sera asservie aux habitants [du pays], et sera affligée;
Then God said to Abram, “I want you to know that your descendants will become foreigners living in a land that does not belong to them. They will become slaves of the owners of that land. The owners of the land will mistreat them for 400 years.
14 Mais aussi je jugerai la nation, à laquelle ils seront asservis, et après cela ils sortiront avec de grands biens.
But then I will punish the people of that country that made them become slaves, and then your descendants will leave that country, taking many possessions with them.
15 Et toi tu t'en iras vers tes pères en paix, et seras enterré en bonne vieillesse.
But as for you, you will die [EUP] peacefully when you are very old.
16 Et en la quatrième génération ils retourneront ici; car l'iniquité des Amorrhéens n'est pas encore venue à son comble.
After your descendants have been slaves for 400 years, they will return here, and take control of this land and defeat the Amor people-group. Those people will, because those people have not yet sinned enough to deserve to be punished now.”
17 Il arriva aussi que le soleil étant couché, il y eut une obscurité toute noire, et voici un four fumant, et un brandon de feu qui passa entre ces choses qui avaient été partagées.
When the sun had set and it had become dark, [unexpectedly] a blazing torch and a clay pot containing burning coals from which smoke was rising appeared and went between the halves of the animals.
18 En ce jour-là l'Eternel traita alliance avec Abram, en disant: J'ai donné ce pays à ta postérité, depuis le fleuve d'Egypte jusqu'au grand fleuve, le fleuve d'Euphrate;
And on that day Yahweh made an agreement with Abram. Yahweh told him, “I will give to your descendants all the land between the river that is on the eastern border of Egypt to the south, and north to the huge Euphrates River.
19 Les Kéniens, les Kéniziens, les Kadmoniens,
That is the land where the Ken, the Keniz, the Kidmon,
20 Les Héthiens, les Phérésiens, les Réphaïms,
the Heth, the Periz, the Repha,
21 Les Amorrhéens, les Cananéens, les Guirgasiens, et les Jébusiens.
the Amor, the Canaan, the Girgash, and the Tebus people-groups live.”
