Genesis 11
1 And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
Et toute la terre avait une seule langue et les mêmes paroles.
2 And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they lived there.
Et il arriva que lorsqu’ils partirent de l’orient, ils trouvèrent une plaine dans le pays de Shinhar; et ils y habitèrent.
3 And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
Et ils se dirent l’un à l’autre: Allons, faisons des briques, et cuisons-les au feu. Et ils avaient la brique pour pierre, et ils avaient le bitume pour mortier.
4 And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Et ils dirent: Allons, bâtissons-nous une ville, et une tour dont le sommet [atteigne] jusqu’aux cieux; et faisons-nous un nom, de peur que nous ne soyons dispersés sur la face de toute la terre.
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
Et l’Éternel descendit pour voir la ville et la tour que bâtissaient les fils des hommes.
6 And the Lord said, Behold, [there is] one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do.
Et l’Éternel dit: Voici, c’est un seul peuple, et ils n’ont, eux tous, qu’un seul langage, et ils ont commencé à faire ceci; et maintenant ils ne seront empêchés en rien de ce qu’ils pensent faire.
7 Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour.
Allons, descendons, et confondons là leur langage, afin qu’ils n’entendent pas le langage l’un de l’autre.
8 And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
Et l’Éternel les dispersa de là sur la face de toute la terre; et ils cessèrent de bâtir la ville.
9 On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.
C’est pourquoi on appela son nom Babel, car là l’Éternel confondit le langage de toute la terre; et de là l’Éternel les dispersa sur la face de toute la terre.
10 And these [are] the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
Ce sont ici les générations de Sem: Sem était âgé de 100 ans, et il engendra Arpacshad, deux ans après le déluge.
11 And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
Et Sem, après qu’il eut engendré Arpacshad, vécut 500 ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
12 And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.
Et Arpacshad vécut 35 ans, et engendra Shélakh.
13 And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Cainan, four hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died. And Cainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Sala; and Canaan lived after he had begotten Sala, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
Et Arpacshad, après qu’il eut engendré Shélakh, vécut 403 ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
14 And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
Et Shélakh vécut 30 ans, et engendra Héber.
15 And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
Et Shélakh, après qu’il eut engendré Héber, vécut 403 ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
16 And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
Et Héber vécut 34 ans, et engendra Péleg.
17 And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
Et Héber, après qu’il eut engendré Péleg, vécut 430 ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
18 And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
Et Péleg vécut 30 ans, et engendra Rehu.
19 And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
Et Péleg, après qu’il eut engendré Rehu, vécut 209 ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
20 And Ragau lived and hundred and thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.
Et Rehu vécut 32 ans, et engendra Serug.
21 And Raau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
Et Rehu, après qu’il eut engendré Serug, vécut 207 ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
22 And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.
Et Serug vécut 30 ans, et engendra Nakhor.
23 And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
Et Serug, après qu’il eut engendré Nakhor, vécut 200 ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
24 And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
Et Nakhor vécut 29 ans, et engendra Térakh.
25 And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, an hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.
Et Nakhor, après qu’il eut engendré Térakh, vécut 119 ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.
26 And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
Et Térakh vécut 70 ans, et engendra Abram, Nakhor, et Haran.
27 And these [are] the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.
Et ce sont ici les générations de Térakh: Térakh engendra Abram, Nakhor, et Haran. Et Haran engendra Lot.
28 And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.
Et Haran mourut en la présence de Térakh, son père, au pays de sa naissance, à Ur des Chaldéens.
29 And Abram and Nachor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sara, and the name of the wife of Nachor, Malcha, daughter of Arrhan, and he was the father of Malcha, the father of Jescha.
– Et Abram et Nakhor prirent des femmes: le nom de la femme d’Abram était Saraï, et le nom de la femme de Nakhor, Milca, fille de Haran, père de Milca et père de Jisca.
30 And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
Et Saraï était stérile, elle n’avait pas d’enfants.
31 And Tharrha took Abram his son, and Lot the son Arrhan, the son of his son, and Sara his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan, and they came as far as Charrhan, and he lived there.
Et Térakh prit Abram son fils, et Lot, fils de Haran, fils de son fils, et Saraï, sa belle-fille, femme d’Abram, son fils; et ils sortirent ensemble d’Ur des Chaldéens pour aller au pays de Canaan; et ils vinrent jusqu’à Charan, et habitèrent là.
32 And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.
Et les jours de Térakh furent 205 ans; et Térakh mourut à Charan.
