Genèse 22
1 Il advint alors que Dieu tenta Abraham; il lui dit: Abraham, Abraham. Celui-ci répondit: Me voici.
Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.
2 Prends, lui dit Dieu, ton enfant, ton fils chéri, ton Isaac, que tu aimes tant; va en la haute terre, et là, offre-le en holocauste, sur l'une des montagnes que je te dirai.
And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.
3 Et Abraham, s'étant levé de grand matin, bâta son ânesse; il prit avec lui deux serviteurs et Isaac son fils; puis, ayant fendu le bois pour l'holocauste, il partit, et il arriva le troisième jour au lieu que lui avait dit le Seigneur.
And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.
4 Et Abraham, ayant levé les yeux, vit le lieu de loin,
And on the third day, Abraham, lifting up his eyes, saw the place a long way off.
5 Et dit à ses serviteurs: Arrêtez-vous ici avec l'ânesse, moi de mon côté j'irai avec l'enfant jusque là-bas; puis après avoir adoré, nous reviendrons auprès de vous.
Then he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and I and the boy will go on and give worship and come back again to you.
6 Abraham prit donc le bois de l'holocauste, et il le donna à porter à Isaac; lui-même porta dans ses mains le feu et le glaive; et ils marchèrent à côté l'un de l'autre.
And Abraham put the wood for the burned offering on his son's back, and he himself took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them went on together.
7 Cependant, Isaac dit à Abraham, son père: Père, et celui-ci répondit: Qu'y a-t-il, mon enfant? Isaac reprit: Voici le feu et le bois; où est la brebis pour l'holocauste?
Then Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, We have wood and fire here, but where is the lamb for the burned offering?
8 Abraham répondit: Dieu se pourvoira lui-même d'une brebis pour l'holocauste, mon enfant, et, ayant marché tous deux ensemble,
And Abraham said, God himself will give the lamb for the burned offering: so they went on together.
9 Ils arrivèrent au lieu que lui avait dit le Seigneur; Abraham y éleva un autel; il disposa le bois, et, ayant lié Isaac son fils, il le plaça sur l'autel par-dessus le bois.
And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.
10 Et il étendit la main pour saisir le glaive, afin d'égorger son fils.
And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death.
11 Alors un ange du Seigneur l'appela du ciel, disant: Abraham, Abraham; il répondit: Me voici.
But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
12 Et l'ange dit: Ne porte pas la main sur l'enfant: ne lui fais rien; car je sais maintenant que tu crains le Seigneur, puisque pour moi tu n'as pas épargné ton fils bien-aimé.
And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.
13 Abraham, ayant levé les yeux, regarda: et voilà qu'un bélier se trouvait retenu par les cornes dans les broussailles de Sabec; aussitôt Abraham s'élance, prend le bélier, et l'offre en holocauste, au lieu de son fils Isaac.
And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.
14 Abraham appela ce lieu: Le Seigneur a vu, de sorte que l'on dit encore aujourd'hui: sur la montagne le Seigneur est apparu.
And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.
15 L'ange du Seigneur appela une seconde fois Abraham du haut du ciel, disant:
And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,
16 Je l'ai juré par moi-même, dit le Seigneur: parce que tu as fait ce que tu viens de faire, et que, pour moi, tu n'as pas épargné ton fils bien-aimé,
Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,
17 Je te bénirai et te bénirai, je multiplierai et multiplierai ta race, comme les étoiles du ciel, comme les grains de sable du rivage des mers, et ta race possédera les villes des ennemis;
That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;
18 Et, en ta race, seront bénies toutes les nations de la terre, parce que tu as obéi à ma voix.
And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.
19 Abraham retourna auprès de ses serviteurs, et ils partirent pour revenir ensemble vers le puits du Serment. Abraham demeura vers le puits du Serment.
Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.
20 Ensuite un message vint à lui, disant: Melcha a aussi enfanté des fils à Nachor ton frère:
After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;
21 Uz d'abord, puis Bayx son frère, et Samuel, père des Syriens,
Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram,
22 Chazad, Azay, Phaldès, ensuite Jeddar et Bathuel;
And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel.
23 Bathuel a engendré Rébécca: voilà les huit fils que Melcha a enfantés à Nachor, frère d'Abraham.
Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.
24 Et sa concubine nommée Rheuma a, de son côté, enfanté Tabec, Taam, Tochos et Mocha.
And his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.
