Genèse 15
1 Après ces choses, la parole de l'Éternel fut adressée à Abram dans une vision, en disant: Ne crains point, Abram, je suis ton bouclier, et ta très 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 Éternel, que me donneras-tu? Je m'en vais sans enfants, et celui qui possédera ma maison est Eliézer de Damas.
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 Et Abram dit: Voici, tu ne m'as pas donné de postérité, et voilà qu'un 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'Éternel 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 il le mena dehors et lui dit: Regarde vers le ciel, et compte les étoiles, si tu peux les 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'Éternel, 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'Éternel, qui t'a fait sortir d'Ur des Caldéens, afin de te donner ce pays 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 Éternel, 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 pour moi une génisse de trois ans, une chèvre de trois ans, un bélier de trois ans, une tourterelle et un pigeonneau.
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 Et il prit toutes ces choses, et les partagea par le milieu, et il mit chaque moitié vis-à-vis 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 les oiseaux de proie fondirent 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 comme le soleil allait se coucher, un profond sommeil tomba sur Abram; et voici, une terreur, une obscurité profonde 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'Éternel dit à Abram: Sache que ta postérité sera étrangère dans un pays qui ne lui appartiendra point, et qu'elle en servira les habitants, et qu'ils l'opprimeront pendant quatre cents ans.
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 je jugerai aussi la nation à laquelle tes descendants seront asservis; et ensuite ils sortiront avec de grandes richesses.
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 en paix vers tes pères, tu seras enseveli dans une heureuse vieillesse.
But as for you, you will die [EUP] peacefully when you are very old.
16 Et à la quatrième génération ils reviendront ici; car l'iniquité de l'Amoréen n'est pas encore 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 Et lorsque le soleil fut couché, il y eut une obscurité épaisse; et voici, il y eut une fournaise fumante, et une flamme de feu qui passa entre les chairs 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'Éternel traita alliance avec Abram, en disant: Je donne ce pays à ta postérité, depuis le fleuve d'Égypte jusqu'au grand fleuve, au 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 Phéréziens, les Rephaïms,
the Heth, the Periz, the Repha,
21 Les Amoréens, les Cananéens, les Guirgasiens et les Jébusiens.
the Amor, the Canaan, the Girgash, and the Tebus people-groups live.”
