Genèse 12
1 Et l'Éternel dit à Abram: Quitte ton pays et ta patrie et la maison de ton père pour aller au pays que je te montrerai.
Then Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave this country where you are now living. Leave your father’s clan and his family. Go to a land that I will show you.
2 Et je te ferai devenir un grand peuple et je te bénirai et te donnerai un grand nom et tu seras une bénédiction.
I will cause your descendants to become a large nation. I will bless you and cause you to become (famous/highly esteemed). What I do for you will be a blessing to others.
3 Et je bénirai qui te bénira, et qui te maudira je le maudirai, et c'est en toi que toutes les familles de la terre seront bénies.
I will bless those who (bless/ask God to do good things for) you, and I will (curse/ask God to punish) those who do evil things to you. And because of what you do, groups of people all over the earth will receive blessings (OR, people will wish that God will bless others as much as he has blessed you).”
4 Alors Abram s'achemina conformément à ce que lui avait dit l'Éternel, et Lot s'achemina avec lui. Or Abram avait soixante-quinze ans à son départ de Charan.
So Abram left Haran [town], as Yahweh told him to do. Abram was 75 years old when he left there along with his wife, Sarai, and his nephew, Lot.
5 Et Abram prit Saraï, sa femme, et Lot, fils de son frère, et tout le bien qu'ils avaient acquis et le personnel qu'ils s'étaient fait à Charan, et ils partirent pour gagner le pays de Canaan et ils entrèrent au pays de Canaan.
Abram also took along all the possessions and slaves that they had accumulated/acquired in Haran [town], and they left there and went to Canaan land.
6 Et Abram pénétra dans le pays jusqu'au lieu [nommé] Sichem, jusqu'à la chênaie de Moreh. Or les Cananéens étaient alors dans le pays.
In Canaan they traveled as far as Shechem [town] and camped by a huge tree called the tree of Moreh. The Canaan people-group were still living in that land.
7 Alors l'Éternel apparut à Abram et dit: Je donnerai ce pays à ta postérité. Et il bâtit là un autel à l'Éternel qui lui était apparu.
Then Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I will give this land to your descendants.” Then Abram built a stone altar to offer a sacrifice to Yahweh because Yahweh had appeared to him.
8 Et il se transporta de là vers la montagne à l'orient de Béthel, et tendit sa tente, ayant Béthel à l'occident et Aï à l'orient, et bâtit là un autel à l'Éternel, et invoqua le nom de l'Éternel.
From Shechem, Abram and his family traveled to the hills that were east of Bethel [town]. Bethel [town] was to the west of where they set up their tent, and Ai [town] was further to the east. There he built another stone altar and offered a sacrifice and worshiped Yahweh there.
9 Et de station en station Abram s'avançait vers le Midi. –
Then they left there and started traveling south to the Negev [Desert].
10 Et il y eut famine dans le pays: alors Abram descendit en Egypte pour y séjourner, car la famine pesait sur le pays.
There was (a famine/very little food to eat) in Canaan, so they went south to live in Egypt for a while.
11 Et comme il était près d'entrer en Egypte, il dit à Saraï, sa femme: Eh bien! voici, je sais que tu es une femme belle de figure.
Just as they were about to enter Egypt, Abram said to his wife Sarai, “Listen, I know that you are a very beautiful woman.
12 Et il arrivera que lorsque les Egyptiens te verront, ils diront: C'est sa femme! et ils me tueront, mais à toi ils laisseront la vie.
When the people in Egypt see you, they will say, ‘This woman is his wife!’ and they will kill me in order to get you, but they will not kill you.
13 Dis donc que tu es ma sœur, afin que l'on me traite bien pour l'amour de toi, et que mon âme vive grâce à toi.
So I ask you to tell them that you are my sister, so that because of you telling them that, they will (spare my life/not kill me).”
14 Et lorsque Abram fut arrivé en Egypte, les Égyptiens virent que c'était une femme d'une très grande beauté.
And as soon as they arrived in Egypt, the people in Egypt saw that his wife was indeed very beautiful.
15 Et les Grands de Pharaon la virent et la vantèrent à Pharaon; et la femme fut enlevée et menée dans la demeure de Pharaon.
When the king’s officials saw her, they told the king how beautiful she was. And they took her to the king’s palace.
16 Et pour l'amour d'elle il traita bien Abram, qui eut des brebis et des bœufs et des ânes et des serviteurs et des servantes et des ânesses et des chameaux.
The king treated Abram kindly because of Sarai, and he gave Abram many sheep and cattle and donkeys and male and female slaves and camels.
17 Mais l'Éternel frappa Pharaon de grandes plaies ainsi que sa maison, au sujet de Saraï, femme d'Abram.
But because the king had taken Sarai, Abram’s wife, Yahweh caused the king and the others in his household to be inflicted with terrible diseases.
18 Alors Pharaon manda Abram et lui dit: Pourquoi en as-tu agi de la sorte envers moi? pourquoi ne pas m'avouer que c'est ta femme?
When the king realized why that was happening, he summoned Abram and said to him, “Why did you do this to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
19 Pourquoi dire: C'est ma sœur; aussi me suis-je emparé d'elle pour en faire ma femme? Eh bien! voici, puisque c'est ta femme, prends-la et t'en va.
Why did you lie, saying she is your sister, with the result that I took her to be my wife? You should not have done that! So now take your wife, leave here and go!”
20 Et Pharaon lui assigna des gens, qui l'escortèrent lui et sa femme et tout ce qu'il avait.
Then the king told his officials/servants to take Abram and his wife and all his possessions out of Egypt.
