Genèse 30
1 Et Rachel voyant qu'elle ne donnait point d'enfants à Jacob, elle fut jalouse de sa sœur, et elle dit à Jacob: Procure-moi des enfants! sinon, je meurs!
Rachel realized that she was not becoming pregnant and giving birth to any children for Jacob. So she became jealous of her older sister, Leah, because Leah had given birth to four sons. She said to Jacob, “Enable me to become pregnant and give birth to children. If you do not do that, I [think I will]!”
2 Et Jacob s'irrita contre Rachel et dit: Ne suis-je pas aussi sous la dépendance de Dieu qui t'a refusé le fruit d'un sein fécond?
Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “(I am not God!/Am I God?) [RHQ] He is the one who has prevented you from becoming pregnant!”
3 Et elle dit: Voici ma servante Bilha, habite avec elle afin que je reçoive sur mes genoux ce qui naîtra d'elle, et que par elle moi aussi je me fasse une maison.
Then she said, “Look, here is my female slave, Bilhah. (Sleep with/Have sex with) [EUP] her, so that she may become pregnant and give birth to children for me. In that way it will be as though (I have children/her children are mine).”
4 Et elle lui donna Bilha, sa servante, pour femme, et Jacob habita avec elle.
So she gave him her slave, Bilhah, to be another wife for him, and Jacob had sex [EUP] with her.
5 Et Bilha devint enceinte et enfanta à Jacob un fils.
She became pregnant and bore Jacob a son.
6 Alors Rachel dit: Dieu a été mon arbitre et a aussi écouté ma voix et m'a donné un fils. C'est pourquoi elle l'appela du nom de Dan (arbitre).
Rachel said, “God has (vindicated me/judged my case and has decided that what I have done is right). He has also heard my requests and has given me a son.” So she named him Dan, [which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘he judged’].
7 Et Bilha, servante de Rachel, devint encore enceinte et enfanta à Jacob un second fils.
Later, Rachel’s slave Bilhah became pregnant again and gave birth to another son for Jacob.
8 Alors Rachel dit: J'ai soutenu avec ma sœur des luttes de Dieu, et je l'ai emporté. Et elle l'appela du nom de Nephthali (ma lutte).
Then Rachel said, “I have had a great struggle to have children like my older sister, but truly I have a son.” So she named him Naphtali, [which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘struggle’].
9 Et Léa, voyant qu'elle cessait d'avoir des enfants, prit Zilpa, sa servante, et la donna à Jacob pour femme.
When Leah realized that she was not becoming pregnant and giving birth to any more children, she took her female slave, Zilpah, and gave her to Jacob to be another wife for him.
10 Et Zilpa, servante de Léa, enfanta à Jacob un fils.
Zilpah soon became pregnant and gave birth to a son for Jacob.
11 Alors Léa dit: Avec bonheur! Et elle l'appela du nom de Gad (bonne étoile).
Leah said, “I am truly fortunate!” So she named him Gad, [which means ‘fortunate’].
12 Et Zilpa, servante de Léa, enfanta à Jacob un second fils.
Later Leah’s slave, Zilpah, gave birth to another son for Jacob.
13 Alors Léa dit: A ma félicité! Car les filles des hommes me féliciteront. Et elle l'appela du nom d'Asser (l'heureux).
Leah said, “Now I am very happy, and people will call me happy.” So she named him Asher, [which means ‘happy].’
14 Et Ruben sortit au temps de la moisson des blés, et trouva des mandragores dans les champs, et il les apporta à Léa, sa mère. Alors Rachel dit à Léa: Donne-moi donc des mandragores de ton fils!
When it was time to harvest wheat, Reuben went out into the fields and saw some (mandrakes/plants that women eat to help them to become pregnant). He brought some of them to his mother Leah. But Rachel saw them and said to Leah, “Please give me some of those plants that your son brought to you!”
15 Et Léa lui répondit: Est-ce si peu de m'avoir pris mon mari, que tu veux aussi prendre les mandragores de mon fils? Et Rachel dit: Eh bien! il couchera avec toi cette nuit pour les mandragores de ton fils.
But Leah said to her, “No! (It was bad that you stole my husband!/Is it not bad enough that you stole my husband?) [RHQ] Now (are you going to take my son’s mandrake plants?/You want to take my son’s mandrake plants also, [so that you can become pregnant]!)” [RHQ] So Rachel said, “All right, Jacob can sleep with you tonight, if you give me some of your son’s mandrake plants.” [So Leah (agreed/gave her some)].
16 Et comme Jacob revenait des champs le soir, Léa sortit à sa rencontre et lui dit: Tu t'approcheras de moi, car je t'ai retenu en cédant les mandragores de mon fils. Et il coucha avec elle cette nuit-là.
When Jacob returned from the wheat fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. She said, “You must sleep with me tonight, because I gave Rachel some of my son’s mandrakes [that enable women to become pregnant], to pay her for allowing us to do that.” So Jacob slept with her that night.
17 Et Dieu exauça Léa, et elle devint enceinte, et enfanta à Jacob un cinquième fils.
God answered Leah’s prayers, and she became pregnant and bore a fifth son to Jacob.
18 Alors Léa dit: Dieu ma donné mon salaire, pour avoir donné ma servante à mon mari. Et elle l'appela du nom de Issaschar (c'est le salaire).
Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my slave to my husband to be another wife for him.” So she named him Issachar, [which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘reward’].
19 Et Léa devint encore enceinte et enfanta à Jacob un sixième fils.
Leah became pregnant again and bore a sixth son for Jacob.
20 Alors Léa dit: Dieu m'a fait un beau don; maintenant mon mari demeurera avec moi, puisque je lui ai enfanté six fils. Et elle l'appela du nom de Zabulon (demeure).
Leah said, “God has given me a precious gift. (This time/Now) my husband will honor/respect me, because I have given birth to six sons for him.” So she named him Zebulon, [which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘accepted gift’].
21 Et ensuite elle enfanta une fille et l'appela du nom de Dina.
Later she gave birth to a daughter, and named her Dinah.
22 Et Dieu se souvint de Rachel et l'exauça et la rendit féconde.
Then God thought about what Rachel wanted. He heard her prayers and enabled her to become pregnant.
23 Et elle devint enceinte et enfanta un fils et dit: Dieu a enlevé mon opprobre.
She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She said, “God has caused that no longer will I be ashamed [for not having children].”
24 Et elle l'appela du nom de Joseph (il enlève) et dit: Que Dieu ajoute en ma faveur un autre fils!
She named him Joseph, [which sounds like the Hebrew words that mean ‘may he give another’] and she said, ‘want Yahweh to give me another son.’
25 Et lorsque Rachel eut enfanté Joseph, Jacob dit à Laban: Donne-moi mon congé, pour que je puisse m'en aller chez moi et dans mon pays.
After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Now allow me to quit working for you and let me return to my own land.
26 Donne-moi mes femmes et mes enfants pour lesquels je t'ai servi, afin que je parte; car tu connais mon service que j'ai accompli pour toi.
You know the work that I have done for you [for a long time to get my wives]. So let me take my wives and my children, and leave.”
27 Laban lui dit: Ah! si j'avais trouvé grâce à tes yeux… J'avais bien auguré que l'Éternel me bénirait par ton moyen.
But Laban said to him, “If you are pleased with me, stay here, because I have found out by performing a magic ritual that Yahweh has blessed me because of what you have done for me.
28 Et il dit: Fixe le salaire que je te devrai, et je te le paierai.
Tell me what you want me to pay you for continuing to work for me, and that is what I will pay you.”
29 Et [Jacob] lui dit: Tu sais comment je t'ai servi, et ce que ton troupeau est devenu avec moi.
Jacob replied, “You know how I have worked for you, and you know that your livestock have increased greatly as I have taken care of them.
30 Car ce que tu avais avant moi était peu de chose, et il y a eu accroissement considérable, et l'Éternel envoyait chez toi la bénédiction sur mes pas; et maintenant, quand travaillerai-je aussi pour ma maison?
You had only a few animals before I came here. But now you have very many, and Yahweh has caused them to increase greatly in number wherever I have taken them. But now I need to start taking care of the needs of my own family.”
31 Et [Laban] dit: Que dois-je te donner? Et Jacob répondit: Tu ne me donneras rien; mais si tu veux me traiter à ces conditions-ci, je reprendrai la conduite et la garde de tes brebis:
Laban replied, “What do you want me to give you?” Jacob replied, “I do not want you to pay me anything. But if you will do this one thing for me, I will continue to take care of your flocks and protect them.
32 aujourd'hui je parcourrai tout ton troupeau, mettant à part parmi les brebis toutes les pièces marquetées et tachetées, et toutes les brunes, et parmi les chèvres toutes celles qui sont tachetées et marquetées; et ce sera là mon salaire.
Allow me to go and look at all of your flocks today and remove from them all the speckled sheep, all the spotted sheep, and every dark-colored lamb, all the goats that are speckled, and all the goats that are spotted, [and keep them for myself]. They will be my wages.
33 Et ma droiture répondra pour moi demain, quand tu en viendras à mon salaire: toutes les chèvres qui ne seront pas tachetées et marquetées, et toutes les brebis qui ne seront pas brunes, seront un vol chez moi.
In that way, in the future, you will be able to know whether I have been honest regarding what you have paid me. If any of my goats are neither speckled or spotted, or if any of my lambs are not dark-colored, you will know that I have stolen them from you.”
34 Et Laban dit: Eh bien! qu'il en soit comme tu le dis.
Laban agreed and said, “Okay, we will do as you have said.”
35 Et le jour même il mit à part les boucs bigarrés et tachetés, et toutes les chèvres marquetées et tachetées, toutes celles où il y avait du blanc, et tout ce qu'il y avait de brebis noires, et il les remit aux soins de ses fils.
But that same day Laban removed all the male goats that had black and white stripes on them or were spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled or spotted, all the goats that were partly white, and all the dark-colored lambs. He separated them and told his sons to take care of them.
36 Et il mit un espace de trois journées de marche entre lui et Jacob, et Jacob eut la conduite du reste du troupeau de Laban.
Then he took these flocks and walked a distance of three days, in order that he could be that far from Jacob. Jacob continued to take care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.
37 Alors Jacob se pourvut de baguettes fraîches de peuplier blanc, d'amandier et d'érable, et il y pela des bandes blanches, en mettant à nu le blanc du bois.
Then Jacob cut some branches of (poplar, almond, and plane trees/three kinds of trees that had white wood). He peeled strips of bark from the branches, so that where the bark had been peeled off, the branches were light in color.
38 Puis il plaça les verges qu'il avait ainsi écorcées, dans les auges, les abreuvoirs où les brebis venaient boire les unes vis-à-vis des autres. Et elles s'accouplaient lorsqu'elles venaient boire.
Then he placed the peeled branches in the troughs where they put the water for the animals to drink, so that the branches would be in front of the flocks when they came to drink.
39 Et les brebis s'accouplaient tournées vers les baguettes, et elles mettaient bas des portées bigarrées, tachetées et marquetées.
The animals also mated in front of the branches, and eventually they gave birth to animals that were speckled, or to animals that were spotted, or to animals that had black and white stripes on them.
40 Et Jacob mettait à part les agneaux bigarrés, et il faisait que les brebis eussent en vue les bigarrées et toutes les brunes appartenant au troupeau de Laban, et il se formait des troupeaux séparés qu'il ne joignait point au troupeau de Laban.
Furthermore, Jacob separated the female sheep in his flock from the other sheep and goats in Laban’s flock. And when his female sheep mated, he made them look toward the animals that belonged to Laban that had black and white stripes on them, and the dark-colored animals. He did that so that the female sheep would give birth to animals that were striped or dark-colored. By doing that, he made bigger flocks for himself, and he kept them separate from Laban’s flocks.
41 Et toutes les fois que les moutons vigoureux s'accouplaient, Jacob plaçait les verges devant les yeux des brebis dans les auges, pour que l'accouplement se fit en face des baguettes;
In addition, whenever the stronger female sheep were ready to mate, Jacob put some of those peeled branches in the troughs in front of them, so that they would mate in front of the branches.
42 mais quand les brebis étaient débiles, il ne les plaçait pas; et ainsi les débiles allaient à Laban et les vigoureuses à Jacob.
But when weak animals were ready to mate, he did not put the branches in their troughs. So the weak ones became part of Laban’s flock, and the strong ones became part of Jacob’s flock.
43 Et Jacob s'accrut de plus en plus, et il acquit un grand nombre de brebis et de servantes et de serviteurs et de chameaux et d'ânes.
As a result, Jacob became very rich. He owned many large flocks of sheep and goats, and many male and female slaves, and many camels and donkeys.
