Juges 12
1 Et les hommes d'Ephraïm se rassemblèrent, et montèrent vers le nord et dirent à Jephthé: Pourquoi t'es-tu mis en marche pour la guerre des Ammonites sans nous appeler à faire la campagne avec toi?
The men of the tribe of Ephraim summoned their soldiers, and they crossed [the Jordan River] to [the town of] Zaphon [to talk with] Jephthah. They said to him, “(Why did you not ask us for help?/You should have requested us) to help your army fight the Ammon people-group. So we will burn down your house while you are in it.”
2 Nous allons brûler par le feu ta maison sur toi. Et Jephthé leur dit: J'étais en grande contestation, moi et mon peuple, avec les Ammonites, et je vous fis un appel, mais vous ne m'avez pas aidé à me tirer de leurs mains.
Jephthah replied, “The Ammon people-group were oppressing us greatly. When we were prepared to start to attack them, I requested you to come and help us, but you refused. My men and I defeated the Ammon people-group, but you did not help us.
3 Et voyant que vous ne vouliez pas m'aider, j'osai, au péril de ma vie, marcher contre les Ammonites. Et l'Éternel les a livrés entre mes mains. Pourquoi donc aujourd'hui vous avancer contre moi pour me faire la guerre?
When I saw that you would not help us, I was willing to be killed in the battle against the Ammon people-group. But Yahweh helped us to defeat them. [You did not help us when we requested it before], so (why have you come here today to fight against me?/you should not have come here today to fight against me.)” [RHQ]
4 Et Jephthé réunit tous les hommes de Galaad, et il en vint aux mains avec les Ephraïmites, et les hommes de Galaad défirent ceux d'Ephraïm, car ils disaient: Gens de Galaad, vous êtes des réchappés d'Ephraïm, un juste milieu entre Ephraïm et Manassé.
Then Jephthah summoned the men of [the] Gilead [region] to fight [against the men of the tribe of] Ephraim. The men of the tribe of Ephraim said, “You men from [the] Gilead [region] are men who deserted us. Long ago you left us and moved to the area between our tribe and the tribe of Manasseh.” [Because of their saying that], the men of [the] Gilead [region] attacked the men of the tribe of Ephraim.
5 Et les Galaadites s'emparèrent des gués du Jourdain vers Ephraïm. Et lorsque quelqu'un des fuyards d'Ephraïm disait: Laissez-moi passer! les hommes de Galaad lui demandaient: Es-tu Ephraïmite? et celui-ci répondant: Non!
The men of Gilead captured that (ford/place where people can walk across) at the Jordan [River] to go to the land where the tribe of Ephraim live. Whenever one of the soldiers from the tribe of Ephraim came to the ford to try to escape, he would say, “Let me cross the river.” Then the men of Gilead would ask him, “Are you from the tribe of Ephraim?” If he said “No,”
6 ils lui disaient: Prononce donc Schibboleth! Et s'il prononçait Sibboleth, sans s'aviser pour prononcer bien, ils le saisissaient et l'égorgeaient dans le gué du Jourdain. Et dans ce temps-là il périt quarante-deux mille Ephraïmites.
they would say to him, “Say the word ‘Shibboleth’.” The men of Ephraim could not pronounce that word correctly. So if the person from the tribe of Ephraim said ‘Sibboleth’, [they would know that he was lying and that he was really from the tribe of Ephraim, and] they would kill him there at the ford. So the men of Gilead killed 42,000 people from the tribe of Ephraim at that time.
7 Et Jephthé jugea Israël pendant six ans; puis Jephthé de Galaad mourut, et il reçut la sépulture dans l'une des villes de Galaad.
Jephthah, the man from [the] Gilead [region], was a leader of the Israeli people for six years. Then he died and was buried in a town in [the] Gilead [region].
8 Et après lui Ibtsan de Bethléhem jugea Israël.
After Jephthah died, a man named Ibzan, from Bethlehem, became the leader of the Israeli people.
9 Et il eut trente fils et il maria ses trente fils au dehors, et du dehors il introduisit chez lui pour ses fils trente filles, et il jugea Israël pendant sept ans;
He had 30 sons and 30 daughters. He forced all his daughters to marry men who were not in his clan, and brought women from outside his clan to marry his sons. He was the leader of the Israeli people for seven years.
10 puis Ibtsan mourut, et reçut la sépulture à Bethléhem.
When he died, he was buried in Bethlehem.
11 Et après lui Elon de Zabulon fut Juge d'Israël, et il jugea Israël pendant dix ans;
After Ibzan died, a man named Elon, from the tribe of Zebulun, became the leader of the Israeli people. He was their leader for ten years.
12 puis Elon de Zabulon mourut et reçut la sépulture à Ajalon dans le pays de Zabulon.
Then he died and was buried in Aijalon [city] in the area where the tribe of Zebulun lives.
13 Et après lui Abdon, fils de Hillel, de Pirathon, jugea Israël.
After Elon died, a man named Abdon who was the son of Hillel, from Pirathon [city, in the area where the tribe of Ephraim live] became the leader of the Israeli people.
14 Et il eut quarante fils et trente petits-fils qui montaient soixante-dix ânes poulains. Et il jugea Israël pendant huit ans.
He had 40 sons and 30 grandsons. Each of them had his own donkey on which to ride. Abdon was the leader of the Israeli people for eight years.
15 Puis Abdon, fils de Hillel, de Pirathon, mourut et reçut la sépulture à Pirathon, dans le pays d'Ephraïm, sur le mont Amalécite.
When Abdon died, he was buried in Pirathon, in the hilly area where the descendants of Amalek lived previously, [but now it is the area where the tribe of Ephraim lives].
