Genèse 33
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Genesis 33
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Jacob leva les yeux, et regarda; et voici, Ésaü arrivait, avec quatre cents hommes. Il répartit les enfants entre Léa, Rachel, et les deux servantes. | And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. |
Il plaça en tête les servantes avec leurs enfants, puis Léa avec ses enfants, et enfin Rachel avec Joseph. | And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. |
Lui-même passa devant eux; et il se prosterna en terre sept fois, jusqu`à ce qu`il fût près de son frère. | And he himself passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. |
Ésaü courut à sa rencontre; il l`embrassa, se jeta à son cou, et le baisa. Et ils pleurèrent. | And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. |
Ésaü, levant les yeux, vit les femmes et les enfants, et il dit: Qui sont ceux que tu as là? Et Jacob répondit: Ce sont les enfants que Dieu a accordés à ton serviteur. | And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, The children whom God hath graciously given thy servant. |
Les servantes s`approchèrent, elles et leurs enfants, et se prosternèrent; | Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. |
Léa et ses enfants s`approchèrent aussi, et se prosternèrent; ensuite Joseph et Rachel s`approchèrent, et se prosternèrent. | And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. |
Ésaü dit: A quoi destines-tu tout ce camp que j`ai rencontré? Et Jacob répondit: A trouver grâce aux yeux de mon seigneur. | And he said, What meanest thou by all this company which I met? And he said, To find favor in the sight of my lord. |
Ésaü dit: Je suis dans l`abondance, mon frère; garde ce qui est à toi. | And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let that which thou hast be thine. |
Et Jacob répondit: Non, je te prie, si j`ai trouvé grâce à tes yeux, accepte de ma main mon présent; car c`est pour cela que j`ai regardé ta face comme on regarde la face de Dieu, et tu m`as accueilli favorablement. | And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found favor in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. |
Accepte donc mon présent qui t`a été offert, puisque Dieu m`a comblé de grâces, et que je ne manque de rien. Il insista auprès de lui, et Ésaü accepta. | Take, I pray thee, my gift that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it. |
Ésaü dit: Partons, mettons-nous en route; j`irai devant toi. | And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. |
Jacob lui répondit: Mon seigneur sait que les enfants sont délicats, et que j`ai des brebis et des vaches qui allaitent; si l`on forçait leur marche un seul jour, tout le troupeau périrait. | And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young: and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. |
Que mon seigneur prenne les devants sur son serviteur; et moi, je suivrai lentement, au pas du troupeau qui me précédera, et au pas des enfants, jusqu`à ce que j`arrive chez mon seigneur, à Séir. | Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come unto my lord unto Seir. |
Ésaü dit: Je veux au moins laisser avec toi une partie de mes gens. Et Jacob répondit: Pourquoi cela? Que je trouve seulement grâce aux yeux de mon seigneur! | And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find favor in the sight of my lord. |
Le même jour, Ésaü reprit le chemin de Séir. | So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. |
Jacob partit pour Succoth. Il bâtit une maison pour lui, et il fit des cabanes pour ses troupeaux. C`est pourquoi l`on a appelé ce lieu de nom de Succoth. | And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. |
A son retour de Paddan Aram, Jacob arriva heureusement à la ville de Sichem, dans le pays de Canaan, et il campa devant la ville. | And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and encamped before the city. |
Il acheta la portion du champ où il avait dressé sa tente, des fils d`Hamor, père de Sichem, pour cent kesita. | And he bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money. |
Et là, il éleva un autel, qu`il appela El Élohé Israël. | And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-israel. |