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Genesis 49
Louis Segond 1910 · Berean Standard Bible
Jacob appela ses fils, et dit: Assemblez-vous, et je vous annoncerai ce qui vous arrivera dans la suite des temps.
Then Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the days to come:
Rassemblez-vous, et écoutez, fils de Jacob!
Come together and listen, O sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.
Ruben, toi, mon premier-né,
Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.
Impétueux comme les eaux, tu n’auras pas la prééminence!
Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
Siméon et Lévi sont frères;
Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords (note: Or dwelling places) are weapons of violence.
Que mon âme n’entre point dans leur conciliabule,
May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.
Maudite soit leur colère, car elle est violente,
Cursed be their anger, for it is strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Juda, tu recevras les hommages de tes frères;
Judah (note: Judah sounds like the Hebrew for praise.), your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.
Juda est un jeune lion.
Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?
Le sceptre ne s’éloignera point de Juda,
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet (note: Or from his descendants), until Shiloh (note: Or until the one to whom tribute belongs) comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
Il attache à la vigne son âne,
He ties his donkey to the vine, his colt to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
Il a les yeux rouges de vin,
His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.
Zabulon habitera sur la côte des mers,
Zebulun shall dwell by the seashore and become a harbor for ships; his border shall extend to Sidon.
Issacar est un âne robuste,
Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds (note: Or saddlebags or hearths).
Il voit que le lieu où il repose est agréable,
He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.
Dan jugera son peuple,
Dan shall provide justice for his people (note: Or Dan shall judge his people; Dan means He has judged or He has vindicated.) as one of the tribes of Israel.
Dan sera un serpent sur le chemin,
He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.
Gad sera assailli par des bandes armées,
Gad (note: Gad sounds like the Hebrew for raid and also for band of raiders.) will be attacked by raiders, but he will attack their heels.
Aser produit une nourriture excellente;
Asher’s food will be rich; he shall provide royal delicacies.
Nephthali est une biche en liberté;
Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns (note: Or gives beautiful words or bears fawns of the fold).
Joseph est le rejeton d’un arbre fertile,
Joseph is a fruitful vine—a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall (note: Or Joseph is a wild donkey, a wild donkey by a spring, with his wild colts beside the wall).
Ils l’ont provoqué, ils ont lancé des traits;
The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.
Mais son arc est demeuré ferme,
Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
C’est l’œuvre du Dieu de ton père, qui t’aidera;
by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty (note: Hebrew Shaddai) who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.
Les bénédictions de ton père s’élèvent
The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains (note: Or of my ancestors) and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.
Benjamin est un loup qui déchire;
Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”
Ce sont là tous ceux qui forment les douze tribus d’Israël. Et c’est là ce que leur dit leur père, en les bénissant. Il les bénit, chacun selon sa bénédiction.
These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this was what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.
Puis il leur donna cet ordre: Je vais être recueilli auprès de mon peuple; enterrez-moi avec mes pères, dans la caverne qui est au champ d’Éphron, le Héthien,
Then Jacob instructed them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
dans la caverne du champ de Macpéla, vis-à-vis de Mamré, dans le pays de Canaan. C’est le champ qu’Abraham a acheté d’Éphron, le Héthien, comme propriété sépulcrale.
The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
Là on a enterré Abraham et Sara, sa femme; là on a enterré Isaac et Rebecca, sa femme; et là j’ai enterré Léa.
There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.
Le champ et la caverne qui s’y trouve ont été achetés des fils de Heth.
The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”
Lorsque Jacob eut achevé de donner ses ordres à ses fils, il retira ses pieds dans le lit, il expira, et fut recueilli auprès de son peuple.
When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and he was gathered to his people.