Genesis 17
1 In truth, after he began to be ninety-nine years of age, the Lord appeared to him. And he said to him: “I am the Almighty God. Walk in my sight and become complete.
Or, après qu’Abram eut commencé sa quatre-vingt-dix-neuvième année, le Seigneur lui apparut, et lui dit: Je suis le Dieu tout-puissant: marche devant moi, et sois parfait.
2 And I will set my covenant between me and you. And I will multiply you very exceedingly.”
J’établirai mon alliance entre moi et toi, et je te multiplierai prodigieusement.
3 Abram fell prone on his face.
Abram tomba incliné sur sa face.
4 And God said to him: “I AM, and my covenant is with you, and you will be the father of many nations.
Et Dieu lui dit: C’est moi, et mon alliance sera avec toi, et tu seras père de beaucoup de nations.
5 No longer will your name be called Abram. But you will be called Abraham, for I have established you as the father of many nations.
Et on ne t’appellera plus du nom d’Abram, mais tu te nommeras Abraham; car je t’ai établi père de beaucoup de nations.
6 And I will cause you to increase very greatly, and I will set you among the nations, and kings will come forth from you.
Et je te ferai croître prodigieusement, et je t’établirai chef de nations; et des rois sortiront de toi.
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and with your offspring after you in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Ainsi j’établirai mon alliance entre moi et toi, et entre ta postérité après toi dans ses générations, par un pacte éternel; afin que je sois ton Dieu et le Dieu de ta postérité après toi.
8 And I will give to you and to your offspring, the land of your sojourn, all the land of Canaan, as an eternal possession, and I will be their God.”
Et je te donnerai et à ta postérité la terre de ton pèlerinage, toute la terre de Chanaan, en possession éternelle; et je serai leur Dieu.
9 Again God said to Abraham: “And you therefore shall keep my covenant, and your offspring after you in their generations.
Dieu dit encore à Abraham: Tu garderas mon alliance, toi et ta postérité après toi dans ses générations.
10 This is my covenant, which you shall observe, between me and you, and your offspring after you: All the males among you shall be circumcised.
Voici mon alliance que vous observerez entre moi et vous, et ta postérité après toi: Tout mâle d’entre vous sera circoncis.
11 And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, so that it may be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
Et vous circoncirez votre chair, afin que ce soit là un signe d’alliance entre moi et vous.
12 An infant of eight days will be circumcised among you, every male in your generations. So also servants born to you, as well as those bought, shall be circumcised, even those who are not of your stock.
L’enfant de huit jours sera circoncis parmi vous; tout mâle en vos générations, tant le serviteur né dans votre maison, que le serviteur acheté, sera circoncis, et même celui qui ne sera pas de votre race.
13 And my covenant shall be with your flesh as an eternal covenant.
Ainsi mon pacte en votre chair sera une alliance éternelle.
14 The male, the flesh of whose foreskin will not be circumcised, that soul shall be eliminated from his people. For he has made my covenant void.”
Le mâle dont la chair n’aura pas été circoncise, cette âme sera exterminée du milieu de son peuple, parce qu’il aura rendu vaine mon alliance.
15 God said also to Abraham: “Your wife Sarai, you shall not call Sarai, but Sarah.
Dieu dit aussi à Abraham: Tu n’appelleras pas ta femme Saraï, mais Sara.
16 And I will bless her, and from her I will give you a son, whom I will bless, and he will be among the nations, and the kings of the peoples will rise from him.”
Je la bénirai, et d’elle je te donnerai un fils que je dois bénir aussi; et il sera chef de nations; et des rois de peuples sortiront de lui.
17 Abraham fell on his face, and he laughed, saying in his heart: “Do you think a son can be born to a one hundred year old man? And will Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
Abraham tomba sur sa face, et rit, disant en son cœur: Pensez-vous qu’à un centenaire naîtra un fils, et que Sara nonagénaire enfantera?
18 And he said to God, “If only Ishmael would live in your sight.”
Et il dit à Dieu: Plaise à Dieu qu’Ismaël vive devant vous!
19 And God said to Abraham: “Your wife Sarah shall give birth to a son, and you shall call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant, and with his offspring after him.
Et Dieu répondit à Abraham: Sara ta femme t’enfantera un fils, et tu l’appelleras du nom d’Isaac, et je ferai de mon pacte avec lui et avec sa postérité après lui une alliance éternelle.
20 Likewise, concerning Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless and enlarge him, and I will multiply him greatly. He will produce twelve leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.
Pour Ismaël, je t’ai aussi exaucé: voilà que je le bénirai, que je le ferai croître et que je le multiplierai grandement; il donnera naissance à douze chefs, et je le ferai père d’une grande nation.
21 Yet in truth, I will establish my covenant with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth for you at this time next year.”
Mais mon alliance, je l’établirai avec Isaac, que t’enfantera Sara en ce même temps, l’année prochaine.
22 And when he had finished speaking with him, God ascended from Abraham.
Et lorsque fut fini le discours de Dieu qui lui parlait, Dieu disparut de devant Abraham.
23 Then Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all who were born in his house, and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin promptly, the very same day, just as God had instructed him.
Abraham donc prit Ismaël son fils, tous les serviteurs nés dans sa maison et tous ceux qu’il avait achetés, tous mâles d’entre les hommes de sa maison, et il les circoncit aussitôt ce jour-là même, comme Dieu lui avait ordonné.
24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.
Or Abraham avait quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans, quand il circoncit sa chair.
25 And his son Ishmael had completed thirteen years at the time of his circumcision.
Et Ismaël son fils avait accompli treize ans au moment de sa circoncision.
26 On the very same day, Abraham was circumcised with his son Ishmael.
Dans le même jour fut circoncis Abraham et Ismaël son fils.
27 And all the men of his house, those born in his house, as well as those who were bought, even the foreigners, were circumcised with him.
Et tous les hommes de sa maison, tant les serviteurs nés chez lui, que ceux qui avaient été achetés, et les étrangers furent pareillement circoncis.
