Genesis 17

1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, God appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am El Shaddai. Walk before me, and be blameless.

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 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you greatly."

J’établirai mon alliance entre moi et toi, et je te multiplierai prodigieusement.

3 Then Abram fell facedown, and God talked with him, saying,

Abram tomba incliné sur sa face.

4 "As for me, look, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

Et Dieu lui dit: C’est moi, et mon alliance sera avec toi, et tu seras père de beaucoup de nations.

5 Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I will make you the father of a multitude of 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 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

Et je te ferai croître prodigieusement, et je t’établirai chef de nations; et des rois sortiront de toi.

7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants 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 I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting 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 God said to Abraham, "As for you, you are to keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout 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 keep, between me and you and your descendants after you: Every male 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 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will 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 He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your descendants.

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 He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

Ainsi mon pacte en votre chair sera une alliance éternelle.

14 And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that person shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."

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 to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

Dieu dit aussi à Abraham: Tu n’appelleras pas ta femme Saraï, mais Sara.

16 And I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. And I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

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 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

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 Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you."

Et il dit à Dieu: Plaise à Dieu qu’Ismaël vive devant vous!

19 And God said, "Truly, Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant and with his descendants 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 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Look, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him 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 But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."

Mais mon alliance, je l’établirai avec Isaac, que t’enfantera Sara en ce même temps, l’année prochaine.

22 When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

Et lorsque fut fini le discours de Dieu qui lui parlait, Dieu disparut de devant Abraham.

23 Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to 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 was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Or Abraham avait quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans, quand il circoncit sa chair.

25 Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Et Ismaël son fils avait accompli treize ans au moment de sa circoncision.

26 In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.

Dans le même jour fut circoncis Abraham et Ismaël son fils.

27 All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, 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.