Genesis 16
1 Up to that time, Abram’s wife Sarai had not given birth to any children for Abram. But she had a female slave from Egypt, whose name was Hagar.
Cependant Saraï femme d’Abram ne lui avait pas donné d’enfants; mais ayant une servante égyptienne du nom d’Agar,
2 [So one day] Sarai said to Abram, “Listen to me! Yahweh has not allowed me to become pregnant. So (sleep with/have sex with) [EUP] my slave Hagar. Perhaps she will bear children whom I can consider to be mine.” Abram agreed to do what Sarai said.
Elle dit à son mari: Voilà que le Seigneur m’a rendue stérile, pour que je n’aie pas d’enfants; prends ma servante, peut-être qu’au moins par elle j’aurai des enfants. Abram ayant consenti à sa prière,
3 So Abram (slept with/had sex with) Hagar, his wife Sarai’s slave from Egypt. This happened ten years after they went to live in Canaan [land]. Sarai gave Hagar to her husband to be his secondary wife.
Elle prit Agar sa servante égyptienne, dix ans après qu’ils eurent commencé d’habiter dans la terre de Chanaan, et elle la donna à son mari pour femme.
4 He (slept with/had sex with) [EUP] Hagar and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress Sarai.
Il alla donc vers elle. Mais elle, voyant qu’elle avait conçu, méprisa sa maîtresse.
5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “It is your fault! I put my servant into your arms, so that you could sleep with her [EUP]. Now she realizes that she is pregnant, and she despises me. I think Yahweh will punish you for doing this to me!”
Alors Saraï dit à Abram: Tu agis injustement envers moi: c’est moi qui t’ai donné ma servante pour femme, laquelle, voyant qu’elle a conçu, me traite avec mépris. Que le Seigneur juge entre moi et toi.
6 So Abram said to Sarai, “[You listen to me]! She is your servant, so act towards her in the way you consider best.” Then Sarai started to mistreat her, so she ran away from Sarai.
Abram lui répondant: Voilà, dit-il, ta servante qui est entre tes mains; fais d’elle ce qui te plaira. Saraï l’ayant donc châtiée, elle prit la fuite.
7 An angel of Yahweh found her as she was near a spring of water in the desert. It was the spring that was alongside the road to Shur.
Mais l’Ange du Seigneur l’ayant trouvée dans la solitude auprès de la source d’eau qui est sur le chemin de Sur au désert,
8 He said to her, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She replied, “I have run away from Sarai, my mistress.”
Lui dit: Agar, servante de Saraï, d’où viens-tu? et où vas-tu? Elle répondit: Je fuis devant Saraï ma maîtresse.
9 The angel said, “Go back to your mistress and be under her authority [MTY]”.
Et l’ange du Seigneur lui repartit: Retourne vers ta maîtresse, et humilie-toi sous sa main.
10 The angel also said to her, “I will enable you to bear so many descendants that no one will be able to count them!”
Et de nouveau: Multipliant, dit-il, je multiplierai ta postérité, et elle sera innombrable par la multitude.
11 The angel also said to her, “[Listen to this!] You are pregnant. You will give birth to a son. You must name him Ishmael, [which means ‘God hears]’, because Yahweh has heard you crying because you feel so miserable.
Puis: Voilà, ajouta-t-il, que tu as conçu et tu enfanteras un fils, et tu l’appelleras du nom d’Ismaël, parce que le Seigneur a entendu ton affliction.
12 But your son will be as uncontrollable as a wild donkey [MET]. He will oppose everyone, and everyone will oppose him [MTY]. He will live far away from his relatives [SYN].”
Ce sera un homme farouche: sa main sera contre tous, et la main de tous contre lui; et c’est vis-à-vis de tous ses frères qu’il plantera ses tentes.
13 Then Hagar realized that the angel was really Yahweh, so she said to herself, “(It is difficult to believe that I have really seen the back of Yahweh, the one who sees me!/Have I really seen the back of Yahweh, the one who sees me?)” [RHQ] So she called him ‘Yahweh, the one who sees me’.
Alors elle appela le Seigneur qui lui parlait du nom de: Vous êtes le Dieu qui m’avez vue. Car elle dit: Certainement ici j’ai vu par derrière, celui qui me voit.
14 That is why people call the well there ‘Beer-Lahai-Roi’, [which means, ‘The well of the living one who sees us’!] It is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
C’est pourquoi elle appela ce puits, le Puits du vivant et me voyant. Ce puits est entre Cadès et Barad.
15 So Hagar later gave birth to a son for Abram, and she gave to her son the name Ishmael.
Agar donc enfanta un fils à Abram qui l’appela du nom d’Ismaël.
16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son Ishmael.
Abram avait quatre-vingt-six ans, quand Agar lui enfanta Ismaël.
