Genesis 17
1 When Abram was 99 years old, Yahweh appeared to him again and said to him, “I am God Almighty. I want you to live in a way that I will regard you as someone that cannot be criticized.
Et lorsque Abram eut quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans, l'Éternel apparut à Abram et lui dit: Je suis Dieu, le Tout-puissant, marche en ma présence et sois irréprochable,
2 If you do that, I will make an agreement with you in which I will promise to enable you to have very many descendants.” [MTY]
et j'établirai mon alliance entre moi et toi, et je te donnerai un accroissement de plus en plus grand.
3 Abram prostrated himself with his face on the ground. Then God said to him,
Alors Abram tomba la face contre terre et Dieu lui parla en ces termes:
4 “Listen to this agreement that I am making with you: People of many nations will be your descendants.
Pour moi, voici, je tiens mon alliance avec toi, et tu deviendras père d'une multitude de peuples.
5 And no longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham, [which means ‘father of many nations,’] because the people of many nations will descend from you.
Et désormais on ne t'appellera plus de ton nom d'Abram, mais ton nom sera Abraham, car je te constitue père d'une multitude de peuples.
6 I will enable you to have very many descendants, and I will cause them to become great nations/people-groups, and some of your descendants will become kings.
Et je te rendrai de plus en plus fécond, et je ferai de toi une souche de peuples et des rois proviendront de toi.
7 I will make this agreement between me and you and your descendants. It will be an everlasting agreement to be in effect for many generations. This agreement is that I will be your God, and the God of your descendants.
Et j'érige mon alliance entre moi et toi et tes descendants après toi pour toutes leurs générations en alliance éternelle, savoir que je serai ton Dieu à toi et à ta postérité après toi.
8 I will give to you and to your descendants the land through which you are now traveling, all of the Canaan region. It will be an everlasting possession for your descendants, and I will be the God that they [will worship].”
Et je te donne et à ta postérité après toi le pays de tes pèlerinages, le pays de Canaan, en propriété éternelle, et je serai leur Dieu.
9 Then God said to Abraham, “Now you must obey [your part of] the agreement that I am making with you, and your descendants must also obey it, for all generations.
Et Dieu dit à Abraham: Pour toi, tu garderas mon alliance, toi et tes descendants après toi dans toutes leurs générations.
10 This is the agreement that I am making, between myself and you and all your descendants: Every male among you must be circumcised.
Voici l'alliance que vous observerez entre moi et vous, et ta postérité après toi, c'est que tous vos mâles seront circoncis;
11 (Cutting the foreskins of/Circumcising) them will be the sign [that you have accepted] the agreement I am making with you.
vous vous circoncirez la chair de votre prépuce, et ce sera un signe d'alliance entre moi et vous.
12 Every male child among you must be circumcised when he is eight days old, in all future generations. That includes baby boys in your household or those born from slaves that have been bought, and baby boys of foreigners who live among you but do not belong to your household.
Tout mâle sera circoncis par vous à l'âge de huit jours dans vos générations, le serf soit né à la maison, soit acquis à prix d'argent, chacun des fils de l'étranger qui ne sera pas de ta race;
13 It does not matter whether their parents are members of your household or slaves that have been bought; they must all be circumcised. Your bodies will have this mark to show [you have accepted] this everlasting agreement I am making.
vous aurez à circoncire le serf soit né à la maison, soit acquis à prix d'argent, et ainsi vous porterez en votre chair mon alliance, en alliance éternelle.
14 You must expel from your community any male who has not been circumcised, because [by not being circumcised] that person has disobeyed my agreement.”
Quant au mâle incirconcis dont la chair du prépuce n'aura pas subi la circoncision, un tel individu sera exterminé du milieu de son peuple; il aura violé mon alliance.
15 God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai, your wife, you must not call her Sarai any longer. [Since I changed your name, I will change her name also]. Her name will now be Sarah.
Et Dieu dit à Abraham: Saraï, ta femme, ne sera plus le appelée du nom de Saraï, mais son nom sera Sarah.
16 I will bless her, and she will surely give birth to a son for you. And I will bless her so much that she will be the ancestor of people of many nations. Kings of some people-groups will be descended from her.”
Et je la bénis, et je te ferai aussi naître d'elle un fils; je la bénis et elle deviendra une souche de peuples, et des rois proviendront d'elle.
17 Abraham prostrated himself with his face on the ground [to show respect to God]. But then he laughed as he said to himself, “Can a man who is a 100 years old become a father of a son? And since Sarah is 90 years old, how can she bear a child?”
Alors Abraham tomba la face contre terre, et il rit et dit en son cœur: A un centenaire naîtrait-il un fils, et Sarah, nonagénaire, enfanterait-elle?
18 Then Abraham said to God, “Perhaps you will let Ishmael receive your blessing [and inherit all I possess].”
Et Abraham dit à Dieu: Puisse Ismaël vivre sous ton regard!
19 Then God replied, “[No!] Your wife Sarah will bear a son for you. You must name him Isaac. I will establish my agreement with him, one which will be an everlasting agreement for him and his descendants.
Et Dieu dit: Ce n'est pas cela! Sarah, ta femme, t'enfantera un fils, et tu l'appelleras du nom d'Isaac; et j'érigerai mon alliance avec lui en alliance éternelle pour sa postérité après lui.
20 As for Ishmael, I have heard what you asked me to do for him. I will bless him so that he also will have many descendants. Among his descendants will be rulers of twelve nations. And I will cause his [descendants] [MTY] to also become a great nation.
Et je t'exauce quant à Ismaël: voici je le bénirai et le rendrai fécond, et lui donnerai un grand accroissement; il engendrera douze princes et je le ferai devenir un grand peuple.
21 But Isaac, the son whom Sarah will give birth to at this time next year, is the one with whom I will establish my agreement.”
Et je dresserai mon alliance avec Isaac que Sarah t'enfantera à pareille époque l'année prochaine.
22 When God finished talking to Abraham, God disappeared from his sight.
Et lorsqu'il eut achevé de parler avec lui, Dieu s'éleva quittant Abraham.
23 On that same day, Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the males that were in his household, including the sons of all the slaves he had bought, and circumcised them. He cut off their foreskins, just as God told him to do.
Alors Abraham prit Ismaël, son fils et tous les serfs nés dans sa maison et tous les serfs achetés à prix d'argent, tous les mâles de la maison d'Abraham et il circoncit la chair de leur prépuce ce jour-là même selon ce que Dieu lui avait dit.
24 Abraham was 99 years old when (he was circumcised/someone circumcised him),
Or Abraham avait quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans lorsqu'il fut circoncis en la chair de son prépuce.
25 and Ishmael was thirteen years old when Abraham circumcised him.
Et Ismaël, son fils, avait treize ans lorsqu'il fut circoncis en la chair de son prépuce.
26 On that very day Abraham and his son, Ishmael were circumcised.
C'est en ce jour même que furent circoncis Abraham et Ismaël, son fils.
27 And all the males in his household, the ones who had been born there and those who had been bought from foreigners, were also circumcised.
Et tous les hommes de sa maison, serfs nés dans la maison et serfs acquis à prix d'argent d'entre les fils de l'étranger, furent circoncis avec lui.
