< 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.
Ketika Abram berumur sembilan puluh sembilan tahun, maka TUHAN menampakkan diri kepada Abram dan berfirman kepadanya: "Akulah Allah Yang Mahakuasa, hiduplah di hadapan-Ku dengan tidak bercela.
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]
Aku akan mengadakan perjanjian antara Aku dan engkau, dan Aku akan membuat engkau sangat banyak."
3 Abram prostrated himself with his face on the ground. Then God said to him,
Lalu sujudlah Abram, dan Allah berfirman kepadanya:
4 “Listen to this agreement that I am making with you: People of many nations will be your descendants.
"Dari pihak-Ku, inilah perjanjian-Ku dengan engkau: Engkau akan menjadi bapa sejumlah besar bangsa.
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.
Karena itu namamu bukan lagi Abram, melainkan Abraham, karena engkau telah Kutetapkan menjadi bapa sejumlah besar bangsa.
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.
Aku akan membuat engkau beranak cucu sangat banyak; engkau akan Kubuat menjadi bangsa-bangsa, dan dari padamu akan berasal raja-raja.
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.
Aku akan mengadakan perjanjian antara Aku dan engkau serta keturunanmu turun-temurun menjadi perjanjian yang kekal, supaya Aku menjadi Allahmu dan Allah keturunanmu.
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].”
Kepadamu dan kepada keturunanmu akan Kuberikan negeri ini yang kaudiami sebagai orang asing, yakni seluruh tanah Kanaan akan Kuberikan menjadi milikmu untuk selama-lamanya; dan Aku akan menjadi Allah mereka."
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.
Lagi firman Allah kepada Abraham: "Dari pihakmu, engkau harus memegang perjanjian-Ku, engkau dan keturunanmu turun-temurun.
10 This is the agreement that I am making, between myself and you and all your descendants: Every male among you must be circumcised.
Inilah perjanjian-Ku, yang harus kamu pegang, perjanjian antara Aku dan kamu serta keturunanmu, yaitu setiap laki-laki di antara kamu harus disunat;
11 (Cutting the foreskins of/Circumcising) them will be the sign [that you have accepted] the agreement I am making with you.
haruslah dikerat kulit khatanmu dan itulah akan menjadi tanda perjanjian antara Aku dan kamu.
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.
Anak yang berumur delapan hari haruslah disunat, yakni setiap laki-laki di antara kamu, turun-temurun: baik yang lahir di rumahmu, maupun yang dibeli dengan uang dari salah seorang asing, tetapi tidak termasuk keturunanmu.
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.
Orang yang lahir di rumahmu dan orang yang engkau beli dengan uang harus disunat; maka dalam dagingmulah perjanjian-Ku itu menjadi perjanjian yang kekal.
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.”
Dan orang yang tidak disunat, yakni laki-laki yang tidak dikerat kulit khatannya, maka orang itu harus dilenyapkan dari antara orang-orang sebangsanya: ia telah mengingkari perjanjian-Ku."
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.
Selanjutnya Allah berfirman kepada Abraham: "Tentang isterimu Sarai, janganlah engkau menyebut dia lagi Sarai, tetapi Sara, itulah namanya.
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.”
Aku akan memberkatinya, dan dari padanya juga Aku akan memberikan kepadamu seorang anak laki-laki, bahkan Aku akan memberkatinya, sehingga ia menjadi ibu bangsa-bangsa; raja-raja bangsa-bangsa akan lahir dari padanya."
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?”
Lalu tertunduklah Abraham dan tertawa serta berkata dalam hatinya: "Mungkinkah bagi seorang yang berumur seratus tahun dilahirkan seorang anak dan mungkinkah Sara, yang telah berumur sembilan puluh tahun itu melahirkan seorang anak?"
18 Then Abraham said to God, “Perhaps you will let Ishmael receive your blessing [and inherit all I possess].”
Dan Abraham berkata kepada Allah: "Ah, sekiranya Ismael diperkenankan hidup di hadapan-Mu!"
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.
Tetapi Allah berfirman: "Tidak, melainkan isterimu Saralah yang akan melahirkan anak laki-laki bagimu, dan engkau akan menamai dia Ishak, dan Aku akan mengadakan perjanjian-Ku dengan dia menjadi perjanjian yang kekal untuk keturunannya.
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.
Tentang Ismael, Aku telah mendengarkan permintaanmu; ia akan Kuberkati, Kubuat beranak cucu dan sangat banyak; ia akan memperanakkan dua belas raja, dan Aku akan membuatnya menjadi bangsa yang besar.
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.”
Tetapi perjanjian-Ku akan Kuadakan dengan Ishak, yang akan dilahirkan Sara bagimu tahun yang akan datang pada waktu seperti ini juga."
22 When God finished talking to Abraham, God disappeared from his sight.
Setelah selesai berfirman kepada Abraham, naiklah Allah meninggalkan 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.
Setelah itu Abraham memanggil Ismael, anaknya, dan semua orang yang lahir di rumahnya, juga semua orang yang dibelinya dengan uang, yakni setiap laki-laki dari isi rumahnya, lalu ia mengerat kulit khatan mereka pada hari itu juga, seperti yang telah difirmankan Allah kepadanya.
24 Abraham was 99 years old when (he was circumcised/someone circumcised him),
Abraham berumur sembilan puluh sembilan tahun ketika dikerat kulit khatannya.
25 and Ishmael was thirteen years old when Abraham circumcised him.
Dan Ismael, anaknya, berumur tiga belas tahun ketika dikerat kulit khatannya.
26 On that very day Abraham and his son, Ishmael were circumcised.
Pada hari itu juga Abraham dan Ismael, anaknya, disunat.
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.
Dan semua orang dari isi rumah Abraham, baik yang lahir di rumahnya, maupun yang dibeli dengan uang dari orang asing, disunat bersama-sama dengan dia.