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.
| و چون ابرام نود و نه ساله بود، خداوندبر ابرام ظاهر شده، گفت: «من هستم خدای قادر مطلق، پیش روی من بخرام و کامل شو، | ۱ |
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]
| و عهد خویش را در میان خود و تو خواهم بست، و تو را بسیاربسیار کثیر خواهم گردانید.» | ۲ |
3 Abram prostrated himself with his face on the ground. Then God said to him,
| آنگاه ابرام به روی در‌افتاد و خدا به وی خطاب کرده، گفت: | ۳ |
4 “Listen to this agreement that I am making with you: People of many nations will be your descendants.
| «اما من اینک عهد من با توست و توپدر امت های بسیار خواهی بود. | ۴ |
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.
| و نام تو بعد ازاین ابرام خوانده نشود بلکه نام تو ابراهیم خواهدبود، زیرا که تو را پدر امت های بسیار گردانیدم. | ۵ |
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.
| و تو را بسیار بارور نمایم و امت‌ها از تو پدیدآورم و پادشاهان از تو به وجود آیند. | ۶ |
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.
| و عهدخویش را در میان خود و تو، و ذریتت بعد از تو، استوار گردانم که نسلا بعد نسل عهد جاودانی باشد، تا تو را و بعد از تو ذریت تو را خدا باشم. | ۷ |
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].”
| وزمین غربت تو، یعنی تمام زمین کنعان را، به تو و بعد از تو به ذریت تو به ملکیت ابدی دهم، وخدای ایشان خواهم بود.» | ۸ |
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.
| پس خدا به ابراهیم گفت: «و اما تو عهد مرا نگاه دار، تو و بعد از توذریت تو در نسلهای ایشان. | ۹ |
10 This is the agreement that I am making, between myself and you and all your descendants: Every male among you must be circumcised.
| این است عهد من که نگاه خواهید داشت، در میان من و شما و ذریت تو بعد از تو هر ذکوری از شما مختون شود، | ۱۰ |
11 (Cutting the foreskins of/Circumcising) them will be the sign [that you have accepted] the agreement I am making with you.
| وگوشت قلفه خود را مختون سازید، تا نشان آن عهدی باشد که در میان من و شماست. | ۱۱ |
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.
| هر پسرهشت روزه از شما مختون شود. هر ذکوری درنسلهای شما، خواه خانه زاد خواه زرخرید، ازاولاد هر اجنبی که از ذریت تو نباشد، | ۱۲ |
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.
| هرخانه زاد تو و هر زر خرید تو البته مختون شود تاعهد من در گوشت شما عهد جاودانی باشد. | ۱۳ |
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.”
| واما هر ذکور نامختون که گوشت قلفه او ختنه نشود، آن کس از قوم خود منقطع شود، زیرا که عهد مرا شکسته است.» | ۱۴ |
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.
| و خدا به ابراهیم گفت: «اما زوجه توسارای، نام او را سارای مخوان، بلکه نام او ساره باشد. | ۱۵ |
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.”
| و او را برکت خواهم داد و پسری نیز ازوی به تو خواهم بخشید. او را برکت خواهم داد وامتها از وی به وجود خواهند آمد، و ملوک امتهااز وی پدید خواهند شد.» | ۱۶ |
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?”
| آنگاه ابراهیم به روی در‌افتاده، بخندید و در دل خود گفت: «آیابرای مرد صد ساله پسری متولد شود و ساره درنود سالگی بزاید؟» | ۱۷ |
18 Then Abraham said to God, “Perhaps you will let Ishmael receive your blessing [and inherit all I possess].”
| و ابراهیم به خدا گفت: «کاش که اسماعیل در حضور تو زیست کند.» | ۱۸ |
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.
| خدا گفت: «به تحقیق زوجه ات ساره برای توپسری خواهد زایید، و او را اسحاق نام بنه، و عهدخود را با وی استوار خواهم داشت، تا با ذریت اوبعد از او عهد ابدی باشد. | ۱۹ |
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.
| و اما در خصوص اسماعیل، تو را اجابت فرمودم. اینک او را برکت داده، بارور گردانم، و او را بسیار کثیر گردانم. دوازده رئیس از وی پدید آیند، و امتی عظیم ازوی بوجود آورم. | ۲۰ |
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.”
| لکن عهد خود را با اسحاق استوار خواهم ساخت، که ساره او را بدین وقت در سال آینده برای تو خواهد زایید.» | ۲۱ |
22 When God finished talking to Abraham, God disappeared from his sight.
| و چون خدا از سخن‌گفتن با وی فارغ شد، از نزد ابراهیم صعود فرمود. | ۲۲ |
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.
| و ابراهیم پسر خود، اسماعیل وهمه خانه زادان و زرخریدان خود را، یعنی هرذکوری که در خانه ابراهیم بود، گرفته، گوشت قلفه ایشان را در همان روز ختنه کرد، چنانکه خدا به وی امر فرموده بود. | ۲۳ |
24 Abraham was 99 years old when (he was circumcised/someone circumcised him),
| و ابراهیم نود و نه ساله بود، وقتی که گوشت قلفه‌اش مختون شد. | ۲۴ |
25 and Ishmael was thirteen years old when Abraham circumcised him.
| و پسرش، اسماعیل سیزده ساله بود هنگامی که گوشت قلفه‌اش مختون شد. | ۲۵ |
26 On that very day Abraham and his son, Ishmael were circumcised.
| در همان روزابراهیم و پسرش، اسماعیل مختون گشتند. | ۲۶ |
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.
| وهمه مردان خانه‌اش، خواه خانه زاد، خواه زرخرید از اولاد اجنبی، با وی مختون شدند. | ۲۷ |
