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.
| وقتی ابرام نود و نه ساله بود، خداوند بر او ظاهر شد و فرمود: «من اِل شَدّای، خدای قادر مطلق هستم. از من اطاعت کن و آنچه راست است بجا آور. |
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]
| با تو عهد می‌بندم که نسل تو را زیاد کنم.» |
3 Abram prostrated himself with his face on the ground. Then God said to him,
| آنگاه ابرام رو به زمین خم شد و خدا به وی گفت: |
4 “Listen to this agreement that I am making with you: People of many nations will be your descendants.
| «من با تو عهد می‌بندم که قومهای بسیار از تو به وجود آورم. |
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.
| از این پس نام تو ابرام نخواهد بود، بلکه ابراهیم؛ زیرا من تو را پدر قومهای بسیار می‌سازم. |
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.
| نسل تو را بسیار زیاد می‌کنم و از آنها قومها و پادشاهان به وجود می‌آورم. |
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.
| من عهد خود را تا ابد با تو و بعد از تو با فرزندانت، نسل اندر نسل برقرار می‌کنم. من خدای تو هستم و خدای فرزندانت نیز خواهم بود. |
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].”
| تمامی سرزمین کنعان را که اکنون در آن غریب هستی، تا ابد به تو و به نسل تو خواهم بخشید و خدای ایشان خواهم بود.» |
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.
| آنگاه خدا به ابراهیم فرمود: «وظیفهٔ توست که عهد مرا نگاه داری، تو و فرزندانت و نسلهای بعد. |
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 عهدی که تو و نسلت باید نگاه دارید: تمام مردان و پسران شما باید ختنه شوند. |
11 (Cutting the foreskins of/Circumcising) them will be the sign [that you have accepted] the agreement I am making with you.
| باید گوشت قُلفۀ خود را ببرید تا بدین وسیله نشان دهید که عهد مرا پذیرفته‌اید. |
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.
| «در نسلهای شما، هر پسر هشت روزه باید ختنه شود. این قانون شامل تمام مردان خانه‌زاد و زرخرید هم می‌شود. |
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.
| همه باید ختنه شوند و این نشانی بر بدن شما خواهد بود از عهد جاودانی من. |
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.”
| هر کس نخواهد ختنه شود، باید از قومِ خود منقطع شود، زیرا عهد مرا شکسته است.» |
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.
| خدا همچنین فرمود: «اما در خصوص سارای، زن تو: بعد از این دیگر او را سارای مخوان. نام او سارا (یعنی”شاهزاده“) خواهد بود. |
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.”
| من او را برکت خواهم داد و از وی به تو پسری خواهم بخشید. بله، او را بسیار برکت خواهم داد و از او قومهای بسیار به وجود خواهم آورد. از میان فرزندان تو، پادشاهان خواهند برخاست.» |
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 سجده کرد و خندید و در دل خود گفت: «آیا برای مرد صد ساله پسری متولد شود و سارا در نود سالگی بزاید؟» |
18 Then Abraham said to God, “Perhaps you will let Ishmael receive your blessing [and inherit all I possess].”
| پس به خدا عرض کرد: «خداوندا، همان اسماعیل را منظور بدار.» |
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.
| ولی خدا فرمود: «مطمئن باش خودِ سارا برای تو پسری خواهد زایید و تو نام او را اسحاق (یعنی”خنده“) خواهی گذاشت. من عهد خود را با او و نسل وی تا ابد برقرار خواهم ساخت. |
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.
| اما در مورد اسماعیل نیز تقاضای تو را اجابت نمودم و او را برکت خواهم داد و نسل او را چنان زیاد خواهم کرد که قوم بزرگی از او به وجود آید. دوازده امیر از میان فرزندان او برخواهند خاست. |
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.”
| اما عهد خود را با اسحاق که سارا او را سال دیگر در همین موقع برای تو خواهد زایید، استوار می‌سازم.» |
22 When God finished talking to Abraham, God disappeared from his sight.
| آنگاه خدا از سخن گفتن با ابراهیم بازایستاد و از نزد او رفت. |
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.
| سپس ابراهیم، فرزندش اسماعیل و سایر مردان و پسرانی را که در خانه‌اش بودند، چنانکه خدا فرموده بود ختنه کرد. |
24 Abraham was 99 years old when (he was circumcised/someone circumcised him),
| در آن زمان ابراهیم نود و نه ساله و اسماعیل سیزده ساله بود. هر دو آنها در همان روز با سایر مردان و پسرانی که در خانه‌اش بودند، چه خانه‌زاد و چه زرخرید، ختنه شدند. |
25 and Ishmael was thirteen years old when Abraham circumcised him.
26 On that very day Abraham and his son, Ishmael were circumcised.
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.
