Genèse 17

1 Lorsque Abram fut arrivé à l'âge de quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans, Yahweh lui apparut et lui dit: " Je suis le Dieu tout-puissant; marche devant ma face et sois irréprochable:

In truth, after he began to be ninety-nine years of age, the Lord appeared to him. And he said to him: “I am the Almighty God. Walk in my sight and become complete.

2 j'établirai mon alliance entre moi et toi, et je te multiplierai à l'infini. "

And I will set my covenant between me and you. And I will multiply you very exceedingly.”

3 Abram tomba la face contre terre, et Dieu lui parla ainsi:

Abram fell prone on his face.

4 " Moi, voici mon alliance avec toi: tu deviendras père d'une multitude de nations.

And God said to him: “I AM, and my covenant is with you, and you will be the father of many nations.

5 On ne te nommera plus Abram, mais ton nom sera Abraham, car je te fais père d'une multitude de nations.

No longer will your name be called Abram. But you will be called Abraham, for I have established you as the father of many nations.

6 Je te ferai croître extraordinairement, je ferai de toi des nations, et des rois sortiront de toi.

And I will cause you to increase very greatly, and I will set you among the nations, and kings will come forth from you.

7 J'établis mon alliance, entre moi et toi et tes descendants après toi, d'âge en âge, en une alliance perpétuelle, pour être ton Dieu et le Dieu de tes descendants après toi.

And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and with your offspring after you in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

8 Je te donnerai, à toi et à tes descendants après toi, le pays où tu séjournes comme étranger, tout le pays de Chanaan, en possession perpétuelle, et je serai leur Dieu ".

And I will give to you and to your offspring, the land of your sojourn, all the land of Canaan, as an eternal possession, and I will be their God.”

9 Dieu dit à Abraham: " Et toi, tu garderas mon alliance, toi et tes descendants après toi, d'âge en âge.

Again God said to Abraham: “And you therefore shall keep my covenant, and your offspring after you in their generations.

10 Voici l'alliance que vous avez à garder, l'alliance entre moi et vous, et tes descendants après toi: tout mâle parmi vous sera circoncis.

This is my covenant, which you shall observe, between me and you, and your offspring after you: All the males among you shall be circumcised.

11 Vous vous circoncirez dans votre chair, et ce sera le signe de l'alliance entre moi et vous.

And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, so that it may be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

12 Quand il aura huit jours, tout mâle parmi vous, d'âge en âge, sera circoncis, qu'il soit né dans la maison, ou qu'il ait été acquis à prix d'argent d'un étranger quelconque, qui n'est pas de ta race.

An infant of eight days will be circumcised among you, every male in your generations. So also servants born to you, as well as those bought, shall be circumcised, even those who are not of your stock.

13 On devra circoncire le mâle né dans la maison ou acquis à prix d'argent, et mon alliance sera dans votre chair comme alliance perpétuelle.

And my covenant shall be with your flesh as an eternal covenant.

14 Un mâle incirconcis, qui n'aura pas été circoncis dans sa chair, sera retranché de son peuple: il aura violé mon alliance. "

The male, the flesh of whose foreskin will not be circumcised, that soul shall be eliminated from his people. For he has made my covenant void.”

15 Dieu dit à Abraham: " Tu ne donneras plus à Saraï, ta femme, le nom de Saraï, car son nom est Sara.

God said also to Abraham: “Your wife Sarai, you shall not call Sarai, but Sarah.

16 Je la bénirai, et je te donnerai aussi d'elle un fils; je la bénirai, et elle deviendra des nations; des rois de peuples sortiront d'elle. "

And I will bless her, and from her I will give you a son, whom I will bless, and he will be among the nations, and the kings of the peoples will rise from him.”

17 Abraham tomba la face contre terre, et il rit, disant dans son cœur: " Naîtra-t-il un fils à un homme de cent ans? Et Sara, une femme de quatre-vingt-dix ans, enfantera-t-elle? "

Abraham fell on his face, and he laughed, saying in his heart: “Do you think a son can be born to a one hundred year old man? And will Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”

18 Et Abraham dit à Dieu: " Oh! qu' Ismaël vive devant votre face! "

And he said to God, “If only Ishmael would live in your sight.”

19 Dieu dit: " Oui, Sara, ta femme, t'enfantera un fils; tu le nommeras Isaac, et j'établirai mon alliance avec lui comme une alliance perpétuelle pour ses descendants après lui.

And God said to Abraham: “Your wife Sarah shall give birth to a son, and you shall call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant, and with his offspring after him.

20 Quant à Ismaël, je t'ai entendu. Voici, je l'ai béni, je le rendrai fécond et je le multiplierai extrêmement; il engendrera douze princes, et je ferai de lui une grande nation.

Likewise, concerning Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless and enlarge him, and I will multiply him greatly. He will produce twelve leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.

21 Mais mon alliance, je l'établirai avec Isaac, que Sara t'enfantera l'année prochaine, à cette époque. "

Yet in truth, I will establish my covenant with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth for you at this time next year.”

22 Et ayant achevé de parler avec lui, Dieu remonta d'auprès d'Abraham.

And when he had finished speaking with him, God ascended from Abraham.

23 Abraham prit Ismaël, son fils, ainsi que tous les serviteurs nés dans sa maison et tous ceux qu'il avait acquis à prix d'argent, tous les mâles parmi les gens de sa maison, et il les circoncit en ce jour même, comme Dieu le lui avait commandé.

Then Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all who were born in his house, and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin promptly, the very same day, just as God had instructed him.

24 Abraham était âgé de quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans lorsqu'il fut circoncis;

Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.

25 et Ismaël, son fils, avait treize ans lorsqu'il fut circoncis.

And his son Ishmael had completed thirteen years at the time of his circumcision.

26 Ce même jour, Abraham fut circoncis, ainsi qu'Ismaël, son fils;

On the very same day, Abraham was circumcised with his son Ishmael.

27 et tous les hommes de sa maison, ceux qui étaient nés chez lui et ceux qui avaient été acquis des étrangers à prix d'argent, furent circoncis avec lui.

And all the men of his house, those born in his house, as well as those who were bought, even the foreigners, were circumcised with him.