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:
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.
2 j'établirai mon alliance entre moi et toi, et je te multiplierai à l'infini. "
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]
3 Abram tomba la face contre terre, et Dieu lui parla ainsi:
Abram prostrated himself with his face on the ground. Then God said to him,
4 " Moi, voici mon alliance avec toi: tu deviendras père d'une multitude de nations.
“Listen to this agreement that I am making with you: People of many nations will be your descendants.
5 On ne te nommera plus Abram, mais ton nom sera Abraham, car je te fais père d'une multitude de nations.
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.
6 Je te ferai croître extraordinairement, je ferai de toi des nations, et des rois sortiront de toi.
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.
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.
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.
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 ".
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].”
9 Dieu dit à Abraham: " Et toi, tu garderas mon alliance, toi et tes descendants après toi, d'âge en âge.
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.
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 the agreement that I am making, between myself and you and all your descendants: Every male among you must be circumcised.
11 Vous vous circoncirez dans votre chair, et ce sera le signe de l'alliance entre moi et vous.
(Cutting the foreskins of/Circumcising) them will be the sign [that you have accepted] the agreement I am making with 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.
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.
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.
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.
14 Un mâle incirconcis, qui n'aura pas été circoncis dans sa chair, sera retranché de son peuple: il aura violé mon alliance. "
You must expel from your community any male who has not been circumcised, because [by not being circumcised] that person has disobeyed my agreement.”
15 Dieu dit à Abraham: " Tu ne donneras plus à Saraï, ta femme, le nom de Saraï, car son nom est Sara.
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.
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. "
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.”
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 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?”
18 Et Abraham dit à Dieu: " Oh! qu' Ismaël vive devant votre face! "
Then Abraham said to God, “Perhaps you will let Ishmael receive your blessing [and inherit all I possess].”
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.
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.
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.
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.
21 Mais mon alliance, je l'établirai avec Isaac, que Sara t'enfantera l'année prochaine, à cette époque. "
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.”
22 Et ayant achevé de parler avec lui, Dieu remonta d'auprès d'Abraham.
When God finished talking to Abraham, God disappeared from his sight.
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.
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.
24 Abraham était âgé de quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans lorsqu'il fut circoncis;
Abraham was 99 years old when (he was circumcised/someone circumcised him),
25 et Ismaël, son fils, avait treize ans lorsqu'il fut circoncis.
and Ishmael was thirteen years old when Abraham circumcised him.
26 Ce même jour, Abraham fut circoncis, ainsi qu'Ismaël, son fils;
On that very day Abraham and his son, Ishmael were circumcised.
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 males in his household, the ones who had been born there and those who had been bought from foreigners, were also circumcised.
