Genèse 16

1 Et Saraï, femme d’Abram, ne lui donnait pas d’enfant; et elle avait une servante égyptienne, et son nom était Agar.

Up to that time, Abram’s wife Sarai had not given birth to any children for Abram. But she had a female slave from Egypt, whose name was Hagar.

2 Et Saraï dit à Abram: Tu vois que l’Éternel m’a empêchée d’avoir des enfants; va, je te prie, vers ma servante; peut-être me bâtirai-je [une maison] par elle. Et Abram écouta la voix de Saraï.

[So one day] Sarai said to Abram, “Listen to me! Yahweh has not allowed me to become pregnant. So (sleep with/have sex with) [EUP] my slave Hagar. Perhaps she will bear children whom I can consider to be mine.” Abram agreed to do what Sarai said.

3 Et Saraï, femme d’Abram, prit Agar, l’Égyptienne, sa servante, après qu’Abram eut demeuré dix ans au pays de Canaan, et la donna à Abram, son mari, pour femme.

So Abram (slept with/had sex with) Hagar, his wife Sarai’s slave from Egypt. This happened ten years after they went to live in Canaan [land]. Sarai gave Hagar to her husband to be his secondary wife.

4 Et il vint vers Agar, et elle conçut; et elle vit qu’elle avait conçu, et sa maîtresse fut méprisée à ses yeux.

He (slept with/had sex with) [EUP] Hagar and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress Sarai.

5 Et Saraï dit à Abram: Le tort qui m’est fait est sur toi: moi, je t’ai donné ma servante dans ton sein; et elle voit qu’elle a conçu, et je suis méprisée à ses yeux. L’Éternel jugera entre moi et toi!

Then Sarai said to Abram, “It is your fault! I put my servant into your arms, so that you could sleep with her [EUP]. Now she realizes that she is pregnant, and she despises me. I think Yahweh will punish you for doing this to me!”

6 Et Abram dit à Saraï: Voici, ta servante est entre tes mains, fais-lui comme il sera bon à tes yeux. Et Saraï la maltraita, et elle s’enfuit de devant elle.

So Abram said to Sarai, “[You listen to me]! She is your servant, so act towards her in the way you consider best.” Then Sarai started to mistreat her, so she ran away from Sarai.

7 Mais l’Ange de l’Éternel la trouva près d’une fontaine d’eau dans le désert, près de la fontaine qui est sur le chemin de Shur.

An angel of Yahweh found her as she was near a spring of water in the desert. It was the spring that was alongside the road to Shur.

8 Et il dit: Agar, servante de Saraï, d’où viens-tu, et où vas-tu? Et elle dit: Je m’enfuis de devant Saraï, ma maîtresse.

He said to her, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She replied, “I have run away from Sarai, my mistress.”

9 Et l’Ange de l’Éternel lui dit: Retourne vers ta maîtresse, et humilie-toi sous sa main.

The angel said, “Go back to your mistress and be under her authority [MTY]”.

10 Et l’Ange de l’Éternel lui dit: Je multiplierai beaucoup ta semence, et elle ne pourra se nombrer à cause de sa multitude.

The angel also said to her, “I will enable you to bear so many descendants that no one will be able to count them!”

11 Et l’Ange de l’Éternel lui dit: Voici, tu es enceinte, et tu enfanteras un fils, et tu appelleras son nom Ismaël, car l’Éternel a entendu ton affliction.

The angel also said to her, “[Listen to this!] You are pregnant. You will give birth to a son. You must name him Ishmael, [which means ‘God hears]’, because Yahweh has heard you crying because you feel so miserable.

12 Et lui, sera un âne sauvage; sa main sera contre tous, et la main de tous sera contre lui; et il habitera à la vue de tous ses frères.

But your son will be as uncontrollable as a wild donkey [MET]. He will oppose everyone, and everyone will oppose him [MTY]. He will live far away from his relatives [SYN].”

13 Et elle appela le nom de l’Éternel qui lui avait parlé: Tu es le Dieu qui te révèles; car elle dit: N’ai-je pas aussi vu ici, après qu’il s’est révélé?

Then Hagar realized that the angel was really Yahweh, so she said to herself, “(It is difficult to believe that I have really seen the back of Yahweh, the one who sees me!/Have I really seen the back of Yahweh, the one who sees me?)” [RHQ] So she called him ‘Yahweh, the one who sees me’.

14 C’est pourquoi on a appelé le puits: Beër-Lakhaï-roï; voici, il est entre Kadès et Béred.

That is why people call the well there ‘Beer-Lahai-Roi’, [which means, ‘The well of the living one who sees us’!] It is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

15 Et Agar enfanta un fils à Abram; et Abram appela le nom de son fils, qu’Agar enfanta, Ismaël.

So Hagar later gave birth to a son for Abram, and she gave to her son the name Ishmael.

16 Et Abram était âgé de 86 ans lorsque Agar enfanta Ismaël à Abram.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son Ishmael.