Genèse 16

1 Saraï, épouse d’Abram, ne lui avait pas donné d’enfant. Elle avait une esclave égyptienne nommée 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 Saraï dit à Abram: "Hélas! l’Éternel m’a refusé l’enfantement; approche-toi donc de mon esclave: peut-être, par elle, aurai-je un enfant." Abram obéit à 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 Saraï, épouse d’Abram, prit Agar l’Egyptienne, son esclave, il y avait dix ans qu’Abram demeurait au pays de Canaan; et elle la donna à son époux Abram pour qu’elle lui servît de 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 Il s’approcha d’Agar, et elle conçut. Quand elle vit qu’elle avait conçu, sa maîtresse devint l’objet de son dédain.

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 Saraï dit à Abram: "Mon injure est la tienne. Moi-même, j’ai placé mon esclave dans tes bras; or, elle a vu qu’elle avait conçu, et je suis devenue méprisable à ses yeux. L’Éternel prononcera 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 Abram dit à Sarai: "Voici, ton esclave est dans ta main, fais-lui ce que bon te semble." Sarai l’humilia, 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 Un envoyé du Seigneur la trouva près d’une source d’eau, dans le désert, près de la source sur le chemin de Chour.

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 Il dit: "Agar, esclave de Saraï, d’où viens tu, et où veux-tu aller?" Elle répondit: "Je fuis 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 L’Envoyé du Seigneur lui dit: "Retourne chez ta maîtresse, et humilie-toi sous sa main."

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

10 L’Envoyé du Seigneur ajouta: "Je rendrai ta race très nombreuse, tellement qu’elle ne pourra être comptée."

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 L’Envoyé du Seigneur lui dit encore: "Te voici enceinte, et près d’enfanter un fils; tu énonceras son nom Ismaël, parce que Dieu 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 Celui-ci sera un onagre parmi les hommes: sa main sera contre tous, et la main de tous contre lui; mais il se maintiendra à la face 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 proclama ainsi le nom de l’Éternel qui lui avait parlé: "Tu es un Dieu visible!

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 appela cette source "la source du Vivant-qui-me-voit"; elle se trouve entre Cadès 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 Agar enfanta un fils à Abram; et Abram nomma son fils, qu’avait enfanté Agar, Ismaël.

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

16 Abram était âgé de quatre-vingt-six-ans, lorsque Agar lui enfanta Ismaël.

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