Genèse 16
1 Saraï, épouse d’Abram, ne lui avait pas donné d’enfant. Elle avait une esclave égyptienne nommée Agar.
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne any children for him, but she had a female servant, an Egyptian, 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 Sarai said to Abram, “See, Yahweh has kept me from having children. Go sleep with my servant. It may be that I will have children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
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.
It was after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan that Sarai, Abram's wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, to her husband as a 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.
So he had relations with Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
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, “This wrong on me is because of you. I gave my servant woman into your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Let Yahweh judge between me and you.”
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.
But Abram said to Sarai, “See here, your servant woman is in your power, do to her what you think best.” So Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
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.
The angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring that is on the way 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, “Hagar, Sarai's servant, where did you come from and where are you going?” Then she said, “I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai.”
9 L’Envoyé du Seigneur lui dit: "Retourne chez ta maîtresse, et humilie-toi sous sa main."
The angel of Yahweh said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority.”
10 L’Envoyé du Seigneur ajouta: "Je rendrai ta race très nombreuse, tellement qu’elle ne pourra être comptée."
Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants, so that they will be too numerous to count.”
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 of Yahweh also said to her, “Behold, you are pregnant and will bear a son, and you will call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
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."
He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile against every man, and every man will be hostile to him, and he will live apart from all his brothers.”
13 Et elle proclama ainsi le nom de l’Éternel qui lui avait parlé: "Tu es un Dieu visible!
Then she gave this name to Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Do I really continue to see, even after he has seen me?”
14 C’Est pourquoi on appela cette source "la source du Vivant-qui-me-voit"; elle se trouve entre Cadès et Béred.
Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
15 Agar enfanta un fils à Abram; et Abram nomma son fils, qu’avait enfanté Agar, Ismaël.
Hagar gave birth to Abram's son, and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
16 Abram était âgé de quatre-vingt-six-ans, lorsque Agar lui enfanta Ismaël.
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
