Genèse 16
1 Sara, femme d'Abram, ne lui avait point donné d'enfants; elle avait une servante 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 Elle dit donc à Abram: Le Seigneur a clos mes entrailles pour que je n'enfante point: Approche-toi de ma servante, afin que d'elle il me vienne un enfant. Abram prêta l'oreille à la parole de Sara.
[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 Sara, femme d'Abram, ayant pris l'Égyptienne Agar sa servante, après dix ans de séjour en la terre de Chanaan, la donna pour femme à Abram son mari.
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 Celui-ci s'approcha d'Agar, et elle conçut; bientôt elle vit qu'elle portait un enfant; et sa maîtresse fut méprisée par elle.
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 Sara dit alors à Abram: Tu me traites injustement; j'ai placé sur ton sein ma servante; elle a vu qu'elle porte un enfant, et je suis méprisée par elle; que Dieu juge entre toi et moi.
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 lui répondit: Voici la servante dans tes mains; uses-en avec elle comme il te sera agréable. Et Sara la maltraita, et elle s'enfuit loin de sa face.
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 L'ange du Seigneur vint la trouver dans le désert auprès d'une fontaine, celle qui est sur le chemin de Sur,
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 lui dit: Agar, servante de Sara, d'où viens-tu, et où vas-tu? Je fuis, répondit-elle, loin de la face de Sara 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'Ange du Seigneur ajouta: Retourne vers ta maîtresse, humilie-toi, et courbe-toi sous ses mains.
The angel said, “Go back to your mistress and be under her authority [MTY]”.
10 Il dit ensuite: Je multiplierai et multiplierai ta race; elle sera innombrable par 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 du Seigneur ajouta: Te voilà enceinte, tu enfanteras un fils, auquel tu donneras le nom d'Ismaël, parce que le Seigneur a ouï ton humiliation.
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 Ce sera un homme rude; ses mains seront sur tous et les mains de tous sur lui, et il habitera en 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 Alors Agar invoqua le nom du Seigneur qui lui parlait, disant: Dieu, vous m'avez regardée; car, se dit-elle, j'ai vu en face celui qui m'est apparu.
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 À cause de cela, elle nomma la source: puits de celui que j'ai vu en face. Ce puits est entre Cadès et Barad.
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 Bientôt Agar enfanta un fils à Abram, et Abram donna au fils que lui avait enfanté Agar le nom d'Ismaël.
So Hagar later gave birth to a son for Abram, and she gave to her son the name Ishmael.
16 Or Abram avait quatre-vingt-six ans, lorsque Agar lui enfanta Ismaël.
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son Ishmael.
