Genèse 17
1 Lorsque Abram fut âgé de quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans, l’Éternel apparut à Abram, et lui dit: Je suis le Dieu tout-puissant. Marche devant ma face, et sois intègre.
When Abram was 99, the Lord appeared to him and told him, “I am God Almighty. Live in my presence and don't do wrong.
2 J’établirai mon alliance entre moi et toi, et je te multiplierai à l’infini.
I will make my agreement between me and you, and I will give you many, many descendants.”
3 Abram tomba sur sa face; et Dieu lui parla, en disant:
Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God told him,
4 Voici mon alliance, que je fais avec toi. Tu deviendras père d’une multitude de nations.
“Listen! This is the agreement I'm making with you. You will be the father of many nations,
5 On ne t’appellera plus Abram; mais ton nom sera Abraham, car je te rends père d’une multitude de nations.
so your name won't be Abram any longer. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I'm going to make you the father of many nations.
6 Je te rendrai fécond à l’infini, je ferai de toi des nations; et des rois sortiront de toi.
I will make sure you have a large number of descendants. They will become many nations, and some of their kings will also come from your line.
7 J’établirai mon alliance entre moi et toi, et tes descendants après toi, selon leurs générations: ce sera une alliance perpétuelle, en vertu de laquelle je serai ton Dieu et celui de ta postérité après toi.
I promise to continue my agreement with you, and with your descendants who come after you, for generations to come. This is an eternal agreement. I will always be your God, and the God of your descendants.
8 Je te donnerai, et à tes descendants après toi, le pays que tu habites comme étranger, tout le pays de Canaan, en possession perpétuelle, et je serai leur Dieu.
I will give you and your descendants the whole country of Canaan—where you've been living as a foreigner—as land to own forever, and I will be their God.”
9 Dieu dit à Abraham: Toi, tu garderas mon alliance, toi et tes descendants après toi, selon leurs générations.
Then God told Abraham, “Your part is to keep my agreement—you and your descendants for generations to come.
10 C’est ici mon alliance, que vous garderez entre moi et vous, et ta postérité après toi: tout mâle parmi vous sera circoncis.
This is my agreement with you and your descendants who come after you, the agreement you are to keep: every male among you shall be circumcised.
11 Vous vous circoncirez; et ce sera un signe d’alliance entre moi et vous.
You are to circumcise your foreskin, and this will be the sign of the agreement between me and you.
12 A l’âge de huit jours, tout mâle parmi vous sera circoncis, selon vos générations, qu’il soit né dans la maison, ou qu’il soit acquis à prix d’argent de tout fils d’étranger, sans appartenir à ta race.
From now and for all generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised. This includes not only your sons but also those born in your household or bought from foreigners.
13 On devra circoncire celui qui est né dans la maison et celui qui est acquis à prix d’argent; et mon alliance sera dans votre chair une alliance perpétuelle.
You must circumcise those born in your household or bought from foreigners as a sign in your bodies of my eternal agreement.
14 Un mâle incirconcis, qui n’aura pas été circoncis dans sa chair, sera exterminé du milieu de son peuple: il aura violé mon alliance.
Any uncircumcised male who refuses circumcision will be excluded from his people because he has broken my agreement.”
15 Dieu dit à Abraham: Tu ne donneras plus à Saraï, ta femme, le nom de Saraï; mais son nom sera Sara.
Then God told Abraham, “Now about Sarai your wife. Don't call her Sarai any longer. Instead, her name will be Sarah.
16 Je la bénirai, et je te donnerai d’elle un fils; je la bénirai, et elle deviendra des nations; des rois de peuples sortiront d’elle.
I will bless her and I promise to give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will become the mother of nations, and kings will be among her descendants.”
17 Abraham tomba sur sa face; il rit, et dit en son cœur: Naîtrait-il un fils à un homme de cent ans? Et Sara, âgée de quatre-vingt-dix ans, enfanterait-elle?
Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground. But inside he was laughing, asking himself, “How on earth could I have a son at the age of one hundred? How could Sarah have a child when she is ninety?”
18 Et Abraham dit à Dieu: Oh! Qu’Ismaël vive devant ta face!
Abraham said to God, “May Ishmael always live under your blessing!”
19 Dieu dit: Certainement Sara, ta femme, t’enfantera un fils; et tu l’appelleras du nom d’Isaac. J’établirai mon alliance avec lui comme une alliance perpétuelle pour sa postérité après lui.
“No, it's your wife Sarah who is going to have a son for you!” God replied. “You are to call him Isaac. I will keep my agreement with him and his descendants as an eternal agreement.
20 A l’égard d’Ismaël, je t’ai exaucé. Voici, je le bénirai, je le rendrai fécond, et je le multiplierai à l’infini; il engendrera douze princes, et je ferai de lui une grande nation.
Now about Ishmael. I heard what you said, and I will also bless him. I will make sure he has a great many descendants. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
21 J’établirai mon alliance avec Isaac, que Sara t’enfantera à cette époque-ci de l’année prochaine.
But it's with Isaac that I will keep my agreement, the son Sarah will give birth to about this time next year.”
22 Lorsqu’il eut achevé de lui parler, Dieu s’éleva au-dessus d’Abraham.
When God had finished speaking with Abraham he left him.
23 Abraham prit Ismaël, son fils, tous ceux qui étaient nés dans sa maison et tous ceux qu’il avait acquis à prix d’argent, tous les mâles parmi les gens de la maison d’Abraham; et il les circoncit ce même jour, selon l’ordre que Dieu lui avait donné.
That day Abraham circumcised his son Ishmael as well as all those born in his household or purchased, in fact every male among the members of Abraham's household, just as God had told him.
24 Abraham était âgé de quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans, lorsqu’il fut circoncis.
Abraham was 99 when he was circumcised,
25 Ismaël, son fils, était âgé de treize ans lorsqu’il fut circoncis.
and his son Ishmael was thirteen.
26 Ce même jour, Abraham fut circoncis, ainsi qu’Ismaël, son fils.
Both Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.
27 Et tous les gens de sa maison, nés dans sa maison, ou acquis à prix d’argent des étrangers, furent circoncis avec lui.
All the males in Abraham's household, including those born in his household or purchased from foreigners, were circumcised with him.
