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 ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
2 J’établirai mon alliance entre moi et toi, et je te multiplierai à l’infini.
I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”
3 Abram tomba sur sa face; et Dieu lui parla, en disant:
Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,
4 Voici mon alliance, que je fais avec toi. Tu deviendras père d’une multitude de nations.
“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
5 On ne t’appellera plus Abram; mais ton nom sera Abraham, car je te rends père d’une multitude de nations.
Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
6 Je te rendrai fécond à l’infini, je ferai de toi des nations; et des rois sortiront de toi.
I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
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 will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
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 to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”
9 Dieu dit à Abraham: Toi, tu garderas mon alliance, toi et tes descendants après toi, selon leurs générations.
God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
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 covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.
11 Vous vous circoncirez; et ce sera un signe d’alliance entre moi et vous.
You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant 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.
He who is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.
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.
He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
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.
The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”
15 Dieu dit à Abraham: Tu ne donneras plus à Saraï, ta femme, le nom de Saraï; mais son nom sera Sara.
God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name shall 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 moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”
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?
Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”
18 Et Abraham dit à Dieu: Oh! Qu’Ismaël vive devant ta face!
Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”
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.
God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
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.
As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
21 J’établirai mon alliance avec Isaac, que Sara t’enfantera à cette époque-ci de l’année prochaine.
But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
22 Lorsqu’il eut achevé de lui parler, Dieu s’éleva au-dessus d’Abraham.
When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
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.
Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.
24 Abraham était âgé de quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans, lorsqu’il fut circoncis.
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
25 Ismaël, son fils, était âgé de treize ans lorsqu’il fut circoncis.
Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
26 Ce même jour, Abraham fut circoncis, ainsi qu’Ismaël, son fils.
In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.
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 men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
