Genèse 17
1 Puis Abram étant âgé de quatre-vingt dix-neuf ans, l'Eternel lui apparut, et lui dit: Je suis le [Dieu] Fort, Tout-Puissant; marche devant ma face, et sois intègre.
When Abram was 99 years old, Yahweh appeared to him again and said to him, “I am God Almighty. I want you to live in a way that I will regard you as someone that cannot be criticized.
2 Et je mettrai mon alliance entre moi et toi, et je te multiplierai très-abondamment.
If you do that, I will make an agreement with you in which I will promise to enable you to have very many descendants.” [MTY]
3 Alors Abram tomba sur sa face; et Dieu lui parla, et lui dit:
Abram prostrated himself with his face on the ground. Then God said to him,
4 Quant à moi, voici, mon alliance est avec toi, et tu deviendras père d'une multitude de nations.
“Listen to this agreement that I am making with you: People of many nations will be your descendants.
5 Et ton nom ne sera plus appelé Abram, mais ton nom sera Abraham; car je t'ai établi père d'une multitude de nations.
And no longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham, [which means ‘father of many nations,’] because the people of many nations will descend from you.
6 Et je te ferai croître très-abondamment; et je te ferai devenir des nations; même des Rois sortiront de toi.
I will enable you to have very many descendants, and I will cause them to become great nations/people-groups, and some of your descendants will become kings.
7 J'établirai donc mon alliance entre moi et toi, et entre ta postérité après toi en leurs âges, pour être une alliance perpétuelle; afin que je te sois Dieu, et à ta postérité après toi.
I will make this agreement between me and you and your descendants. It will be an everlasting agreement to be in effect for many generations. This agreement is that I will be your God, and the God of your descendants.
8 Et je te donnerai, et à ta postérité après toi, le pays où tu demeures comme étranger, savoir tout le pays de Canaan, en possession perpétuelle, et je leur serai Dieu.
I will give to you and to your descendants the land through which you are now traveling, all of the Canaan region. It will be an everlasting possession for your descendants, and I will be the God that they [will worship].”
9 Dieu dit encore à Abraham: Tu garderas donc mon alliance, toi et ta postérité après toi en leurs âges.
Then God said to Abraham, “Now you must obey [your part of] the agreement that I am making with you, and your descendants must also obey it, for all generations.
10 Et c'est ici mon alliance entre moi et vous, et entre ta postérité après toi, laquelle vous garderez, [savoir] que tout mâle d'entre vous sera circoncis.
This is the agreement that I am making, between myself and you and all your descendants: Every male among you must be circumcised.
11 Et vous circoncirez la chair de votre prépuce; et cela sera pour signe de l'alliance entre moi et vous.
(Cutting the foreskins of/Circumcising) them will be the sign [that you have accepted] the agreement I am making with you.
12 Tout enfant mâle de huit jours sera circoncis parmi vous en vos générations, tant celui qui est né dans la maison, que l'[esclave] acheté par argent de tout étranger qui n'est point de ta race.
Every male child among you must be circumcised when he is eight days old, in all future generations. That includes baby boys in your household or those born from slaves that have been bought, and baby boys of foreigners who live among you but do not belong to your household.
13 On ne manquera donc point de circoncire celui qui est né dans ta maison, et celui qui est acheté de ton argent, et mon alliance sera en votre chair, pour être une alliance perpétuelle.
It does not matter whether their parents are members of your household or slaves that have been bought; they must all be circumcised. Your bodies will have this mark to show [you have accepted] this everlasting agreement I am making.
14 Et le mâle incirconcis, la chair du prépuce duquel n'aura point été circoncise, sera retranché du milieu de ses peuples, [parce qu'il] aura violé mon alliance.
You must expel from your community any male who has not been circumcised, because [by not being circumcised] that person has disobeyed my agreement.”
15 Dieu dit aussi à Abraham: Quant à Saraï ta femme, tu n'appelleras plus son nom Saraï, mais son nom sera Sara.
God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai, your wife, you must not call her Sarai any longer. [Since I changed your name, I will change her name also]. Her name will now be Sarah.
16 Et je la bénirai, et même je te donnerai un fils d'elle. Je la bénirai, et elle deviendra des nations: Et des Rois Chefs de peuples sortiront d'elle.
I will bless her, and she will surely give birth to a son for you. And I will bless her so much that she will be the ancestor of people of many nations. Kings of some people-groups will be descended from her.”
17 Alors Abraham se prosterna la face en terre, et sourit, disant en son cœur: Naîtrait-il un fils à un homme âgé de cent ans? et Sara âgée de quatre-vingt-dix ans aurait-elle un enfant?
Abraham prostrated himself with his face on the ground [to show respect to God]. But then he laughed as he said to himself, “Can a man who is a 100 years old become a father of a son? And since Sarah is 90 years old, how can she bear a child?”
18 Et Abraham dit à Dieu: Je te prie, qu'Ismaël vive devant toi.
Then Abraham said to God, “Perhaps you will let Ishmael receive your blessing [and inherit all I possess].”
19 Et Dieu dit: Certainement Sara ta femme t'enfantera un fils, et tu appelleras son nom Isaac; et j'établirai mon alliance avec lui pour être une alliance perpétuelle pour sa postérité après lui.
Then God replied, “[No!] Your wife Sarah will bear a son for you. You must name him Isaac. I will establish my agreement with him, one which will be an everlasting agreement for him and his descendants.
20 Je t'ai aussi exaucé touchant Ismaël: voici, je l'ai béni, et je le ferai croître et multiplier très-abondamment. Il engendrera douze Princes, et je le ferai devenir une grande nation.
As for Ishmael, I have heard what you asked me to do for him. I will bless him so that he also will have many descendants. Among his descendants will be rulers of twelve nations. And I will cause his [descendants] [MTY] to also become a great nation.
21 Mais j'établirai mon alliance avec Isaac, que Sara t'enfantera l'année qui vient, en cette même saison.
But Isaac, the son whom Sarah will give birth to at this time next year, is the one with whom I will establish my agreement.”
22 Et Dieu ayant achevé de parler, remonta de devant Abraham.
When God finished talking to Abraham, God disappeared from his sight.
23 Et Abraham prit son fils Ismaël, avec tous ceux qui étaient nés dans sa maison, et tous ceux qu'il avait achetés de son argent, tous les mâles qui étaient des gens de sa maison, et il circoncit la chair de leur prépuce en ce même jour-là, comme Dieu lui avait dit.
On that same day, Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the males that were in his household, including the sons of all the slaves he had bought, and circumcised them. He cut off their foreskins, just as God told him to do.
24 Et Abraham était âgé de quatre-vingt dix-neuf ans, quand il circoncit la chair de son prépuce;
Abraham was 99 years old when (he was circumcised/someone circumcised him),
25 Et Ismaël son fils, était âgé de treize ans, lorsqu'il fut circoncis en la chair de son prépuce.
and Ishmael was thirteen years old when Abraham circumcised him.
26 En ce même jour-là Abraham fut circoncis, et son fils Ismaël aussi.
On that very day Abraham and his son, Ishmael were circumcised.
27 Et tous les gens de sa maison, tant ceux qui étaient nés en la maison, que ceux qui avaient été achetés des étrangers par argent, furent circoncis avec lui.
And all the males in his household, the ones who had been born there and those who had been bought from foreigners, were also circumcised.
