Genèse 16

1 Cependant Saraï femme d’Abram ne lui avait pas donné d’enfants; mais ayant une servante égyptienne du nom d’Agar,

Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had not conceived children. But, having an Egyptian handmaid named Hagar,

2 Elle dit à son mari: Voilà que le Seigneur m’a rendue stérile, pour que je n’aie pas d’enfants; prends ma servante, peut-être qu’au moins par elle j’aurai des enfants. Abram ayant consenti à sa prière,

she said to her husband: “Behold, the Lord has closed me, lest I give birth. Enter to my handmaid, so that perhaps I may receive sons of her at least.” And when he agreed to her supplication,

3 Elle prit Agar sa servante égyptienne, dix ans après qu’ils eurent commencé d’habiter dans la terre de Chanaan, et elle la donna à son mari pour femme.

she took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, ten years after they began to live in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to her husband as a wife.

4 Il alla donc vers elle. Mais elle, voyant qu’elle avait conçu, méprisa sa maîtresse.

And he entered to her. But when she saw that she had conceived, she despised her mistress.

5 Alors Saraï dit à Abram: Tu agis injustement envers moi: c’est moi qui t’ai donné ma servante pour femme, laquelle, voyant qu’elle a conçu, me traite avec mépris. Que le Seigneur juge entre moi et toi.

And Sarai said to Abram: “You have acted unfairly against me. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, who, when she saw that she had conceived, held me in contempt. May the Lord judge between me and you.”

6 Abram lui répondant: Voilà, dit-il, ta servante qui est entre tes mains; fais d’elle ce qui te plaira. Saraï l’ayant donc châtiée, elle prit la fuite.

Abram responded to her by saying, “Behold, your handmaid is in your hand to treat as it pleases you.” And so, when Sarai afflicted her, she took flight.

7 Mais l’Ange du Seigneur l’ayant trouvée dans la solitude auprès de la source d’eau qui est sur le chemin de Sur au désert,

And when the Angel of the Lord had found her, near the fountain of water in the wilderness, which is on the way to Shur in the desert,

8 Lui dit: Agar, servante de Saraï, d’où viens-tu? et où vas-tu? Elle répondit: Je fuis devant Saraï ma maîtresse.

he said to her: “Hagar, handmaid of Sarai, where have you come from? And where will you go?” And she answered, “I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress.”

9 Et l’ange du Seigneur lui repartit: Retourne vers ta maîtresse, et humilie-toi sous sa main.

And the Angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and humble yourself under her hand.”

10 Et de nouveau: Multipliant, dit-il, je multiplierai ta postérité, et elle sera innombrable par la multitude.

And again he said, “I will multiply your offspring continuously, and they will not be numbered because of their multitude.”

11 Puis: Voilà, ajouta-t-il, que tu as conçu et tu enfanteras un fils, et tu l’appelleras du nom d’Ismaël, parce que le Seigneur a entendu ton affliction.

But thereafter he said: “Behold, you have conceived, and you will give birth to a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your affliction.

12 Ce sera un homme farouche: sa main sera contre tous, et la main de tous contre lui; et c’est vis-à-vis de tous ses frères qu’il plantera ses tentes.

He will be a wild man. His hand will be against all, and all hands will be against him. And he will pitch his tents away from the region of all his brothers.”

13 Alors elle appela le Seigneur qui lui parlait du nom de: Vous êtes le Dieu qui m’avez vue. Car elle dit: Certainement ici j’ai vu par derrière, celui qui me voit.

Then she called upon the name of the Lord who had spoken to her: “You are the God who has seen me.” For she said, “Certainly, here I have seen the back of the one who sees me.”

14 C’est pourquoi elle appela ce puits, le Puits du vivant et me voyant. Ce puits est entre Cadès et Barad.

Because of this, she called that well: ‘The well of the one who lives and who sees me.’ The same is between Kadesh and Bered.

15 Agar donc enfanta un fils à Abram qui l’appela du nom d’Ismaël.

And Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram, who called his name Ishmael.

16 Abram avait quatre-vingt-six ans, quand Agar lui enfanta Ismaël.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for him.