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, Abram's wife, had not borne any children for him, but she had a female servant, an Egyptian, whose name was 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,

So Sarai said to Abram, “See, Yahweh has kept me from having children. Go sleep with my servant. It may be that I will have children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

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.

It was after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan that Sarai, Abram's wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, to her husband as a wife.

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

So he had relations with Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on 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.

Then Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong on me is because of you. I gave my servant woman into your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Let Yahweh 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.

But Abram said to Sarai, “See here, your servant woman is in your power, do to her what you think best.” So Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.

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,

The angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring that is on the way to Shur.

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, “Hagar, Sarai's servant, where did you come from and where are you going?” Then she said, “I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai.”

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

The angel of Yahweh said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority.”

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

Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants, so that they will be too numerous to count.”

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.

The angel of Yahweh also said to her, “Behold, you are pregnant and will bear a son, and you will call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh 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 donkey of a man. He will be hostile against every man, and every man will be hostile to him, and he will live apart from 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 gave this name to Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Do I really continue to see, even after he has seen me?”

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

Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

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

Hagar gave birth to Abram's son, and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

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

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.