Genèse 17
1 Or, après qu’Abram eut commencé sa quatre-vingt-dix-neuvième année, le Seigneur lui apparut, et lui dit: Je suis le Dieu tout-puissant: marche devant moi, et sois parfait.
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 prodigieusement.
I will make my agreement between me and you, and I will give you many, many descendants.”
3 Abram tomba incliné sur sa face.
Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God told him,
4 Et Dieu lui dit: C’est moi, et mon alliance sera avec toi, et tu seras père de beaucoup de nations.
“Listen! This is the agreement I'm making with you. You will be the father of many nations,
5 Et on ne t’appellera plus du nom d’Abram, mais tu te nommeras Abraham; car je t’ai établi père de beaucoup 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 Et je te ferai croître prodigieusement, et je t’établirai chef de 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 Ainsi j’établirai mon alliance entre moi et toi, et entre ta postérité après toi dans ses générations, par un pacte éternel; afin que je sois ton Dieu et le Dieu 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 Et je te donnerai et à ta postérité la terre de ton pèlerinage, toute la terre de Chanaan, en possession éternelle; 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 encore à Abraham: Tu garderas mon alliance, toi et ta postérité après toi dans ses générations.
Then God told Abraham, “Your part is to keep my agreement—you and your descendants for generations to come.
10 Voici mon alliance que vous observerez entre moi et vous, et ta postérité après toi: Tout mâle d’entre 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 Et vous circoncirez votre chair, afin que ce soit là 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 L’enfant de huit jours sera circoncis parmi vous; tout mâle en vos générations, tant le serviteur né dans votre maison, que le serviteur acheté, sera circoncis, et même celui qui ne sera pas de votre 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 Ainsi mon pacte en votre chair sera une alliance éternelle.
You must circumcise those born in your household or bought from foreigners as a sign in your bodies of my eternal agreement.
14 Le mâle dont la chair n’aura pas été circoncise, cette âme sera exterminée du milieu de son peuple, parce qu’il aura rendu vaine mon alliance.
Any uncircumcised male who refuses circumcision will be excluded from his people because he has broken my agreement.”
15 Dieu dit aussi à Abraham: Tu n’appelleras pas ta femme Saraï, mais 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 d’elle je te donnerai un fils que je dois bénir aussi; et il sera chef de nations; et des rois de peuples sortiront de lui.
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, et rit, disant en son cœur: Pensez-vous qu’à un centenaire naîtra un fils, et que Sara nonagénaire enfantera?
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 il dit à Dieu: Plaise à Dieu qu’Ismaël vive devant vous!
Abraham said to God, “May Ishmael always live under your blessing!”
19 Et Dieu répondit à Abraham: Sara ta femme t’enfantera un fils, et tu l’appelleras du nom d’Isaac, et je ferai de mon pacte avec lui et avec sa postérité après lui une alliance éternelle.
“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 Pour Ismaël, je t’ai aussi exaucé: voilà que je le bénirai, que je le ferai croître et que je le multiplierai grandement; il donnera naissance à douze chefs, et je le ferai père d’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 Mais mon alliance, je l’établirai avec Isaac, que t’enfantera Sara en ce même temps, 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 Et lorsque fut fini le discours de Dieu qui lui parlait, Dieu disparut de devant Abraham.
When God had finished speaking with Abraham he left him.
23 Abraham donc prit Ismaël son fils, tous les serviteurs nés dans sa maison et tous ceux qu’il avait achetés, tous mâles d’entre les hommes de sa maison, et il les circoncit aussitôt ce jour-là même, comme Dieu lui avait ordonné.
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 Or Abraham avait quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans, quand il circoncit sa chair.
Abraham was 99 when he was circumcised,
25 Et Ismaël son fils avait accompli treize ans au moment de sa circoncision.
and his son Ishmael was thirteen.
26 Dans le même jour fut circoncis Abraham et Ismaël son fils.
Both Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.
27 Et tous les hommes de sa maison, tant les serviteurs nés chez lui, que ceux qui avaient été achetés, et les étrangers furent pareillement circoncis.
All the males in Abraham's household, including those born in his household or purchased from foreigners, were circumcised with him.
