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.

And when Abram was ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be thou perfect.

2 J’établirai mon alliance entre moi et toi, et je te multiplierai prodigieusement.

And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

3 Abram tomba incliné sur sa face.

And Abram fell on his face, and God spoke with him, saying,

4 Et Dieu lui dit: C’est moi, et mon alliance sera avec toi, et tu seras père de beaucoup de nations.

As for me, behold my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt become the father of a multitude of 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.

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.

6 Et je te ferai croître prodigieusement, et je t’établirai chef de nations; et des rois sortiront de toi.

And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will cause thee to become nations; and kings shall come out of thee.

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.

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and between thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant: to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

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.

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou sojournest, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; 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.

And God said unto Abraham, But thou, for thy part, shalt keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, in their generations.

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 covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and between you, and between thy seed after thee: Every man-child among you shall be circumcised.

11 Et vous circoncirez votre chair, afin que ce soit là un signe d’alliance entre moi et vous.

And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and this shall serve as the token of the covenant 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.

And at eight days old shall every man-child in your generations be circumcised among you, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, who is not of thy seed.

13 Ainsi mon pacte en votre chair sera une alliance éternelle.

He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

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.

And any uncircumcised male, who circumciseth not the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

15 Dieu dit aussi à Abraham: Tu n’appelleras pas ta femme Saraï, mais Sara.

And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

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.

And I will bless her, and give thee also a son of her; yea I will bless her, and she shall become a mother of nations; kings of people shall spring from her.

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?

Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed; and he said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

18 Et il dit à Dieu: Plaise à Dieu qu’Ismaël vive devant vous!

And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

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.

And God said, Truly, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, for his seed after him.

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.

And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make of him a great nation.

21 Mais mon alliance, je l’établirai avec Isaac, que t’enfantera Sara en ce même temps, l’année prochaine.

But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

22 Et lorsque fut fini le discours de Dieu qui lui parlait, Dieu disparut de devant Abraham.

And when he had left off talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

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.

And Abraham now took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on the selfsame day, as God had spoken unto him.

24 Or Abraham avait quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans, quand il circoncit sa chair.

And Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

25 Et Ismaël son fils avait accompli treize ans au moment de sa circoncision.

And Ishmael his son, was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

26 Dans le même jour fut circoncis Abraham et Ismaël son fils.

On the self-same day was Abraham circumcised, with Ishmael his son.

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.

And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.