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 Abram is a son of ninety-nine years, and YHWH appears to Abram, and says to him, “I [am] God Almighty, habitually walk before Me, and be perfect;
2 J’établirai mon alliance entre moi et toi, et je te multiplierai prodigieusement.
and I give My covenant between Me and you, and multiply you very exceedingly.”
3 Abram tomba incliné sur sa face.
And Abram falls on his face, and God speaks 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.
“I—behold, My covenant [is] with you, and you have become 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.
and your name is no longer called Abram, but your name has been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made you;
6 Et je te ferai croître prodigieusement, et je t’établirai chef de nations; et des rois sortiront de toi.
and I have made you exceedingly fruitful, and made you become nations, and kings go out from you.
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 have established My covenant between Me and you, and your seed after you, throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant, to become God to you, and to your seed after you;
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 have given to you, and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a continuous possession, and I have become their God.”
9 Dieu dit encore à Abraham: Tu garderas mon alliance, toi et ta postérité après toi dans ses générations.
And God says to Abraham, “And you keep My covenant, you and your seed after you, throughout 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 you keep between Me and you, and your seed after you: every male of you [is] to be circumcised;
11 Et vous circoncirez votre chair, afin que ce soit là un signe d’alliance entre moi et vous.
and you have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it has become a token of a 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 a son of eight days is circumcised by you; every male throughout your generations, born in the house, or bought with money from any son of a stranger, who is not of your seed;
13 Ainsi mon pacte en votre chair sera une alliance éternelle.
he is certainly circumcised who [is] born in your house, or bought with your money; and My covenant has become in your flesh a perpetual 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 an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, indeed, that person has been cut off from his people; My covenant he has broken.”
15 Dieu dit aussi à Abraham: Tu n’appelleras pas ta femme Saraï, mais Sara.
And God says to Abraham, “Sarai your wife—you do not call her name Sarai, for Sarah [is] her name;
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 have blessed her, and have also given to you a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she has become nations—kings of peoples are 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?
And Abraham falls on his face, and laughs, and says in his heart, “Is one born to the son of one hundred years? Or does Sarah—daughter of ninety years—bear?”
18 Et il dit à Dieu: Plaise à Dieu qu’Ismaël vive devant vous!
And Abraham says to God, “O that Ishmael may live before You”;
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 says, “Your wife Sarah is certainly bearing a son to you, and you have called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a perpetual covenant, to 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.
As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes does he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;
21 Mais mon alliance, je l’établirai avec Isaac, que t’enfantera Sara en ce même temps, l’année prochaine.
and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah does bear to you at this appointed time in the next year”;
22 Et lorsque fut fini le discours de Dieu qui lui parlait, Dieu disparut de devant Abraham.
and He finishes speaking with him, and God goes 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 takes his son Ishmael, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money—every male among the men of Abraham’s house and circumcises the flesh of their foreskin, in this very same day, as God has spoken with him.
24 Or Abraham avait quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans, quand il circoncit sa chair.
And Abraham [is] a son of ninety-nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;
25 Et Ismaël son fils avait accompli treize ans au moment de sa circoncision.
and his son Ishmael [is] a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;
26 Dans le même jour fut circoncis Abraham et Ismaël son fils.
in this very same day Abraham has been circumcised, and his son Ishmael;
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 from the son of a stranger—have been circumcised with him.
