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 ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
2 J’établirai mon alliance entre moi et toi, et je te multiplierai prodigieusement.
Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”
3 Abram tomba incliné sur sa face.
Abram bowed low with his face to the ground and God talked 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 you. You will be 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.
No longer will your name be Abram, but your name will be Abraham—for I appoint you to be the father of a multitude of nations.
6 Et je te ferai croître prodigieusement, et je t’établirai chef de nations; et des rois sortiront de toi.
I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will descend 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.
I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you, throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants 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.
I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land where you have been living, 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.
Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants 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 must keep, between me and you and your descendants after you: Every male among you must be circumcised.
11 Et vous circoncirez votre chair, afin que ce soit là un signe d’alliance entre moi et vous.
You must be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be the sign 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.
Every male among you that is eight days old must be circumcised, throughout your people's generations. This includes him who is born into your household and him who is bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants.
13 Ainsi mon pacte en votre chair sera une alliance éternelle.
He who is born into your household and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised. Thus my covenant will 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.
Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”
15 Dieu dit aussi à Abraham: Tu n’appelleras pas ta femme Saraï, mais Sara.
God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai any more. 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 will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become the mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come 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 bowed low with his face to the ground, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? How can Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a son?”
18 Et il dit à Dieu: Plaise à Dieu qu’Ismaël vive devant vous!
Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might 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.
God said, “No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you must name him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant with his descendants 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 hereby bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him abundantly. He will be the father of twelve leaders of tribes, and I will make 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.
But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time in the next year.”
22 Et lorsque fut fini le discours de Dieu qui lui parlait, Dieu disparut de devant Abraham.
When he had finished 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.
Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all those who were born into his household, and all those who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in that same day, as God had said to him.
24 Or Abraham avait quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans, quand il circoncit sa chair.
Abraham was ninety-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.
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 very same day Abraham and Ishmael his son were both circumcised.
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 men of his household were circumcised with him, including those born into the household and those bought with money from a foreigner.
