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, the LORD 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.
I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”
3 Abram tomba incliné sur sa face.
Abram fell on his face. 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.
Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you 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. Kings will come out of 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 offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring 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 offspring after you, the land where you are travelling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”
9 Dieu dit encore à Abraham: Tu garderas mon alliance, toi et ta postérité après toi dans ses générations.
God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring 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 shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male amongst you shall be circumcised.
11 Et vous circoncirez votre chair, afin que ce soit là un signe d’alliance entre moi et vous.
You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a 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.
He who is eight days old shall be circumcised amongst you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.
13 Ainsi mon pacte en votre chair sera une alliance éternelle.
He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. 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.
The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall 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, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name shall 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 moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a 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 fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”
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. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring 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 will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make 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 I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
22 Et lorsque fut fini le discours de Dieu qui lui parlait, Dieu disparut de devant Abraham.
When he 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.
Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male amongst the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the 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.
In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were 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 house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
