Génesis 17
1 Cuando Abram tenía noventa y nueve años, Yahvé se le apareció y le dijo: “Yo soy el Dios Todopoderoso. Camina delante de mí y sé irreprochable.
When Abram was 99 years old, Yahweh appeared to him again and said to him, “I am God Almighty. I want you to live in a way that I will regard you as someone that cannot be criticized.
2 Haré mi pacto entre yo y tú, y te multiplicaré en gran manera”.
If you do that, I will make an agreement with you in which I will promise to enable you to have very many descendants.” [MTY]
3 Abram se postró sobre su rostro. Dios habló con él, diciendo:
Abram prostrated himself with his face on the ground. Then God said to him,
4 “En cuanto a mí, he aquí que mi pacto es contigo. Serás el padre de una multitud de naciones.
“Listen to this agreement that I am making with you: People of many nations will be your descendants.
5 Ya no te llamarás Abram, sino que tu nombre será Abraham, porque te he hecho padre de una multitud de naciones.
And no longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham, [which means ‘father of many nations,’] because the people of many nations will descend from you.
6 Te haré fructificar en gran medida, y haré naciones de ti. De ti saldrán reyes.
I will enable you to have very many descendants, and I will cause them to become great nations/people-groups, and some of your descendants will become kings.
7 Estableceré mi pacto entre mí y tú y tu descendencia después de ti por sus generaciones, como un pacto eterno, para ser un Dios para ti y para tu descendencia después de ti.
I will make this agreement between me and you and your descendants. It will be an everlasting agreement to be in effect for many generations. This agreement is that I will be your God, and the God of your descendants.
8 Te daré a ti, y a tu descendencia después de ti, la tierra por la que viajas, toda la tierra de Canaán, como posesión eterna. Yo seré su Dios”.
I will give to you and to your descendants the land through which you are now traveling, all of the Canaan region. It will be an everlasting possession for your descendants, and I will be the God that they [will worship].”
9 Dios dijo a Abraham: “En cuanto a ti, guardarás mi pacto, tú y tu descendencia después de ti por sus generaciones.
Then God said to Abraham, “Now you must obey [your part of] the agreement that I am making with you, and your descendants must also obey it, for all generations.
10 Este es mi pacto, que guardarás, entre tú y yo y tu descendencia después de ti. Todo varón de entre vosotros será circuncidado.
This is the agreement that I am making, between myself and you and all your descendants: Every male among you must be circumcised.
11 Será circuncidado en la carne de su prepucio. Será una señal de la alianza entre mí y vosotros.
(Cutting the foreskins of/Circumcising) them will be the sign [that you have accepted] the agreement I am making with you.
12 Será circuncidado entre vosotros el que tenga ocho días de edad, todo varón a lo largo de vuestras generaciones, el que haya nacido en la casa o haya sido comprado con dinero a cualquier extranjero que no sea de vuestra descendencia.
Every male child among you must be circumcised when he is eight days old, in all future generations. That includes baby boys in your household or those born from slaves that have been bought, and baby boys of foreigners who live among you but do not belong to your household.
13 El que nazca en tu casa, y el que sea comprado con tu dinero, debe ser circuncidado. Mi pacto estará en tu carne como pacto eterno.
It does not matter whether their parents are members of your household or slaves that have been bought; they must all be circumcised. Your bodies will have this mark to show [you have accepted] this everlasting agreement I am making.
14 El varón incircunciso que no esté circuncidado en la carne de su prepucio, esa alma será cortada de su pueblo. Ha roto mi pacto”.
You must expel from your community any male who has not been circumcised, because [by not being circumcised] that person has disobeyed my agreement.”
15 Dios dijo a Abraham: “En cuanto a Sarai, tu mujer, no la llamarás Sarai, sino que su nombre será Sara.
God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai, your wife, you must not call her Sarai any longer. [Since I changed your name, I will change her name also]. Her name will now be Sarah.
16 Yo la bendeciré, y además te daré un hijo de ella. Sí, la bendeciré, y será madre de naciones. De ella saldrán reyes de pueblos”.
I will bless her, and she will surely give birth to a son for you. And I will bless her so much that she will be the ancestor of people of many nations. Kings of some people-groups will be descended from her.”
17 Entonces Abraham se postró sobre su rostro y se rió, y dijo en su corazón: “¿Le nacerá un hijo a quien tiene cien años? ¿Dará a luz Sara, que tiene noventa años?”
Abraham prostrated himself with his face on the ground [to show respect to God]. But then he laughed as he said to himself, “Can a man who is a 100 years old become a father of a son? And since Sarah is 90 years old, how can she bear a child?”
18 Abraham dijo a Dios: “¡Oh, que Ismael viva ante ti!”
Then Abraham said to God, “Perhaps you will let Ishmael receive your blessing [and inherit all I possess].”
19 Dios dijo: “No, pero Sara, tu mujer, te dará un hijo. Lo llamarás Isaac. Estableceré mi pacto con él como un pacto eterno para su descendencia después de él.
Then God replied, “[No!] Your wife Sarah will bear a son for you. You must name him Isaac. I will establish my agreement with him, one which will be an everlasting agreement for him and his descendants.
20 En cuanto a Ismael, te he escuchado. He aquí que lo he bendecido, lo haré fructificar y lo multiplicaré en gran manera. Llegará a ser padre de doce príncipes, y haré de él una gran nación.
As for Ishmael, I have heard what you asked me to do for him. I will bless him so that he also will have many descendants. Among his descendants will be rulers of twelve nations. And I will cause his [descendants] [MTY] to also become a great nation.
21 Pero yo estableceré mi alianza con Isaac, a quien Sara dará a luz en esta época del año próximo.”
But Isaac, the son whom Sarah will give birth to at this time next year, is the one with whom I will establish my agreement.”
22 Cuando terminó de hablar con él, Dios se alejó de Abraham.
When God finished talking to Abraham, God disappeared from his sight.
23 Abraham tomó a su hijo Ismael, a todos los nacidos en su casa y a todos los comprados con su dinero; a todo varón de la casa de Abraham, y circuncidó la carne de su prepucio en el mismo día, como Dios le había dicho.
On that same day, Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the males that were in his household, including the sons of all the slaves he had bought, and circumcised them. He cut off their foreskins, just as God told him to do.
24 Abraham tenía noventa y nueve años cuando fue circuncidado en la carne de su prepucio.
Abraham was 99 years old when (he was circumcised/someone circumcised him),
25 Ismael, su hijo, tenía trece años cuando fue circuncidado en la carne de su prepucio.
and Ishmael was thirteen years old when Abraham circumcised him.
26 El mismo día fueron circuncidados Abraham e Ismael, su hijo.
On that very day Abraham and his son, Ishmael were circumcised.
27 Todos los hombres de su casa, los nacidos en ella y los comprados con dinero a un extranjero, fueron circuncidados con él.
And all the males in his household, the ones who had been born there and those who had been bought from foreigners, were also circumcised.
