Genèse 17

1 Lorsque Abram fut âgé de quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans, l’Éternel apparut à Abram, et lui dit: Je suis le Dieu tout-puissant. Marche devant ma face, et sois intègre.

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 à l’infini.

Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

3 Abram tomba sur sa face; et Dieu lui parla, en disant:

Abram bowed low with his face to the ground and God talked with him, saying,

4 Voici mon alliance, que je fais avec toi. Tu deviendras père d’une multitude de nations.

“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

5 On ne t’appellera plus Abram; mais ton nom sera Abraham, car je te rends père d’une multitude 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 Je te rendrai fécond à l’infini, je ferai de toi des 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 J’établirai mon alliance entre moi et toi, et tes descendants après toi, selon leurs générations: ce sera une alliance perpétuelle, en vertu de laquelle je serai ton Dieu et celui 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 Je te donnerai, et à tes descendants après toi, le pays que tu habites comme étranger, tout le pays de Canaan, en possession perpétuelle, 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 à Abraham: Toi, tu garderas mon alliance, toi et tes descendants après toi, selon leurs générations.

Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

10 C’est ici mon alliance, que vous garderez entre moi et vous, et ta postérité après toi: tout mâle parmi 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 Vous vous circoncirez; et ce sera 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 A l’âge de huit jours, tout mâle parmi vous sera circoncis, selon vos générations, qu’il soit né dans la maison, ou qu’il soit acquis à prix d’argent de tout fils d’étranger, sans appartenir à ta 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 On devra circoncire celui qui est né dans la maison et celui qui est acquis à prix d’argent; et mon alliance sera dans votre chair une alliance perpétuelle.

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 Un mâle incirconcis, qui n’aura pas été circoncis dans sa chair, sera exterminé du milieu de son peuple: il aura violé 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 à Abraham: Tu ne donneras plus à Saraï, ta femme, le nom de Saraï; mais son nom sera 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 je te donnerai d’elle un fils; je la bénirai, et elle deviendra des nations; des rois de peuples sortiront d’elle.

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; il rit, et dit en son cœur: Naîtrait-il un fils à un homme de cent ans? Et Sara, âgée de quatre-vingt-dix ans, enfanterait-elle?

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 Abraham dit à Dieu: Oh! Qu’Ismaël vive devant ta face!

Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”

19 Dieu dit: Certainement Sara, ta femme, t’enfantera un fils; et tu l’appelleras du nom d’Isaac. J’établirai mon alliance avec lui comme une alliance perpétuelle pour sa postérité après lui.

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 A l’égard d’Ismaël, je t’ai exaucé. Voici, je le bénirai, je le rendrai fécond, et je le multiplierai à l’infini; il engendrera douze princes, et je ferai de lui 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 J’établirai mon alliance avec Isaac, que Sara t’enfantera à cette époque-ci de 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 Lorsqu’il eut achevé de lui parler, Dieu s’éleva au-dessus d’Abraham.

When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

23 Abraham prit Ismaël, son fils, tous ceux qui étaient nés dans sa maison et tous ceux qu’il avait acquis à prix d’argent, tous les mâles parmi les gens de la maison d’Abraham; et il les circoncit ce même jour, selon l’ordre que Dieu lui avait donné.

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 Abraham était âgé de quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans, lorsqu’il fut circoncis.

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

25 Ismaël, son fils, était âgé de treize ans lorsqu’il fut circoncis.

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

26 Ce même jour, Abraham fut circoncis, ainsi qu’Ismaël, son fils.

On the very same day Abraham and Ishmael his son were both circumcised.

27 Et tous les gens de sa maison, nés dans sa maison, ou acquis à prix d’argent des étrangers, furent circoncis avec lui.

All the men of his household were circumcised with him, including those born into the household and those bought with money from a foreigner.