Genèse 16

1 Sara, femme d'Abram, ne lui avait point donné d'enfants; elle avait une servante égyptienne nommée Agar.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

2 Elle dit donc à Abram: Le Seigneur a clos mes entrailles pour que je n'enfante point: Approche-toi de ma servante, afin que d'elle il me vienne un enfant. Abram prêta l'oreille à la parole de Sara.

And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

3 Et Sara, femme d'Abram, ayant pris l'Égyptienne Agar sa servante, après dix ans de séjour en la terre de Chanaan, la donna pour femme à Abram son mari.

So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.

4 Celui-ci s'approcha d'Agar, et elle conçut; bientôt elle vit qu'elle portait un enfant; et sa maîtresse fut méprisée par elle.

And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.

5 Sara dit alors à Abram: Tu me traites injustement; j'ai placé sur ton sein ma servante; elle a vu qu'elle porte un enfant, et je suis méprisée par elle; que Dieu juge entre toi et moi.

And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.

6 Abram lui répondit: Voici la servante dans tes mains; uses-en avec elle comme il te sera agréable. Et Sara la maltraita, et elle s'enfuit loin de sa face.

And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.

7 L'ange du Seigneur vint la trouver dans le désert auprès d'une fontaine, celle qui est sur le chemin de Sur,

And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

8 Et lui dit: Agar, servante de Sara, d'où viens-tu, et où vas-tu? Je fuis, répondit-elle, loin de la face de Sara ma maîtresse.

And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.

9 L'Ange du Seigneur ajouta: Retourne vers ta maîtresse, humilie-toi, et courbe-toi sous ses mains.

And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.

10 Il dit ensuite: Je multiplierai et multiplierai ta race; elle sera innombrable par sa multitude.

And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

11 Et l'ange du Seigneur ajouta: Te voilà enceinte, tu enfanteras un fils, auquel tu donneras le nom d'Ismaël, parce que le Seigneur a ouï ton humiliation.

And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

12 Ce sera un homme rude; ses mains seront sur tous et les mains de tous sur lui, et il habitera en face de tous ses frères.

And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.

13 Alors Agar invoqua le nom du Seigneur qui lui parlait, disant: Dieu, vous m'avez regardée; car, se dit-elle, j'ai vu en face celui qui m'est apparu.

And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?

14 À cause de cela, elle nomma la source: puits de celui que j'ai vu en face. Ce puits est entre Cadès et Barad.

So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.

15 Bientôt Agar enfanta un fils à Abram, et Abram donna au fils que lui avait enfanté Agar le nom d'Ismaël.

And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.

16 Or Abram avait quatre-vingt-six ans, lorsque Agar lui enfanta Ismaël.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.