Genèse 16

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

Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had not conceived children. But, having an Egyptian handmaid named 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.

she said to her husband: “Behold, the Lord has closed me, lest I give birth. Enter to my handmaid, so that perhaps I may receive sons of her at least.” And when he agreed to her supplication,

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.

she took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, ten years after they began to live in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to her husband as a 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 entered to her. But when she saw that she had conceived, she despised her mistress.

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: “You have acted unfairly against me. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, who, when she saw that she had conceived, held me in contempt. May the Lord judge between me and you.”

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.

Abram responded to her by saying, “Behold, your handmaid is in your hand to treat as it pleases you.” And so, when Sarai afflicted her, she took flight.

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

And when the Angel of the Lord had found her, near the fountain of water in the wilderness, which is on the way to Shur in the desert,

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.

he said to her: “Hagar, handmaid of Sarai, where have you come from? And where will you go?” And she answered, “I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress.”

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

And the Angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and humble yourself under her hand.”

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

And again he said, “I will multiply your offspring continuously, and they will not be numbered because of their multitude.”

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.

But thereafter he said: “Behold, you have conceived, and you will give birth to a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your affliction.

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.

He will be a wild man. His hand will be against all, and all hands will be against him. And he will pitch his tents away from the region of 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.

Then she called upon the name of the Lord who had spoken to her: “You are the God who has seen me.” For she said, “Certainly, here I have seen the back of the one who sees me.”

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.

Because of this, she called that well: ‘The well of the one who lives and who sees me.’ The same 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 son for Abram, who called his name 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 for him.