Livre de la Genèse 16

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1 Saraï, la femme d’Abram, ne lui avait pas donné d’enfant. Or elle avait une servante égyptienne qui s’appelait Agar.	1 Abram's wife Sarai had borne him no children. She had, however, an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
2 Saraï dit à Abram: “Tu le vois bien, Yahvé n’a pas permis que j’enfante. Va donc vers ma servante, j’aurai peut-être un fils par elle.” Abram écouta Saraï.	2 Sarai said to Abram: "The LORD has kept me from bearing children. Have intercourse, then, with my maid; perhaps I shall have sons through her." Abram heeded Sarai's request.
3 Cela faisait déjà 10 ans qu’Abram était installé au pays de Canaan, lorsque Saraï, la femme d’Abram, prit sa servante Agar l’Égyptienne et la donna à son mari Abram.	3 Thus, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, his wife Sarai took her maid, Hagar the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his concubine.
4 Il s’approcha d’Agar et elle fut enceinte. Quand elle se vit enceinte, elle commença à mépriser sa maîtresse.	4 He had intercourse with her, and she became pregnant. When she became aware of her pregnancy, she looked on her mistress with disdain.
5 Alors Saraï dit à Abram: “Tu es responsable de mon humiliation. C’est moi qui ai mis ma servante dans tes bras et, depuis qu’elle s’est vue enceinte, elle ne cesse pas de m’humilier. Que Yahvé juge entre moi et toi!”	5 So Sarai said to Abram: "You are responsible for this outrage against me. I myself gave my maid to your embrace; but ever since she became aware of her pregnancy, she has been looking on me with disdain. May the LORD decide between you and me!"
6 Abram dit à Saraï: “Voici ta servante, elle est à toi, fais-lui ce qui te semble bon.” Alors Saraï la maltraita si bien qu’Agar s’enfuit loin d’elle.	6 Abram told Sarai: "Your maid is in your power. Do to her whatever you please." Sarai then abused her so much that Hagar ran away from her.
7 L’ange de Yahvé la trouva près d’une source d’eau dans le désert: c’est la source qui est sur la route de Chour.	7 The LORD'S messenger found her by a spring in the wilderness, the spring on the road to Shur,
8 Il lui dit: “Agar, servante de Saraï, d’où viens-tu et où vas-tu?” Elle répondit: “Je me suis enfuie loin de Saraï, ma maîtresse.”	8 and he asked, "Hagar, maid of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She answered, "I am running away from my mistress, Sarai."
9 L’ange de Yahvé lui dit: “Retourne vers ta maîtresse et humilie-toi devant elle.”	9 But the LORD'S messenger told her: "Go back to your mistress and submit to her abusive treatment.
10 L’ange de Yahvé lui dit: “Je rendrai ta descendance si nombreuse, qu’on ne pourra même pas la compter.”	10 I will make your descendants so numerous," added the LORD'S messenger, "that they will be too many to count.
11 L’ange de Yahvé lui dit: “Tu es enceinte et tu enfanteras un fils. Tu lui donneras le nom d’Ismaël, car Yahvé a entendu le cri de ta détresse.	11 Besides," the LORD'S messenger said to her: "You are now pregnant and shall bear a son; you shall name him Ishmael, For the LORD has heard you, God has answered you.
12 Il sera un homme indomptable, il se dressera contre tous et tous se dresseront contre lui, il s’établira à l’écart de tous ses frères.”	12 He shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against everyone, and everyone's hand against him; In opposition to all his kin shall he encamp."
13 Agar donna ce nom à Yahvé qui lui avait parlé: “Tu es El-Roï” car, dit-elle, “n’ai-je pas vu Celui qui me voit?”	13 To the LORD who spoke to her she gave a name, saying, "You are the God of Vision"; she meant, "Have I really seen God and remained alive after my vision?"
14 C’est pourquoi on a appelé ce puits: le puits de Lahaï-Roï. Il se trouve entre Qadesh et Bérèd.	14 That is why the well is called Beer-lahai-roi. It is between Kadesh and Bered.
15 Agar donna un fils à Abram, et Abram appela Ismaël ce fils qu’Agar lui avait donné.	15 Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram named the son whom Hagar bore him Ishmael.
16 Abram avait 86 ans lorsque Agar lui donna Ismaël.	16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.