| 1 Cuando Abrán tenía noventa y nueve años, se le apareció el Señor y le dijo: «Yo soy Dios todopoderoso, camina en mi presencia y sé perfecto. | 1 In truth, after he began to be ninety-nine years of age, the Lord appeared to him. And he said to him: “I am the Almighty God. Walk in my sight and become complete. |
| 2 Yo concertaré una alianza contigo: te haré crecer sin medida». | 2 And I will set my covenant between me and you. And I will multiply you very exceedingly.” |
| 3 Abrán cayó rostro en tierra y Dios le habló así: | 3 Abram fell prone on his face. |
| 4 «Por mi parte, esta es mi alianza contigo: serás padre de muchedumbre de pueblos. | 4 And God said to him: “I AM, and my covenant is with you, and you will be the father of many nations. |
| 5 Ya no te llamarás Abrán, sino Abrahán, porque te hago padre de muchedumbre de pueblos. | 5 No longer will your name be called Abram. But you will be called Abraham, for I have established you as the father of many nations. |
| 6 Te haré fecundo sobremanera: sacaré pueblos de ti, y reyes nacerán de ti. | 6 And I will cause you to increase very greatly, and I will set you among the nations, and kings will come forth from you. |
| 7 Mantendré mi alianza contigo y con tu descendencia en futuras generaciones, como alianza perpetua. Seré tu Dios y el de tus descendientes futuros. | 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and with your offspring after you in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be God to you and to your offspring after you. |
| 8 Os daré a ti y a tu descendencia futura la tierra en que peregrinas, la tierra de Canaán, como posesión perpetua, y seré su Dios». | 8 And I will give to you and to your offspring, the land of your sojourn, all the land of Canaan, as an eternal possession, and I will be their God.” |
| 9 El Señor añadió a Abrahán: «Por tu parte, guarda mi alianza, tú y tus descendientes en sucesivas generaciones. | 9 Again God said to Abraham: “And you therefore shall keep my covenant, and your offspring after you in their generations. |
| 10 Esta es la alianza que habréis de guardar, una alianza entre yo y vosotros y tus descendientes: sea circuncidado todo varón entre vosotros. | 10 This is my covenant, which you shall observe, between me and you, and your offspring after you: All the males among you shall be circumcised. |
| 11 Os circuncidaréis la carne del prepucio y esa será la señal de mi alianza con vosotros. | 11 And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, so that it may be a sign of the covenant between me and you. |
| 12 A los ocho días de nacer serán circuncidados todos los varones de cada generación: los nacidos en casa y los comprados con dinero a extranjeros que no sean de vuestra raza. | 12 An infant of eight days will be circumcised among you, every male in your generations. So also servants born to you, as well as those bought, shall be circumcised, even those who are not of your stock. |
| 13 Deberán ser circuncidados los nacidos en casa y los comprados con dinero. Así llevaréis en la carne mi alianza como alianza perpetua. | 13 And my covenant shall be with your flesh as an eternal covenant. |
| 14 Todo varón incircunciso, que no haya circuncidado la carne de su prepucio, será extirpado de mi pueblo, por haber quebrantado mi alianza. | 14 The male, the flesh of whose foreskin will not be circumcised, that soul shall be eliminated from his people. For he has made my covenant void.” |
| 15 El Señor dijo a Abrahán: «Saray, tu mujer, ya no se llamará Saray, sino Sara. | 15 God said also to Abraham: “Your wife Sarai, you shall not call Sarai, but Sarah. |
| 16 La bendeciré y te dará un hijo, a quien también bendeciré. De ella nacerán pueblos y reyes de naciones». | 16 And I will bless her, and from her I will give you a son, whom I will bless, and he will be among the nations, and the kings of the peoples will rise from him.” |
| 17 Abrahán cayó rostro en tierra y se sonrió, pensando en su interior: «¿Un centenario va a tener un hijo y Sara va a dar a luz a los noventa?». | 17 Abraham fell on his face, and he laughed, saying in his heart: “Do you think a son can be born to a one hundred year old man? And will Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?” |
| 18 Y Abrahán dijo a Dios: «Ojalá pueda vivir Ismael en tu presencia». | 18 And he said to God, “If only Ishmael would live in your sight.” |
| 19 Dios replicó: «No, es Sara quien te va a dar un hijo; lo llamarás Isaac; con él estableceré mi alianza y con sus descendientes, una alianza perpetua. | 19 And God said to Abraham: “Your wife Sarah shall give birth to a son, and you shall call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant, and with his offspring after him. |
| 20 En cuanto a Ismael, escucho tu petición: lo bendeciré, lo haré fecundo, lo haré crecer sobremanera, engendrará doce príncipes y lo convertiré en una gran nación. | 20 Likewise, concerning Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless and enlarge him, and I will multiply him greatly. He will produce twelve leaders, and I will make him into a great nation. |
| 21 Pero mi alianza la concertaré con Isaac, el hijo que te dará Sara, el año que viene por estas fechas». | 21 Yet in truth, I will establish my covenant with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth for you at this time next year.” |
| 22 Cuando el Señor terminó de hablar con Abrahán, se retiró. | 22 And when he had finished speaking with him, God ascended from Abraham. |
| 23 Entonces Abrahán tomó a su hijo Ismael, a todos los nacidos en su casa y a los comprados con dinero, a todos los varones de su casa, y les circuncidó la carne del prepucio aquel mismo día, como le había dicho Dios. | 23 Then Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all who were born in his house, and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin promptly, the very same day, just as God had instructed him. |
| 24 Abrahán tenía noventa y nueve años cuando le circuncidaron la carne de su prepucio. | 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin. |
| 25 Su hijo Ismael tenía trece años cuando le circuncidaron la carne de su prepucio. | 25 And his son Ishmael had completed thirteen years at the time of his circumcision. |
| 26 Aquel mismo día se hicieron circuncidar Abrahán y su hijo Ismael. | 26 On the very same day, Abraham was circumcised with his son Ishmael. |
| 27 Y todos los varones de su casa, los nacidos en casa y los comprados con dinero a extranjeros, fueron circuncidados con él. | 27 And all the men of his house, those born in his house, as well as those who were bought, even the foreigners, were circumcised with him. |
