Livre de la Genèse 16

JERUSALEM	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 La femme d'Abram, Saraï, ne lui avait pas donné d'enfant. Mais elle avait une servante égyptienne,nommée Agar,	1 Abram's wife Sarai had borne him no children. She had, however, an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
2 et Saraï dit à Abram: "Vois, je te prie: Yahvé n'a pas permis que j'enfante. Va donc vers maservante. Peut-être obtiendrai-je par elle des enfants." Et Abram écouta la voix de 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 Ainsi, au bout de dix ans qu'Abram résidait au pays de Canaan, sa femme Saraï prit Agarl'Egyptienne, sa servante, et la donna pour femme 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 Celui-ci alla vers Agar, qui devint enceinte. Lorsqu'elle se vit enceinte, sa maîtresse ne compta plusà ses yeux.	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 l'injure qui m'est faite! J'ai mis ma servante entretes bras et, depuis qu'elle s'est vue enceinte, je ne compte plus à ses yeux. 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: "Eh bien, ta servante est entre tes mains, fais-lui comme il te semblera bon."Saraï la maltraita tellement que l'autre s'enfuit de devant 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 rencontra près d'une certaine source au désert, la source qui est sur le cheminde Shur.	7 The LORD'S messenger found her by a spring in the wilderness, the spring on the road to Shur,
8 Il dit: "Agar, servante de Saraï, d'où viens-tu et où vas-tu?"Elle répondit: "Je fuis devant mamaîtresse Saraï."	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 chez ta maîtresse et sois-lui soumise."	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 multiplierai beaucoup ta descendance, tellement qu'on ne pourra pasla 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, et tu lui donneras le nomd'Ismaël, car Yahvé a entendu 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 Celui-là sera un onagre d'homme, sa main contre tous, la main de tous contre lui, il s'établira à laface 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 A Yahvé qui lui avait parlé, Agar donna ce nom: "Tu es El-Roï", car, dit-elle, "Ai-je encore vu iciaprès 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 Cadès et Bérèd.	14 That is why the well is called Beer-lahai-roi. It is between Kadesh and Bered.
15 Agar enfanta un fils à Abram, et Abram donna au fils qu'enfanta Agar le nom d'Ismaël.	15 Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram named the son whom Hagar bore him Ishmael.
16 Abram avait 86 ans quand Agar le fit père d'Ismaël.	16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.