Livre de la Genèse 16

JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 La femme d'Abram, Saraï, ne lui avait pas donné d'enfant. Mais elle avait une servante égyptienne,nommée Agar,	1 Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had not conceived children. But, having an Egyptian handmaid 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 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 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 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 alla vers Agar, qui devint enceinte. Lorsqu'elle se vit enceinte, sa maîtresse ne compta plusà ses yeux.	4 And he entered to her. But when she saw that she had conceived, she despised her mistress.
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 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 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 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 de Yahvé la rencontra près d'une certaine source au désert, la source qui est sur le cheminde Shur.	7 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 Il dit: "Agar, servante de Saraï, d'où viens-tu et où vas-tu?"Elle répondit: "Je fuis devant mamaîtresse Saraï."	8 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 de Yahvé lui dit: "Retourne chez ta maîtresse et sois-lui soumise."	9 And the Angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and humble yourself under her hand.”
10 L'Ange de Yahvé lui dit: "Je multiplierai beaucoup ta descendance, tellement qu'on ne pourra pasla compter."	10 And again he said, “I will multiply your offspring continuously, and they will not be numbered because of their multitude.”
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 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 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 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 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 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 C'est pourquoi on a appelé ce puits le puits de Lahaï-Roï; il se trouve entre Cadès et Bérèd.	14 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 Agar enfanta un fils à Abram, et Abram donna au fils qu'enfanta Agar le nom d'Ismaël.	15 And Hagar gave birth to a son for Abram, who called his name Ishmael.
16 Abram avait 86 ans quand Agar le fit père d'Ismaël.	16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for him.