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Genèse 16
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Genèse 16
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La naissance d’Ismaël
16 Saraï, l’épouse d’Abram, ne lui avait pas donné d’enfant. Mais elle avait une esclave égyptienne nommée Agar. 2 Elle dit à Abram : Tu vois que l’Eternel m’a empêchée d’avoir des enfants[a]. Va donc vers ma servante : peut-être aurai-je un fils par son intermédiaire.
Abram suivit le conseil de sa femme. 3 Saraï, femme d’Abram, prit donc sa servante Agar et la donna pour femme à Abram, son mari. Il y avait alors dix ans qu’Abram séjournait au pays de Canaan. 4 Il s’unit à Agar et elle devint enceinte.
Quand elle vit qu’elle attendait un enfant, elle se mit à mépriser sa maîtresse. 5 Alors Saraï dit à Abram : C’est toi qui es responsable de l’injure qui m’est faite. J’ai poussé ma servante dans tes bras et depuis qu’elle s’est vue enceinte, elle me méprise. Que l’Eternel soit juge entre nous.
6 Abram lui répondit : Ta servante est en ton pouvoir. Agis envers elle comme bon te semblera.
Alors Saraï la traita si durement que celle-ci s’enfuit.
7 L’ange de l’Eternel la rencontra près d’une source d’eau dans le désert, celle qui se trouve sur le chemin de Shour. 8 Il lui demanda : Agar, servante de Saraï, d’où viens-tu et où vas-tu ?
Elle répondit : Je m’enfuis de chez Saraï, ma maîtresse.
9 L’ange de l’Eternel lui dit : Retourne auprès de ta maîtresse et humilie-toi devant elle. 10 Et il ajouta : Je te donnerai de très nombreux descendants ; ils seront si nombreux qu’on ne pourra pas les compter[b]. 11 Puis il ajouta :
Tu attends un enfant :
ce sera un garçon.
Tu l’appelleras Ismaël (Dieu entend)
car l’Eternel t’a entendue ╵dans ta détresse.
12 Ton fils sera comme un âne sauvage :
lui, il s’opposera à tous
et tous s’opposeront à lui,
mais il assurera sa place ╵en face de tous ses semblables.
13 Agar se demanda : Ai-je réellement vu ici même celui qui me voit ?
Et elle appela l’Eternel qui lui avait parlé du nom de Atta-El-Roï (C’est toi le Dieu qui me voit). 14 C’est pourquoi on appelle ce puits : Beer-Lachaï-Roï (le Puits du Vivant-qui-me-voit). Il se trouve entre Qadesh et Béred.
15 Agar donna le jour à un fils que son père appela Ismaël. 16 Abram avait quatre-vingt-six ans quand Agar lui donna ce fils.
Footnotes
- 16.2 La stérilité d’une femme était souvent considérée comme une punition divine (25.21 ; Lv 20.20 ; Jr 22.30 ; Ps 127.3-4). La coutume (consignée dans le code d’Hammourabi, roi babylonien du IIe millénaire av. J.-C.) autorisait la femme stérile à choisir une épouse à son mari et à considérer comme siens les enfants que celle-ci lui donnerait.
- 16.10 Voir 17.20 ; 25.13-16.
Genesis 16
New International Version
Genesis 16
New International Version
Hagar and Ishmael
16 Now Sarai,(A) Abram’s wife, had borne him no children.(B) But she had an Egyptian slave(C) named Hagar;(D) 2 so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children.(E) Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”(F)
Abram agreed to what Sarai said. 3 So after Abram had been living in Canaan(G) ten years,(H) Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. 4 He slept with Hagar,(I) and she conceived.
When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.(J) 5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.”(K)
6 “Your slave is in your hands,(L)” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated(M) Hagar; so she fled from her.
7 The angel of the Lord(N) found Hagar near a spring(O) in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.(P) 8 And he said, “Hagar,(Q) slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”(R)
“I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
9 Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” 10 The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”(S)
11 The angel of the Lord(T) also said to her:
“You are now pregnant
and you will give birth to a son.(U)
You shall name him(V) Ishmael,[a](W)
for the Lord has heard of your misery.(X)
12 He will be a wild donkey(Y) of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
toward[b] all his brothers.(Z)”
13 She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,(AA)” for she said, “I have now seen[c] the One who sees me.”(AB) 14 That is why the well(AC) was called Beer Lahai Roi[d];(AD) it is still there, between Kadesh(AE) and Bered.
15 So Hagar(AF) bore Abram a son,(AG) and Abram gave the name Ishmael(AH) to the son she had borne. 16 Abram was eighty-six years old(AI) when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
Footnotes
- Genesis 16:11 Ishmael means God hears.
- Genesis 16:12 Or live to the east / of
- Genesis 16:13 Or seen the back of
- Genesis 16:14 Beer Lahai Roi means well of the Living One who sees me.
Genesis 16
King James Version
Genesis 16
King James Version
16 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.
6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thine hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
7 And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
9 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
10 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
11 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
13 And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
14 Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
15 And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.
16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
Génesis 16
Biblia del Jubileo
Génesis 16
Biblia del Jubileo
16 ¶ Y Sarai, mujer de Abram no le daba hijos; y ella tenía una esclava egipcia, que se llamaba Agar.
2 Dijo, pues, Sarai a Abram: He aquí ahora el SEÑOR me ha vedado de dar a luz; te ruego que entres a mi esclava; por ventura tendré hijos de ella. Y escuchó Abram al dicho de Sarai.
3 Y Sarai, la mujer de Abram, tomó a Agar su esclava egipcia, al cabo de diez años que había habitado Abram en la tierra de Canaán, y la dio a Abram su marido por mujer.
4 ¶ Y él entró a Agar, la cual concibió; y cuando vio que había concebido, miraba con desprecio a su señora.
5 Entonces Sarai dijo a Abram: Mi afrenta es sobre ti; yo puse mi esclava en tu seno, y viéndose embarazada, me mira con desprecio; juzgue el SEÑOR entre mí y ti.
6 Y respondió Abram a Sarai: He ahí tu esclava en tu mano, haz con ella lo que bien te pareciere. Entonces Sarai la afligió, y ella huyó de su presencia.
7 ¶ Y la halló el ángel del SEÑOR junto a una fuente de agua en el desierto, junto a la fuente que está en el camino del Sur.
8 Y le dijo: Agar, esclava de Sarai, ¿de dónde vienes tú, y a dónde vas? Y ella respondió: Huyo de delante de Sarai, mi señora.
9 Y le dijo el ángel del SEÑOR: Vuélvete a tu señora, y humíllate bajo su mano.
10 ¶ Le dijo también el ángel del SEÑOR: Multiplicaré tanto tu simiente, que no será contada por la multitud.
11 Y le dijo aun el ángel del SEÑOR: He aquí que has concebido, y darás a luz un hijo, y llamarás su nombre Ismael, porque ha oído el SEÑOR tu aflicción.
12 Y él será hombre fiero; su mano contra todos, y las manos de todos contra él, y delante de todos sus hermanos habitará.
13 Entonces ella llamó el nombre del SEÑOR que hablaba con ella, Atta el roi, Tú eres el Dios de la vista; porque dijo: ¿No he visto también aquí las espaldas del que me vio?
14 Por lo cual llamó al pozo, Pozo del Viviente que me ve. He aquí está entre Cades y Bered.
15 ¶ Y Agar dio a luz un hijo a Abram, y llamó Abram el nombre de su hijo que le dio Agar, Ismael.
16 Y era Abram de edad de ochenta y seis años, cuando Agar dio a luz a Ismael.
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