Genèse 21
Nouvelle Edition de Genève – NEG1979
Naissance d’Isaac
21 L’Eternel se souvint de ce qu’il avait dit à Sara, et l’Eternel accomplit pour Sara ce qu’il avait promis. 2 Sara devint enceinte, et elle enfanta un fils à Abraham dans sa vieillesse, au temps fixé dont Dieu lui avait parlé. 3 Abraham donna le nom d’Isaac au fils qui lui était né, que Sara lui avait enfanté. 4 Abraham circoncit son fils Isaac, âgé de huit jours, comme Dieu le lui avait ordonné. 5 Abraham était âgé de cent ans, à la naissance d’Isaac, son fils. 6 Et Sara dit: Dieu m’a fait un sujet de rire; quiconque l’apprendra rira de moi. 7 Elle ajouta: Qui aurait dit à Abraham: Sara allaitera des enfants? Cependant je lui ai enfanté un fils dans sa vieillesse.
8 L’enfant grandit, et fut sevré; et Abraham fit un grand festin le jour où Isaac fut sevré.
Agar dans le désert
9 Sara vit rire le fils qu’Agar, l’Egyptienne, avait enfanté à Abraham; 10 et elle dit à Abraham: Chasse cette servante et son fils, car le fils de cette servante n’héritera pas avec mon fils, avec Isaac[a]. 11 Cette parole déplut fort aux yeux d’Abraham, à cause de son fils. 12 Mais Dieu dit à Abraham: Que cela ne déplaise pas à tes yeux, à cause de l’enfant et de ta servante. Accorde à Sara tout ce qu’elle te demandera; car c’est d’Isaac que sortira une postérité qui te sera propre[b]. 13 Je ferai aussi une nation du fils de ta servante; car il est ta postérité.
14 Abraham se leva de bon matin; il prit du pain et une outre d’eau, qu’il donna à Agar et plaça sur son épaule; il lui remit aussi l’enfant, et la renvoya. Elle s’en alla, et s’égara dans le désert de Beer-Schéba. 15 Quand l’eau de l’outre fut épuisée, elle laissa l’enfant sous un des arbrisseaux, 16 et alla s’asseoir vis-à-vis, à une portée d’arc; car elle disait: Que je ne voie pas mourir mon enfant! Elle s’assit donc vis-à-vis de lui, éleva la voix et pleura. 17 Dieu entendit la voix de l’enfant; et l’ange de Dieu appela du ciel Agar, et lui dit: Qu’as-tu, Agar? Ne crains point, car Dieu a entendu la voix de l’enfant dans le lieu où il est. 18 Lève-toi, prends l’enfant, saisis-le de ta main; car je ferai de lui une grande nation. 19 Et Dieu lui ouvrit les yeux, et elle vit un puits d’eau; elle alla remplir d’eau l’outre, et donna à boire à l’enfant. 20 Dieu fut avec l’enfant, qui grandit, habita dans le désert, et devint tireur d’arc. 21 Il habita dans le désert de Paran, et sa mère lui prit une femme du pays d’Egypte.
Abraham à Beer-Schéba
22 En ce temps-là, Abimélec, accompagné de Picol, chef de son armée, parla ainsi à Abraham: Dieu est avec toi dans tout ce que tu fais. 23 Jure-moi maintenant ici, par le nom de Dieu, que tu ne tromperas ni moi, ni mes enfants, ni mes petits-enfants, et que tu auras pour moi et le pays où tu séjournes la même bienveillance que j’ai eue pour toi. 24 Abraham dit: Je le jurerai. 25 Mais Abraham fit des reproches à Abimélec, au sujet d’un puits d’eau, dont s’étaient emparés de force les serviteurs d’Abimélec. 26 Abimélec répondit: J’ignore qui a fait cette chose-là; tu ne m’en as point informé, et moi, je ne l’apprends qu’aujourd’hui. 27 Et Abraham prit des brebis et des bœufs, qu’il donna à Abimélec; et ils firent tous deux alliance. 28 Abraham mit à part sept jeunes brebis. 29 Et Abimélec dit à Abraham: Qu’est-ce que ces sept jeunes brebis, que tu as mises à part? 30 Il répondit: Tu accepteras de ma main ces sept brebis, afin que cela me serve de témoignage que j’ai creusé ce puits. 31 C’est pourquoi on appelle ce lieu Beer-Schéba[c]; car c’est là qu’ils jurèrent l’un et l’autre. 32 Ils firent donc alliance à Beer-Schéba. Après quoi, Abimélec se leva avec Picol, chef de son armée; et ils retournèrent au pays des Philistins. 33 Abraham planta des tamaris à Beer-Schéba; et là il invoqua le nom de l’Eternel, Dieu de l’éternité. 34 Abraham séjourna longtemps dans le pays des Philistins.
Footnotes
- Genèse 21:10 + Ga 4:30
- Genèse 21:12 + Ro 9:7; + Hé 11:18
- Genèse 21:31 Beer-Schéba, litt. puits des sept (cp. v. 28-30) ou puits du serment (cp. Ge 26:31-33)
Genesis 21
Tree of Life Version
Birth of Isaac
21 Then Adonai visited Sarah just as He had said, and Adonai did for Sarah just as He had spoken. 2 So Sarah became pregnant and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time that God had told him. 3 Abraham named his son who was born to him—whom Sarah bore for him—Isaac. 4 Then Abraham circumcised Isaac, his eight-day-old son, just as God had commanded him. 5 Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac his son was born to him.
6 So Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me! Everyone who hears will laugh with me.” 7 She also said, “Who would have said to Abraham, ‘Sarah has nursed children’? For I have given birth to a son in his old age!”
Ishmael Banished, Yet Delivered
8 The child grew and was weaned—Abraham made a big feast on the day Isaac was weaned. 9 But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian whom she had born to Abraham—making fun. 10 So she said to Abraham, “Drive out this female slave and her son, for the son of this female slave will not be an heir with my son—with Isaac.”
11 Now the matter was very displeasing in Abraham’s eyes on account of his son. 12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not be displeased about the boy and your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For through Isaac shall your seed be called. 13 Yet I will also make the son of the slave woman into a nation, because he is your seed.”
14 So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. She went and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
15 When the water from the skin was finished, she abandoned the child under one of the bushes. 16 Then she went and sat herself down opposite, about a bowshot away, for she had said, “I can’t bear to see the child dying!” So she sat down opposite and lifted up her voice and wept.
17 Then God heard the boy’s voice and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and He said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, because God has heard the boy’s voice where he is. 18 Get up! Lift the boy up, and hold on to him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.”
19 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water, and she went and filled the water skin, and gave the boy a drink.
20 God was with the boy and he grew. He dwelled in the wilderness and became an archer. 21 He dwelled in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Covenant of Abimelech and Abraham
22 Now it came about at that same time that Abimelech—with Phicol the commander of his army—said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do. 23 So now, make a pledge to me here, by God, that you will not violate your word with me or with my descendants or with my offspring. As I have shown loyalty to you, show the same to me, and to the land in which you have lived as an outsider.”
24 Abraham said, “I make a pledge.” 25 Now Abraham had rebuked Abimelech because of the well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized. 26 So Abimelech said, “I don’t know who did this thing. Nor did you tell me, nor did I hear about it until today.”
27 Then Abraham took a flock of sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant. 28 Abraham set seven young ewe-lambs apart from the flock of sheep by themselves. 29 Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe-lambs that you’ve set by themselves mean?”
30 He said, “You are to accept the seven ewe-lambs from my hand, so that they may be a witness for me that I dug this well.” 31 That is why that place is named Beer-sheba, because there both of them made a pledge, 32 and they made a covenant in Beer-sheba. Then Abimelech got up, with Phicol the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.
33 Then he planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba and called there on the Name of Adonai, the Everlasting God. 34 He lived as an outsider in the land of the Philistines for many days.
Genesis 21
King James Version
21 And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.
12 And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:
23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.
32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.
34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
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