• INF008 Le code d'Hammourabi

    Le Code d'Hammourabi autorisait une femme stérile à proposer sa servante à son mari pour assurer une descendance, l'enfant étant reconnu comme légitime. Cette pratique, répandue dans l'ancien Proche-Orient, n'était pas prescrite dans la Loi de Moïse. Elle éclaire le geste de Sarah proposant Agar à Abraham, un acte culturellement acceptable mais contraire à la promesse divine spécifique faite à Abraham concernant sa descendance.

    Genesis 16.1-4 (King James Version) :
    Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.Noteobtain…: Heb. be built by herAnd 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.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.And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.Noteas…: Heb. that which is good in thine eyesNotedealt…: Heb. afflicted her
    King James Version (1769), domaine public — texte : eBible.org
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