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Genesis 17:7-8
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Genesis 17:7-8
New English Translation
7 I will confirm[a] my covenant as a perpetual[b] covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.[c] 8 I will give the whole land of Canaan—the land where you are now residing[d]—to you and your descendants after you as a permanent[e] possession. I will be their God.”
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- Genesis 17:7 tn The verb קוּם (qum, “to arise, to stand up”) in the Hiphil verbal stem means “to confirm, to give effect to, to carry out” (i.e., a covenant or oath; see BDB 878-79 s.v. קוּם).
- Genesis 17:7 tn Or “as an eternal.”
- Genesis 17:7 tn Heb “to be to you for God and to your descendants after you.”
- Genesis 17:8 tn The verbal root is גּוּר (gur, “to sojourn, to reside temporarily,” i.e., as a resident foreigner). It is the land in which Abram resides, but does not yet possess as his very own.
- Genesis 17:8 tn Or “as an eternal.”
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