Genesis 17:7-8
7I will confirm ▼▼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).
my covenant as a perpetual ▼▼tn Or “as an eternal.”
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. ▼▼tn Heb “to be to you for God and to your descendants after you.”
8I will give the whole land of Canaan—the land where you are now residing ▼▼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.
—to you and your descendants after you as a permanent ▼▼tn Or “as an eternal.”
possession. I will be their God.”
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