Footnotes

1. 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).
2. Genesis 17:7 tn Or “as an eternal.”
3. Genesis 17:7 tn Heb “to be to you for God and to your descendants after you.”
4. 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.
5. Genesis 17:8 tn Or “as an eternal.”