Footnotes

1. Genesis 17:6 tn This verb starts a series of perfect verbal forms with vav (ו) consecutive to express God’s intentions.
2. Genesis 17:6 tn Heb “exceedingly, exceedingly.” The repetition is emphatic.
3. Genesis 17:6 tn Heb “and I will make you into nations, and kings will come out from you.”
4. 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).
5. Genesis 17:7 tn Or “as an eternal.”
6. Genesis 17:7 tn Heb “to be to you for God and to your descendants after you.”
7. 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.
8. Genesis 17:8 tn Or “as an eternal.”