Genesis 17:6-8

17:6 I will make you ¹  extremely ²  fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you. ³  17:7 I will confirm ⁴  my covenant as a perpetual ⁵  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. ⁶  17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing ⁷  – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent ⁸  possession. I will be their God.”

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¹ tn This verb starts a series of perfect verbal forms with vav (ו) consecutive to express God’s intentions.

² tn Heb “exceedingly, exceedingly.” The repetition is emphatic.

³ tn Heb “and I will make you into nations, and kings will come out from you.”

⁴ 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 tn Or “as an eternal.”

⁶ tn Heb “to be to you for God and to your descendants after you.”

⁷ tn The verbal root is גּוּר (gur, “to sojourn, to reside temporarily,” i.e., as a resident alien). It is the land in which Abram resides, but does not yet possess as his very own.

⁸ tn Or “as an eternal.”