Genesis 9:12

9:12 And God said, “This is the guarantee ¹  of the covenant I am making ²  with you ³  and every living creature with you, a covenant ⁴  for all subsequent ⁵  generations:

Genesis 42:36

42:36 Their father Jacob said to them, “You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. ⁶  Simeon is gone. ⁷  And now you want to take ⁸  Benjamin! Everything is against me.”

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¹ tn Heb “sign.”

² sn On the making of covenants in Genesis, see W. F. Albright, “The Hebrew Expression for ‘Making a Covenant’ in Pre-Israelite Documents,” BASOR 121 (1951): 21-22.

³ tn Heb “between me and between you.”

⁴ tn The words “a covenant” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁵ tn The Hebrew term עוֹלָם (’olam) means “ever, forever, lasting, perpetual.” The covenant would extend to subsequent generations.

⁶ tn Heb “is not.”

⁷ tn Heb “is not.”

⁸ tn The nuance of the imperfect verbal form is desiderative here.