Genesis 9:3

9:3 You may eat any moving thing that lives. 1  As I gave you 2  the green plants, I now give 3  you everything.

Genesis 17:6

17:6 I will make you 4  extremely 5  fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you. 6 

Genesis 17:10

17:10 This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: 7  Every male among you must be circumcised. 8 

Genesis 26:27

26:27 Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me? You hate me 9  and sent me away from you.”

1 tn Heb “every moving thing that lives for you will be for food.”

2 tn The words “I gave you” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

3 tn The perfect verb form describes the action that accompanies the declaration.

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

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

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

7 tn Heb “This is my covenant that you must keep between me and you and your descendants after you.”

8 sn For a discussion of male circumcision as the sign of the covenant in this passage see M. V. Fox, “The Sign of the Covenant: Circumcision in the Light of the Priestly ‘ot Etiologies,” RB 81 (1974): 557-96.

9 tn The disjunctive clause is circumstantial, expressing the reason for his question.