Discovery BoxGenesis 17:11 
Context17:11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder 1 of the covenant between me and you.
Genesis 21:30
Context21:30 He replied, “You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof 2 that I dug this well.” 3
Genesis 24:4
Context24:4 You must go instead to my country and to my relatives 4 to find 5 a wife for my son Isaac.”
Genesis 28:1
Context28:1 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman! 6
Genesis 34:15
Context34:15 We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become 7 like us by circumcising 8 all your males.
1 tn Or “sign.”
2 tn Heb “that it be for me for a witness.”
3 sn This well. Since the king wanted a treaty to share in Abraham’s good fortune, Abraham used the treaty to secure ownership of and protection for the well he dug. It would be useless to make a treaty to live in this territory if he had no rights to the water. Abraham consented to the treaty, but added his rider to it.
4 tn Heb “for to my country and my relatives you must go.”
5 tn Heb “and take.”
6 tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”
7 tn Heb “if you are like us.”
8 tn The infinitive here explains how they would become like them.
