Discovery BoxGenesis 17:8 
Context17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing 1 – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent 2 possession. I will be their God.”
Genesis 18:28
Context18:28 what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy 3 the whole city because five are lacking?” 4 He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
Genesis 31:34
Context31:34 (Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel’s saddle 5 and sat on them.) 6 Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them. 7
1 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.
2 tn Or “as an eternal.”
3 tn The Hebrew verb שָׁחַת (shakhat, “to destroy”) was used earlier to describe the effect of the flood.
4 tn Heb “because of five.”
5 tn The “camel’s saddle” was probably some sort of basket-saddle, a cushioned saddle with a basket bound on. Cf. NAB “inside a camel cushion.”
6 tn The disjunctive clause (introduced by a vav [ו] conjunction) provides another parenthetical statement necessary to the storyline.
7 tn The word “them” has been supplied in the translation for clarification.
