Discovery BoxGenesis 3:18 
Context3:18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
but you will eat the grain 1 of the field.
Genesis 15:15
Context15:15 But as for you, 2 you will go to your ancestors 3 in peace and be buried at a good old age. 4
Genesis 17:2
Context17:2 Then I will confirm my covenant 5 between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.” 6
Genesis 17:4
Context17:4 “As for me, 7 this 8 is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 17:11
Context17:11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder 9 of the covenant between me and you.
Genesis 27:10
Context27:10 Then you will take 10 it to your father. Thus he will eat it 11 and 12 bless you before he dies.”
Genesis 30:29
Context30:29 “You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied, 13 “and how well your livestock have fared under my care. 14
Genesis 34:15
Context34:15 We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become 15 like us by circumcising 16 all your males.
Genesis 43:4
Context43:4 If you send 17 our brother with us, we’ll go down and buy food for you.
Genesis 43:6
Context43:6 Israel said, “Why did you bring this trouble 18 on me by telling 19 the man you had one more brother?”
Genesis 47:25
Context47:25 They replied, “You have saved our lives! You are showing us favor, 20 and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.” 21
1 tn The Hebrew term עֵשֶׂב (’esev), when referring to human food, excludes grass (eaten by cattle) and woody plants like vines.
2 tn The vav with the pronoun before the verb calls special attention to the subject in contrast to the preceding subject.
3 sn You will go to your ancestors. This is a euphemistic expression for death.
4 tn Heb “in a good old age.”
5 tn Following the imperative, the cohortative indicates consequence. If Abram is blameless, then the
6 tn Heb “I will multiply you exceedingly, exceedingly.” The repetition is emphatic.
7 tn Heb “I.”
8 tn Heb “is” (הִנֵּה, hinneh).
9 tn Or “sign.”
10 tn The form is the perfect tense with the vav (ו) consecutive. It carries forward the tone of instruction initiated by the command to “go…and get” in the preceding verse.
11 tn The form is the perfect with the vav (ו) consecutive; it carries the future nuance of the preceding verbs of instruction, but by switching the subject to Jacob, indicates the expected result of the subterfuge.
12 tn Heb “so that.” The conjunction indicates purpose or result.
13 tn Heb “and he said to him, ‘You know how I have served you.’” The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons, and the referent of the pronoun “he” (Jacob) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
14 tn Heb “and how your cattle were with me.”
15 tn Heb “if you are like us.”
16 tn The infinitive here explains how they would become like them.
17 tn Heb “if there is you sending,” that is, “if you send.”
18 tn The verb may even have a moral connotation here, “Why did you do evil to me?”
19 tn The infinitive construct here explains how they brought trouble on Jacob.
20 tn Heb “we find favor in the eyes of my lord.” Some interpret this as a request, “may we find favor in the eyes of my lord.”
