Discovery BoxGenesis 9:12 
Context9:12 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
Context42:36 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.”
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.
