Discovery BoxGenesis 9:3 
Context9:3 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
Context17:6 I will make you 4 extremely 5 fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you. 6
Genesis 17:10
Context17:10 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
Context26:27 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.
