Genesis 17:7

I will confirm ¹  my covenant as a perpetual ²  covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you. ³ 

Ge 15:18; Ge 26:24; Ge 28:13; Ex 3:6,15; Ex 6:4; Ex 19:5,6; Le 26:12; Ps 81:10; Ps 105:8-11; Eze 28:26; Mic 7:20; Mt 22:32; Mr 10:14; Lu 1:54,55,72-75; Ac 2:39; Ro 9:4,8,9; Ro 9:7-9; Ga 3:17; Eph 2:12; Heb 8:10; Heb 11:16

¹ tn The verb קוּם (qum, “to arise, to stand up”) in the Hiphil verbal stem means “to confirm, to give effect to, to carry out” (i.e., a covenant or oath; see BDB 878-79 s.v. קוּם).

² tn Or “as an eternal.”

³ tn Heb “to be to you for God and to your descendants after you.”