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Text -- Genesis 17:1-11 (NET)

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The Sign of the Covenant
17:1 When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless. 17:2 Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.” 17:3 Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him, 17:4 “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations. 17:5 No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations. 17:6 I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you. 17:7 I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual 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. 17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan– the land where you are now residing– to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.” 17:9 Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. 17:10 This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised. 17:11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Abraham a son of Terah; the father of Isaac; ancestor of the Jewish nation.,the son of Terah of Shem
 · Abram the son of Terah of Shem
 · Canaan the region ofeast Mediterranean coastal land from Arvad (modern Lebanon) south to Gaza,the coast land from Mt. Carmel north to the Orontes River


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Abraham | Covenant | Circumcision | Works, Covenant of | GENESIS, 1-2 | GENESIS, 3 | AGRARIAN LAWS | Religion | COVENANT, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT | Children | Prophecy | Foreskin | MAKE, MAKER | God | IN | REVELATION, 1-2 | Birth | BLOOD | ADORATION | Canaan | more
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NET Notes: Gen 17:1 There are two imperatives here: “walk…and be blameless [or “perfect”].” The second imperative may be purely sequential (...

NET Notes: Gen 17:2 Heb “I will multiply you exceedingly, exceedingly.” The repetition is emphatic.

NET Notes: Gen 17:3 Heb “God spoke to him, saying.” This is redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified in the translation for stylistic reasons...

NET Notes: Gen 17:4 Heb “is” (הִנֵּה, hinneh).

NET Notes: Gen 17:5 The perfect verbal form is used here in a rhetorical manner to emphasize God’s intention.

NET Notes: Gen 17:6 Heb “and I will make you into nations, and kings will come out from you.”

NET Notes: Gen 17:7 Heb “to be to you for God and to your descendants after you.”

NET Notes: Gen 17:8 Or “as an eternal.”

NET Notes: Gen 17:9 Heb “my covenant.” The Hebrew word בְּרִית (bÿrit) can refer to (1) the agreement itself be...

NET Notes: Gen 17:10 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 ...

NET Notes: Gen 17:11 Or “sign.”

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