Genesis 17:7-8

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  17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing ⁴  – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent ⁵  possession. I will be their God.”

Genesis 17:24-26

17:24 Now Abraham was 99 years old ⁶  when he was circumcised; ⁷  17:25 his son Ishmael was thirteen years old ⁸  when he was circumcised. 17:26 Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day.

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.”

⁴ tn The verbal root is גּוּר (gur, “to sojourn, to reside temporarily,” i.e., as a resident alien). It is the land in which Abram resides, but does not yet possess as his very own.

⁵ tn Or “as an eternal.”

⁶ tn Heb “the son of ninety-nine years.”

⁷ tn Heb “circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin” (also in v. 25).

⁸ tn Heb “the son of thirteen years.”