Exodus 3:13-15
13Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” ▼ And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: b‘I am has sent me to you.’” 15God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The Lord, ▼▼The word Lord, when spelled with capital letters, stands for the divine name, YHWH, which is here connected with the verb hayah, “to be” in verse 14
the dGod of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is emy name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations. Exodus 6:3
3I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as fGod Almighty, ▼▼Hebrew El Shaddai
but by my name the hLord I did not make myself known to them. Exodus 34:5-7
5The Lord idescended in the cloud and stood with him there, and jproclaimed the name of the Lord. 6The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, k“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and lgracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast mlove and faithfulness, 7 nkeeping steadfast love for thousands, ▼▼Or to the thousandth generation
pforgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but qwho will by no means clear the guilty, rvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.” Deuteronomy 28:58
58“If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, sthe Lord your God,
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