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  • From: Awohili AT aol.com
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Everett Fox's Exodus 3:14
  • Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 08:06:31 EDT

I deleted it by mistake, but someone asked how Everett Fox translates Exodus
3:14.

"God said to Moshe:
EHYEH ASHER EHYEH/ I will be-there howsoever I will be-there.
And he said:
Thus shall you say to the Children of Israel:
EHYEH/ I-WILL-BE-THERE sends me to you."

In his comments, Fox notes that "The syntax is difficult. Others, 'I am
that I am.'" Further, "There is some scholarly consensus that the name may
mean
'He who causes (things) to be,' or perhaps, 'He who is.'"

Fox acknowledges that the matter is unsettled, but his translation goes with
the "I will be (there)" idea.

Solomon Landers




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