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- From: "Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
 - To: <kgraham0938 AT comcast.net>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
 - Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14
 - Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:27:35 +0300
 
> I understand what you are saying, however, I don't think "I will be who I
will be" answers Moses' question.
>
> Moses ask "What is your name?" paraphrase.
>
> YHWH answers " I will be who I will be."
>
> That does not make sense. That is why I think I am who I am is the best
translation.
>
That does not makes sense in English. In other languages, Russian and Modern
Hebrew in particular, it is idiomatic refusal. And this meaning is supported
by similar constructs in Ex33:19.
Vadim Cherny
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            [b-hebrew] Ex3:14
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            [b-hebrew] Ex3:14,
            Michael Abernathy, 09/12/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Vadim Cherny, 09/13/2005
 
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            Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14,
            Read, James C, 09/12/2005
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            Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14,
            Peter Kirk, 09/12/2005
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            Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14,
            Vadim Cherny, 09/13/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Peter Kirk, 09/13/2005
 
 
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            Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14,
            Vadim Cherny, 09/13/2005
 - Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Vadim Cherny, 09/13/2005
 
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            Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14,
            Peter Kirk, 09/12/2005
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            Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14,
            Awohili, 09/13/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Peter Kirk, 09/13/2005
 
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            Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14,
            kgraham0938, 09/13/2005
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        Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14,
        Vadim Cherny, 09/14/2005
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- Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Jim West, 09/14/2005
 
 
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            Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14,
            Vadim Cherny, 09/15/2005
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            Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14,
            Matanya Ophee, 09/15/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Vadim Cherny, 09/15/2005
 
 
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            Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14,
            Matanya Ophee, 09/15/2005
 
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            Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14,
            Vadim Cherny, 09/15/2005
 
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        Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14,
        Vadim Cherny, 09/14/2005
 
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            [b-hebrew] Ex3:14,
            Michael Abernathy, 09/12/2005
 
- Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Stoney Breyer, 09/14/2005
 - Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Vadim Cherny, 09/15/2005
 
- Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14, Vadim Cherny, 09/15/2005
 
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