Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>]

Sure, that is what I suggest. Palliative refusal, that is the sense of verb
asher verb. Remember, Moses didn't tell the name to the people, though he
asked for the name specifically to prove his authority to Israelites. Seems
like he wasn't told the name, just a comment that he is dealing with
ancestral God.

"As I live" is my interpretation of "I will be" or "I will become," and I
marked it thus. cf., for example, Russian-Hebrew idiomatic oath, Чтоб я так
жил! which could be vaguely translated, "Let me live so!" or "I will so
live!"

Vadim Cherny

>
> Vadim, you said YHWH offered an oath?  If you think that then YHWH did not
answer Moses' question so to speak.  And where are you getting the "as I
live" part?
>
> > He said, 'Thus you will say to children of Israel, 'I will be [As I
live], he sent me to you.''"
> > Instead of telling the name, God offered Moses to take an oath before
the
> > people.
> >