To: "Stoney Breyer" <stoneyb AT touchwood.net>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ex3:14
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:40:27 +0300
> > YHWH answers " I will be who I will be."
> > That does not make sense.
> SB: *'ehyeh 'asher 'ehyeh* is just an introduction, not the answer,
> which comes in the next clause:" Tell them *'ehyeh* sent you."
>
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.