Did the patriarchs know the proper name of God as “YHWH”? Or did He reveal Himself only to Moses and the Israelites?<\/p>\n\t
The name YHWH first appears in Genesis 2:4, so the name YHWH has been known since creation. Abram called on the name of the LORD (YHWH). “The LORD appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him. Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD<\/em>” (Genesis 12:7-8). In Jacob’s blessing of his sons, he said, “For Your salvation I wait, O LORD<\/em>” (Genesis 49:18).<\/p>\n In case someone thinks that since Moses wrote Genesis that he used the name of God that he knew, look at the book of Job, which takes place around or before the time of Abraham. Job uses the name YHWH for God. “Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this, in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?<\/em>” (Job 12:8-9).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: Did the patriarchs know the proper name of God as “YHWH”? Or did He reveal Himself only to Moses and the Israelites? Answer: The name YHWH first appears in Genesis 2:4, so the name YHWH has been known since creation. Abram called on the name of the LORD (YHWH). “The LORD appeared to Abram…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[90,998],"class_list":["post-83613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-god","tag-names"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13426,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-name-of-god\/","url_meta":{"origin":83613,"position":0},"title":"The Name of God","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"October 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Text: Exodus 3:10-17 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses have gone out into the world declaring that God\u2019s name is \u201cJehovah.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A reader of our website wrote to ask why this claim is made since he was only able to find less than ten instances of the name \u201cJehovah\u201d in his Bible.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sermon"","block_context":{"text":"Sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/sermon\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2625,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-is-ywhw-translated-lord\/","url_meta":{"origin":83613,"position":1},"title":"Why is YWHW translated LORD?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 9, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I know the New World Translation is not a reliable translation, but why have the other Bible translations changed the original YHWH to LORD? 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It is not used in the New American Standard Bible or the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26650,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-only-yahweh-gods-name\/","url_meta":{"origin":83613,"position":3},"title":"Is only Yahweh God’s name?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: In \"The Divine Name,\" you did not explain the name YAHWEH\/YHWH and how it was taken out of the Scriptures.\u00a0 God, Lord, Father are all titles(mother, daughter, son, worker), but not His true name.\u00a0 Please explain verse Psalm 68:4 Sing to God, sing praises to His name;\u00a0 Extol Him\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19624,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/couldnt-jesus-use-of-lord-for-yhwh-be-due-to-later-tampering-of-the-text\/","url_meta":{"origin":83613,"position":4},"title":"Couldn’t Jesus’ use of Lord for YHWH be due to later tampering of the text?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: In \"Why is YHWH translated LORD?\" you said: Some, such as the Jehovah's Witnesses, object to using LORD in place of YHWH. 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