God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 15. Memorial. By this title he is still known among Christians. Menochius.—Hitherto God had generally been called Elohim. But now he assumes the incommunicable name ( Tirinus.) consisting of four vowels, Jod, He, Vau, He, Jehovah, the essence, or ΟΩΝ, a word which the Greek Scriptures leave undeclined, to denote the unchangeable nature of the Deity. The word has been pronounced Jehovah by the moderns, and by the ancients Jevo, Jao, Jave, and so forth Bible.
LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.