Exodus 6:2 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 6:2

God also told Moses, “I am the LORD.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am Jehovah:

KJV

And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord:

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I am the Lord - It should be, I am Jehovah, and without this the reason of what is said in the 3d verse is not sufficiently obvious.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר	vay.da.Ber	and he spoke	H1696 →
אֱלֹהִ֖ים	'E.lo.Him	God	H430 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
מֹשֶׁ֑ה	mo.Sheh	Moses	H4872 →
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
אֵלָ֖יו	'e.Lav	to him	H413 →
אֲנִ֥י	'a.Ni	I	H589 →
יְהוָֽה׃	Yah.weh	[am] Yahweh	H3068 →

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Malachi 3:6
“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
leads to
- Numbers 23:19
  God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Hebrews 13:8
  Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
- James 1:17
  Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- Lamentations 3:22–23
  Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
- Jeremiah 32:27
  “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?
Through
Jeremiah 9:24
But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,”…
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 10:17
  Rather, “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”
- Galatians 6:14
  But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Through
Isaiah 42:8
I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.
leads to
- Isaiah 48:11
  For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.

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Names of God

God reveals himself by name. Each name given in a specific historical moment, in response to a specific situation. Twenty-eight names along a revelation timeline — from Elohim at creation to YHWH-Shammah at the restored city — closing with Jesus' "I AM."

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