In Exodus 5:1 we have an important title of God: Jehovah the God of Israel. In verse 3 God is entitled the God of the Hebrews. Hence, the demand on Pharaoh was made by Jehovah, the God of Israel, the God of the Hebrews. We have pointed out that in Hebrew the title Jehovah is a form of the verb to be. This indicates that Jehovah is the unique self-existing One. He is the One who was, who is, and who will be. Only to Him can the verb to be be applied in an absolute sense. Only God is; we and all other things are not. In 6:3 God says, “I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as the All-sufficient God; but by My name Jehovah I did not make Myself known to them.” God revealed Himself as Jehovah for the first time in Exodus 3. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob did not receive this revelation of Him. (Life-study of Exodus, p. 145)
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