Names of God, Part 36
Review of YHWH Covenant and the direction for the building of the furniture. Continued study of the Bronze Altar, and then the Bronze Lavar. Special Name is Hiding Place -- Seter סֵחֶר
Sunday October 8, 2023
TNOG 20
Names of God
YHWH - יהוה
MOSES AGAIN RAISES HIS GREAT CONCERN: WILL GOD GO WITH ISRAEL? (34:8–9)
GOD’S ANSWER: KEEP MY COVENANT AND I WILL GO WITH YOU (Exodus 34:10–11)
God of Our Fathers — Elohey Avoteynu — אֱלֹהֵי אֲבֹתֵינוּ
Sunday October 15, 2023
TNOG 21
Names of God
YHWH - יהוה
God’s Answer: Keep My Covenant and I Will Go with You (Exodus 34:10–11)
The Hb., הִנֵּה אָנֹכִי כֹּרֵת בְּרִית, lit. says, simply, “I am hereby cutting a covenant” [the words “with you” being an addition by the NIV translators]. Thus the original uses the language for establishing a covenant by the ceremony of cutting an animal as a symbol both of a shared meal uniting the parties as if in a family (since meat is normally cut up to be served to more than one person), as well as of the dismembering/death that would be deserved by the party that breaks the covenant.
The covenant itself can be seen as the witness between the two parties as well, as in Gen 31:44 (“Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us”) or Deut 31:26 (“Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. There it will remain as a witness against you”). Likewise, memorial objects, usually stones or stone structures, can serve as witnesses (e.g., Gen 31:46–48, 52; Josh 22:34; 24:27; 1 Sam 6:8). On God as the explicitly named witness to a covenant, see Gen 31:50; Judg 11:10; 1 Sam 12:5; 20:42; Jer 42:5; Mic 1:2; Mal 2:14.