13 摩西问上帝:“假如我到以色列人那里,对他们说,‘你们祖先的上帝派我来你们这里。’他们如果问我,‘祂叫什么名字?’我该怎样回答他们呢?” 14 上帝对摩西说:“我是自有永有者。你要这样回答以色列人,‘那位自有永有者派我到你们这里。’” 15 上帝又对摩西说:“你要告诉以色列人是我派遣你到他们那里,我是他们祖先的上帝耶和华,是亚伯拉罕的上帝,以撒的上帝,雅各的上帝。耶和华是我的名字,直到永远,世世代代的人都要这样称呼我。

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13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’(A) Then what shall I tell them?”

14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.[a] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am(B) has sent me to you.’”

15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord,[b] the God of your fathers(C)—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob(D)—has sent me to you.’

“This is my name(E) forever,
    the name you shall call me
    from generation to generation.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 3:14 Or I will be what I will be
  2. Exodus 3:15 The Hebrew for Lord sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for I am in verse 14.