What is the book of exodus chapter 3 verses 13 to 14 in the bible?

Answer 1

This is: "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?' Then what shall I tell them?" God said to Moses, "I am who I am . This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.' " The term 'I AM' in Hebrew is "Yah Weh" from where we get the name Jehovah for God. In the passage above Moses asked God for some sort of guarantee that the Israelites would listen to him, especially as we are told elsewhere in Exodus that he had a speech impediment (probably a stammer) and so as a public speaker was very self-conscious. God's powerful "I am who I am" suggests a power and authority that should be obeyed. in the Hebrew bible (the Old Testament) this name of God was never uttered, nor written down as it was deemed too holy. Instead they used words such as 'Adonai' which today is translated as 'Lord'. In the modern translations of the New Testament this tradition is still seen as the word Lord, where it represents God's name, is still written as large capital L and small capitals ORD. The I AM statement is taken up in the New Testament by Jesus Christ. His great I AM statements would have hit hard the Jews and were tantamount to his claiming to be God. The most famous is the statement made by Christ in John 8:57-58: "You are not yet fifty years old," the Jews said to him, "and you have seen Abraham!" "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!" At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds." There are many other great I AM statements - I am the true vine, I am the Good Shepherd, I am the way, the truth and the life, and so on. In each, Jesus reminds the crowds, by the use of those two simple words, just who he is - God incarnate.