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What does Yahweh mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (history of religion) the name of the God of Israel worshipped by the Jahwist prophets in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in antiquity
  2. (biblical) in "Sacred Name Bibles", translating the Tetragrammaton
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Maybe you didn't know that rule is from the Old Testament and it means the Israelites were supposed to worship only Yahweh and not no other gods.
Moses ascends the mountain, talks with Yahweh, and comes back with clay tablets.
Her compassion leads Pharaoh's daughter to rescue Moses from the reedy water just as Yahweh delivers the Hebrews from the Sea of Reeds.
In Exodus and Leviticus we read of how the attention of Yahweh is drawn towards those who sacrifice.
Other critics say that the words Elohim and Yahweh indicate two different authors, and, who lived well after Moses' time.
Oh right, some of the Gnostics identified the Demiurge with the Old Testament Hebrew god Yahweh.

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