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# the people
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See **my people** in [09:13](09/13).
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# I AM WHO I AM
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This description shows that God can only be defined by himself, not by anything else that we know of, and he cannot be compared to anyone else.
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# Tell them, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’
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This is a quotation within a quotation. The entire quotation can be restated so that this portion is an indirect quotation: “Tell them that I AM has sent you to them.” (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotesinquotes]])
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# I AM
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This name emphasizes that God is the only one who has always lived and always will live. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-unknown]])
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# Also tell them, ‘I am Yahweh, the God of your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’
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This is a quotation within a quotation. The entire quotation can be restated so that this portion is an indirect quotation: “Also tell them that I am Yahweh, the God of your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotesinquotes]])
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# Yahweh
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The name **Yahweh** means ‘HE IS’ and expresses that God exists by his own power—no one created him. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-unknown]])
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# my name
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The name that God told Moses and all of Israel to use for him is ‘Yahweh,’ which is related to ‘I AM’ and appears to mean ‘HE IS.’
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