I Enjoyed your commets on I am the Lord in the July 13,2006 post. the scripture at Exodus 6:3 is often misunderstood that the Patriarchs did not know or use the Divine name. However as you nicely stated they did indeed know and use the Divine name. Rather it was that they had not lived to see the fullfillment of the promises made in harmony with the meaning of the Divine name Jehovah,-“He Causes to become”.

Unfortunately many modern translations have substituted the Divine name with the title LORD adhering to the Jewish superstitution that the Divine name was too holy to be used. However when we read from the American Standard Version of 1901 it has translated into English the Divine name as it occured in the original text. Thus the text in Exous 6 in the American Standard Version reads:

“And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am Jehovah: 6:3 and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah I was not known to them. 6:4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned. 6:5 And moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. 6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: 6:7 and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God, who bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 6:8 And I will bring you in unto the land which I sware to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am Jehovah. 6:9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage