Defending the Father’s name: Yehovah

(The Hebrew word FOREVER is “leolam” included in Ex 3:15 “..this is My name forever.”) the vowels are sheva, holam, kamatz (e,o,a). As well, we have over 1000 HEBREW ancient manuscripts that have the vowel markings as sheva, holam, kamatz, or pronounce the name of the Father as, “Yehovah’.”

The first of the Scriptures (Tanakh) in which the four Hebrew consonants YHVH (יהוה) appear with all three vowels (e,o,a) is in the Leningrad Codex, the oldest complete copy of the Hebrew Scriptures 900-1000 CE, is Genesis 3:14. THIS IS THE CODEX THAT OUR TRUE HEBREW BIBLE IS BASED UPON TODAY.

Vowel markings are for correct pronunciation.

Although there are many ancient Biblical manuscripts, the importance of the Leningrad Codex and the Aleppo Codex, codices created by the Masoretic scholars, lies in the annotations that the texts contain. Ancient Biblical manuscripts written in Hebrew are largely without vowels, so even if there is no question regarding the letters of a given text, there still may be a question as to how a particular word should be pronounced and what it means.

Likewise, ancient Biblical manuscripts—such as the Dead Sea Scrolls—may contain no indication as to how the Torah portions and the prophetic readings should be spoken in the synagogue.

Codices such as the Leningrad Codex and the Aleppo Codex contain vowel markings (nekkudot) in the form of subscripts and superscripts. They also contain other markings (te’amim) indicating pitch relationships (neumes or pneumes, in Greek) to guide the cantor in speaking the prescribed Torah or prophetic (haftara) portion. Most importantly, they contain massive marginal notations (masora) concerning cruxes in the text that are crucial to interpretation.

Until it was damaged and partially lost, the Aleppo Codex was considered to be the “crown” of ancient Biblical manuscripts, and was the version of the Hebrew Bible that was ultimately considered the most authoritative text in Judaism. Its loss was an enormous blow to Jewish scholarship. However, another complete codex still exists: The Leningrad Codex.

So when you see the Father’s name Yehovah you know it was written and known by the Jewish people for thousands of years. With the proof of the ancient Jewish Biblical manuscripts we can know for sure the pronunciation of the Father’s name is Yehovah.
(Bible Scholar Dr. Nehemia Gordon) https://religionnews.com/2018/01/25/the-original-hebrew-name-of-god-re-discovered-in-1000-bible-manuscripts/

In recent years we have seen Christian proposals of the Father’s name as Yahweh and Yahuah and a half a dozen other. These supposed pronunciations are false and NOT supported by any Hebrew text, nor are they written with the vowel points in any ancient Jewish biblical manuscript.

By Rabbi HaTzair M. Francisco Arbas