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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The ancient God of Hebrew was called?
A
Moses
B
Abraham
C
Yahweh
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Yahweh, name for the God of the Israelites, representing the biblical pronunciation of “YHWH, ‘’ the Hebrew name revealed to Moses in the book of Exodus. The name YHWH, consisting of the sequence of consonants Yod, Heh, Waw, and Heh, is known as the tetragrammaton.

Detailed explanation-2: -The name Yahweh, after all, can be found in the Book of Genesis. In that same book, we are also told that people started to call upon Yahweh’s name as early as the time of Enosh, who lived long before Moses. This begs the question: Where (and when) did worship of Yahweh first originate?

Detailed explanation-3: -Also abbreviated Jah, the most common name of God in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton, , that is usually transcribed as YHWH. Hebrew script is an abjad, so that the letters in the name are normally consonants, usually expanded as Yahweh in English.

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