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163. Why We Can't Cherry-Pick the Bible — A Conversation with Dan McClellan

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The Jehovah of the Old Testament

The God of Israel, Adonai, Jehovah. Well, that would have been the God of Israel. In Deuteronomy 32, eight and nine, you have this statement that El-Yon divides up the nations according to the number of the menel Ohim, the children of God. And Jehovah's portion was Israel. Jacob was the lot of his inheritance,. which pretty strongly suggests that in this very, very early period, Jehovah was seen as the son of El. They were very quickly conflated and became the same deity. By this time, all of the different divine names, El, Ad onai, Elohim, El-yon, are kind of

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