Did God's People in the Old Testament Times Utter the Holy Name Aloud?
By Ronald R. Day, Sr. One claims that we cannot produce one manuscript where Moses wrote the name completely in Hebrew. Actually, we don't know of any Hebrew manuscript of the Old Testament that does not at all produce the Holy Name completely with all four of the Hebrew letters that represent the Holy Name; those letters are usually referred to as YOD HE WAW HE or JOD HE VAV HE. Therefore, we assume that by writing the name completely is meant with the vowels. The original Hebrew had no written vowels, but the vowels were spoken when the words were uttered. The commonly used Masoretic text produced after Christ not only has the four letters but also the added vowel points, which have been added, not just to the Holy Name but to each and every word in the Hebrew Old Testament, since the original Hebrew had no written vowels at all for any word. In a comparatively few instances, God's Holy Name is presented in its shortened form with two letters YOD HE HE, usually render...
