tetragram יהוה, yhwh. It is pointed in the Hebrew Bible with the vowels of אֲדֹנָי, ˒aḏonāy, (the Qere, “what was to be read”), yielding the hybrid word יְהֹוָה, yeho–wåh, from which the impossible “Jehovah” is derived. Its revelation, according to Exodus 6:3, while not totally unknown in previous ages (see, e.g., Gen. 9:26; 15:2), belongs to and is characteristic of the Mosaic period and beyond. Some critics have argued from this text that all of the references to Yahweh in Genesis are evidence