Shaddai is preceded by the ב essentiae,23 which implies that God filled the name with special significance for them when he made a covenant with them and promised the land of Canaan as their inheritance (v. 4). Now he is going to fill the name Yahweh with significance (‘And my name is Yahweh’) in the even greater deliverance of the exodus (v. 5). Even so, the text stresses the continuity between the revelation to the patriarchs and the revelation of the exodus rather than any discontinuity (‘Did
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