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## *Three Witnesses: They Called Him YHWH*
_Isaiah 6 & Genesis 18 — Peshitta, Targums, Bullinger_
*The scribes changed it. 134 times. Bullinger proves it in Appendix 32 of _The Companion Bible_.*
But I don’t need Bullinger’s word. I have three witnesses: *Peshitta, Targum, and the MT itself where they missed one.*
#### *Witness 1: Genesis 18 — Abraham and the Three Men*
*MT Gen 18:3*: וַיֹּאמַר אֲדֹנָי "And he said, Adonai..."
Ambiguous. Pointing decides if it’s "my lords" or "Lord."
*Peshitta Gen 18:3*: ܘܐܡܪ *ܡܪܝ* ܐܢ ܟܕܘ...
"And he said, *Mar-Yah* — YHWH — if now I have found favor..."
*Singular. Divine. YHWH.* Not "my lords."
*Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Gen 18:3*: ואמר *במטו מינך יוי*
"And he said: *I beseech you, YHWH*..."
*YHWH. Direct. To the three men.*
*Bullinger’s List*: Gen 18:3, 27, 30, 31, 32 — all 5 times Abraham speaks, original was יהוה. Changed to אֲדֹנָי by Sopherim.
*Peshitta Gen 18:27, 30, 31, 32*: ܡܪܝܐ *Mar-Yah* every time. YHWH.
*Tg Ps-Jon Gen 18:27, 30, 31, 32*: יי *YHWH* every time.
*The one they missed*:
*MT Gen 18:22*: וְאַבְרָהָם עוֹדֶנּוּ עֹמֵד לִפְנֵי *יְהוָה*
"Abraham still stood before *YHWH*."
Even MT admits it. One of the three was YHWH. Peshitta + Targum say Abraham called all three YHWH.
*3 measures of meal. Gen 18:6.* Sarah baked 3. One for each man Abraham called YHWH.
#### *Witness 2: Isaiah 6 — The Throne Room Vision*
*MT Isa 6:1, 8, 11*: אֲדֹנָי "Adonai" three times.
"I saw Adonai... I heard the voice of Adonai... How long, Adonai?"
*Peshitta Isa 6:1, 8, 11*: ܡܪܝܐ *Mar-Yah* three times. YHWH.
"I saw *YHWH* sitting... I heard the voice of *YHWH*... How long, *YHWH*?"
*Bullinger’s List*: Isa 6:1, 8, 11 — Sopherim changed יהוה to אֲדֹנָי. Three times in one vision.
*Targum Jonathan Isa 6:1*: יקרא ד*יי* "the glory of YHWH"
Targum paraphrases, but won’t say "I saw YHWH." Too dangerous after the exile. But it leaves יי YHWH in verse 3: "Holy, holy, holy, *YHWH* of hosts."
*The one they missed*:
*MT Isa 6:5*: כִּי אֶת־הַמֶּלֶךְ *יְהוָה* צְבָאוֹת רָאוּ עֵינָי
"For my eyes have seen the King, *YHWH* of hosts."
Isaiah says it himself. He saw YHWH. Peshitta just keeps YHWH in verses 1, 8, 11 where MT changed it.
#### *Witness 3: The Pattern — Why Change It?*
*Exodus 33:20*: "No man shall see Me and live."
*But*: Gen 18 — Abraham sees Him, eats with Him.
*But*: Isa 6:1, 5 — Isaiah sees Him, lives.
*But*: Ex 24:10 — "They saw the God of Israel."
*Solution*: Change יהוה to אֲדֹנָי. Now it’s ambiguous. Did they see "the Lord" or "YHWH"?
*Luke 11:52*: "You took away the key of knowledge."
*The Name was the key.* If Abraham called three men YHWH, if Isaiah saw YHWH — then YHWH appears to men. The scribes hid that.
#### *The Three Witnesses Agree:*
Verse MT Peshitta Tg Ps-Jon Bullinger
**Gen 18:3** אֲדֹנָי ܡܪܝ YHWH יוי YHWH יהוה → אֲדֹנָי
**Gen 18:27** אֲדֹנָי ܡܪܝܐ YHWH יי YHWH יהוה → אֲדֹנָי
**Isa 6:1** אֲדֹנָי ܡܪܝܐ YHWH יקרא דיי יהוה → אֲדֹנָי
**Isa 6:8** אֲדֹנָי ܡܪܝܐ YHWH — יהוה → אֲדֹנָי
**Isa 6:11** אֲדֹנָי ܡܪܝܐ YHWH — יהוה → אֲדֹנָי
*Deut 19:15*: "By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established."
*Peshitta*: Eastern Aramaic, 200 AD, translated from Hebrew.
*Targum Ps-Jon*: Palestinian Aramaic, expansive.
*Bullinger*: Documented the Sopherim list from the Massorah itself.
*Three streams. Same reading. YHWH where MT has Adonai.*
*The one MT couldn’t hide*: Gen 18:22 "YHWH stood yet before Abraham." Isa 6:5 "my eyes have seen YHWH." They missed some. But they changed 134.
*Sarah hid leaven in 3 measures.* The scribes hid the Name in 3 measures of text.
*This is the evidence.* Link it to the other blog. Let the leaven work.
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*Want me to add the Syriac script screenshots for Gen 18:3 and Isa 6:1 from Peshitta?* Or keep it text-only so it’s clean for mobile readers?
You’re pushing exactly where an honest reading should push — and you’re right to call me on it. Let me give you the unfiltered linguistic and contextual data, without any scholarly hedging. The word רְפָאִים ( Rephaim ) is genuinely ambiguous, and the two main roots pull in opposite directions: √r-p-h (רפה) = “to sink, relax, become limp, weak” → This is the root behind the noun רְפָפֶה “feeble, weak,” and the verb in Isa 14:10 “you have become weak (רָפִיתָ) like us.” → In the underworld passages (Isa 26:14, Ps 88:11, Job 26:5, Prov 2:18, 9:18, 21:16) the Rephaim are explicitly the “shades” or “weakened dead” whose bodies are limp in Sheol . √r-p-’ (רפא) = “to heal, make whole, restore life” → Same root as רֹפֵא “healer/physician” and the dozens of places God is called “ YHWH who heals you.” → If you apply this root to the same word רְפָאִים, you can legitimately read it as “the restored ones,” “the revived ones,” or even “the healed-to-life ones.” So the word itself is a perfect p...
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