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1. The name "Jehovah" is a mispronunciation of the Hebrew name "Yahweh" resulting from combining the consonants "Jhvh" with the vowels of the word "Adonai", which Jews substituted when reading the scriptures out of reverence. 2. Early Christian scholars, ignorant of this substitution, pronounced the name as "Jehovah". While controversial, this form was used in translations of the Bible in the 16th-17th centuries. 3. Evidence from ancient sources indicates the original pronunciation was likely "Yahweh" o

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