"Jehovah" and Abraham by Wayne Blank The YHVH was, after about
300 BC, held in such high regard by Jews, in accordance with a
"take no chances" interpretation of The Third Commandment (see
the Fact Finder question below) to not use The Name of God in
vain, that it was not spoken at all (an attitude that is quite
correct if not taken to extremes that God never intended in His
Command - many righteous people of Bible History did speak the
Name of YHVH, to other people, as well as to YHVH Himself,
without offense). The only exception was the high priest (see
Levites and Aaron) on The Day Of Atonement when he entered into
the Most Holy Place of the Temple (see Temples). Also, whenever
YHVH occurred in the Scriptures, they pronounced it, as is still
done today, "Adonai" (i.e. "Lord"), thus replacing the YHVH with
Adonai. This practice was carried over into The Septuagint (the
Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures of the Old Testament
which was done by Greek-speaking Hebrew scholars) where the YHVH
was transla