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The Yahwist source, believed to be an early contributor to the Pentateuch, used the tetragrammaton (YHWH) as the name for the God of Judah. Because early Hebrew had no vowels or vowel indicators, it is spelt with only consonants, leaving modern scholars to speculate about its real pronunciation. The consensus of most scholars is that the correct form with vowels would be 'Yahweh'. This was translated into German as 'Jehovah', a translation that is now also common in English. The tetragrammaton is now regarded simply as a name for God.

The Septuagint (the original Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible) uses the word for "Lord" (κύριος 'kurios') as a translation for YHWH.

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