The Egyptian word for I AM is "nuk." If Moses went back and told them I AM sent me he would have said "Nuk" sent me. "Nuk" then would have been a name for God. Something not found in your Bible anywhere.
The letters "I AM" do not form a name. I AM was placed in the text and EHYEH removed. In fact, EHYEH has been removed from the text in hundreds if not thousand's of places. I AM is the "perfect present tense" of the name EHYEH. Since when do we replace someone's name with the "tense" of their name when used as a verb?
Many claim that EHYEH and its replacement I AM should be interpreted in a future tense as: "I will be that I will be (J. H. Hertz, The Pentateuch And Haftorahs, p 215); I will be what tomorrow demands (W. Gunther Plaut, The Haftartah Commentary, p. 405); I will be what I want to be (S.R. Hirsh from Plaut, p. 405).
All efforts to make EHYEH mean: "I will be," "He will be," "He who causes to be" or "He shall cause it to come to pass," are all future tense which does not exist in the Hebrew language (see Robert Young's Bible Lexicon, p. 38; Hastings Dictionary of the Bible, Extra Volume, p. 626; and Canon S.R. Driver, Westminister Commentary, Genesis, p. 408).
The point is, that the name EHYEH should have remained in the text and not replace it with I AM to designate the tense or meaing of that sacred name.
Ancient Paleo-Hebrew is not a sacred or holy language.
The claim that ancient Hebrew is a sacred and holy language is false. Every doctrine built upon that false premise is false. The idea or claim that a name for God spoken in Hebrew makes that name holy because it was spoken in Hebrew is false. Anyone who claims then that God's name(s) must be spoken in Hebrew for it/them to be acceptable, is making a false statement.
The objection that the Israelites did not speak Egyptian but the sacred language of Paleo-Hebrew is not true. Paleo-Hebrew is a homogenized language consisting of several other language phonetics and meanings. The Israelites did not adopt the Paleo-Phoenician language until many centuries after leaving Egypt, sometime between 1100-900BC.
Before there was a written language, words and names were usually monosyllable. By adding one monosyllable to another compound word forms were created. Transferring these ideas and word sounds into a written form was the beginning of a pictorial writing system. These glyphs or images whether they were the wedge type strokes found in the cunniform style or the figures found in the Egyptian language, stood for pronunciation of word forms. As this relates to the sacred names of God, there is absolutly no way with perfect certainty, that we can say how God's names were anciently pronounced. At the dispersion of the nations at the tower of Babel, and the instant creation by God of multiple languages, there had to come into existence at the same time different words to describe the same God. The idea that there exist one single pronunciation for the name(s) of God is just absolutely false. The idea that the name(s) of God must be spoken in the Paleo-Hebrew or in the Babylonian Aramaic tongue, for it (or them) to be holy and sacred is also false.
The original language of Adam was different than the Ugaritic language of Abraham. The Ugaritic language of Abraham was different than the Egyptian language of Moses and the Israelites in Egypt. The Phoenician language adopted by the Israelites 600 years after they came into the promised land is not the language of Adam, Abraham, or that of Moses. And finally, although there is a great affinity of Paleo-Hebrew to Aramaic, these are different languages.
God spoke in each language and in each one described himself by names and titles. We have no proof or evidence that God insisted upon one continious pronounciation for his names or titles and these names and titles were the same in all languages. If the evidence of such a fact of proof is missing, how can any man claim something to which God gave or left no testimony? Either the claim is false on the face of the assertion, or it is false because a claim so important if it were true, would have an abundance of testimony, and none exist!
At the tower of Babel, nine men could point toward heaven at the same time. One would utter "El"; another would utter "Neter"; another would utter "Theos"; another would utter "Deus"; another would say "Adonai"; another would say "Neb"; another would say "Moryo"; another would say "Kurios"; and yet another say "Dominus." All were speaking of the same being, ...the same God, the same LORD. It is when these names and titles are stolen by the profane and used to designate their gods that these carry a stigma of rebuke and shame.