2260. 'Jehovah said' means perception. This is clear from the meaning in the historical sense of 'Jehovah saying' as something representative of the Lord's perception from the Divine, and as a kind of thought resulting from perception and a kind of reply. Regarding the phrase 'Jehovah said', see above in 2238.

2061. 'God said to Abraham' means perception. This is clear from the meaning of the expression used in the historical sense - God saying - which in the internal sense means perceiving, dealt with already in 1791, 1815, 1819, 1822, 1898, 1919. Because a different subject is taken up at this point - namely the things meant by the names 'Sarai' and 'Sarah', as well as by the promise of a son borne by Sarah, and by Ishmael's being a great nation in the future - it is introduced by a new perception which the Lord had, expressed here, as in many other places, by the words 'God said to Abraham'.