I AM

Exodus 3:13-14
13 Then Moses said to God, “Behold, when I come to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers (ancestors) has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses, “[a]I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “You shall say this to the Israelites, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
Why did Moses ask for Gods Name- the many gods of egypt
The statement "I AM" comes from the Hebrew verb "to be or to exist." With this statement, God declared that He is self-existent, eternal, self-sufficient, self-directed, and unchanging. But this statement also declared that He is present