לאיהיהלךאלהיםאחריםעלפני

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av\lvm\Taa\yr\aTahvh

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Dahl`wymynvwrayn`mlwmaT

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Here are the Ten Commandments, the way scholars think they looked when they came down from the mountain on two tablets. This must not be taken lightly; they may well be right. Certainly the Phoenician script as I have written it above was known to be in use in 840 B.C.

Gesenius gives a table of twenty-six versions of Phoenician script dated from 840 B.C. to the Ashkenazi [German] dialect of Hebrew used in the nineteenth century on two unnumbered pages [presumably x and xi] in his Hebrew Grammar, 28^th revised edition, 1909.

The characters written in red signify special importance, being the names of deity. This is the way the Egyptians set them apart.