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The Hebrew used is ancient, is written without vowels, and has neither full stops nor capital initial letters. The breaks between words are sometimes uncertain. Some sounds aere not differentiated, such as S and SH, P and PH. If we write a short essay in this form in modern English, it might look like
this:

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t s(h)ntsy trd ncnth brw js(h)t rdng t s(h)qt hrd ngh p(h)ttngt nt ngls(h) s(h) mch hrdr fw trns(h)ltns(h) r nthng lk ccrt.
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The original piece of this gibberish was the following sentence, omitting vowels and full stops and capitals, making the sapces just a little unreliable.

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It is not easy to read ancient Hebrew. Just reading it is quite hard enough. Putting it into English is much harder. Few translations are anything like accurate.
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From Bernard Boas "It's Time To Rewrite The Bible" (Hudson:1994)p. 32

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