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The Hebrews adopted an alphabet from the Philistines around 900 B.C., leading to increased writing and a shift towards a unified creation story after the Babylonian captivity. 74:8.9

The Hebrew language, distinctly Andonite, was spoken by the Jewish descendants of Abraham, who carried the strain in their ancestry from the Andonite stock. 80:8.2

Jesus spoke Hebrew fluently, having mastered it as a young man in Nazareth. 123:2.14 (123:5.1,4)

Moses' work is scarcely documented due to the absence of written Hebrew language during the exodus from Egypt, with records relying on oral traditions from over a millennium later. 96:5.2

The Hebrew language spoken by priests and rabbis in times of Jesus influenced the subsequent predominance of Greek in Jewish culture. 121:6.2

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Hebrew language is linked in 83 paragraphs of the text; the first 40 are listed.