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God writes in Hebrew
In the Bible, Yhwh doesn't just speak; he writes the covenant tablets himself, in the scribes' own language. As Aramaic spread, the scribes kept Hebrew alive.
If God knows our language, so should we.
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Nehemiah complained that Judean children no longer spoke 'Judean.' Saving a language was an innovative act of resistance to imperial culture. Like Luther's German Bible much later, biblical Hebrew helped hold a people together.
Bible reference: Nehemiah 13:24
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 165–167
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