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 | | Hebrew in the eras of Moses through the time of Solomon's Temple was changed to new "Assyrian lettering" (ktav ashurit) by Ezra the Scribe following the Babylonian Exile, and probably there were changes in verbal pronounciation as well. |
 | | Until then, most Jews had spoken Hebrew in Israel and Judea, however, by the destruction of the Second Temple, most had already shifted to speaking Aramaic, with a significant number in the large diaspora speaking Greek. |
 | | There were the heads of the original Hebrew tribes, and then also prophets such as Moses and Jeremiah whose words still as reference points for Bible-believers, judges such as Samuel and Samson, kings such as David and Solomon, priests of the Temple in Jerusalem, and the Sanhedrin which was the judiciary. |
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