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Portion of writing on silver scroll with the "Priestly Benediction" (Numbers 6:24-26) in which the tetragrammaton can be seen. Earliest depiction of the tetragrammaton - dated around 600 B.C.E.

"May the Lord bless you and keep you; may the Lord cause his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; may the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and grant you peace."

In Hebrew:

Found in 1979 in Jerusalem.

As reported in The Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research by Dr. Gabriel Barkay, the archaeologist at Bar-Ilan University in Israel who discovered the artifacts, and collaborators associated with Southern California's West Semitic Research Project. The project leader is Dr. Bruce Zuckerman, a professor of Semitic languages at U.S.C., who worked with Dr. Marilyn J. Lundberg, a Hebrew Bible specialist with the project, and Dr. Andrew G. Vaughn, a biblical historian at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn.

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