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Old 11-20-2007, 03:40 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Solon View Post
Interesting stuff, but I've often wondered about the deseret thing. Wasn't the BoM supposed to have been written in Hebrew language with Egyptian characters (let alone whatever language Ether is supposed to have been written in)? Why would an Egyptian word show up?

Did a prophet say it was Egyptian or is it written somewhere more clearly than in Ether 2.3?
I doubt we know anything about the language spoken in Ether. If one accepts arguendo, the allegations are true, then it seems as if it were Semitic based. And as you are aware there are loanwords and similarities between Egyptian and Hebrew.
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