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TIL In 1979, two tiny silver scrolls were found in a burial chamber southwest of the Old City of Jerusalem. Dated 400 years before the Dead Sea Scrolls, the scrolls were examined and found to contain the Priestly Benediction, Numbers 6:24-26.

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