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‏שְׁמַ֖ע יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ יְהוָ֥ה אֶחָד

A while ago when I was testing my weblog's Unicode support I wanted to find a copy of the Shema (‏שְׁמַ) of Deuteronomy 6:4. It turns out sacred-texts.com has a Hebrew copy online:

‏שְׁמַ֖ע יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ יְהוָ֥ה אֶחָד

This is coming up now, of course, because Deuteronomy 6 is where I am in my new favorite translation's "Through the Bible in a year" program Smiley

Only, some combining characters (vowels) don't seem to be exactly right and the RtL text is being funky in my browser's text editor. Also, I don't think I've ever seen anyone spell out Adonai before.

Oh, and incidentally, Matthew Henry's entire commentary is available online.

Update: This Hebrew text has behaved differently on every browser and system I've tried it on. It's disappointing.

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Anne (http://annevankesteren.nl/) wrote:

If it is RTL you should use the DIR attribute or the Unicode characters. I believe HTML is the preferred way to handle it.

Also, your URI does not seem to be UTF-8 encoded. And it really should be if you are planning to use IRIs someday.

∴ Anne | 10-Mar-2005 6:37am est | http://annevankesteren.nl/ | #7179

Justin (http://justin.titlehere.com) wrote:

You can find a lot of great resources at the ccel site.

∴ Justin | 10-Mar-2005 10:29am est | http://justin.titlehere.com | #7180

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