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The Masoretes encouraged the development of biblical scholarship and established basic rules of grammar and spelling in order to ensure some measure of standardization in the writing and reading of scriptures.
The most important achievement of the Masoretes was the precise recording of the vowels for pronunciation. Like all Semitic alphabetical scripts, Hebrew-Aramaic is a consonantal script--that is to say, only the consonants in a word were written down. This can result in ambiguities and uncertainties.
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