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Jacob (from The Bible) spoke Hebrew from birth. It was his native language.

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If Jacob was a historical person who lived some time before 1500 BCE, as biblical tradition tells, then one theory suggests he could not have spoken Hebrew, since it has been established that the Hebrew language only emerged from a Canaanite dialect around 900 BCE.

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