I bless you by Yahweh of Teman and his Asherah

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This Kuntillet Ajrud, Hebrew blessing inscription is 1 of 3 dedications pairing Yhwh with Asherah 4 times. 

Kuntillet Ajrud was an Israelite-Judaean Sinai way-station with an attached shrine and "religious center." (Although a southern complex under Israelite control, neutron analysis of Ajrud's storage jars reveal they were produced by Judaeans around the Jerusalem area, affirming it had a far reaching northern presence.)

Dating to ~830-760 BCE, Ajrud's blessing inscriptions constitute the "oldest known Hebrew dedicatory inscriptions" discovered to date.

The provocative nature of Ajrud's inscriptions challenged previous convictions of Yahwehistic monotheism, making it perhaps "the most widely discussed and controversial find in the history of Israelite archaeology.”
Although discovered almost 40 years ago in 1975-1976, the inscriptions remain largely unacknowledged. -History’s Vanquished Goddess Asherah

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