The Talmudists had strict guidelines relating to how they copied the Old Testament Scripture. Identify six of these guidelines below.

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-Ink had to be black and made in a very specific way.
-Nothing, not even a part of a letter, could be written from memory.
-Each page of the codex must have the same number of columns (48 lines in length).
-Each line had to be 30 letters long.
-If a king addressed the copyist while he was writing the name of God, he was to ignore the king.
-The copyist had to wear specific clothes and follow certain rules about bathing.

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