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The world's oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible sold for $38.1 million om New York on Wednesday, Sotheby’s said, one of the highest prices ever for a book or document sold at auction. Wednesday's winning bid for the Codex Sassoon was made via a donation by Alfred H. Moses, a former US ambassador and president of the American Jewish Committee, who is giving it to the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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The Codex Sassoon “contains all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible missing only 12 leaves and precedes the earliest entirely complete Hebrew Bible, the Leningrad Codex, by nearly a century,” the auction house said.

The oldest most complete Hebrew Bible has been bought at Sotheby's New York in the United States (US) for $38.1m

It was bought by former US diplomat Alfred Moses on behalf of an American nonprofit that will gift it to the ANU Museum in Tel Aviv, according to Sotheby's