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It sounds good in Arabic, though I guess we don't know precisely how Akkadian sounded[1], they are both in the same language group. I generally liked Mitchell's 'translation' (which is more like a retelling than a scholarly work)[2]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_language#Phonetics_an...

2: https://youtu.be/sf2RmQYiUJo?t=54



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