,
ג
for
ב
, and so forth. They are said to have concealed in this manner their recognition of the one true God, which they recite daily, early and toward evening, and as to which they persuade themselves that it is the most efficacious safeguard against idolatry, fortified wherewith they can not lapse from true to false religion. The other secret alphabet consisted in this, that in inversed order they change the last letter
ת
with the first
א
, and this and another in turn, and so on through the rest, which inversion it is the custom to call
אתבש