4Q213a

Aramaic Levi b

Dead Sea Scrolls · 160 B.C.E. - 60 B.C.E.

Based on the text provided by Martin G. Abegg Jr., James E. Bowley, and Edward M. Cook.

Fragment 1

5 […] this 6 […] I 7 [… I washed,] and all 8 […] I lifted to heaven 9 […] and the fingers of my palms and my hands 10 […] I said, “My Lord, you 11 [… you] alone know 12 […] the ways of truth. Put far 13 […] evil, and fornication drive away 14 […] wisdom and knowledge and strength 15 […] to find your mercy before you 16 […] what is beautiful and what is good before you. 17 [… and] [1]do not let any satan rule over me 18 [… upon] me, my Lord, and bring me near to be yours.”

Fragment 2

5 … […] 6 my Lord, [you blessed …] 7 a seed of truth […] 8 the prayer of [your] servant […] 9 a true judgment for all […] 10 the son of your servant from before […] 11 Then I set out … […] 12 to my father Jacob, and when […] 13 from Abel-main. Then […] 14 I lay down, and I stayed on […] 15 Then I was shown visions […] 16 in the seeing of the vision, and I saw the heavens […] 17 beneath me, high until it reached the heavens […] 18 to me [2]the gates of heaven, and an angel […]

Fragment 3

11 […] your … […] … 12 [to take] from the females [who are foreign, and a profaner.] And now, the plagues of the men will come up 13 [upon those who] incur guilt [by taking her for themselves as] a wife. And she profanes her name and the name of her father. 14 [They judged] her to be burned [for the wrong of her] deed, in [profaning] the fathers. And every 15 [virgin] [3]who ruins her name and the name of her fathers, and brings shame on all her brothers, 16 [the sons of] her father, the name of her disgrace will not be wiped out from all her people forever. 17 [She is cursed] for all the generations of eternity. And whoever [makes guilty] the holy ones of the people, who 18 [put the sons of Israel to shame,] and [let him not be] a holy tithe, an offering to God from

Fragment 5 i

1 […] 2 […] … with … […] … 3 […] an eternal priesthood.

Fragment 5 ii

1 … […] 2 … […]

Fragment 6

1 […] I said, “What 2 […] 3 […] …

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