Fragment 11
1 over the many, and he shall accept his judgment willingly, as he said by the hand of 2 Moses about the person who sins in error, that they shall bring 3 his sin offering and his guilt offering. And about Israel it is written, “I will go 4 to the ends of the heavens, and I will not smell the scent of your pleasing offerings.” And in another place 5 it is written, “to return to God with weeping and with fasting.” And in a place it is written, “Tear your heart and not your garments.” And everyone who rejects these judgments, 6 which are according to all the statutes found in the Torah of Moses, shall not be counted 7 among all the sons of his truth, for his soul has loathed the disciplines of righteousness. As a rebel, from before 8 the many he shall be sent away. And the priest appointed over the many shall speak about him, and he shall speak up 9 and say, “Blessed are you; you are everything, and in your hands is everything, and you make everything, you who established 10 peoples by their families and tongues by their nations, and you led them astray in a waste with 11 no way. But you chose our fathers, and to their seed you gave your true statutes 12 and your holy judgments, which a person shall do and live. And you set boundaries 13 for us, and those who cross them you have cursed. And we are the people you redeemed and the flock of your pasture. 14 You have cursed those who cross them, but we have upheld them.” And the one sent away shall go out. And the man 15 who eats of his property, or who seeks his peace, the one sent away, or who shares with him, 16 his case shall be written down by the overseer with a stylus, and his judgment is complete. And all 17 [who dwell in] the camps shall assemble in the third month and curse the one who turns to the right 18 [or to the left from the] Torah. And this is the exact account of the judgments that they shall do in the whole age of 19 [the visitation, by which they shall be] visited [in all] the ages of wrath and their journeys, for everyone 20 [who dwells in their camps and everyone who dwells in their cities. Behold, it is all according to the] last [study of] the Torah 21 […]
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Joel 2:13
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