... These are the regulations for the Instructor, to walk in them in the appointed time when God visits the earth, when the word will be fulfilled which said: “There shall come upon your people days such as have not come since the day on which Ephraim became separated from Judah”; and (to) all those who walk in them, the covenant of God is faithful to save them from all the nets of the pit, but “the ignorant walk on and are punished”. The Rule for the assembly of all the camps: They shall all be enrolled by name: first the Priests, second the Levites, third the Israelites, and fourth the proselytes. And they shall be inscribed by name, one after the other: the Priests first, the Levites second, the Israelites third, and the proselytes fourth. And thus shall they sit and thus be questioned on all matters. And the Priest who is appointed to head the Congregation shall be from thirty to sixty years old, learned in the Book of Meditation and in all the judgements of the Law so as to pronounce them correctly. The Guardian of all the camps shall be from thirty to fifty years old, one who has mastered all the secrets of men and the languages of all their clans. Whoever enters the Congregation shall do so according to his word, each in his rank. And whoever has anything to say with regard to any suit or judgement, let him say it to the Guardian.[1] This is the Rule for the Congregation by which it shall provide for all its needs: They shall place the earnings of at least two days out of every month into the hands of the Guardian and the Judges, and from it they shall give to the fatherless, and from it they shall succour the poor and the needy, the aged sick and the man who is stricken (with disease), the captive taken by a foreign people, the virgin with no near kin, and the maid for whom no man cares ... And this is the exact statement of the assembly ...
... your concern if ... you stood and considered ... they shall answer bring back the ... dust and ashes ... you did not understand ... your ... all flesh and creature
in ancient times there arose Moses and Aaron, by the hand of the prince of lights, and Belial, with his cunning, raised up Jannes and his brother during the first deliverance of Israel. And in the age of devastation of the land there arose those who shifted the boundary and made Israel stray. And the land became desolate, for they counselled a rebellion against God’s precepts (given) through the hand of Moses and also of the holy anointed ones. They prophesied deceit in order to divert Israel from following God. But God remembered the covenant with the forefathers, and raised from Aaron men of knowledge and from Israel wise men, and made them listen. And they dug the well, a well about which Moses said: “A well which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people delved with the staff”. The well is the law. And those who dug it are the converts of Israel, who left the land of Judah and lived in the dwellings of Damascus, all of whom God called princes, for they all sought him, and their renown has not been repudiated in anyone’s mouth. And the spade is the interpreter of the law, ...
and those of firm power in what has been revealed ... those who hold fast to his holy name are the men of ... for in Judah there is found a conspiracy to return ... to Israel when arises ... peace... And all those who remain ... each one according to his spirit they shall let approach ...
... and anyone who ... and anyone with week eyes or ... And anyone who is not quick to understand, and anyone who speaks weakly or staccato, without separating his words to make his voice heard, such men should not read in the book of the Torah ...
... and if ... and the grapes of the vineyard: up to ten berries the grape ... in which (is only) its seed, in it there is not sacred offering ... its beating is one from every thirty. And all ... And if the field was trampled or scorched by fire, but there remains up to a seah per bushel, there is tithe in it. And if a person gleans
... from one month to the other, and then, when he was angry, accused him of a capital offence, he has testified against himself, for he did not fulfil the commandment of God who said to him: “You shall reproach your fellow so as not to incur sin because of him”. Concerning the oath. What he said: “You shall not do justice with your (own) hand”: whoever forces the making of an oath in the open field, not in the presence of judges or at their command, has done justice for himself with his hand. Every lost object about which it is not known who stole it from the property of the camp in which it was stolen - its owner should make a maledictory oath; whoever hears it, if he knows and does not say it, is guilty. If there is any debt due to be given back, but there are no creditors, then the debtor should confess to the priest and it will be for himself, apart from the ram
... But if there is a judgment against anyone about the law of leprosy, the priest shall take his place in the camp, and the Inspector shall instruct him in the exact interpretation of the law. Even if he is a simpleton, he is the one who shall intern him, for theirs is the judgment. And this is the rule of the Inspector of the camp. He shall instruct the Many in the deeds of God, and shall teach them his mighty marvels, and recount to them the eternal events with their explanations. He shall have pity on them like a father on his sons, and shall heal all the afflicted among them like a shepherd his flock. He will undo all the chains which bind them, so that there will be neither harassed nor oppressed in his congregation. And everyone who joins his congregation, he should examine concerning his actions, his intelligence, his strength, and his wealth; and they shall inscribe him in his place according to his inheritance in the lot of light. No one of all the members of the camp should have authority to introduce anyone into the congregation without the permission of the Inspector of the camp. And none of those who have entered the covenant of God
... And whoever despises the judgment of the Many, shall leave and never return. And whoever takes his food contrary to the regulation, is to give it back to the one from whom he took it ... And whoever approaches to have illegal sex with his wife, not in accordance with the regulation, shall leave and never return.