Fragment 1
1 [… make known to us …] … 2 [… your speech …] if 3 [… you] stood 4 [and you considered …] … return 5 [they will return the …] … dust and ashes 6 […] … you did not understand 7 […] and your … 8 […] … all flesh and [creature]
Fragment 2
1 [In ancient times Moses and Aaron arose by the hand of the] Prince of [Lights, and] 2 [Belial raised up] Jannes and his [brother] in his cunning, when [Israel] acted wickedly [the] 3 first [time]. 4 [And in the age of the devastation of] the [land there arose] those who moved the boundary, and they led Israel astray. 5 [And the] land [became desolate], for they spoke rebellion against the commandments of God given by the hand of 6 Moses, and also against the holy anointed ones. And they prophesied falsehood to turn 7 Israel away from following God. But God remembered the covenant of the first ones, and he raised up 8 from Aaron men of understanding, and from Israel wise men, and he made them hear. And they dug 9 the well of which Moses said, “The well that princes dug, that the nobles 10 of [the people] excavated with a staff.” 11 The well is the Torah, [and those who dug it] are the returnees of Israel 12 who went out from the land of Judah and [sojourned in the land of Damascus, all of whom] 13 God [called] princes, for all of them [sought him, and their renown was not turned back] 14 by the mouth of anyone. […] 15 [And the staff is the interpreter of] the Torah, [of whom Isaiah said, “He brings out]
Fragment 3
1 [… And all] who [broke through the] 2 [boundary of the Torah, of those who entered the covenant: when the glory of God appears] to [Israel] 3 [they will be cut off from the midst of the camp, and with them] all who act [wickedly against Judah] 4 [in the days of its testing … those who hold] fast to the covenant […] 5 […] 6 [And all who hold fast to these judgments,] going out and coming in according to 7 [the Torah, and who listen to the voice of the teacher and confess before] God:
Fragment 4
1 […] … […] 2 […] because [of …] 3 […] … again 4 […] … he shall not bring it 5 […] the 6 […] … and not […] in the name 7 […] … 8 […] in the covenant […] … 9 […] … and he shall not take his stand […] … he shall not give 10 [… on] pledges, and his silver at interest [and his food] for profit he shall not give 11 […] … in vanity, for … [… he consults] ghosts and 12 [familiar spirits] … […] … […] 13 [… a word of] rebellion … […] 14 […] … which […] 15 […] … […]
Fragment 5 i
5 […] … 6 […] …
Fragment 5 ii
1 [and the mighty] in strength [in what is revealed from the Torah … those who hold fast to the name of] 2 holiness; they are the men [of … for in Judah] 3 [there was found] a conspiracy to return [to the iniquities of their fathers …] 4 for Israel when there arises [… and among the inhabitants of] 5 Jerusalem. […] 6 And all who remain […] 7 [each according to] his spirit [shall be brought near …]
Fragment 5 iii
1 [… and] everyone who […] 2 … […] and everyone whose [eyes] are dim or [… and everyone who is not] 3 quick to understand, and everyone who is slow of [tongue … with a] 4 halting [voice], who speaks and does not divide his words so as to [make his voice heard: none of these] 5 shall read from the [book of the Torah], lest [he cause error in a capital matter …] 6 … […] congregation … [… his brothers] 7 [the priests in the] service, and not […] 8 [A man from the sons of] Aaron who [has been taken captive by the nations …] 9 […] … […]
Fragment 6
1 […] … for … […] and if 2 […] up to ten berries is the gleaning 3 [… whose] seed is in it: there is no offering in it 4 […] 5 [… its beating] is one in thirty. And every 6 [… trampled] field, or one scorched by burning, and it is reduced 7 [from a seah to the seah-field: its tithe is in it. And] if one person gleans
Fragment 7
1 and he loved him […] 2 … […] 3 And this is the explanation […] 4 … with silver […] 5 And if she has not [reached …] 6 and a man, and let him not [abandon …] 7 … […] … […] 8 […] 11 […] 12 as [he said, “One who leads the] blind [astray” …] 13 an ox [and a donkey, and] clothing […] 14 to [make …]
Fragment 8
1 [… he shall] draw near to the covenant […] 2 […] before […] 3 […] … before […] 4 [… to the overseer] who is over the camp […] 5 […] … […] 6 […] the one who [rejects …] 7 […] … Israel […]
Fragment 9 i
1 [… from day to day and] from month to month, 2 [and in his burning anger against him he spoke against him in a capital matter, he has testified against himself, since he did not] carry out the commandment of God, 3 [who said to him, “You shall surely reprove your neighbor, and you shall not bear] sin [because of him.”] 4 [Concerning the oath: as for what he said, “Your own hand shall not save you,” a man] who makes another swear in 5 [the open field, not before the judges or at their word, his own] hand [has saved] him. And everything 6 [that is lost, and it is not known who stole it from the property of the camp in which it was stolen, its] owner shall pronounce 7 [an oath of cursing, and whoever hears, if he knows and does not tell, is guilty. All] guilt 8 [restored, when there are no owners: the one who restores shall confess to the priest, and it shall be his,] apart [from the ram of]
Fragment 9 ii
1 … […] 2 a man [behind a beast …] 3 his hand [to strike it with his fist …] 4 … […] 5 […] 7 […] 8 a man shall rest [in a place …]
Fragment 9 iii
1 for [the assembly. No one shall stretch out his hand to shed the blood of a man from the nations] 2 for the sake [of wealth and gain. And also, no one shall] carry off [any] of their wealth, [so that] 3 they [do not blaspheme, except by the] counsel of the association of Israel. [… No] 4 [one shall sell] clean [beasts or birds] to [the nations …]
Fragment 9 iv
1 [the camp. And if there is a judgment about the regulation for] skin disease [on a man, the priest shall come and stand] 2 [in the camp, and the overseer shall instruct him] in the explanation of the regulation. [And even if he is simple,] 3 [he shall shut him up, for theirs is the] judgment. [And this is the rule for the overseer] 4 [of the camp: he shall instruct the many in the] works of God, [and make them understand his wondrous] 5 [mighty deeds, and recount before them the events of] eternity with their interpretations. And on them 6 [he shall have mercy like a father on his sons, and he shall watch over all] their [distress] like a shepherd his flock. He shall loosen 7 [all the bonds that bind them, so that there is no one] oppressed or crushed [in his congregation.] 8 [And everyone who is added to his congregation he shall examine] for his deeds and his understanding and his strength 9 [and his wealth, and they shall write him in his place according to his] inheritance in the lot of light. No 10 [one of all the sons of the camp shall have authority to] bring a man into the congregation 11 [apart from the word of the overseer of the camp. And no one of all those who have entered the covenant of] God shall
Fragment 9 v
1 [… And these are the judgments for the instructor, to] walk in them 2 [in the appointed time when God visits the] land, when there comes the word that he spoke: “There will come 3 [upon your people days that] have not come since the day Ephraim turned away from 4 [Judah.” And all who walk] in these, the covenant of God is faithful 5 [to them, to deliver them from all the] snares of the pit, for the simple pass on 6 and are punished. [And the rule for the session of] all the camps: they shall all be enrolled by their names, 7 the priests first, [the Levites] second, and the sons of Israel 8 third. And they shall be written [by their names, each] after his brother: the priests 9 first, [the Levites second, the sons of] Israel third, 10 and the proselyte fourth. [So they shall sit, and so they shall be asked] about everything. And the priest who 11 is appointed at the head of the many shall be from thirty years old to sixty 12 years old, learned in [the Book of] Hagi and in all the judgments of the Torah, to speak them 13 according to their rule. And the [overseer who is over] all the camps shall be from thirty years old 14 to fifty [years old, master of every] secret of men [and of every tongue]
Fragment 9 vi
1 [… And] the man who [rejects] 2 [the judgment of the many shall go out and not] return again. 3 [And one who takes his food outside the] judgment shall return it to the man 4 [from whom he took it … And] whoever approaches to fornicate 5 [with his wife, not according to the rule, shall go out and not return] again.
Fragment 10
1 […] … […] 2 […] … the priest … […]
Fragment 11
1 […] … […] 2 […] … and … […] 3 […] … […]
Fragment 12
1 […] … and … […] 2 […] … […]
Fragment 13
1 […] Israel […] 2 [… to] visit iniquity […]
Fragment 14
1 […] one who leads astray 2 […] them the 3 […] …
Fragment 15
1 […] to him 2 […] … 3 […] … 4 […] …
Fragment 16
1 God […] 2 to you […]
Fragment 17
1 […] the […] 2 […] … […]
Fragment 18
1 […] … […] 2 […] … […] 3 […] … […] 4 […] … […]
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