Fragment 1 i
7 […] … 8 […] Amen.
Fragment 1 ii
1 the seat of your honor and the footstools of your glorious feet in the heights of your standing place, and the treading place 2 of your holiness; and the chariots of your glory, their cherubim and their wheels, and all [their] councils; 3 foundations of fire and flames of brightness and radiances of splendor, brilliance of lights and wondrous luminaries; 4 [majesty] and splendor and exalted glory, a holy council and a source of radiance, and exalted beauty, a [wonder] 5 [of thanksgivings], a reservoir of mighty deeds, splendor of praises and greatness of awesome deeds, and healings […] 6 and wondrous works; a foundation of wisdom and a pattern of knowledge, and a source of understanding, a source of prudence, 7 and holy counsel and a foundation of truth, a treasury of insight, structures of righteousness and seats of uprightness, [abundant in] 8 kindness, and goodly humility, and true kindnesses and everlasting mercies. And mysteries of [wonders] 9 in their [appearings], and holy weeks in their fixed order, and the standards of the months […] 10 [the beginnings of] years in their cycles, and glorious festivals in [their] appointed times […] 11 […] and the sabbaths of the land in [their divisions and the seasons] of release […] 12 […] everlasting releases and … […] … […] 13 […] light and [darkness …]
Fragment 2
1 […] … in the might of their splendor, and all the spirits that bear up the sanctuary 2 […] in [their councils and in] their dominions, the mighty among the divine beings in power 3 […] … zeal for judgment in strength 4 [… they shall bless] together, all of them, your holy name 5 […] holy of holies, and they shall curse 6 […] knowledge of understanding. 7 […] and a joyful cry … […] ….
Fragment 3
1 […] … … […] 2 […] … ministering angels […] 3 […] … […] in all their service […] 4 [… sparks] and lightnings … angels of the clouds of rain [and] mists of water, thick clouds of 5 […] … and drops of dew […] … and all the spirits of the dominions 6 […] in their creation 7 [… their courses] one to another … […]. 8 […] … […]
Fragment 4
1 […] … […] 2 […] … […] 3 […] … upon the face of […] 4 […] and all … […].
Fragments 5a-c
1 […] … the earth and all that [is on it, the world and all] who dwell in it, the ground and all its designs … 2 [the land and all] its living substance, [the mountains and all] the hills, valleys and all streambeds, dry land […] 3 […] its cedars, the depths of the forests, and all the deserts of drought […] 4 […] … and its emptiness, and the foundations of its building, islands and […] 5 […] their fruit, lofty trees and all the cedars of Lebanon […] 6 [… grain], new wine and oil, and all the produce […] 7 […] and all the wave offerings of the world in the [twelve] months […] 8 […] your word. Amen, amen. […] 9 […] and the confines of the seas, the springs of the deep […] 10 […] … and all the wadis, the rivers of the depths […] 11 […] … their … seas […] 12 […] all their foundations … […] 13 […] your … […].
Fragment 6
1 […] their … for you created […] 2 […] in their appointed times, and renewing […] 3 […] to satisfy them […].
Fragment 7 i
1 […] the lands 2 [… and all] their chosen ones 3 […] and all who know them, with psalms of 4 […] and blessings of truth in the periods of [festival] 5 […] your … and your kingship is raised up among the peoples 6 […] the council of the pure divine beings with all who know eternal things, to praise 7 [and to bless] your glorious name in all [the eternal ages]. Amen, amen. 8 [And] they shall again bless God […] all … of his truth. 9 … […].
Fragment 7 ii
1 the council of the Community shall say, all of them together, “Amen, amen.” And afterward they shall condemn Belial 2 and all his guilty lot. And they shall answer and say, “Cursed is Belial in his hateful scheme, 3 and condemned is he in his guilty dominion. And cursed are all the spirits of his lot in their wicked scheme, 4 and condemned are they in their schemes of unclean defilement. For [they are the lot] of darkness, and their visitation is 5 for the everlasting pit. Amen, amen. And cursed is the Wicked One [in all the ages] of his dominions, and condemned are 6 all the sons of Belial in all the iniquities of their station until their end [forever. Amen, amen.]” 7 And [they shall again say, “Cursed are you, angel] of the pit and spirit of [destruction], in all the schemes of the inclination of 8 [your guilt, and in all the abominable plots,] and the counsel of [your] wickedness. [And] condemned are you in the dominion of 9 [your iniquity, and in the dominion of your guilt and your wickedness,] with all the [defilements of Sheol] and with [the reproaches of the pit], 10 [and with] the disgrace of annihilation, [without remnant, without] forgiveness, in the anger of God’s fury [for all the eternal ages]. Amen, [amen].” 11 [And cursed are] all who carry out [their wicked schemes], and who establish their plots [in their heart, plotting] 12 [against the covenant of] God and to […] [the words of the prophets of] his truth, and to change the judgments [of the Torah]. 13 […] … […]
Fragment 8
1 […] they to the everlasting God […] 2 […] eternity, and … […] 3 […] they […].
Fragment 9
1 […] … 2 […] … 3 […] Amen, amen. 4 [… they shall] answer and say, 5 […] … our ….
Fragment 10
1 […] in all … […] 2 […] … […]
Fragment 11
1 […] to [your] glorious name […] 2 […] in you … […] 3 […] … holiness […].
Fragment 12
1 […] your … and the … […] 2 […] your ministers in splendor […] 3 […] the [angels] of your righteousness … […] 4 […] the most holy ones […].
Fragment 15
1 […] a widow … […] 2 [… the poor], to lead astray […] 3 […] … […].
Fragment 16
1 […] … […] 2 […] in the visitation […].
Fragment 17a
1 […] … and tithe … […] 2 […] … they shall muster the heads of […].
Fragment 17b
1 [… by the holy shekel] the sons of [Aaron …] 2 [… they shall rule with] justice and with wealth and … […].
Fragment 18
1 […] in the families […]. 2 […] … […].
Fragment 19
1 […] … […]. 2 […] … […].
Fragment 20
1 [… a purpose of] righteousness 2 [… according to their commandment] he shall reprove him and have mercy 3 [… from day] to [day], not 4 [… the men of] the Community 5 [… deeds of] deceit 6 [… to make his deeds perfect] 7 [from every sin … Let him not take vengeance for himself in any matter] 8 [for … and let no one take matters] 9 [into his own hands …] in anger and in envy [of the spirit] 10 [of wickedness … and with fierce] anger, and rising up without.
Fragment 13
1 […] strays in [his] return […] 2 […] … and let him not bear a grudge […] 3 […] … […].
Fragment 14
1 […] his kindness, and with a spirit of […] 2 […] he shall discipline him in all […] 3 […] when he reproves him before [witnesses …] 4 […] he shall be punished […].
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