The Qumran Community: The Dead Sea Scrolls
The Plainspoken Classics - Scriptorium Press (First Edition, 2026)
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for [...] to set for his life the [Book] of [the Rule] of the Community [...] to seek
God with [all] [heart] and with [all] [soul], to do what is good and right before him, as
he commanded by the hand of Moses and by the hand of all his servants the prophets [...] and to love all
that he has chosen and to hate all that he has rejected [...] to be far from all evil
and to cling to all good deeds [...] and to do truth and righteousness and justice
in the land [...] and not to walk any longer in the stubbornness of a guilty heart and eyes of fornication
doing all evil [...] and to bring all those who volunteer to do the statutes of God
into a covenant of grace [...] to be united in the counsel of God and to walk before him perfectly, all
the things revealed for the appointed times of their testimonies [...] and to love all the sons of light, each
according to his lot in the counsel of God, and to hate all the sons of darkness, each according to his guilt
in the vengeance of God [...] and all who volunteer for his truth shall bring all their knowledge and their strength
and their wealth into the Community of God, to purify their knowledge in the truth of the statutes of God, and to order their strength
according to the perfection of his ways, and all their wealth according to his righteous counsel [...] and not to step outside any one
of all the words of God in their appointed times, and not to advance their times, and not to delay
from any of their appointed seasons [...] and not to turn aside from his statutes of truth, to walk right or left [...]
And all who enter into the Rule of the Community shall pass over into the covenant before God, to do
according to all that he commanded, and not to turn back from following him out of any dread or terror or trial
of testing, during the dominion of Belial [...] and when they cross over into the covenant, the priests shall be
and the Levites blessing the God of salvation and all his works of truth [...] and all
who cross over into the covenant shall say after them, Amen, Amen [...]
And the priests shall recount the righteous acts of God in his mighty deeds
and proclaim all the mercies of compassion toward Israel [...] and the Levites shall recount
the iniquities of the sons of Israel and all their guilty transgressions and their sins during the dominion of
Belial [...] [and] [all] those crossing over into the covenant shall confess after them, saying, We have committed iniquity,
we have transgressed, [we have sinned], we have acted wickedly, we and [our fathers] before us, in our walking
[contrary] [to] [the statutes] of truth; and righteous is [God] [who] [has done] his judgment on us and on [our fathers] [...]

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and his merciful kindnesses he has bestowed upon us from eternity to eternity [...] and the priests bless all
the men of God's lot who walk perfectly in all his ways, saying: 'May he bless you with all'
good, and keep you from all evil [...] and enlighten your heart with the wisdom of life, and grace you with eternal knowledge
and lift up his gracious face to you for eternal peace [...] and the Levites curse all the men
of the lot of Belial [...] and they answer and say: 'Cursed are you in all your wicked, guilty deeds [...] may he make you
a horror to God by the hand of all who take vengeance, and may he bring destruction upon you by the hand of all who repay
recompense [...] Cursed are you, without mercy, according to the darkness of your deeds, and accursed are you
in eternal fiery darkness [...] May God not be gracious to you when you call, and may he not forgive so as to atone for your iniquities [...]
may he lift up the face of his anger for your vengeance, and may you have no peace in the mouth of all who hold to the fathers [...]
And all who enter the covenant say, after those who bless and those who curse: 'Amen, amen' [...]
And the priests and the Levites continue and say: 'Cursed is he who, by the idols of his heart, turns to transgress
whoever enters this covenant, and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before himself, to turn back because of it [...] and it shall be
when he hears the words of this covenant, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying: 'Peace be with me
though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart' -- and his thirsty spirit shall be swept away with the sated, without
forgiveness [...] The anger of God and the jealousy of his judgments shall burn against him for eternal destruction [...] all
the curses of this covenant shall cling to him, and God shall set him apart for evil, and he shall be cut off from among all the sons of light when he turns back
from following God because of his idols and the stumbling block of his iniquity [...] his lot shall be set among those cursed forever [...]
And all who enter the covenant shall answer and say after them: 'Amen, amen' [...]
Thus they shall do year by year, all the days of the dominion of Belial [...] The priests shall pass
first, in the Rule, according to their spirits, one after another [...] and the Levites shall pass after them
and all the people shall pass third, in the Rule, one after another, by thousands and hundreds
and fifties and tens, so that every man of Israel may know his standing in the Community of God
for the eternal council [...] and no man shall be lowered from his standing, nor raised from the place of his lot [...]
for all shall be in a Community of truth, and good humility, and loving kindness, and righteous purpose
each man toward his fellow, in a holy council and sons of an eternal fellowship [...] and everyone who refuses to enter
[the] [covenant] [of God], to walk in the stubbornness of his heart, shall not [enter] [the] [Community] of his truth [...] for it loathed

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his soul amid the chastisements of the knowledge of the judgments of righteousness [...] he was not strong enough to turn back his life, and with the upright he shall not be reckoned [...]
and his knowledge, and his strength, and his wealth they shall not bring into the council of the Community [...] for in the mire of wickedness is his tilling, and defilements
are in his turning back [...] and he shall not be justified by releasing the stubbornness of his heart [...] and he looks toward darkness as the ways of light; among the eyes of the perfect
he shall not be reckoned [...] he shall not be cleared by atonements, and he shall not be purified by the water of purification, and he shall not be sanctified by seas
and rivers, and he shall not be purified by any waters of washing [...] unclean, unclean shall he be all the days he rejects the judgments of
God, refusing to be disciplined in the Community of His council [...] for by the spirit of the true counsel of God the ways of a man are atoned for, all
his iniquities, so that he may look upon the light of life [...] and by a holy spirit for the Community, in His truth, he shall be purified from all
his iniquities; and by a spirit of uprightness and humility his sin shall be atoned for [...] and by the submission of his soul to all the statutes of God his
flesh shall be purified, to be sprinkled with water of purification and to be sanctified with waters of cleansing [...] and he shall direct his steps to walk perfectly
in all the ways of God, as He commanded for the appointed times of His testimonies, and not to turn aside right or left, and there is no
stepping over any one of all His words [...] then he shall be accepted with atonements of a pleasing fragrance before God, and it shall become for him a covenant of
the everlasting Community [...]
For the Instructor, to make understand and to teach all the sons of light concerning the generations of all the sons of man
regarding all the kinds of their spirits, by their signs, according to their deeds in their generations, and the visitation of their afflictions together with
the periods of their peace [...] From the God of knowledge comes all that is and shall be [...] and before they came into being He established all their design [...]
and when they come into being for their appointed purposes, according to the design of His glory they fulfill their task, and there is nothing to change [...] in His hand are
the judgments of all, and He sustains them in all their affairs [...] and He created man to rule
the world, and He set for him two spirits by which to walk until the time of His visitation [...] Behold, the spirits of
truth and injustice [...] In a spring of light are the origins of truth, and from a source of darkness are the origins of injustice [...]
In the hand of the Prince of Lights is dominion over all the sons of righteousness; in the ways of light they walk [...] and in the hand of the Angel of
Darkness is all dominion over the sons of injustice, and in the ways of darkness they walk [...] and by the Angel of Darkness is the straying of
all the sons of righteousness, and all their sin, and their iniquities, and their guilt, and the transgressions of their deeds, under his dominion
according to the mysteries of God until his end [...] and all their afflictions and the appointed times of their distresses are under the dominion of his hostility [...]
and all the spirits of his lot, to cause the sons of light to stumble [...] but the God of Israel and the Angel of His truth help all
the sons of light [...] For He created the spirits of light and darkness, and upon them He founded every deed
[and] [upon] [their foundations] all labor, and upon their ways [all] [visitation] [...] One God has loved for all

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for everlasting ages, and in all its deeds it delights forever [...] utterly He abhors its counsel, and all its ways He hates forever [...]
And these are their ways in the world: to enlighten the heart of man, and to straighten before him all the ways of true righteousness, and to make his heart fear the judgments of
God [...] and a spirit of humility, and patience, and abundant compassion, and eternal goodness, and insight, and understanding, and mighty wisdom trusting in all
the deeds of God, and leaning upon the abundance of His mercy, and a spirit of knowledge in every plan of action, and zeal for righteous judgments, and a purpose
of holiness with a steadfast inclination, and abundant mercies toward all the sons of truth, and glorious purity, abhorring all the idols of impurity, and walking humbly
with prudence in all things, and concealing the mysteries of knowledge for the sake of truth [...] These are the counsels of the spirit for the sons of truth of the world, and the visitation of all who walk in it: healing
and abundant peace in length of days, and fruitfulness of seed with all everlasting blessings, and eternal joy in everlasting life, and a crown of glory
with a measure of majesty in eternal light [...]
But to the spirit of injustice belong: greed of soul, and slackness of hands in the service of righteousness, wickedness and falsehood, pride and haughtiness of heart, deceit and cruel treachery
and abundant hypocrisy, impatience and abundant folly, and proud zeal, abominable deeds in a spirit of lust, and ways of impurity in unclean service
and a blaspheming tongue, blindness of eyes and dullness of ear, stiffness of neck and hardness of heart, walking in all the ways of darkness and evil cunning [...] and the visitation
of all who walk in it: abundant afflictions by the hand of all the angels of destruction, for everlasting perdition through the wrathful fury of the avenging God, for eternal terror and shame
forever, with disgrace of destruction in the fire of the dark regions [...] and all their times, for their generations, in sorrowful mourning and bitter misery in the disasters of darkness until
they are consumed, with no remnant or survivor for them [...]
By these exist the natures of all the sons of man, and in their divisions all their hosts have their inheritance throughout their generations [...] and in their ways they walk, and all the work of
their deeds falls into their divisions, according to each man's inheritance, whether great or small, for all the everlasting ages [...] for God has set them in equal measure until the final
end, and He has set an eternal enmity between their divisions [...] deeds of injustice are an abomination to truth, and all the ways of truth are an abomination to injustice [...] and jealous
strife over all their judgments, for they do not walk together [...] But God, in the mysteries of His understanding and in His glorious wisdom, has set an end for the existence of injustice, and at the appointed time
of visitation He will destroy it forever [...] And then the truth of the world shall go forth in triumph forever, for it has wallowed in the ways of wickedness under the dominion of injustice until
the appointed time of decreed judgment [...] And then God will refine, by His truth, all the deeds of man, and refine for Himself (some) from among the sons of man, to destroy every spirit of injustice from the innermost parts of
his flesh, and to cleanse him with a holy spirit from all wicked deeds [...] and He will sprinkle upon him a spirit of truth like water of purification, from all the abominations of falsehood and the defilement
of the unclean spirit, to give the upright understanding in the knowledge of the Most High, and the wisdom of the sons of heaven, to instruct those perfect in the way [...] for God has chosen them for an everlasting covenant
and to them belongs all the glory of Adam [...] and there shall be no more injustice, to the shame of all deeds of deceit [...] Until now the spirits of truth and injustice have contended in the heart of man [...]
they walk in wisdom and folly. And according to each man's inheritance in truth and righteousness, so he hates injustice; and according to his possession in the lot of injustice, he acts wickedly in it, and so
he abhors the truth [...] For God has set them in equal measure until the decreed end and the making of a new thing [...] And He knows the work of their deeds for all the times
[...] and He has caused the sons of man to inherit them, to know good [and] [evil], to [cast] lots for every living being according to his spirit, in [the] [appointed] [day] of visitation [...]

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And this is the Rule for the men of the Community, who volunteer to turn from all evil and to hold fast to all that he commanded according to his will, to separate from the congregation
of the men of injustice, to be a Community in law and in property, answering according to the word of the sons of Zadok, the priests who keep the covenant, and according to the word of the majority of the men
of the Community, those who hold fast to the covenant. [...] According to their word shall the outcome of the lot go forth for every matter, for the law, and for property, and for judgment, to do truth together, and humility,
righteousness and justice and love of kindness and walking humbly in all their ways, so that no man shall walk in the stubbornness of his heart, going astray after his own heart
and his eyes and the thought of his inclination. [...] but only to circumcise in the Community the foreskin of the inclination and a stiff neck, to lay a foundation of truth for Israel, for a Community of an eternal covenant
to atone for all who volunteer for holiness in Aaron and for the house of truth in Israel, and those who join them for the Community, and for dispute and for judgment,
to condemn all who transgress the law. [...] And these are the appointed ways for them concerning all these statutes when they are gathered into the Community. [...] Everyone who enters the council of the Community
shall enter the covenant of God in the sight of all who volunteer. [...] And he shall take upon himself a binding oath to return to the law of Moses, according to all that he commanded, with all
his heart and with all his soul, according to all that has been revealed of it to the sons of Zadok, the priests who keep the covenant and seek his will, and to the majority of the men of their covenant
who volunteer together for his truth and to walk in his will. [...] And whoever undertakes by covenant upon himself to separate from all the men of injustice who walk
in the way of wickedness. [...] for they are not reckoned in his covenant, for they have not sought nor inquired of him through his statutes, to know the hidden things in which they have strayed
through them to their own guilt. [...] and the revealed things they have done with a high hand, bringing forth anger to judgment and to take vengeance with the curses of the covenant, to execute upon them [judgments]
great, for eternal destruction with no remnant. [...] He shall not enter the water to touch the purity of the men of holiness. [...] for they shall not be purified
unless they turn from their wickedness, for he is unclean among all who transgress his word. [...] And he shall not be joined with him in his labor or in his property, lest he bring upon him
the iniquity of guilt. [...] for he shall keep far from him in every matter, for so it is written, 'From every false thing you shall keep far.' [...] And no man of the men of
the Community shall answer to their word concerning any law or judgment. [...] And he shall not eat anything of their property at all, nor drink, nor take anything at all from their hand
except for a price, as it is written, 'Cease for yourselves from man, in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?' [...] For
all who are not reckoned in his covenant are to be separated, both them and all that is theirs. [...] And the man of holiness shall not rely upon any works
of vanity, for vanity is all that do not know his covenant. [...] And all who despise his word he will destroy from the world, and all their deeds are as impurity
before him, and unclean is all their property. [...] And when he enters the covenant to act according to all these statutes, to be joined to the holy congregation, they shall inquire
into their spirit together, between a man and his fellow, according to his understanding and his deeds in the law, according to the word of the sons of Aaron who volunteer in the Community, to establish
his covenant and to keep watch over all his statutes which he commanded to do, and according to the word of the majority of Israel, those who volunteer to return in the Community to his covenant. [...]
And they shall be recorded in the Rule, one before his fellow, according to his understanding and his deeds, so that every man obeys his fellow, the lesser the greater. [...] And there shall be
an examination of their spirit and their deeds year by year, to advance each man according to his understanding and the perfection of his way, or to set him back according to his perversity. [...] to reprove
one another in [truth] and humility and loving-kindness toward one another. [...] Let no one speak to him in anger or with complaint
or with a [stiff] neck, [or] [with] [a jealous] wicked spirit. [...] And let him not hate him [in] [the foreskin] of his heart. [...] but he shall reprove him that very day, and not

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he shall bear sin upon himself [...] And also, no man shall bring a matter against his fellow before the Many which is not with reproof before witnesses [...] in these
they shall walk in all their dwelling-places. Whatever is found between a man and his fellow [...] And the young shall obey the elder in matters of work and of property [...] and together they shall eat
and together they shall bless, and together they shall take counsel [...] And in every place where there are ten men of the council of the Community, a man shall not be lacking among them,
a priest [...] and each man shall sit before him according to his rank, and thus they shall be asked their counsel on every matter [...] And it shall be, when they arrange the table to eat, or the new wine
to drink, the priest shall stretch out his hand first, to bless the first portion of the bread or the new wine to drink, the priest shall stretch out his hand first,
to bless the first portion of the bread and the new wine. [...] And a man expounding the Law shall not be lacking in the place where the ten are, day and night,
continually, one relieving another in turn [...] And the Many shall keep watch together a third of all the nights of the year, to read in the Book and to study judgment
and to bless together. [...] This is the rule for the session of the Many. [...] Each man in his rank: the priests shall sit first, and the elders second, and the rest of
all the people shall sit each man in his rank. [...] And thus they shall be asked concerning judgment and concerning every counsel and matter that comes before the Many, so that each man may answer with his knowledge
to the council of the Community. [...] No man shall speak in the midst of the words of his fellow before his brother has finished speaking. [...] And also let him not speak before his rank, as it is written
before him. [...] The man who is questioned shall speak in his turn. [...] And in the session of the Many, no man shall speak any matter that is not to the liking of the Many. And if the man
is the Overseer of the Many, [...] and any man who has a matter to speak to the Many when it is not the turn of the man who is asking the counsel of
the Community, the man shall stand upon his feet and say, 'I have a matter to speak to the Many.' [...] If they tell him, he shall speak. And every man of Israel who volunteers
to be added to the council of the Community, the man appointed at the head of the Many shall examine him as to his understanding and his deeds. [...] And if he attains discipline, he shall bring him
into the covenant, to return to the truth and to turn aside from all iniquity, and he shall instruct him in all the judgments of the Community. [...] And afterward, when he comes to stand before the Many, they shall be questioned,
all of them, concerning his affairs. [...] And as the lot goes forth by the counsel of the Many, he shall be brought near or kept far. [...] And when he draws near to the council of the Community, he shall not touch the purity
of the Many until they examine him as to his spirit and his deeds, until a full year is completed for him. [...] And also he himself shall not mingle with the property of the Many. [...]
And when a year is completed for him within the Community, the Many shall inquire concerning his affairs, according to his understanding and his deeds in the Law. [...] And if the lot goes forth for him
to draw near to the council of the Community, according to the priests and the majority of the men of their covenant, they shall bring near also his property and his labor into the hand of the man
who is the Overseer of the labor of the Many, and he shall record it in an account by his own hand, and he shall not disburse it for the Many. [...] He shall not touch the drink of the Many until
a second year is completed for him among the men of the Community. [...] And when the second year is completed for him, he shall be examined according to the Many. [...] And if the lot goes forth for him
to bring him near to the Community, he shall be inscribed in the rule of his rank among his brothers, for the Law and for judgment and for purity and for the mingling of his property. [...] and his counsel shall belong
to the Community, and his judgment [...]
And these are the judgments by which they shall judge in the common inquiry, according to these matters. [...] If there is found among them a man who deals falsely
with property, and he knows it, he shall be separated from the midst of the purity of the Many for one year, and he shall be penalized a quarter of his bread. And whoever answers
his fellow with a stiff neck, speaking with a shortness of temper, to violate the foundation of his companion, against the word of his fellow that is written before him,
[aided] his hand him not [...] and he shall be fined and shall be punished [one] year [and] [separated] [...] [and] [whoever] mentions a matter by the Glorious Name concerning any [...]

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And if he cursed, whether out of dismay from tribulation or over any matter that is his [...] while he is reading in the book or blessing, he shall be separated
and he shall not return again to the council of the Community [...] And if he spoke in anger against one of the priests enrolled in the book, he shall be punished one year,
and separated, at the peril of his life, from the purity of the Many [...] And if he spoke inadvertently, he shall be punished six months. And whoever deceives with his knowledge
shall be punished six months. And the man who cries out against his fellow without justification, knowingly, shall be punished one year
and separated. And whoever speaks to his fellow with bitterness, or deals deceitfully with his knowledge, shall be punished six months [...] And if
he deals deceitfully against his fellow, he shall be punished three months [...] And if he deals deceitfully with the property of the Community, causing its loss, he shall repay it in
full [...]
And if his hand cannot reach far enough to repay it, he shall be punished sixty days [...] And whoever bears a grudge against his fellow, when it is not by judgment, shall be punished six months, one year [...]
and likewise for one who avenges himself in any matter. And whoever speaks with his mouth a foolish word, three months [...] and for speaking in the midst of his fellow's words,
ten days. And whoever lies down and sleeps in the session of the Many, thirty days [...] and likewise for the man who leaves the session of the Many
without counsel, and needlessly, up to three times in one session, he shall be punished ten days [...] And if they stand up
and he leaves, he shall be punished thirty days [...] And whoever walks before his fellow naked, when it was not necessary, shall be punished six months [...]
And the man who spits into the midst of the session of the Many shall be punished thirty days [...] And whoever brings his hand out from under his garment, while it
is bare and his nakedness is seen, shall be punished thirty days [...] And whoever laughs foolishly, making his voice heard, shall be punished thirty
days [...] And whoever brings out his left hand to gesture with it shall be punished ten days [...] And the man who goes about slandering his fellow
shall be separated one year from the purity of the Many, and shall be punished [...] And a man who goes about slandering among the Many shall be sent away, he, from among them,
and he shall not return again [...] And the man who murmurs against the foundation of the Community shall be sent away, and he shall not return [...] And if he murmurs against his fellow
when it is not by judgment, he shall be punished six months [...] And the man whose spirit turns away from the foundation of the Community, so as to betray the truth
and to walk in the stubbornness of his heart — if he returns, he shall be punished two years [...] in the first [...] he shall not touch the purity of the Many,
the Many, and in the second he shall not touch the drink of the Many, and afterward he shall sit below all the men of the Community [...] And when
two full years are completed for him, the Many shall inquire concerning his affairs [...] And if they admit him, he shall be written in his rank, and afterward he shall be asked concerning the law [...]
[...] And every man who has been in the council of the Community [...] upon the completion of ten years
[...] and his spirit turns back to betray the Community, and he goes out from before
the Many, to walk in the stubbornness of his heart, he shall not return to the council of the Community again [...] And a man from among the men of the [Community who] mixes
with him in his purity or in his property, [who] [mixed] [with] [the property of] the Many, his judgment shall be like his — to [send] [him] [away] [...]

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In the council of the Community: twelve men and three priests, perfect in all that has been revealed of all
the Torah, to do truth and righteousness and justice and love of kindness and walking humbly, each man with his fellow,
to keep faith in the land with a steadfast inclination and a broken spirit, and to atone for iniquity through doing justice
and the distress of testing, and to walk with all in the measure of truth and in the fixed order of the time [...] when these are in Israel
the council of the Community shall be established in truth as an eternal planting, a house of holiness for Israel, and a foundation of the holy of
holies for Aaron, witnesses of truth for judgment, and the chosen of favor, to atone for the land and to render
to the wicked their recompense [...] it is the tested wall, the precious cornerstone; not
shall its foundations shake, nor shall they be moved from their place — a dwelling of the holy of holies
for Aaron, with the knowledge of them all, for a covenant of judgment, and to offer a pleasing aroma, and a house of perfection and truth in Israel
to establish [...] a covenant by the everlasting statutes, [...] and they shall be an acceptance to atone for the land and to decide the judgment of wickedness in a perfect way, and there is no injustice. When these have been established in the foundation of the Community for two full years in the perfect way,
they shall be separated as holy within the council of the men of the Community [...] and every matter hidden from Israel but found by the man
who seeks God — he shall not hide it from these, out of fear of a backsliding spirit [...] and when these become a Community in Israel
in accordance with these arrangements, they shall separate from the midst of the session of the men of injustice, to go into the wilderness, to prepare there the way of Him,
as it is written: 'In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.' [...]
This is the study of the Torah [which] He commanded through Moses, to do according to all that has been revealed, time after time,
and as the prophets revealed by His holy spirit. [...] And every man of the men of the Community, the covenant of
the Community — whoever turns aside from any commandment in anything, with a high hand, shall not touch the purity of the men of holiness
and shall not know anything of their counsel until his deeds are cleansed from all injustice, so that he walks in the perfect way. [...] And they shall bring him near
into counsel according to the mouth of the Many, and afterward he shall be inscribed in his rank. [...] And according to this judgment for all who are added to the Community. [...]
And these are the judgments by which the men of perfect holiness shall walk, each man with his fellow:
all who enter the council of holiness, who walk in the perfect way as He commanded — every man among them
who transgresses a word of the Torah of Moses with a high hand or through deceit shall be sent away from the council of the Community
and shall not return again. [...] And no man of the men of holiness shall mix his property or his counsel with him in any
matter. [...] But if he acts in error, he shall be separated from the purity and from the counsel, and they shall seek the judgment
that he shall not judge anyone, nor be asked about any counsel, for two full years. [...] If his way is perfected
in the session, in study and in counsel, [according] [to] [the mouth of] the Many, if he does not err again until two full years are completed for him
of days. [...]

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For concerning [...] one inadvertent sin he shall be punished two years, but the one who acts with a high hand shall not return again [...] but the one who errs inadvertently
shall be examined for two years' time as to the perfection of his way and his counsel, according to the Many [...] and afterward he shall be enrolled in his rank in the holy Community [...]
When these things come to be in Israel, according to all these regulations, as a foundation of the holy spirit, for eternal
truth, to atone for the guilt of transgression and the unfaithfulness of sin, and for the favor of the land, more than the flesh of burnt offerings and the fat of sacrifice [...] and the offering
of the lips shall be as a righteous ordinance, like a pleasing odor of righteousness, and perfection of way like an acceptable freewill offering [...] at that time the men of
the Community shall set apart a house of holiness for Aaron, to be united as a holy of holies, and a house of community for Israel, those who walk in perfection [...]
Only the sons of Aaron shall have authority in judgment and in property [...] and by their word shall the lot go out for every rank of the men of the Community
and the property of the men of holiness who walk in perfection [...] their property shall not be mixed with the property of the men of deceit who
have not purified their way to separate from injustice and to walk in perfection of way [...] and from all the counsel of the Torah they shall not depart to walk
in all the stubbornness of their heart [...] but they shall be judged by the first ordinances by which the men of the Community began to be disciplined
until the coming of a prophet and the anointed ones of Aaron and Israel [...]
These are the statutes for the Instructor, to walk in them with every living being, according to the rule of each and every time, and according to the measure of each and every man [...]
to do the will of God according to all that is revealed from time to time, and to learn all the insight that has been found according to the times, and
the statute of the time [...] to separate and to weigh the sons of Zadok according to their spirit, and to hold fast to the chosen ones of the time according to
his will, as he commanded [...] and each man according to his spirit, so shall his judgment be carried out; and each man according to the purity of his hands shall he be brought near, and according to his insight
shall he be advanced. And so too his love along with his hatred [...] and that one should not reprove nor dispute with the men of the pit
but conceal the counsel of the Torah in the midst of the men of injustice, and reprove with true knowledge and righteous judgment those who choose
the way, each man according to his spirit, according to the rule of the time, to guide them in knowledge, and so to instruct them in the wondrous mysteries and truth in the midst of
the men of the Community, so that each may walk in perfection with his fellow in all that has been revealed to them [...] this is the time to clear the way
into the wilderness [...] and to instruct them in all that has been found to do at this time, and to separate from every man, and not to turn his way aside
from any injustice [...] And these are the rules of the way for the Instructor in these times, for his love along with his hatred [...] everlasting hatred
toward the men of the pit, in a spirit of concealment, leaving to them property and the toil of hands, like a slave to the one who rules over him, and humility before
the one who dominates him [...] and to be a man zealous for the statute and its time, for the day of vengeance, to do the will of God in every undertaking of the hands
and in all his dominion, as he commanded [...] and all that is done by him he shall do willingly, as a freewill offering, and apart from the will of God he shall desire nothing [...]
[and] [in] all the words of his mouth he shall delight, and he shall not desire anything that he has not commanded; [and] for the judgment of God he shall wait continually
[...] he shall bless his Maker, and in all that comes to pass he shall [recount] [...] [the offering] of the lips shall bless Him

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With the appointed times which God engraved at the beginning of the dominion of light, with its circuit, and when it is gathered into its appointed dwelling [...] at the beginning of
the watches of darkness, when he opens its storehouse and sets it up... in its circuit, when it is gathered from before the light, [...] when there appears
the lights from the holy dwelling, when they are gathered to the dwelling of glory [...] at the entrance of the appointed times, for the days of the month together, their circuit with
their bonds, one to another [...] when they are renewed, a great day for the holy of holies, and a sign for the opening of his eternal mercies [...] for the chiefs of
the appointed times, in every era that comes to be, at the beginning of the months for their appointed times, and holy days in their order, for remembrance in their appointed times
[...] the offering of lips I will bless him according to the statute engraved forever [...] at the heads of [...] years, and at the circuit of their appointed times, when the statute is fulfilled
of their order, day by its ordinance, one to another [...] the season of harvest for summer, and the season of sowing for the season of grass, the appointed times of years for their weeks
and at the head of their weeks for the appointed time of release [...] and in all my being, a statute engraved on my tongue, for the fruit of praise and the portion of my lips [...] I will lift up
[...] I will sing with knowledge, and all my music for the glory of God, and the harp and lyre for the order of his holiness, and the flute of my lips I will lift up by the measure of his judgment [...]
With the coming of day and night I will enter into the covenant of God, and with the going out of evening and morning I will recite his statutes [...] and while they exist I will set
my boundary, so as not to turn back [...] and his judgment I will accept for my perversity, and my transgressions are before my eyes like an engraved statute [...] and to God I will say, my righteousness
and to the Most High, who establishes my good, the source of knowledge and the spring of holiness, the height of glory and the might of all, for eternal splendor [...] the choosing of that which
he teaches me, and I will delight in whatever he judges for me [...] at the beginning of the sending forth of my hands and my feet, I will bless his name; at the beginning of going out and coming in
of sitting and rising, and with the lying down of my bed I will sing joyfully to him [...] and I will bless him with the offering that goes out of my lips, in the ranks of men
and before I lift up my hand to be refreshed with the delights of the produce of the world [...] at the beginning of fear and dread, and in the place of distress with desolation
I will bless him, with wondrous thanksgiving, and on his might I will meditate, and on his mercies I will lean all the day [...] and I know that in his hand is the judgment of
all that lives, and all his deeds are truth [...] and when distress opens I will praise him, and in his salvation I will rejoice together [...] I will not repay a man with recompense
of evil; with good I will pursue a man [...] for with God is the judgment of all that lives, and he will repay a man his recompense [...] I will not be jealous with a spirit
of wickedness, and for wealth of violence my soul will not desire [...] and the dispute of the men of the pit I will not take hold of until the day of vengeance [...] and my anger I will not
turn back from the men of injustice, and I will not be reconciled until judgment is established [...] I will not bear a grudge in anger against those who turn from transgression, and I will not have compassion
on all who turn aside from the way; I will not console the stricken until their way is complete [...] and Belial I will not keep in my heart [...] and there will not be heard from my mouth
folly, and deceit of iniquity, and treacheries and lies shall not be found on my lips [...] and the fruit of holiness on my tongue, and abominations
shall not be found in it [...] with thanksgiving I will open my mouth, and the righteous acts of God my tongue shall recount always, and the treachery of men until the completion of
their transgression [...] empty words I will banish from my lips, impurities and perversities from the knowledge of my heart [...] with the counsel of wisdom I will conceal knowledge
and with the prudence of knowledge I will fence [about it] a firm boundary, to keep faith and mighty judgment for the righteousness of God [...] I will apportion
the statute according to the measure of the times, and [...] righteousness, love of mercy for the humble, and strengthening of hands for [the hasty] [of heart] [and] [for] [teaching]

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to those who err in spirit, understanding, and to instruct those bowed down in learning, and to answer with humility those with a haughty spirit, and with a broken spirit to the men
of the rod, those who point the finger and speak iniquity and acquire wealth [...] For to God belongs my judgment, and in His hand is the perfection of my way, with the uprightness of my heart
and by His righteousness my transgression is blotted out [...] For from the source of His knowledge He has opened His light, and my eye has gazed on His wonders, and the light of my heart on the mystery
of that which is to be and that which has always been [...] the support of my right hand is on a rock of strength; the way of my steps shall not be shaken before anyone [...] for the truth of God, it is
the rock of my steps, and His might is the support of my right hand [...] and from the source of His righteousness is my judgment, a light in my heart from His wondrous mysteries [...] in that which has always been
my eye has gazed on wisdom that has been hidden from man—knowledge and prudent purpose hidden from the sons of man—a fountain of righteousness and a well of
might, together with a dwelling of glory, hidden from the assembly of flesh [...] To those whom God has chosen He has given them as an everlasting possession, and He will cause them to inherit the lot of
the holy ones, and with the sons of heaven He has joined their assembly to the council of the Community, and their assembly to a holy structure to be an everlasting planting, throughout all
the ages to come [...] But I belong to wicked mankind, to the assembly of unrighteous flesh [...] my iniquities, my transgressions, my sins [...] together with the perversity of my heart
belong to the company of maggots and those who walk in darkness [...] For man's way is not his own, nor can a man direct his own step [...] For judgment belongs to God, and from His hand
comes the perfection of the way, and by His knowledge all things come into being [...] and all that exists, He establishes by His design, and without Him nothing is done [...] And as for me, if
I stumble, the mercies of God shall be my salvation forever [...] and if I stagger because of the sin of flesh, my judgment shall stand in the righteousness of God forever [...]
And if He opens my distress and delivers my soul from the pit, and directs my steps in the way [...] In His mercies He has drawn me near, and by His kindnesses shall come
my judgment [...] In the righteousness of His truth He has judged me, and in the abundance of His goodness He shall atone for all my iniquities, and in His righteousness He shall cleanse me from the impurity of
man and from the sin of the sons of man, so that I may praise God for His righteousness, and the Most High for His majesty [...] Blessed are You, my God, who opens to knowledge
the heart of Your servant [...] Establish in righteousness all his deeds, and set up the son of Your handmaid, just as You have favored the chosen of mankind, to stand
before You forever [...] For without You no way is perfect, and without Your will nothing is done [...] You have taught
all knowledge, and all that has come to be was by Your will [...] And there is no other besides You to answer against Your counsel, or to understand
any of Your holy thought, or to gaze into the depth of Your mysteries, or to comprehend any of Your wonders, together with the power of
Your might [...] And who can contain Your glory? [...] And what indeed is the son of man among Your wondrous works? [...]
And one born of woman, how shall he sit before You? [...] He is kneaded from dust, and his dwelling is food for maggots [...] and he is a thing shaped
a nipped-off clay, and to dust is his desire [...] What can clay reply, and the thing formed by hand—what can it understand of counsel? [...]

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For [the Instructor: the Book of] [the Rule of] the war [...] the first attack of the sons of light, to begin against the lot of the sons of darkness, against the army of Belial, against the troop of Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon
and the [Amalekite] [and] [the inhabitants of] Philistia, and against the troops of the Kittim of Asshur [...] and with them, in support, those who violate the covenant [...] the sons of Levi and the sons of Judah and the sons of Benjamin, the exile of the wilderness, shall fight against them
against [...] all their troops, when the exiled sons of light return from the wilderness of the peoples to camp in the wilderness of Jerusalem [...] and after the war they shall go up from there
and the king of the Kittim shall [enter] Egypt [...] and at his appointed time he shall go forth in great wrath to make war against the kings of the north, and his anger shall aim to destroy and cut off the horn
[of Israel] [...] [and] [this is] the time of salvation for the people of God, and the end of dominion for all the men of his lot, and everlasting destruction for all the lot of Belial [...] and there shall be panic
[great] among the sons of Japheth [...] and Asshur shall fall, and there shall be no helper for him [...] and the dominion of the Kittim shall depart, so that wickedness is subdued, leaving no remnant [...] and there shall be no escape
for [all] [the sons of] darkness [...]
and [the sons of] [righteousness] shall shine to all the ends of the world, shining ever more brightly until all the appointed times of darkness are consumed [...] and at God's appointed time his exalted greatness shall shine for all the ages
[of eternity], for peace and blessing, glory and joy, and length of days for all the sons of light [...] and on the day when the Kittim fall, there shall be battle and fierce slaughter before God
of Israel, for it is the day appointed for him from of old for the war of destruction against the sons of darkness [...] on it there shall draw near for a great slaughter the assembly of divine beings and the congregation of
men [...] the sons of light and the lot of darkness fight together for the might of God, with the sound of a great multitude and the shout of divine beings and men, for a day of disaster [...] and this is the time of
distress [for] [all] the people redeemed by God [...] and in all their distress there has been none like it, hastening to its completion for everlasting redemption [...] and on the day of their war against the Kittim
[they shall go out] for slaughter in battle [...] three lots the sons of light shall be strengthened to strike down wickedness [...] and three the army of Belial shall gird itself, to turn back the lot
[of light] [...] and the banners of the sons shall cause the heart to melt, but the might of God shall strengthen [the heart of] [the sons of] [light] [...] and in the seventh lot the great hand of God shall subdue
[Belial] [and] [all] the angels of his dominion, and all the men of [his lot] [...]
[...] the holy ones shall appear in help [...] the truth, for the destruction of the sons of darkness, then
[...] [the sound of] [a great multitude] and [the shout of] [...] shall give a hand to [the weapons of]
[the] [war] [...]
[the heads of] [the] [tribes] [...] [and] [the] [priests]
[and] [the] [Levites] [and] [the heads of] [the] [tribes] [and] [the fathers of] [the] [congregation] [...] [the] [priests] [and] [likewise] [for] [the Levites] [and] [the divisions of] [the heads of]

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fathers of the congregation, fifty-two [...] and the heads of the priests they shall organize after the chief priest and his deputy, twelve heads, to be ministering
continually before God [...] and the heads of the divisions, twenty-six, shall serve in their divisions [...] and after them the heads of the Levites, to serve continually, twelve, one
for each tribe [...] and the heads of their divisions, each man in his station, shall serve [...] and the heads of the tribes and the fathers of the congregation after them, to stand continually at the gates of the sanctuary [...]
and the heads of their divisions with their appointed men shall stand at their appointed times, at their months, and at the sabbaths, and at all the days of the year, from the age of fifty years and upward [...]
These shall stand over the burnt offerings and over the sacrifices, to arrange the incense of pleasing odor for the favor of God, to atone for all his congregation, and to remove the fat ashes before him continually
at the table of glory [...] All these they shall organize at the appointed time of the sabbatical year [...] and in the thirty-three remaining years of the war shall be the men of renown
the summoned of the assembly, and all the heads of the fathers of the congregation shall choose for themselves men of war for all the lands of the nations [...] from all the tribes of Israel they shall be levied
for themselves men of valor to go out to war according to the ordinances of the war, year by year [...] and in the sabbatical years they shall not be levied to go out to war, for it is a rest
of rest for Israel [...] In the thirty-five years of service the war shall be arrayed: six years, and all the congregation together shall arrange it [...]
And the war of the divisions shall be in the twenty-nine remaining years [...] In the first year they shall fight against Aram-naharaim [...] and in the second against the sons of Lud [...] in the third
they shall fight against the rest of the sons of Aram, against Uz and Hul, Togar and Mesha, who are beyond the Euphrates [...] in the fourth and in the fifth they shall fight against the sons of Arpachshad [...]
in the sixth and in the seventh they shall fight against all the sons of Asshur and Persia and the Easterners, as far as the great desert [...] in the eighth year they shall fight against the sons of
Elam [...] in the ninth they shall fight against the sons of Ishmael and Keturah [...] and in the ten years that come after them the war shall be divided against all the sons of Ham
according to [their families], [in] [their dwellings] [...] and in the ten remaining years the war shall be divided against all [the sons] [of Japheth] in their dwellings [...]
[...]
[The Rule of] [the] [trumpets]: the trumpets of the alarm for all their service, for [...] for their musters
[for] [ten-thousands] [and] [thousands] [and] [hundreds] [and] [fifties] and tens, upon [trumpets] [...]
[...]
[...] [which] [...] [...]
[...] [they shall write] [...] [...] [trumpets]

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The arrays of the war and the trumpets: the arrays of the war and the trumpets of their summons, at the opening of the gates of the war, for the infantry to go out; and the trumpets of the alarm of the slain, and the trumpets
of the ambush, and the trumpets of the pursuit when the enemy is struck, and the trumpets of the rearguard when the war returns [...] On the trumpets of the summons of the congregation they shall write, Called of God [...]
And on the trumpets of the summons of the officers they shall write, Princes of God [...] And on the trumpets of the divisions they shall write, the Rule of God [...] And on the trumpets of the men of
renown they shall write, Heads of the fathers of the congregation. When they gather to the house of assembly they shall write, Testimonies of God for the council of holiness [...] And on the trumpets of the camps
they shall write, Peace of God in the camps of his holy ones [...] And on the trumpets of their marches they shall write, Mighty deeds of God to scatter the enemy and to put to flight all who hate
righteousness, and turning back mercies against those who hate God [...] And on the trumpets of the arrays of the war they shall write, Arrays of the banners of God for the vengeance of his anger against all the sons of darkness [...]
And on the trumpets of the summons of the infantry, when the gates of the war open for them to go out to the battle line of the enemy, they shall write, Remembrance of vengeance at the appointed time
of God [...] And on the trumpets of the slain they shall write, The hand of the might of God in war, to fell all the faithless slain [...] And on the trumpets of the ambush they shall write
Mysteries of God to destroy wickedness [...] And on the trumpets of the pursuit they shall write, God has struck all the sons of darkness; he will not turn back his anger until they are consumed [...]
And when they return from the war to come to the battle line, they shall write on the trumpets of the return, The gathering of God [...] And on the trumpets of the way of the return
from the war of the enemy, to come to the congregation of Jerusalem, they shall write, Rejoicings of God in a peaceful return [...]
The Rule for the standards of the whole congregation, for their divisions [...] On the great standard that is at the head of all the people they shall write, People of God, and the name Israel
and Aaron, and the names of the twelve [tribes of] [Israel] according to their generations [...] On the standards of the heads of the camps that belong to the three tribes
they shall write, By the spirit [of God] [and] [the] [names] [of the three] [tribes] [...] [On] the standard of the tribe they shall write, The banner of God, and the name of the prince of the [tribe] [...]
[his families] [...] [and] the name of the prince of the thousand, and the names of [the officers of] [...]
[...] his hundreds [...] and on the standard [...]
[...]
[...]
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And on the standard of Merari they shall write, 'The offering of God,' and the name of the chieftain of Merari and the names of the commanders of its thousands [...] And on the standard of the [thousand] they shall write, 'The wrath of God, in fury, against'
Belial and against all the men of his lot, leaving no remnant,' and the name of the commander of the thousand and the names of the commanders of its hundreds [...] And on the standard of the hundred they shall write, 'From'
God comes the hand of war against all sinful flesh,' and the name of the commander of the hundred and the names of the commanders of its tens [...] And on the standard of the fifty they shall write, 'The standing'
of the wicked has ceased [by] the might of God,' and the name of the commander of the fifty and the names of the commanders of its tens [...] on the standard of the ten they shall write, 'The joyful shouts of'
God with the ten-stringed harp,' and the name of the commander of the ten and the names of the nine men of his assignment [...]
And when they go out to war they shall write on their standards, 'Truth of God, Righteousness of God, Glory of God, Justice of God,' and after them all the exact wording of their names [...]
And when they draw near for battle they shall write on their standards, 'Right hand of God, Appointed time of God, Tumult of God, Slain of God,' and after them all the exact wording of their names [...]
And when they return from the battle they shall write on their standards, 'Exaltation of God, Greatness of God, Praise of God, Glory of God,' with all the exact wording of their names [...]
The Rule of the standards of the congregation [...] when they go out to war they shall write on the first standard, 'Congregation of God' [...] on the second standard, 'Camps of God' [...] on the third
'Tribes of God' [...] on the fourth, 'Clans of God' [...] on the fifth, 'Divisions of God' [...] on the sixth, 'Assembly of God' [...] on the seventh, 'Those called of'
'God' [...] on the eighth, 'Hosts of God' [...] and the exact wording of their names they shall write with all their order [...] And when they draw near for battle they shall write on their standards
'War of God, Vengeance of God, Cause of God, Recompense of God, Power of God, Retributions of God, Might of God, Destruction of God, against all the nations of vanity' [...] and all the exact wording of
their names they shall write upon them [...] And when they return from the battle they shall write on their standards, 'Salvations of God, Victory of God, Help of God, Support of'
God, Joy of God, Thanksgivings of God, Praise of God, Peace of God' [...]
[The length] [of] [the] [standards] [...] the standard of the whole congregation, its length fourteen cubits [...] the standard of [the three] [tribes], [its length] [thirteen] cubits [...]
[The standard] [of] [the] tribe, twelve cubits [...] the standard of the myriad, eleven cubits [...] [the standard] [of] [the] [thousand], [ten] cubits [...] [the standard] [of] [the] [hundred], nine cubits [...]
[The standard] [of] [the] [fifty], [eight] cubits [...] the standard of the ten, [seven] cubits [...]
[...]
[...]
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And on the [shield] of the prince of all the congregation they shall write his name, [and] the name of Israel and Levi and Aaron, and the names of the twelve tribes of Israel according to their genealogies.
And the names of the twelve chiefs of their tribes [...]
The Rule for the order of the banners of the war [...] when their army is full, to complete the front formation; over a thousand men the formation shall be arrayed [...] and seven ranks of
the front [rank] for the one formation, arranged in order of position, man after man [...] and all of them holding shields of polished bronze, of the workmanship of
a mirror-like surface [...] and the shield is rimmed with twisted-cord work at its edge, and a design of joined workmanship of skilled craftsmanship, of gold and silver and bronze alloyed together,
and precious stones, ornaments of embroidered work, the craft of a skilled artisan [...] the length of the shield is two and a half cubits, and its width one and a half cubits [...] and in their hand a spear
and a javelin [...] the length of the spear is seven cubits, of which the socket is [so much], and the blade is half a cubit [...] and on the socket three engraved rings, of the workmanship of
twisted-cord edging, in gold and silver and bronze alloyed together, of the workmanship of a designed pattern [...] and the joining of the [design] on this side and that, for the ring
all around: precious stones, ornaments of embroidered work, the craft of a skilled artisan, and an ear of grain [pattern] [...] and the socket is grooved between the rings, of the workmanship of
a designed column [...] and the blade is white gleaming iron, the craft of a skilled artisan [...] and an ear of grain of pure gold in the middle of the blade, and a spike toward
the head [...] and the javelins are of pure iron, refined in the furnace and made white like a mirror surface, the craft of a skilled artisan [...] and the appearance of an ear of grain
of pure gold joined to it on its two sides [...] and attached straight to the head, two on this side and two on that [...] the length of the javelin is a cubit
and a half, and its width four fingers [...] and the shaft is four thumb-widths, and four handbreadths to the shaft [...] and the shaft tapers here
and there, five handbreadths [...] and the shaft of the javelin is clear horn, skilled workmanship, a design of embroidered work in gold and silver and precious stones [...]
And in the column of the [...] they shall arrange the seven formations, formation after formation [...]
and a space [...] thirty cubits, where the [men of]
[the] [intervening ranks] [shall stand ...] to the front [...]
[...]
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Seven times, and they shall return to their station [...] and after them three troops of infantry shall go out and stand between the battle-lines [...] the first troop shall cast at
the enemy's battle-line seven war-javelins [...] and on the blade of the javelin they shall write, 'Flashing spear for the might of God' [...] and on the second shield they shall write,
'Sparks of blood to fell the slain in the wrath of God' [...] and on the third javelin they shall write, 'Flame of a sword devouring the slain of iniquity by the judgment of God' [...]
All these shall hurl seven times, and they shall return to their station [...] and after them two troops of infantry shall go out and stand between the two battle-lines [...] the
first troop holding spear and shield [...] and the second troop holding shields and javelin to fell the slain by the judgment of God and to subdue the battle-line of
the enemy by the might of God, to repay the recompense of their evil to every nation of vanity [...] and the kingdom shall belong to the God of Israel, and among the holy ones of His people He shall do valiantly [...]
And seven columns of horsemen shall also stand, on the right of the battle-line and on its left [...] on this side and on that their columns shall stand, seven hundred
horsemen on the one side and seven hundred on the second side [...] two hundred horsemen shall go out with a thousand from the battle-line of the infantry men, and thus
they shall stand on [both sides of] the camp, the whole being six thousand four hundred [...] and one thousand four hundred chariots for the men of the rule of the battle-lines,
fifty for [each] battle-line [...] and the horsemen shall be upon the chariots of the men of the rule, six thousand five hundred per tribe [...] all the chariots going out
to war with [the men of] the infantry: male horses, swift of foot, soft of mouth, and long of spirit, and complete in the reckoning of their days, trained for war
and accustomed to hearing [sounds] and to every sight of visions [...] and those riding upon them, men of valor for war, trained in chariotry and in the reckoning of
their days, from thirty years old to forty-five years old [...] and the horsemen of the rule shall be from forty years old to fifty years old, and they
[...] [...] ranks and companies of chiefs and legs [...] and holding in their hand round shields and a long spear, eight [cubits] [...]
[...] and bow and arrows and war-javelins [...] and all of them prepared in [order] [...]
[...] to pour out the blood of the slain of their guilt [...] these are the [horsemen] [...]
[...]
[...]
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And the men of the Rule shall be from forty years old up to fifty years old [...] and the arrangers of the camps shall be from fifty years old up to fifty-five [...] and the officers
shall also be from forty years old up to fifty years old [...] and all who strip the slain and plunder the spoil and cleanse the land and keep the equipment
and the one who arranges the provisions — all of them shall be from twenty-five years old up to thirty years old [...] and no young boy or woman shall come into their camps when they go out
from Jerusalem to go to battle, until they return [...] and anyone lame, or blind, or crippled, or a man who has a permanent blemish in his flesh, or a man defiled with the uncleanness
of his flesh — none of these shall go with them to battle [...] all of them shall be volunteers for war, and perfect in spirit and body, and ready for the day of vengeance [...] and every
man who is not pure from his discharge on the day of battle shall not go down with them, for holy angels are together with their hosts [...] and there shall be a space
between all their camps and the place of the hand, about a thousand cubits [...] and no indecent nakedness of anything shall be seen surrounding all their camps [...]
And in the order of the battle lines, to advance against the enemy, line against line, they shall go out from the middle gate to between the lines, seven
priests from among the sons of Aaron, clothed in white linen garments: a linen tunic and linen breeches, girded with a sash of linen, fine twined, of blue
and purple and scarlet, with a design of embroidery, the work of a skilled craftsman, and turbans upon their heads — garments of war; and into the sanctuary they shall not
bring them [...] the one priest shall walk before all the men of the battle line to strengthen their hands in battle [...] and in the hand of the sixth shall be
the trumpets of summons, and the trumpets of remembrance, and the trumpets of alarm, and the trumpets of pursuit, and the trumpets of gathering [...] and when the priests go out
to between the lines, seven Levites shall go out with them, and in their hand seven ram's-horns of the jubilee [...] and three officers from the Levites before
the priests and the Levites [...] and the priests shall blow the two trumpets of the [summons] [...] [battle] over fifty shields [...]
and fifty men of the middle rank shall go out from the one gate and [...] [the] Levites, officers [...] and with
every rank and rank they shall go out according to all this [Rule] [...] [the men of] the middle rank from the gates
[and] [they shall stand] between the two ranks and [...] [the] [battle] [...]
[...]
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the trumpets shall be sounding continuously to direct the men of the sling, until they finish casting seven
times [...] and afterward the priests shall blow for them the trumpets of retreat, and they shall come to the flank of the array,
the first, to stand at their station [...] and the priests shall blow the trumpets of the call, and there shall go out
three battle formations of infantry from the gates, and they shall stand between the arrays, and at their side the men of the cavalry
on the right and on the left [...] and the priests shall blow the trumpets, a low-pitched sound, guiding the order of battle [...]
and the leaders shall spread out into their formations, each man to his station, [...] and when they stand in three ranks
the priests shall blow for them a second sounding, a quiet, steady tone, guiding the pace of the advance until they draw near
to the enemy's line, and they shall stretch out their hand with weapons of war [...] and the priests shall sound on the six trumpets of
the slain, a sharp, tremulous tone, to direct the battle [...] and the Levites and all the men of the horns shall sound
one blast, the shout of a great battle, to melt the enemy's heart [...] and with the sound of the shout the
javelins of war shall go out to fell the slain [...] the sound of the horns shall hasten, and with the [trumpets] shall be
the priests sounding a sharp, tremulous tone to direct the pace of battle, until they hurl them at the line of
the enemy seven times [...] and afterward the priests shall blow for them the trumpets of retreat,
a quiet, low-pitched, steady tone [...] according to this rule the priests shall blow for the three formations [...] and with
the first assault the [priests] [and] [the] [Levites] [and] [all] [the men of the horns] shall sound the tone of a shout,
a great one, to direct [the battle] [...] [the priests shall blow] for them
on the [trumpets] [of] [retreat] [...] [and] [they shall stand] at their station in the array
[...] and he stood
[...] [the] [slain] [...]
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they shall begin to strike among the slain, and all the people shall be silent at the sound of the alarm [...] and the priests shall be sounding the trumpets
of the slain, to prevail in the battle, [until] the enemy is smitten and they turn their backs [...] and the priests shall sound to prevail in battle
And when they are smitten before them, the priests shall blow the trumpets of the summons, and all the men of the reserve shall go out to them from among
the front formations [...] and six banners shall stand, and the banner drawing near, all of them seven battle-lines, twenty-eight thousand
men of war, and the horsemen six thousand [...] all these shall pursue to destroy the enemy in the battle of God, for a complete
destruction forever [...] and the priests shall blow for them the trumpets of pursuit, and [they shall divide] against all the enemy, to pursue to complete destruction [...] and the cavalry
shall turn back on the flanks of the battle until the destruction [...] and when the slain fall, the [priests] shall sound the alarm from a distance, and they shall not come
into the midst of the slain to defile themselves with their unclean blood, for they are holy [...] [they shall not] profane the oil of their priestly anointing with the blood
of the nation of vanity [...]
The Rule for changing the order of the battle banners, to arrange the formation upon the ram[part] [...] [for] [going out of] the wheel of the slingers and towers
and bow, and towers [...] and at the advance of the light-armed, and the heads go out, and the wings [go out] from [both] sides of the formation, [to] [rout]
the enemy [...] and the shields of the towers shall be three cubits long, and their spears [in length] eight cubits [...] and the [towers]
go out from the formation, a hundred shields, and a hundred on the face of the tower [...] [all of them] [shall surround] the tower on three sides, the front
three hundred shields [...] and two gates for each tower, one for the [right] [and] one for the left [...] and on all the shields of the towers
they shall write: on the first, [Michael]; [on] [the] [second], [Gabriel]; [on] [the] [third], Sariel; on the fourth, Raphael [...]
Michael and Gabriel to the [right], [and] [Sariel] [and] [Raphael] [to] [the left] [...]
And [...] to the four [...] [and] [if] an ambush, [they shall set] for [the formation]
And [...] [they shall fell] among [the slain] [...]
[...]
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our camps, and to guard against any indecent thing [...] and as he told us, for you are in our midst, a great and awesome God, to plunder all
our enemies [before us] [...] and he taught us from of old, for our generations, saying: When you draw near for battle the priest shall stand and speak to the people,
saying: Hear, O Israel, you are drawing near today for battle against your enemies [...] do not fear, and do not let your heart grow faint [...]
and do not [be alarmed, and] do not be terrified before them, for your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to save
you [...] and [our officers] shall speak to all those ready for battle, the willing of heart, to hold firm in the might of God and to turn back all
the faint of heart, and to strengthen together all the mighty men of valor [...] and as [you spoke] by the hand of Moses, saying: When war comes
in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, and [you shall sound the alarm] with the trumpets, and you shall be remembered before your God,
and you shall be saved from your enemies. [...] Who is like you, God of Israel, in [heaven] and on earth, who does deeds like your great deeds,
and like your mighty strength [...] and who is like your people Israel, whom you chose for yourself from all the peoples of the lands [...]
a people of the holy ones of the covenant, instructed in the statute, wise in [understanding] [...] and hearers of the glorious voice, and seers of
the holy angels, whose ear is uncovered, and hearers of deep things [...] the one who spreads out the skies, the host of luminaries
and the bearing of the winds, and the dominion of the holy ones, storehouses of [glory] [...] clouds [...] the one who creates the earth and the statutes of its divisions,
for wilderness and desert land, and all its produce, with fruit [...] the one who circles the seas, and the springs of the rivers, and splits open the deeps,
the works of living creatures and winged creatures, the form of man, and [the generations] of [his seed], the confusion of tongues, and the one who separates peoples, the dwelling of families,
and the inheritance of lands [...] the holy appointed times, and the cycles of years, and the periods of
eternity. [...] and [...] these things we know from your understanding, that [...]
[...] [your ears] to our cry, for [...]
[...] to his house, the ... [...]
[...]
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For to You belongs the war [...] and by the strength of Your hand their corpses were flung down, with none to bury them, [...] and Goliath the Gittite, a mighty warrior,
You delivered into the hand of David Your servant, for he trusted in Your great name and not in sword and spear, [...] for to You belongs the war [...] and the
Philistines [You subdued] many times by Your holy name, [...] and also by the hand of our kings You saved us many times,
for the sake of Your mercies and not according to our deeds by which we did evil, nor the acts of our transgressions [...] to You belongs the war, and from You is might,
and not from us [...] nor is it our strength; and the power of our hands has not done valor, for by Your strength and by the might of Your great power [...] just as You declared
to us of old, saying: A star shall march forth from Jacob, a scepter shall rise from Israel, and shall crush the corners of Moab and tear down all the sons of Sheth, [...]
and one shall come down from Jacob and destroy the survivor of the city, and the enemy shall become a possession, and Israel shall do valor, [...] and by the hand of Your anointed ones,
the seers of testimonies, You have declared to us the [appointed times] of the wars of Your hands, to fight against our enemies, to bring down the troops of Belial — the seven
nations of vanity — by the hand of Your poor ones, whom You redeemed, [by] [strength] and by peace, for wondrous might, so that a melted heart may open a way of hope, [...] and You will deal with them as with Pharaoh
and as with the captains of his chariots in the [Red] Sea. [...] and the crushed in spirit You will kindle like a torch of fire in a sheaf, devouring wickedness; it shall not turn back until
guilt is consumed [...] and of old [You made us hear] the [appointed time] of the might of Your hand against the Kittim, saying: And Assyria shall fall by a sword not of man, and a sword
not of man shall devour him. [...]
For into the hand of the poor You will deliver [the enemies] of all the lands, and into the hand of those who crawl in the dust, to bring low the mighty ones of the peoples, to repay
the wicked their due upon the head [...] and to justify Your true judgment among all the sons of man, and to make for Yourself an everlasting name among the people,
[...] the wars, and to magnify Yourself and to sanctify Yourself in the sight of the rest of the nations, [...] to know [...]
[...] [when] [You execute] judgments against Gog and against all his assembly, those [gathered] [against us] [...]
[...] for You will fight against them from [heaven] [...]
[...] against them, to rout them [...]
[...]
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For the multitude of holy ones is Yours in heaven, and hosts of angels are in Your holy abode, to [praise] [Your truth] [...] and the elect of a holy people
You have set for Yourself in [the Community] [...] [and] the number of names of all their host is with You in Your holy dwelling, and [the number] [of the righteous] in Your glorious abode [...]
And mercies of blessing [...] and the covenant of Your peace You have engraved for them with the stylus of life, to reign [over them] through all the everlasting appointed times
And to muster [the hosts] [of Your chosen ones] by their thousands and by their ten thousands together with Your holy ones [and] [with] Your angels, for dominion of the hand
in battle, [to] [subdue] those who rise against the earth by the contest of Your judgments, and with the elect of heaven [victorious] [...]
And You, O God, [awesome] in the glory of Your kingdom, and the congregation of Your holy ones is in our midst for [everlasting] help [...] [and] [they have given] scorn to kings, mockery
and contempt to warriors [...] for the Lord is holy, and the King of glory is with us, with the holy ones [...] [mighty warriors] [and] the host of angels are among our mustered troops [...]
and the Warrior of [battle] is in our congregation, and the host of His spirits is with our steps [...] and [our horsemen] [are like] clouds and like the thick clouds of dew, to cover the earth
and like a downpour of showers, to water judgment upon all her offspring [...] Rise up, O warrior! Take Your captives, O glorious one, and plunder
Your spoil, doers of valor [...] Put Your hand on the neck of Your enemies, and Your foot on the heights of the slain [...] Strike the nations, Your adversaries, and let Your sword
devour guilty flesh [...] Fill Your land with glory and Your inheritance with blessing [...] a multitude of livestock in your fields, silver and gold and stones of
delight in [your palaces] [...] Zion, rejoice greatly! And shine forth with songs of joy, Jerusalem! And rejoice, all the cities of Judah [...] Open
[your gates] continually, to bring to you the wealth of the nations [...] and their kings shall serve you, and all who oppress you shall bow down to you, and the dust
of [your feet] [they shall lick] [...] [the daughters] of my people, cry out with a voice of joy! Adorn yourselves with glorious ornaments, and rule over [the kingdom] [...]
[...] [for] [your camps] [and] [Israel], to reign forever [...]
[...] [to them], the warriors of battle, Jerusalem [...]
[...] [exalted] above the heavens, O Lord [...]
[...]
[...] [and] [the chief] [priest] [stood]

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and his brothers, the? [priests] and the Levites and all the elders of the Rule together [...] and they shall bless, standing at their posts, the God of Israel and all his deeds of truth, and curse
there [Belial] and all the spirits of his lot [...] and they shall answer and say, Blessed be the God of Israel in all his holy purpose and his deeds of truth, and blessed be
all his servants in righteousness, who know him in faithfulness [...]
and cursed be Belial for his plan of hostility, and accursed is he for his guilty dominion [...] and cursed are all the spirits of his lot for their plan of
wickedness, and abhorred are they for all their deeds of impure uncleanness, for they are the lot of darkness, but the lot of God is for light
[everlasting] [...]
and [you], O God of our fathers, we will bless your name forever [...] and we, the people of [eternity], and the covenant [you cut] with our fathers, and you have established it for their seed
for [the appointed times] of eternity [...] and in all the testimonies of your glory there has been a remembrance [...] your [...] in our midst, for the help of a remnant and life for your covenant
and for the [record] of your deeds of truth and the judgments of your wondrous mighty acts [...] you, [O God] of [our covenant], have been for us an eternal people, and in the lot of light you have made us fall
for your truth [...] and the prince of light from of old you appointed as our helper, and in [his lot] are [all] [the sons] [of righteousness] and all the spirits of truth are in his dominion [...] and you
made Belial for the pit, an angel of hostility [...] and in [darkness] [is his dominion], and by his counsel is to act wickedly and to bring guilt [...] and all the spirits of
his lot, angels of destruction, walk in the statutes of darkness, and toward it is [their desire] together [...] and we, in the lot of your truth, shall rejoice in the hand of
your might, and we shall exult in your salvation, and we shall rejoice in [your help] [and] [in] your peace [...] who is like you in the power of the God of Israel, and with
the poor is the hand of your might [...] and who is an angel or a prince like the help of [your workers] [...] [for] from of old you appointed for yourself a day of great battle [...] 
[...] to [help] in truth and to destroy in guilt, to bring low darkness and to make light prevail, and to [...]
[...] for an everlasting station, to make an end of all the sons of darkness, and joy for [all] [the sons] [of light] [...]
[...]
[...] [for] you have appointed us for [...]
[...]
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Like fire, when His wrath passed through the idols of Egypt [...]
And after they go up from the slain to enter the camp, all of them shall sing the praise of the Return [...] and in the morning they shall launder their garments and wash
from the blood of the guilty corpses [...] and they shall return to the place where they stood, where they arranged the battle line before the slain of the enemy fell [...] and there they shall bless
all of them the God of Israel, and exalt His name together in joy [...] and they shall answer and say, Blessed is the God of Israel, who keeps covenant loyalty for His covenant, and the testimonies of
salvation for the people of His redemption [...] and He calls the stumbling to [wondrous acts of] might, and has gathered the assembly of nations for complete destruction, without remnant, and to raise up in judgment
a melting heart, and to open the mouth of the mute to sing of the [might of God, and] feeble hands to teach for war [...] and gives to those whose knees give way a firm stance
and strength of loins to the shoulder of those who strike [...] and by a humbled spirit [dominion] [...] hardness of heart [...] and by those perfect in the way all the nations of wickedness shall come to an end [...]
and for all their mighty men there is no standing [...] and we, [the remnant of] [Your people] [...] [Blessed be] Your name, God of mercies, who keeps covenant for our fathers [...] and with
all our generations You have set apart Your mercies for [the remnant of] [Your people] amid the dominion of Belial [...] and in all the mysteries of his hostility they have not [driven us away]
from Your covenant [...] and the spirits of [his destruction] You have rebuked [from us, and] when [the men] of his dominion acted wickedly, You kept the soul of Your redeemed [...] and You have raised up
those who fall, by Your strength, and the tall of stature [You will cut down], [to] [humble them] [...] [and] for all their mighty men there is no deliverer, and for their swift ones there is no escape [...] and for their honored ones
You will turn to contempt [...] and all their vain existence [shall become] [as nothing] [...] and we, the people of Your holiness, in the works of Your truth shall praise Your name
and in Your mighty deeds we shall exalt [Your splendor at] [all] times and the appointed seasons of the eternal testimonies, with the [coming in] of day and night
and the goings forth of evening and morning [...] for great is [the plan] [of Your glory], and the mysteries of Your wonders in [Your heights], to [raise] up for Yourself from the dust
and to bring low from among the gods [...]
Rise up, rise up, O God of gods, and lift Yourself up in the [might of the King] [of] [kings] [...] [You have set] [over] [...] [from] [before You] [they shall be scattered]
[all] the [sons of] darkness [...] and the light of Your greatness shall [...] [gods] [and] [men] [...] [a fire] [burning] in [the darkness of] [the places of destruction]
in the [places of destruction of] [Sheol] it shall burn for [everlasting] [burning] [...] [transgressors] [...] in [all] the [eternal] [appointed times] [...]
[all] the [thanksgivings] of [the war] [they shall recount] [there, and] [afterward] [they shall return] to [their camps] [...] [there, according to] the [Rule] [...]
[...]

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For this is the time of distress for [Israel] [and] [the appointed time] of war against all the nations [...] and the lot of God in everlasting redemption
and destruction for every wicked nation [...] and all those [ready] for the war shall go and encamp against the king of the Kittim and against all the army of
Belial who are assembled with him for the day of [vengeance] by the sword of God [...]
And the Chief Priest shall stand, and his brothers the [priests] and the Levites and all the men of the Rule with him [...] and read in their ears
the prayer of the appointed time of the [war] [as] [it is written] [in] [the book of] the Rule of its season, with all the words of their thanksgiving [...] and he shall arrange there
all the battle lines [as] [it is written] [in] [the book of] [the] [war] [...] and the alert priest shall proceed to the appointed time of vengeance according to
all his brothers, and he shall strengthen [their hands] [in] [war] [...] and he shall answer and say, Be strong and courageous and be valiant men [...]
Do not fear and do not [be dismayed] [and] [do not] [let] [your hearts] [be faint] [...] and do not hasten and do not tremble before them and do not
turn back and do not [flee] [from] [before them] [...] for they are a congregation of wickedness and in darkness are all their deeds
and toward it [is their desire] [...] for [their refuges], and their might is like smoke that vanishes, and all the assembly
[of their multitude] like chaff [passing away] [...] [a desolation] shall not be found, and all their tumultuous wealth shall quickly be cut off
[like] [a blossom] in [summer] [...] be strong for the war of God, for the appointed day of war is this day
[for] God against all the [nations] [...] [judgment] against all flesh [...] the God of Israel raises his hand in [his] [wondrous] [might]
[against] all the spirits of [wickedness] [...] [the mighty] ones of the gods gird themselves for [war] [and] [the ranks] of [the holy ones]
[are made ready] for the day of [vengeance] [...] [war] [...] for [...] for
God of [Israel] [...]
to remove [Belial] [...]
in his destruction and the [...]
[...]
[...]

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until the completion of all [holiness] [...] [for] the God of Israel shall call a sword upon all the nations, and among the holy ones of his people he shall work mighty deeds [...]
[...]
all this Rule they shall carry out [on] [the] [day] itself, taking their stand opposite the camps of the Kittim [...] and afterward the priests shall blow for them on the trumpets of
the memorial, and they shall open the gates of the [battle] [...] [and] [the] men of the ranks [shall go out] and the chiefs shall stand between the formations [...] and the priests shall blow for them
an alarm-blast in order [...] and the chiefs shall [be] [deployed] at the sound of the trumpets until each man takes his stand at his post [...] and the priests shall blow for them
an alarm-blast a second time, [signaling] [approach], [...] and when they stand at the flank of the formation of the Kittim, as the missile is cast, each man shall raise his hand with his weapon
of war, and sixth [the] [priests] [shall sound] [on] [the] [trumpets] of the slain a sharp, quavering note to direct the battle [...] and the Levites and all the people
of the horns [shall sound] [an] [alarm] [of] [battle] with a great voice [...] and as the sound goes forth they shall begin their hand to fell among the slain of the Kittim, and all
the people shall be silent at the sound of the alarm [...] [and] [the] [priests] shall be sounding on the trumpets of the slain, and the battle shall be victorious over the Kittim [...]
[...]
and when [Belial] girds himself to? help? the sons of darkness?, the slain of the ranks shall begin to fall by the mysteries of God, and by them to test all who are keen for battle
and the [priests] [shall blow] on? the trumpets? of the summons for another formation to go out, relieving them for battle, and they shall stand between the formations [...]
and for [those approaching] [for] [battle] they shall sound to turn back [...] and the chief priest shall draw near and stand before the formation, and shall strengthen
their heart with [his] [wondrous] [might], [and] their hands with his battle [...]
and he shall answer and say: [Blessed] [is] [God], [and] the heart of his people he shall test in the crucible, and not [...] your slain, for from of old you have heard
the mysteries of God, [and] [you], [strengthen] [yourselves] [and] [stand] [in] [the] [breach] [...] [and] [do] [not] [fear] [with] [courage] [...] them to wait [...]
like a mighty one [...] to [...]
[...]
[...]
[...]

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and there their peace in burning [...] testers of the crucible [...] and he shall sharpen the weapons of his war and he shall not strike until [the destruction of] [all] [the nation]
of wickedness [...] and you, remember the judgment of [Nadab] [and] [Abihu], the sons of Aaron, by whose judgment God showed himself holy in the eyes of [all] [the] [people] [...] [and] [Eleazar]
and Ithamar he confirmed for him for an eternal [priesthood] covenant [...]
and you, be strong and do not fear them [...] [for] they belong to chaos and their desire is for the void, and their support is without [strength] [...] and? not? [...]
Israel, all that has been? and that shall be [...] and he? is [ruler] over all the eternal beings [...] this is the day of his appointed time to subdue and to humble the prince of the dominion of
wickedness [...] and he shall send eternal help? to the lot of [his redemption] by the might of the majestic angel, for the office of Michael, in eternal light [...]
to give light in joy to the covenant of Israel, peace? and blessing to the lot of God [...] to exalt among the gods the office of Michael and the dominion of
Israel over all flesh [...] righteousness shall rejoice in? the heights and all the sons of his truth shall exult in eternal knowledge [...] and you, sons of his covenant,
be strong in the crucible of God? until he waves his hand? and? fills? his crucibles with his mysteries for your standing [...]
and after these things the priests? shall blow the trumpets for them to arrange the banners of the battle line [...] and the leaders shall spread out at the sound of the trumpets
until [each man] [takes his stand] at [his station] [...] and? the priests shall blow? the trumpets of alarm a second time when? drawing near [...] and when reaching
the men [of] [the] [ranks] [to] [the] [side of the] battle line of the Kittim? [as] the javelin is cast each shall raise his hand with his weapon of war and the priests shall sound the trumpets
of the slain? [and] [the] [Levites] [and] [all] the people of the horns? shall sound the battle alarm [...] and the men of the ranks shall send forth their hand against the force of
the Kittim [and] [when] [the sound] [of] [the] [alarm] [goes forth] they shall begin to fell among their slain [...] and all the people [shall stop] the sound? of the alarm [...] and the priests
shall be sounding on [the trumpets] [of] [the] [slain] and the [battle] [shall be waged] against? [the Kittim] [...] to strike them down? before them [...]
and in the [third] lot [...] to [fell] slain
[God] [...] for [...]
[...]
[...]
[...]

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[And] [in] [the] [seventh] [lot], when the great hand of God is lifted up against Belial and against all [the host] of his dominion, in an everlasting blow
[...] and the shout of the holy ones, when Asshur is pursued [...] and the sons of Japheth shall fall, never to rise, and the Kittim shall be struck down, without
[remnant] [or] [survivor] [...] [and] [there shall be] the uplifting of the hand of God over Israel against all the horde of Belial [...] at that time the priests shall sound the trumpet
[with] [the] [six] trumpets of remembrance, and all the battle formations shall gather to them, and they shall divide against all [the camps] [of] [the] [Kittim]
to devote them to destruction [...] [and] at the hastening of the sun to set, on that day the chief priest shall stand, and the priests and the [Levites] who
are with him, and [the heads] [of] [all] [the] battle formations of the Rule, and they shall bless there the God of Israel [...] and they shall answer and say, Blessed be Your name, God of gods, for
You have shown greatness with Your people [ ] to work wonders [...] and Your covenant You have kept for us from of old, and the gates of salvation You have opened for us many times
[for the sake of] Your covenant [...] and [You have lifted] our affliction according to Your goodness toward us, and You, God of righteousness, have acted for the sake of Your name [...]
[...]
[...] [Your might] You have shown wondrously with us, wonder upon wonder, and from of old nothing like it has come to pass [...] for You have known our appointed time [...] and this day has appeared
to us; [Your strength] [and] [You have shown us] the hand of Your mercies with us, in an everlasting redemption [...] to remove [the dominion] [of the enemy] so that it is no more, and the hand of Your might
and in [battle] [You have prevailed] [over] our enemies for an utter destruction [...] and now this day presses upon us to pursue their horde, for You
[...] and the heart of the mighty men You have shut up so that there is no standing [...] to You belongs the might, and in Your hand is the battle, and there is none
[God] [like You] [...] to [...] Your life, and appointed times according to Your will, and the recompense of [the wicked] [You will return] [to] [Your enemies], and You will cut off from [...]
[...] to [...]
[...]
[...]
[...]
[...]
[...]

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[mockery] [and] [derision] [for] [the mighty men] [...] for our majestic one is holy, and the King of glory is with us, and [the army] [of his spirits] [with] [our steps] [and] [our horsemen]
[Like] [clouds] [and] [like] [thick] [dew] to cover the earth, and like a downpour of showers to water judgment for [all] [her offspring] [...] [Arise], [O mighty one]
[Take] [your captives], [O man] [of glory], [and] carry off your spoil, you who do valiantly, [...] put your hand on the neck of your enemies and [your foot] [upon] [the heights of]
[the slain] [...] [Smite] the nations, your adversaries, and let your sword devour flesh [...] fill your land with glory and your inheritance with blessing [...] [a multitude of] [cattle]
[in] [your portions], [silver] [and] [gold] in your palaces [...] Zion, rejoice greatly, and let all the cities of [Judah] cry out for joy [...] [open]
[your gates] [continually] [to] [bring] [to you] the wealth of the nations [...] and their kings shall serve you and bow down to you, [all] [your oppressors]
[and] [the dust] [of your feet] [they shall lick] [...] [O daughters] of my people, break forth in a voice of singing [...] adorn yourselves with ornaments of glory and [have dominion] over a kingdom
[...] [for] your camps, and Israel for an everlasting kingdom [...]
[And] [afterward] [they shall gather] [the] [camp] [on] [that] [night] to rest until the morning [...] and in the morning they shall come to the place of the battle line
[where] [there fell] there [the mighty men] of the Kittim and the multitude of Asshur and the army of all the nations who are assembled, whether [they have died], [most of] the slain
[with] [no] [burial], [who] fell there by the sword of God [...] and there shall approach the [chief] priest, [and] [his deputy], and his brothers [the] [priests]
[and] [the] [Levites] [with] [the prince] [of] the war, and all the heads of the battle lines and [their appointed men] [...]
[...] [together] [as] [they stand] [over] [the slain] [of] [the Kittim] [and] [they shall praise] there [the] God of [Israel] [...] [and] [they shall answer] [and] [say] [...]
[...] [to] [God] [Most High] [and] [to] [...]

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For [...]

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[...]
[...] -im ... all ... and ... [...]

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[...] he [...]

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[...] [Your wondrous deeds] [there is no] mouth?
[...] [and] you bring forth? to my eternity
[...] [they shall proclaim] with a multitude of song
[...] [I will sing] [...] [to]
[...]
[...]
[...] bitter things? [...]
[...] [the oppressed] and who?
[...] his mercies upon the poor?
[...] and who measures
[...] and who measures might?
[for]ever? [...] who reckons?
[...] the crafty? [...] and who?
[...] [Your might] [...]

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[...] them [...]
[...] you will help [the noble ones of] [...]
[...] [for] you comfort the mourner [...]
[...] affliction and with blessings [...]
[...] my God to [...]
[...] from dust [...]
[...] it stood for all the years of eternity [...]
[...] your heart, all their life, there, and [...]
[...] according to their spirit, and each man according to his understanding, and [...]
[...] his kingdom [...] who made all these [...]
[...] I will walk continually, and in righteousness you will set me for [...]
[...] before you, formlessness, and the fashioning of [clay] [...]
[...] and you are honored above all [the divine beings] [...]
[...] your holiness, and just as in [...]
[...] [and] [to] [praise] your name [you will bring me] into the congregation of [the holy ones] [...]
[...] to [...]

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[...]
[...] and from a low measure from [...]
[...] revealed in not [...] judgment from a spirit
[...] devouring flesh, those who hate her, without
[...] [from] [a spirit] [...] in dry ground, and [stumbling] [in] no judgment
[From] [a spirit] [...] striking suddenly [all at once] [against] [without] covenant
[From] [a spirit] [...] [without] judgment, from a seeking spirit, and it...
[...] deceiving in [...] [without] commandment, from a spirit of [...] from
[...] in the afflictions of [flesh] [...]
[Blessed] [are You] [God] [of] [knowledge], from hidden things [which] [...] they did not attain them in [the crucible] [...]
[...] and from the judgment of the periods [...] [thoughts] of wickedness [many] times [...]
[...] [iniquity] and from the judgment of [...] Your servant from all his transgressions through [the abundance] of Your mercies
[...] [as] [You spoke] by the hand of Moses [Your servant], [to] [take away] iniquity and sin, and to atone for [transgression] and unfaithfulness [...]
[...] the foundations of the mountains, and fire [split open] in the depths of Sheol, and the [...] in Your judgments [...]
[...] to Your servants in faithfulness, [so] that their seed would be before You all the days [...] and [their names] You have established
[...] transgression, and to cast away all their iniquities, and to give them as an inheritance all the glory of man for length of days [...]
[...]
[Blessed] [are You] [God] [of] [mercies], because of the spirits which You have placed within me [...] and [I find] an answer of tongue to recount Your righteous acts, and patience
[...] and the deeds of the right hand of Your strength, and to give thanks for the transgressions of former times, and to [fall down] and to plead for
[...] my deeds, and the crookedness of my heart [...] for I have wallowed in impurity, and from the council of [deceit] [I have come out], and I was not joined
[...] for to You belongs righteousness, and to Your name belongs blessing for[ever] [...] according to Your righteousness, and redeem
[...] the wicked are consumed [...] and I, I have understood that the one whom You have chosen, [You have established] his way, and with understanding
[...] [You restrain him] from sinning against You [...] and so that his heart would answer him in Your chastisements, and by [Your trials] [You have strengthened] his heart [...]
[...] Your servant from sinning against You and from stumbling in any of the words of Your will [...] strengthen [his loins] [to] [stand] against the spirits
[...] [and] [to] [walk] in all that You have loved, and to despise all that You have hated, [and] [to] [do] what is good in Your eyes [...]
[...] [their dominion] within his frame, for Your servant is a spirit of flesh [...]
[Blessed] [are You] [God] [Most High] [who] have poured out Your holy spirit upon Your servant, [and] [purified] from [...] his heart
[...] [man], and toward every covenant of man I look [...] they will find it
[...] [and among] those who attain it, and those who love it [...] forever and ever
[...]

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[A psalm] [of] [the Instructor]. To? prostrate himself? before [the presence of] [God] [...] the works? of God?
[...] and to give understanding to the simple [...] eternity
[...] and to give understanding to man in [...] flesh, and the secret of my? spirit [...] they walked [...]
[...] [Blessed] are you, O Lord [...] the spirit of flesh? in the [...] in the power? of your might
[and] [the abundance of] [your kindness] with the greatness of your goodness? [and] [the cup] of your wrath? and the jealousy of [your judgments] [...] [without] [end]? [...] all
[...] all understanding and? [discipline] and the mysteries of thought, and the beginning of? [...] [you established]
[...] holiness from before [eternity] [and] to the ages of eternity [...] you [have willed] [...] holy ones?
[...] and in the mysteries of your wonder [you have made known to me] [for] [the sake of] your glory and in the depth of [...] [the fountain of] your understanding? not
[...] you have revealed? the ways of? truth? and? the deeds of evil, wisdom and folly? [...] righteousness?
[...] their deeds, truth [...] [...] and folly [...] all? [they walked] [...]
[...] and everlasting kindnesses for all? [their times], for peace, and the pit [...] all? [...]
[their judgments], eternal glory, and? delight? and? joy? forever, for the deed of [...] set for? [...]
[...] [...] and these are they whom [you established] [from] [before] eternity? to judge by them
all your works, before you created them, with the host of your spirits and the congregation of [the divine ones] [with] the firmament of your holiness, and? all?
its hosts, with the earth and all its offspring, in the seas and in the depths, [according to] all? their thoughts? for all the eternal times?
and the visitation forever [...] for you established them from before eternity, and the work? of [...] by them, for the sake of
they shall recount your glory in all your dominion, for you have shown them that which not [...] which? was before, and to create
new things, to abolish the former decrees and to? [establish] the everlasting things [...] for you? [have established them], and you will be
forever and ever [...] and in the mysteries of your insight [you have divided] all these, to make known your glory? [...] [for] [what] [is] the spirit of flesh, to understand
in? all? these things and to have insight in [...] great [...] and what is one born of woman among all? [your great deeds], the awesome ones [...] and he
a structure of dust and a thing kneaded of water [...] [guilt] [and] sin is his foundation, shameful nakedness and? [the fountain of] [the] [impurity] [...] and a perverse spirit rules
over him [...] and if he acts wickedly, he will become [a sign] [forever]? and a portent for [distant] generations to? flesh [...] only by your goodness
shall a man be justified, and by the abundance of [your mercies] [...] by your splendor you will glorify him, and [you will cause him to rule] [over] the abundance? of delights, with everlasting
peace and length of days [...] for [...] [and] your word will not turn back [...] and I, your servant, know
by the spirit which you have placed in me [...] and righteous are all your works [...] and your word? will not? turn back? [...] and? all?
your times, [appointed] for? [...] [ordered] for their purposes [...] and I know? [that] [...] for? [...]
and wickedness sh [...] q, to understand [...]
[...] your spirits and to? [...]
[...] ... [...]

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[...] their testimonies [...] among your people and it was? [...]
and [you] [have revealed] our ear to [the mysteries] of [wonder] [...] men of truth and the chosen of [righteousness], [seekers of]
understanding and those who seek discernment in [...] [lovers of] mercy and the humble of spirit, refined of
affliction and purified by the crucible [...] [who restrain themselves] until the time of your judgments
and watch for your salvation [...] and you [...] and you have strengthened your statutes by their hand, to do
the judgment of the world and to inherit in all [your righteous acts] [and] [to] [be] [in] [the] council of holiness for everlasting generations [...] and all
the remnant of their deeds with [delight] [...] the men of your vision [...]
[Blessed] [are you], O LORD, who gives into the heart of your servant understanding
to be instructed in all these things and to [understand] [...] and to restrain himself from deeds of wickedness, and to bless
in righteousness all who choose your will, [to] [choose] [in] [all] [that] you have loved, and to abhor all that
[you have hated] [...] and you have made your servant wise [in] [...] the lots of man [...] for according to the spirits you cast them, between
good and evil, [and] you have established [...] the completeness of their deed [...] and I know from your understanding
that by your will in [a man] [you have increased] his inheritance in the spirit of your holiness [...] and thus you bring him near to your understanding [...] and according to
his nearness is his zeal against all workers of wickedness and men of deceit [...] for all who are near you do not rebel against your word
and all who know you do not change your words [...] for you are righteous, and all your chosen are true [...] and all iniquity
and wickedness you will destroy forever [...] and your righteousness has been revealed to the eyes of all your works [...]
and I know, by the abundance of your goodness and by an oath I have established upon my soul, not to sin against you
[and] not to do any of the evil in your eyes [...] and thus I have been brought near in the Community, all the men of my council [...] according to
his understanding I bring him near, and according to the greatness of his inheritance I love him [...] and I will not show favor to the wicked, and [a bribe of] [wickedness] I will not recognize [...]
[and] [not] will I exchange your true wealth, nor for a bribe any of your judgments [...] but according to [...] [a man]
[I love him], and as you distance him, so I abhor him [...] and I will not bring into the council of [your truth] [any] of the captives
[of] [your covenant] [...]
[I thank you], O LORD, for the greatness of your strength and the abundance of your wonders from everlasting to [everlasting]; [great] [in] [mercy] and great
[in] [kindnesses], the one who forgives those who turn from transgression and visits the iniquity of the wicked [...] in the freewill offering of
[their heart], and you hate iniquity forever [...] and I, your servant, you have graced me with a spirit of knowledge to [choose] [in] [truth]
[and] [righteousness], and to abhor every way of iniquity [...] and I love you freely, and with all my heart [...] you
[...] and in your judgment, for from your hand this came to be, and without [your will] [nothing] [is done]
[...] you? will rule over the [...] and it inclines [...] [for] [man] [only] returns
[to] [his] [dust]; he is [...] and you established in [...] a sign for [...]
[...] a firmament upon the wings of the spirit, and it falls [...]

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[...] them [...]
[Blessed] [are you] [O God] [Most High] [who] by the spring of your might have given us understanding [...] us
[...] [and] [concerning] [your] [wondrous] [deeds], what shall we reply [...] for you have dealt with us [an abundance] of [mercies] to do wonders
and ... [...] they have no strength to know [your] [glory] [and] [to] [recount] [your wonders]
[...] for [ever], for they praise you according to their understanding [...] and according to their knowledge, [in] [your glory] [for] [you]
have opened [...] your ... without [ceasing] [...] from age to age they proclaim, and from season [to] season [they bless]
with voice [...] and we, gathered together in the Community, your mighty deeds, and with those who know [we are disciplined] for you, and [we will sing] [with] [abundant]
[your mercies] [...] with your mighty deeds, and in wonder we recount together in [the knowledge of] [God] and until [...]
in the congregation of [...] and our offspring [you have made known] [to] the sons of man in the midst of [the sons] of Adam [...]
for [...] [in] wonder greatly [...]
[Blessed] [are you] [O God] [of] [mercies], with a song, a psalm for [the Instructor] [...] a song of joy [...]
[...] [they love] you all the days [...] and I [...]
[truth] [...] and I love you freely [...] and with all my heart and with all my soul I have purified myself from iniquity [...] [and] [concerning] [my soul]
[I have resolved] [not] to turn aside from all that you commanded [...] and I will hold fast over the Many, appointed times for [the day] [of slaughter], [not]
to forsake any of your statutes [...] and I know by your understanding that not by the hand of flesh [can] man [be made perfect in]
his way, and man cannot establish his step [...] and I know that in your hand is the nature of every spirit, [and] [all] [its activity]
you established before you created it [...] and how can anyone change your words [...] only you [have created]
the righteous one, and from the womb you established him for a time of favor, to keep your covenant and to walk in all of it, and to bring upon him
with the abundance of your mercies, and to open all the distress of his soul to everlasting salvation and eternal peace, with no lack [...] and you have raised
his glory from flesh [...] and the wicked you created for [the purpose of] your wrath [...] and from the womb you set them apart for the day of slaughter [...]
for they walked in a way that is not good, and they rejected [your covenant], and [your statutes] their soul abhorred [...] and they did not desire anything that
you commanded, and they chose what you hated [...] for you established them for [the periods] of [your wrath], to execute upon them great judgments
before the eyes of all your works, and to become a sign and [a portent] for [generations] to come, that all might know your glory and your power
the great [...] and what indeed is he, flesh, that he should understand [these things], and [a creature] of dust, how can he establish his step [...]
you have formed the spirit and its activity [you established] [from] [eternity] [...] and from you is the way of all the living [...] and I know that
no wealth can be compared with your truth, and there is nothing in [the world] like [the angels] of your holiness [...] and I know that in them you have chosen from all
and forever they shall serve you [...] and you do not accept a bribe for [deeds] of [evil], and you do not take a ransom for deeds of wickedness [...] for
you are a God of truth, and all iniquity you will destroy for[ever], and [all] wickedness shall not exist before you [...] and I know you
for yours is [the way] of [all] the living, and in your will [...] [every] deed [...] and [I know] [that] [...]
your holiness in [...]
for in [...]

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[...] them, and all [...]
[...] [men] [of wonder] you bring in number
[...] [and] [there is none] [like] [the mysteries of] [his wonder] in heaven and on earth
[...] and in your hand is the judgment of all of them
[...] your [...] [...] [and] [there is none] before you, and what is accounted [...] and all
[A man] who sanctifies himself shall not turn to guilt, to make his heart upright [...] [how] shall he understand, and not do anything
[apart] [from you] forever [...] and the fountain of light you have opened [...] and to your counsel you call me
to praise your holiness from the mouth of all your works, for [you have done] [...] [to] [be united] with the host
[the mighty ones of] eternity [...] and a spirit of stiff neck to silence [...] [you have deigned] to [do]
[among them] [judgment], and to give ear to a glorious voice, to [the works of] [...]
[...] [and] [a perverse spirit] [rules] in the creature of dust [...] and [...]
[...] [...] [...] your [...] from [dust] [...] [the righteous one] and glory [...]
by the spirit [of your holiness] [which] [you have put] in me [...] and [man] cannot [seek]
the spirit [of your holiness] [...] the fullness of heaven and earth [...] [your glory] fills all [the world] [...]
And I know that by [your will] in man you have multiplied his inheritance, by [your righteous acts] [...] your truth in all [...]
and a guard of righteousness over your word, which you have entrusted to him, lest he stray [from] [your commandments], [and] not stumble in any [of his deeds] [...] [for]
by my knowledge of all these things I find an answer of tongue, to fall down and to [plead] [continually] over my transgressions, and to seek a spirit [of understanding]
and to strengthen myself by your holy spirit, and to cleave to the truth of your covenant, and to serve you in truth and with a perfect heart, and to love the word of [your mouth] [...]
Blessed are you, O Lord, great in counsel and abundant in deed, whose works are all [...] Behold, you have been pleased to do with me [abundant]
kindness, and you have shown me favor by the spirit of your mercies and for the sake of your glory [...] to you belongs righteousness, for you have done all these things [...]
And by my knowledge that you have inscribed the spirit of the righteous, and I have chosen to cleanse my hands according to [your will] [...] and may the soul of your servant abhor all
deeds of iniquity [...] And I know that no man is righteous apart from you [...] and I entreat your face by the spirit which you have put in me, to complete
your kindnesses toward your servant for[ever], to purify me by your holy spirit, and to bring me near according to your will, according to the greatness of your kindnesses [which] you have done
with me, and to [establish] [my steps] [in] every station of [your will] which [you have chosen] for those who love you and for those who keep [your commandments], [to] [stand]
before you forever, and [to] [atone for] [iniquity] and to [be anointed with fatness] with favor, and to mingle with the spirit of your servant, and to give insight [into your works] to [...]
[...] God [...] and let there not [come] before him any plague of stumbling from the statutes of your covenant [...] for [...]
your face [...] and [I know] [that] [you are] [a God] gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abundant in kindness and truth, forgiving transgression and [iniquity] [...]
and having compassion for [all] [the iniquity of] [those who love you] and those who keep [your commandments], [who] return to you in faith and with a perfect heart [...]
to serve you [in] [...] [to] [do] [the] good in your eyes [...] Do not turn away the face of your servant [and] [do] not reject the son of your truth [...]
[...] [...] [...] and I, upon your words, have drawn near to [...]
[...] to [...]

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[...] in your turning back from chaos [...]
[...] of [the holy ones] [...]
and all [...] between good and [evil, forever]
everlasting [...] [...] [...] and [...]
in them, and ... [...] [...] for [you] [my God] [are the source] [of knowledge] and the hope of the ...
and the fountain of [might] [...] great [is the] counsel [...] without number, and your zeal [...]
before your wisdom [...] and slow to anger in your judgments; you are righteous in all your deeds [...]
and in your wisdom [...] everlasting, and before you created them you knew all their deeds
for everlasting ages [...] and [without you] [nothing] is done, and nothing is known without your will [...] you formed
every spirit, and [their work] [you established], and judgment for all their deeds [...] and you stretched out the heavens
for your glory, and all [...] [you established] for your will, and mighty spirits for their statutes before
their being, for angels of [holiness] [and] [...] for eternal spirits in their dominions, luminaries for their mysteries
stars for [their paths], [and] [storm] [winds] for their burden, meteors and lightnings for their service, and treasuries
of thought for [their purposes] [...] for their mysteries [...] you created the earth by the breadth of your might
seas and deeps [you made] [by] [your strength], [and] [their designs] you established by your wisdom, and all that is in them
[you fixed] according to [your will] [...] for the spirit of man whom you formed in the world for all everlasting days
and everlasting generations for [...] according to their appointed times [...] you divided their service throughout all their generations, and [judgment]
in its appointed times for [the dominion of] [...] and [their ways] you established for generation and generation, and the reckoning of their peace with
with all their afflictions [...] and you divided it to all their offspring for the number of everlasting generations
and for all everlasting years [...] and in the wisdom of your knowledge [you established] [their appointed time] before
their being [...] and according to [your will] all [came to be], and without you nothing is done [...]
These things I know from your understanding, for you have uncovered my ear to wondrous mysteries [...] and I am a creature of clay, kneaded with water
a foundation of shame and a source of impurity, a crucible of iniquity and a structure of sin, a spirit of error and perversion without
understanding, terrified by righteous judgments [...] what shall I speak that is not known, and what shall I utter that is not told [...] all
is inscribed before you in a record of remembrance for all everlasting ages, and the cycles of the number of everlasting years in all their appointed times [...]
and they are not hidden nor lacking from before you [...] and what can man recount of his sin, and how can he argue about his iniquities
and how can a perverse one answer concerning the judgment of righteousness [...] to you, you are the God of knowledge, all deeds of righteousness
and the foundation of truth [...] and to the sons of man the service of iniquity and the deeds of deceit [...] you created
a spirit in the tongue [...] and you know its words, and you fixed the fruit of the lips before they existed [...] and you set words upon a measuring line
and the utterance of the spirit of the lips by measure [...] and you brought forth lines for their mysteries, and utterances of spirits for their reckoning, to make known
your glory, and to recount your wonders in all your deeds of truth, and [your judgments] of righteousness, and to praise your name
with the mouth of [...] all who know you; according to their understanding they shall bless you for everlasting [ages] [...] and you, in your mercies
and the greatness of your kindnesses, you have strengthened the spirit of man before affliction, and the soul of [the poor] you have purified from abundant iniquity
to recount your wonders before all your works [...] and [I will tell] [continually] in their midst the judgments of my affliction
and to the sons of man all your wonders which you have shown mighty [in me] [before] [the sons of] man [...] hear
O wise men, and those who bow low in knowledge [...] and the hasty shall become a steadfast inclination [...] [all] [the upright] [of way] add prudence [...]
O righteous, make injustice cease [...] and all who are perfect of way [hold fast] [...] O crushed poor, be patient, prolong
patience [...] and do not reject the [righteous] [judgments] [...] [and] the faint of heart shall not understand
these things, and ... [...]
[the tyrants] shall gnash [their teeth] [...]

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[...] [...]
[...] [...]
[...] [I thank you,] [O Lord,] [for] [you have set right] [in] [my heart] all deeds of iniquity, and [you will cleanse me]
[...] [and] you have set [keepers of] [truth] [against] [my iniquity, and] [reprovers of] righteous truth against all [my violence] [...]
[...] to heal my wound(s), [comforters of] [strength] [...] [...] [and] proclaimers of joy for the mourning of [my grief]
[One who brings good tidings of] peace for all the disasters of [my report] [...] strong ones for the melting of my heart, and strengtheners of [spirit]
before [the affliction] [...] and you have given an answer of tongue to my [uncircumcised] lips, and you sustain my soul with a strengthening of the loins
and a bracing of strength [...] and you have set my steps within the border of wickedness [...] and I have become a snare to transgressors, and a healing to all
who turn from transgression, prudence to the simple, and a steadfast inclination to all the hasty of heart [...] and you have made me a reproach
and a mockery to traitors, a council of truth and understanding to those upright of way [...] and I have become, on account of the iniquity of the wicked,
slander on the lips of the ruthless; scoffers gnash their teeth [...] and I have become a mocking song to transgressors [...]
and against me the assembly of the wicked rages [...] and they roar like the surging waves of the seas in the raging of their waves [...] mire
and mud they cast up [...] and you have made me a banner for the chosen ones of righteousness, and an interpreter of knowledge in the wondrous mysteries, to test
[the men of] truth, and to try the lovers of discipline [...] and I have become a man of strife to the interpreters of error, and a master of
[contention] to all the seers of right things [...] and I have become a spirit of zeal against all the seekers of [smooth things]
[and] [all] the men of deceit roar against me like the sound of the roar of many waters [...] and the devices of Belial, [all]
[their schemes] [...] and they would turn to a pit the life of a man whom you established by my mouth, and you teach him understanding
you have placed in his heart, to open a fountain of knowledge to all who understand [...] and they would exchange them for an uncircumcised lip
and another tongue for a people without understanding, to be confounded in their straying [...]
I thank you, O Lord, for you have bound up my soul in the bundle of the living
and you have hedged me about, shielding me on every side against the traps of the pit [...] [for] ruthless ones sought my soul as I held fast to
your covenant [...] and they are a council of falsehood, and a congregation of Belial [...] they did not know that my standing is from you [...]
and by your mercies you save my soul, for from you are my steps [...] and they, because of you, stirred up strife
against my soul, because you have glorified yourself through the judgment of the wicked, and shown your might through me against the sons of
man, for by your mercy is my standing [...] and I said, mighty men have encamped against me, they have surrounded [me] with all
their weapons of war [...] and arrows fly without remedy, and the flame of the spear like a fire consuming trees, consuming trees [...]
and like the roar of many waters is the tumult of their voice, a bursting torrent to destroy many [...] they burst forth into channels
of viper's poison and falsehood, when their waves rise up [...] and I, when my heart melts like water, you strengthen my soul in your covenant [...]
and they spread a net for me — their own feet are caught in it [...] and snares they hid for my soul, they fell into them [...] and my feet stood on level ground [...]
away from their assembly I will bless your name [...]
I thank you, O Lord, for your eye [is upon me] in the bereavement of my soul, and you deliver me from the envy of the interpreters of lies
and from the congregation of the seekers of smooth things [...] you have redeemed the soul of the poor one, whose blood they schemed to finish off
by pouring it out for your service [...] but they did [not] know that from you are my steps, and they made me an object of scorn
and a reproach in the mouth of all the seekers of deceit [...] but you, my God, have helped the soul of the poor and needy
from the hand of one stronger than he [...] and you redeem my soul from the hand of the mighty [...] and by their blasphemies you did not let me be broken
so as to abandon your service out of fear of the calamities of the wicked, or to exchange, for the ranting of a fool, the steadfast inclination which
you have given [...] the waters of statutes, and by the testimonies [you have established me] to hold fast
[flesh] [...] corruption to all the offspring of the nation
[...] [tongue] according to your teachings, and in [judgment] [...]

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[...] them weeping from [...]
[...] them and vanity [...]
[...] [You] are my God, you have caused your face to shine upon [Your] covenant [...]
[...] to you in everlasting glory with all [...]
[I thank You,] [O Lord,] [for] [truth] is Your mouth, and You deliver me from [the council] [of falsehood] and from [...]
[You have saved] [my soul,] [for] [to] [reproach] [and] [derision] they have accounted me [...] and they set [my soul] like a ship in the depths of the sea
and like a fortified city before [the adversary] [...] and I am in anguish like a woman in labor with her firstborn child [...] for the pangs are overturned
and [...] a severe pang upon her birth-pangs, writhing in the crucible of her pregnancy [...] for children have come to the breakers of death
and she who is pregnant with a man-child is in distress amid her pangs [...] for through the breakers of death she shall bring forth a male, and through the pangs of Sheol there shall break forth
from the crucible of her pregnancy a Wonderful Counselor with His might [...] and a man shall be delivered from the breakers [...] at her bearing all shall make haste
the breakers and severe pangs at their birth, and horror for those who bear them [...] and at his birth all pangs shall be turned
in the crucible of her pregnancy [...] and the pregnancy of a viper for a severe pang, and the breakers of the Pit for all deeds of horror [...] and they shall shout
the foundations of the wall, like a ship upon the face of the waters, and the skies shall roar with a tumultuous sound [...] and the dwellers of the dust
like those who go down to the sea, terrified by the roar of the waters [...] and their wise men, for them, like sailors in the depths, when there is swallowed up
all their wisdom amid the roaring of the seas [...] when the deeps seethe over the confused waters, and they surge up to the height of the waves
and the breakers of the waters with the tumult of their sound [...] and when they surge, [Sheol] [and] Abaddon shall open [...] [and] all the arrows of the Pit
together with their tread they shall utter their voice toward the deep [...] and the gates of [the everlasting] [underworld] shall open because of the deeds of the viper [...]
and the doors of the Pit shall close upon the pregnancy of iniquity, and the everlasting bars upon all the spirits of the viper [...]
I thank You, O Lord, for You have redeemed my soul from the Pit [...] and from Sheol of Abaddon
You have raised me up to an everlasting height, and I walk on a plain without bound [...] and I know that there is hope for him whom
You formed from dust for the everlasting council [...] and a perverted spirit You have purified from great transgression, to take his stand in the station with
the host of the holy ones, and to enter into the Community with the congregation of the sons of heaven [...] and You cast for man an everlasting lot with the spirits
of knowledge, to praise Your name together in jubilation, and to recount Your wonders before all Your works [...] and I, a creature
of clay, what am I [...] kneaded with water, and to whom am I accounted, and what strength do I have [...] for I have taken my stand at the border of wickedness
and with the wretched in the lot [...] and the soul of the poor sojourns amid great tumults, and calamities of terror are with my steps [...]
when all the snares of the Pit open, and all the nets of wickedness are spread, and the trap of the wretched is upon the face of the waters [...]
when all the arrows of the Pit fly without turning back, and they shoot without hope [...] when the line falls upon judgment and the lot of anger
upon the forsaken, and the pouring out of wrath upon the hidden ones, and the period of fury for all Belial, and the pangs of death encompass without escape [...]
and the torrents of Belial shall flow over all the heights on high, like a devouring fire in all their channels, to consume every green tree
and dry, from their streams [...] and it shall range in flashes of flame until all who drink of them are no more [...] it shall devour the foundations of clay
and in the dry firmament [...] the foundations of the mountains for burning, and the roots of flint for streams of pitch [...] and it shall devour as far as the great deep
[...] and the torrents of Belial shall burst forth toward Abaddon, and the depths of the deep shall roar with the tumult of those who stir up mire [...] and the earth
shall cry out over the calamity that comes to pass in the world, and all its deeps shall shout [...] and all that is upon it shall go mad
and shall melt away in the [great] calamity, for God shall thunder with the roar of His might, and His holy abode shall roar with truth
of His glory [...] and the host of the heavens shall raise their voice, and they shall melt away, and the everlasting foundations shall quake [...] and the war of the mighty ones of
heaven shall range through the world, and it shall not turn back until it is finished, and it is decreed forever, and there is nothing like it [...]
I thank You, O Lord, for You have been to me a wall of strength
[...] against destroyers, and all [...] for You hide me from the calamities of tumult which [...]
[...] [doors] of [a shield] [and] bars of iron so that no troop shall enter, [a guard] [of mighty men]
[when] [joining] [...] them around it lest [a warrior] shoot [...]

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[...] [the recompenses of] [their might] [...] [and] [they will fall] [from] [their might] [...]
[...] [the wise] in [their] [cunning] and I, in my supporting myself, [in] [your covenant] [...]
[...] [...]
[...] [and] you have set my foot firm upon a rock, and you removed my steps from [the way] [...]
[...] in the everlasting way, and in the paths which you have chosen my steps [...]
[...] I will praise you, O Lord, for you have shone your face upon me for your covenant, and from [...]
[...] I will seek you [...] and like a steadfast dawn to [the perfectly illumined] you have shone upon me [...] and they, your people
in [their straying] [and] with smooth words they have flattered them [...] and interpreters of deceit have led them astray, and they stumble without understanding, for [...]
in the folly of their deeds, for they were despised by them [...] and they do not esteem me, when you show your power through me, for it drove me out from my land
like a bird from its nest [...] and all my companions and my acquaintances have been driven away from me, and they esteem me as a lost vessel [...] and they are interpreters of
deceit and seers of falsehood [...] they have plotted against me a devilish plot of Belial, to exchange your law which you engraved in my heart, for flattering words
to your people [...] and they hold back the drink of knowledge from the thirsty, and for their thirst they give them vinegar to drink, so that they gaze at
their straying, to act mad at their appointed times, to be caught in their snares [...] for you, O God, spurn every scheme of
Belial, and your counsel, it shall stand, and the plan of your heart, it shall be established forever [...] and they think hidden thoughts of Belial
they devise, and they seek you with a divided heart, and they are not established in your truth [...] a root bearing poison and wormwood is in their thoughts [...]
and with the stubbornness of their heart they go about and seek you among idols [...] and the stumbling-block of their iniquity they have set before their faces, and they come
to seek you from the mouth of prophets of falsehood, seduced by error [...] and they, [in] [mockery] of lip and another tongue, speak to your people
to make mad with deceit all their deeds [...] for they have not chosen the [way] [of your heart], and they have not listened to your word, for they have said
concerning the vision of knowledge, it is not established, and concerning the way of your heart, it is not so [...] for you, O God, will answer them, judging them
in your might, [according to] their idols and according to the multitude of their transgressions, so that they are caught in their thoughts which have turned aside from your covenant [...]
and you will cut off in [judgment] all men of deceit, and seers of error shall be found no more [...] for there is no folly in all your deeds
and no deceit in the purpose of your heart [...] and those who are according to your soul shall stand before you forever, and those who walk in the way of your heart
shall be established forever [...] [and] I, in my supporting myself in you, take courage, and I rise up against those who spurn me [...] and my hand is against all who despise me, for
they do not [esteem me] until you show your power through me, and you shine upon me by your strength for the perfectly illumined [...] and you have not covered with shame the face of
all who [are sought] by me, who are gathered together for your covenant [...] and they who walk in the way of your heart shall listen to me, and they shall arrange themselves for you
in the council of the holy ones [...] and you will bring forth judgment for them forever, and truth for the upright [...] and you will not lead them astray by the hand of the wretched ones
as they have devised against them [...] and you will put the fear of them upon your people, and a shattering upon all the peoples of the lands, to cut off in judgment all
who transgress your mouth [...] and through me you have illumined the face of many, and you have shown your strength without number, for you have made known to me the mysteries of
your wonder [...] and in the council of your wonder you have shown strength beside me, and worked wonders before many, for the sake of your glory, and to make known
to all the living your mighty deeds [...] what is flesh, like this [...] and what is a creature of clay, to do great wonders [...] and he is in iniquity
from the womb, and until old age, in guilt of unfaithfulness [...] and I, I know that righteousness does not belong to man, nor perfection to a son of man
of way [...] to God Most High belong all deeds of righteousness [...] and the way of man is not established except by the spirit which God formed for him,
to make perfect the way for the sons of man, so that all may know his deeds by the strength of his might and the abundance of his mercies upon all the sons of
his favor [...] and I, trembling and shuddering have seized me, and all my bones shake [...] and my heart melts like wax before fire, and my knees go
like waters poured down a slope [...] for I remembered my guilty deeds together with the unfaithfulness of my fathers, when the wicked rose up against your covenant
and the wretched against your word [...] and I said, in my transgression I am abandoned from your covenant [...] and when I remember the strength of your hand, together with
the abundance of your mercies, I took courage and rose up, and my spirit held firm in its stand before affliction [...] for I leaned
on your acts of kindness, and by the abundance of your mercies iniquity is atoned for in me [...] and to [cleanse] man from guilt through your righteousness, for your sake, [my God] [...]
and not for man's sake, all that you have done, for you have created the righteous and the wicked [...]
[...] I will strengthen myself by your covenant until [...]
[...] for truth are you, and righteous are all [your deeds] [...]

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for a day of [indignation], burning anger [...] [an abundance of]
your forgivenesses, and the multitude of [your mercies] [...] in
and by my knowledge of these [I was comforted] by your truth [...]
according to your will, and in your hand is the judgment of them all [...]
I thank you, O Lord, for you did not abandon me while I sojourned among a foreign people [...] according to my guilt
you judged me [...] and did not abandon me to the devices of my inclination [...] and you helped me from the pit of my life and gave to me [...] [an escape] in the midst of
lionesses appointed for the sons of guilt, lions that crush the bones of the mighty and drink the blood of the valiant [...] and you set me [...]
in the dwelling of many fishermen who spread the net upon the face of the waters, and of hunters for the sons of iniquity [...] and there for judgment
you established me [...] and a foundation of truth you made firm in my heart [...] and from this a covenant for those who seek it [...] and you shut the mouth of young lions who
are like a sword, their teeth, and their fangs like a sharp spear [...] the venom of serpents is all their schemes [...] to tear apart they gather themselves, and not
did they open their mouth against me [...] for you, my God, hid me from the sons of man, and your law you concealed [within me] until the time
of the revealing of your salvation to me [...] for in the distress of my soul you did not abandon me, and you heard my cry in the bitterness of my soul [...]
and you took note of my grief, you knew it in my sighing [...] and you delivered the soul of the poor one from the dwelling of lions who sharpened their tongue like a sword [...]
from... and you, my God, shut in behind their tongue, lest they tear apart the soul of the poor and needy one [...] and you made their tongue
like a sword not drawn from its sheath, so that [it might not cut off] the soul of your servant [...] and so that you might show your might through me before the sons of man, you dealt wondrously
with the poor one [...] and you brought him into [the crucible] like gold in the works of fire, and like silver refined in the furnace of smelters, to purify sevenfold [...]
and the wicked of the peoples hastened against me in their distresses, and all the day they crush my soul [...]
but you, my God, turn my soul from storm to calm, and the soul of the poor one you delivered like [a bird] [from] [a snare], and like prey from the traps of
lions [...]
I thank you, blessed are you, O Lord, for you did not abandon the orphan, nor did you despise the needy one [...] for your might is [without] [end], and your glory
is without measure [...] and the mighty ones of wonder are your ministers [...] and with the poor, at the sweepings of [your feet], [together] with those who hasten in
righteousness, to raise up from the tumult together all who groan, the poor of mercy [...] and I have become upon... [...] my adversary in dispute
and contentions to my companion, jealousy and anger to those who entered my covenant, and murmuring and complaint to all who assembled with me [...] [even] [those who eat] my bread
have lifted up their heel against me [...] and all who are joined to my council mock me with lips of iniquity [...] and the men of my council are rebellious
and murmur all around [...] and concerning the mystery you hid within me they go about slandering to the sons of destruction [...] and because you [showed your might] through me, and so that
their guilt might be exposed, you hid the spring of understanding and the foundation of truth [...] and they devise the destruction of their heart, and they have opened [words] of Belial
a tongue of falsehood, like the venom of serpents bursting forth toward the extremities [...] and like creeping things of the dust they aim to [tear apart] with the [poison] of vipers
for which there is no charm [...] and it became an incurable pain and a malignant affliction in the inward parts of your servant, to make [the spirit] stumble and to consume
strength, so that no stand could be maintained [...] and they overtook me in straits with no escape, and not by separation from families [...] and they roar
[...] with the lyre is my dispute, and with music together is their complaint, amid crashing and devastation [...] burning terror seized me, and pangs like the pangs of one
in labor [...] and my heart roared within me [...] I clothed myself in gloom, and my tongue cleaves to my palate [...] for they surrounded me with the destruction of their heart, and their design
appeared to me as bitterness [...] and the light of my face was darkened to gloom, and my splendor was turned to corruption [...] and you, my God
opened a wide space in my heart, but they have turned it again into distress, and they have hedged me about with deep darkness [...] and I eat the bread of my sighing
and my drink is with tears without end [...] for my eyes grow dim from vexation, and my soul in the bitterness of the day [...] sighing and grief
surround me, and shame is upon my face [...] and my bread has turned to strife for me, and my drink to a master of contention [...] and it enters into my bones
to make the spirit stumble and to consume strength [...] for the mysteries of transgression change the works of God through their guilt [...] for I was bound with cords
that cannot be torn apart, and fetters that cannot be broken [...] and a wall of strength [around me], and bars of iron, and doors of [bronze] [with] [no]
[opening] [...] my prison; with the deep I was reckoned, to nothingness [...]
[and] [the torrents of] Belial engulfed my soul, with no [escape] [...]

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[...]
my heart with revilings, with the mouth of [...]
and disaster without limit, and destruction without [measure] [...] [and] [you], [my God]
You uncovered my ear to [discipline], reprovers of righteousness, with [...]
from the congregation of falsehood and from the council of violence [...] and you brought me into the counsel of holiness [...] guilt [...]
And I knew that there is hope for those who turn from transgression and forsake sin, through it [...] and to walk
in the way of your heart without perversity [...] and I take comfort over the multitude of a people and over the tumult of kingdoms, when they are gathered [...] [for] [my salvation], which
you raise up for the lowly, a remnant among your people, and a remainder in your inheritance [...] and you refine them to purify them from guilt [and] [from] [sinning in] all
their deeds, in your truth [...] and by your kindnesses you shall judge them, in the abundance of your mercies and the greatness of forgiveness, and according to your mouth to instruct them [...]
and as your truth is upright, to establish them in your counsel [...] for your glory and for your own sake [you have done], to magnify the law and [...] [to] [...]
the men of your counsel in the midst of the sons of man, to recount to their everlasting generations your wonders, and of [your mighty deeds] [they shall speak]
without ceasing [...] and all nations shall know your truth, and all peoples your glory [...] for you have brought [...] your council
to all the men of your counsel, and in the lot of the Community with the angels of the presence [...] and there is no interpreter between them, to [...] [to] answer
as a spirit [...] for [...] and they shall return by the mouth of your glory, and your princes shall be in the [everlasting] [lot], [and] their stock
shall blossom like a flower [it shall blossom] [for] everlasting splendor, to make great a shoot from the branches of an everlasting planting [...] and it shall cast shade over all the world, and [its branches]
unto the skies, and its roots unto the deep [...] and all the rivers of Eden [shall water] [its branches], and it shall be for days without [end]
measure [...] and they girded themselves over the world without limit, and unto Sheol [...] [and] it became a spring of light, a fountain
everlasting, without removal [...] in its bright flames all the sons of [iniquity] shall burn, [and] [it shall become] a burning fire among all the men of
guilt, until destruction [...] and they, who cling to my testimony, were seduced by [interpreters] [of error], [to] bring a stranger into the service of righteousness [...]
And you, God, commanded them to profit from their ways, in the way of [holiness] [in which] [they should walk] by it [...] and the uncircumcised and the unclean and the violent
shall not pass through it [...] and they shall stumble from the way of your heart, and in the disaster of [their transgression] [they shall stumble] [...] and like the counsel of Belial
is with their heart, [and] [they devise] a scheme of wickedness, they wallow in guilt [...] and [I] [was] like a sailor on a ship in the raging
of the seas [...] their waves, and all their breakers upon me [...] a spirit of confusion roars, [with] [no] calm to restore the soul, and there is no
path to make straight a way upon the face of the waters [...] and the deep roars at my sighing, and [my life] [drew near] to the gates of death [...] and I became
like one entering a besieged city, and taking refuge in a wall raised high for deliverance [...] and [I lean] on your truth, my God, for you
set a foundation upon rock, and a beam upon the line of judgment, and a plummet of [truth], to [make] tested stones for building
a strong wall that shall not shake [...] and all who enter it shall not be moved [...] for no stranger shall enter its gates; doors of a shield without
entrance, and bars of strength that shall not be broken [...] no troop shall enter with its weapons of war until all the arrows
of wicked wars are spent [...] and then the sword of God shall hasten in the time of judgment [...] and all the sons of his truth shall awake to [cut off]
wickedness, and all the sons of guilt shall be no more [...] and the mighty one shall bend his bow, and shall open the sieges of the heavens
to an endless expanse [...] and the everlasting gates, to bring out weapons of war [...] and they shall be mighty from end to end, and [arrows]
shall be shot, and there is no escape for the inclination of guilt [...] to destruction they shall trample, and there is no remnant, and no hope amid the multitude of corpses
and for all the mighty men of war there is no escape [...] for to God Most High [...]
and those who lie in the dust have raised a standard, and the worm of the dead have lifted a banner for [...] they shall shoot [...]
in the wars of the arrogant [...] and when the overflowing scourge passes, it shall not enter the stronghold [...]
[...] [to] [...] to [...] to plaster, and as a beam to [...]
from [...]
truth [...]

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[...] and I was struck dumb by [their disasters] [...] these [...] and they reviled me
[...] [an arm] broken from its stalks, and my feet sink in the mire [...] my eyes turned away from seeing
evil, and my ears from hearing of bloodshed [...] my heart was stunned by the thought of evil [...] for Belial, when the inclination
of their disasters appears [...] and all the foundations of my structure shake [...] and my bones come apart, and my inward parts are upon me like a ship in a raging
storm [...] and my heart moans to destruction [...] and a spirit of confusion swallows me because of the disasters of their transgression [...]
I thank you, O Lord, for you have sustained me by your strength, and
your holy spirit you have poured out within me so that I do not stumble [...] and you have strengthened me before the battles of wickedness, and in all their disasters
you did not let me be dismayed from your covenant [...] and you have made me like a strong tower, like a lofty wall [...] and you have established upon a rock
my structure, and eternal foundations for my base [...] and all my walls as a tested wall, that it will not be shaken [...]
And you, my God, have set me among the peoples for the council of holiness [...] and [you have strengthened me] in your covenant, and my tongue like your disciples [...]
and there is no mouth for the spirit of destruction, and no answer of tongue for all the sons of guilt [...] for the lips will be struck dumb of
lips of falsehood [...] for all who assail me you will condemn in judgment, to distinguish through me between the righteous and the wicked [...]
for you know every inclination of deed, and every answer of tongue you have discerned [...] and you have established my heart
like [your teachings], and like your truth, to make my steps straight upon the paths of righteousness, to walk before you within the boundary of
[life], upon the paths of glory and life and peace, without [turning aside], [and] [not] to cease forever [...]
And you know the inclination of your servant, for not... [...] his support, to lift up [his heart]
and to grow strong in power [...] and I have no refuge of flesh [...] I have no righteous deeds by which to be delivered from
without forgiveness [...] but I have leaned upon the abundance of [your mercies], and for [the multitude] of your kindness I hope, to look forth
like a planting, and to make a shoot grow strong in power, and to [...] [for] [by] your righteousness you have set me up
in your covenant, and I hold fast to your truth [...] and you [...] and you have made me a father to the sons of kindness
and like a nurse to men of a sign [...] and they open their mouth like [a suckling child] [...] and like a child delighted in the lap of
his nurses [...] and you have raised my horn above all who despise me, and [all] [the remnant] of the men of my war [will be scattered] [...] and the masters of
my quarrel are like chaff before the wind [...] and my dominion over those who despise me [...] for [you], my God, have helped my soul, and you have raised my horn
on high [...] and I have shone forth with sevenfold light in [...] [you have established] for your glory [...]
for you are to me an eternal light, and you have established my feet on [level ground] [...]
[I thank you], [O Lord], for you have given me insight in your truth
and in your wondrous mysteries you have made known to me, and by your kindnesses toward a man of [transgression], and by the abundance of your mercies toward the perverse of heart [...]
For who is like you among the gods, O Lord [...] and who is like your truth [...] and who can be justified before you when he is judged [...] and there is none
who can answer against your rebuke, all who are dyed with spirit, and none can stand before your wisdom [...] and all the sons of
your truth you bring in forgivenesses before you, to purify them from their transgressions by the abundance of your goodness and by the multitude of your mercies
to set them before you for everlasting ages [...] for you are an eternal God, and all your ways are established forever
and everlasting, and there is none besides you [...] and what is a man of nothingness and a possessor of vanity, to understand your wondrous works
the great ones [...]
I thank you, O Lord, for you have not cast my lot in the congregation of falsehood, and in the council of the hidden ones you have not set my portion [...]
and you have called me to your kindnesses, and to [your forgivenesses] [you have brought me], and by the multitude of your mercies to all the judgments of
[righteousness] [...] [and] [I] [am] [a] [man] [of] [impurity], [and] [from] [the] [womb] [I] [was] [conceived] [in] [guilt] [of] [transgression], [and] [from] [the] [breasts] [of] [my] [mother] in iniquity, and in the bosom of
[my] [nurse] [in] [much] [impurity], [and] [from] [my] [youth] [in] [blood], [and] [until] [old] [age] [in] [the] [iniquity] [of] [flesh] [...] [and] [you], my God
[you have established] [my] [feet] [in] [the] [way] [of] [your] [heart] [...] [and] [to] [the] [reports] [of] [your] [wonders] [you have opened] [my] [ear], and my heart to understand your truth [...]

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[...] [their ear] [was stopped] to [your teachings] [until] [...] and [a perverse] [spirit]
[in] [lack of] [knowledge] you struck [from] [my depths] and [glory of] [heart] [...] and [there is] [no] [more] [for me]
[to] [a stumbling block of] iniquity [...] for you reveal your salvation, and your righteousness you establish forever [...] for not to [man] [belongs] his way [...]
[all] [these] [for] [your glory] you have done [...]
[I thank you], [O Lord], for you have set me at a spring of flowing water in dry ground, and a fountain of water in a parched land, and one who waters
a garden and a pool [...] the field, a planting of cypress and elm together with box-tree, for your glory, trees of
life, by a spring of mystery hidden in the midst of all trees by water [...] and they came to put forth a shoot for an eternal planting [...]
to take root before they bloom, and their roots to [the stream] they send out [...] and its trunk opens to living waters
and it becomes an eternal spring [...] and on its shoot's leaves all [beasts] of the forest graze [...] and its trunk is a trampling-place for all who pass by
the way, and its branch for every winged bird [...] and all [trees] by water tower over it, for in their planting they flourish
but toward the stream they do not send root [...] and [the shoot] of [holiness] that sprouts for a true planting is hidden, unnoticed,
unaccounted [...] and its mystery is sealed, unknown [...] and you, [O God], have hedged about its fruit with the mystery of mighty men of strength
and spirits of holiness and a flame of fire turning every way, so that no [stranger] may enter the spring of life, or with the trees of eternity
drink the holy waters, so it does not produce its fruit with the planting of the skies [...] for he saw without recognizing,
and considered without believing, toward the spring of life, and gave [the yield of] eternal blossom [...] and I became like [one scorned] by rivers'
torrents, for their mud was cast upon me [...]
but you, my God, have put in my mouth [words] like the early rain for all [...] and a fountain of living water that does not fail [...] to open
the heavens; they do not depart, and become a flowing torrent [over] [all] [trees] by water, and into seas without limit [...]
suddenly they gush forth, hidden in secret [...] and become waters of [contention] [for] [every] [tree],
moist and dry, and a deep sea for every living thing, and [trees] [...] like lead in [mighty] waters [...]
in sparks of fire they dry up [...] and a planting of fruit [...] [a spring of] eternity for the delight of glory and [everlasting] [splendor] [...]
and by my hand you opened their spring, together with channels of [...] blood, to turn upon a right line, and a planting
their trees by the sun's plumb-line, to [...] and for splendor of glory [...] when I waved my hand to hoe
its channels; its roots strike the flint rock, and [...] and in the earth their trunk [...] and in a time of heat it withholds
its strength [...] and if I withdraw my hand it becomes like a juniper [in] [the desert], and its trunk like nettles in a salt-marsh [...] and its channels
bring up thorn and thistle, into briar and thornbush, and [...] its bank turns like trees of rot [...] before
the heat its leaves wither, and it does not open with the rain [...] a sojourner with sicknesses and [a failing] of heart
with afflictions [...] and I became like a man forsaken in grief [...] there is no strength for me [...] for [my affliction] blossomed
into bitterness, and an incurable pain, with no power to restrain it [...] and [there was] [turmoil] upon me like those who go down to Sheol [...] and with
the dead my spirit searches, for [my life] has reached the pit [...] my soul faints, day and night,
without rest [...] and it blazes like a burning fire shut up in my bones [...] until its flame consumes its days
to the end of strength, for its seasons, and to the wasting of flesh until the appointed times [...] and breakers fly upon me
and my soul bows down upon me to failing [...] for my strength has ceased from my body, and my heart pours out like water [...] and melts
like wax, my flesh, and the strength of my loins has become terror [...] and my arm is broken from its socket, and [there is no strength] to raise a hand [...]
and my foot is caught in a fetter, and my knees go like water [...] and there is no stepping forth, nor any pace to the sound of my feet [...]
and the vigor of my arms is bound in fetters of stumbling [...] and the tongue you strengthened in my mouth is not gathered in [...] and there is none to raise
a voice, or to give ear to teachings, to revive the failing spirit and to sustain with a word the weary [...] the utterance of my lips is struck dumb
from horror [...] by a line of judgment is my heart's tablet, and [...] [or] in bitterness [...] a heart of rams, dominion
in [my inclinations] [...] to the seas, and [I] [...] to [...] [my soul] is swallowed up
[their depths] [...] are struck dumb as nothing
[...] man, to [nothing] [...]

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[...] darkness [...]
[...] [he shone] for strife in the night and in [...]
[...] there is no compassion [...] in anger he stirs up jealousy and to destroy [...]
The breakers of death and Sheol are upon my couch [...] my bed rises in lamentation, and [my resting place] with a voice of groaning [...]
My eyes are like a moth in the furnace, and my tears like streams of water [...] my eyes fail from rest, and [my stronghold] stood for me
from afar, and my life from the side [...] and I go from crash to crash, and from pain to affliction, and from pangs
to breakers my soul is bowed low; in your wonders [...] and you did not abandon me in your mercies [...] from age
to age you set delight for my soul in the abundance of your mercies [...] and I will return a word to those who would swallow me
and to those who gloat over me, rebuke [...] and I will condemn his judgment, and your judgment I will justify [...] for I know
in your truth [...] and I have chosen my judgment, and in my afflictions I have taken delight, for I have hoped for your mercies [...] and you will give
supplication in the mouth of your servant [...] and you did not rebuke my life, and my peace you did not abandon [...] and you did not forsake
my hope [...] and before affliction you set my spirit firm [...] for you established my spirit, and you knew my purpose [...]
and in my distresses you comforted me, and in forgiveness I take delight [...] and I find comfort concerning former transgression [...]
and I know [that] there is hope in your mercies, and expectation in the abundance of your strength [...] for none is justified
at all in your judgment, and none [shall be acquitted] in your dispute [...] man is more righteous than man, and one more upright than his fellow
is wiser, and flesh more than a creature [...] is honored, and spirit prevails over spirit [...] and like your might there is none
in power [...] and to your glory there is no [...] [and] to your wisdom there is no measure, and to [your truth] [...] [...]
and to all that is forsaken from it [...] and I in you [have set] [my hand] [and] [in] [your mercy]
my standing, and they did not [...] against the men of my dispute [...]
and as they devised against me [...] and if for shame of face, all [...] in it
for me [...] and you [...] my adversary prevails over me as a stumbling block for [...] [for] [all]
the men [of my war] [and] [to] [the masters] [of my dispute], [shame] of face and disgrace to those who murmur against me [...]
for you are my God for [an appointed time] [...] you will plead my cause [...] for by the mystery of your wisdom you have reproved me [...]
and you have hidden truth until the appointed time [...] its appointed time [...] and your rebuke has become for me joy and gladness
and my afflictions have become [everlasting] healing [and] eternal [peace] [...] and the scorn of my adversary has become for me a crown of glory, and my stumbling a might
everlasting [...] for by [your insight] [you have made known to me], and by your glory my light has shone [...] for from light out of darkness
you have caused it to shine for [...] [to] [heal] my wound, and to my stumbling a wondrous strength, and a broad space
everlasting, in the distress of my soul [...] for [you are] [my deliverer], my refuge, my stronghold, the rock of my strength, and my fortress [...] in you
I take refuge from all the pain of [my soul] [...] [you have saved] me for deliverance forever [...] for you, from my father
you knew me, and from the womb [you sanctified me], [and] [from] [the belly] of my mother you dealt bountifully with me [...] and from the breasts you showed me your mercies
[...] to me [...] and in the bosom of my nurse, the abundance of [your mercies], and from my youth you have appeared to me with insight into your judgment [...]
and in truth firmly you have sustained me, and by your holy spirit you have delighted me, and until this day [you] guide me [...]
and your righteous rebuke is with [my perversity], and the keeping of your peace is for the deliverance of my soul [...] and with my steps
abundant forgiveness and a multitude of mercies, in your judging of me [...] and until old age you sustain me [...] for
my father did not know me, and my mother, upon you she abandoned me [...] for you are a father to all the sons of your truth, and you rejoice
over them like one who has compassion on her infant [...] and like a nurse in the bosom you sustain all your works [...]
[Blessed] [are you] [O Lord] [...] to [...] you have magnified until without number
[...] [and] [to] [praise] your name in wonder [exceedingly]
[...] [to] [without] end you have caused to turn back [...]
[...] [and] [according] [to] his insight he shall praise [your name] [...]

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[...] [in] Your thought? all things came into being? [and] in? the purpose? of Your heart [was established] [...] [and] [apart from You] [not]
[is] anything done, and without Your will nothing comes to be [...] and none understands [Your wisdom]
and into [the secret] of Your mysteries no one gazes [...] and what then is man? Dust he is [...] [clay]
shaped, and to dust is his return [...] for You give us understanding of such wonders, and in the secret of [Your truth]
You make known to us [...] and I am dust and ash; what can I devise without Your desire [...] and what am I accounted?
apart from Your will [...] how can I be strong unless You have established me [...] and how would I stumble unless You had formed
me [...] and what can I speak unless You have opened my mouth [...] and how could I answer unless You had given me understanding [...]
Behold, You are prince of the gods and king of the glorious ones, and lord of every spirit, and ruler over every deed [...]
and apart from You nothing is done [...] and nothing is known without Your will [...] and there is none besides You
and there is none with You in power [...] and there is nothing to set against Your glory, and for Your might there is no price [...] and who
among all Your great wondrous deeds could retain strength to stand before Your glory [...]
And what then is he who returns to his dust, that he should retain strength? [...] Only for Your glory have You done all these things [...]
Blessed are You, my Lord, God of mercies and [great in] steadfast love, for You have made me know these things, to recount
Your wonders, and not to be silent day and night [...] to You belongs all the host in abundance [...]
for Your steadfast love, in the greatness of Your goodness, and [the abundance of] [Your mercies] [...] I take delight in [Your forgivenesses]
for I have leaned upon Your truth [and] [...] Your [...] and there is none [...] [without]
Your station, and without [Your hand] [there is] [no] [judgment], and [without] Your rebuke there is no stumbling [and] [there is none]
affliction without Your knowledge, and [nothing] [is done] [without] [Your will] [...]
And I, according to my knowledge of [Your truth], [will sing] [of] [Your steadfast love], and as I gaze upon Your glory I will recount
Your wonders [...] and as I understand [the secret] of [Your wonder] [I will wait] for the [abundance] of Your mercies, and for Your forgivenesses
I hope [...] for You have formed the [spirit] of [Your servant], [and] [according to] [Your will] You have established me [...] and You have not given
my support to unjust gain, and in [violent] wealth [not] [...] [my heart], and a fleshly inclination You have not made my refuge [...]
the wealth of mighty men over abundance of delights, [and] [they take delight] in the abundance of grain, new wine, and oil [...]
and they exalt themselves in cattle and possessions [...] [and] [they flourish] [like] a [luxuriant] tree by streams of water, putting forth leaf
and multiplying branch [...] for You have chosen [them] [from] [all] [the sons of] man, and to fatten all from the earth [...]
and to the sons of Your truth You have given understanding [...] forever [...] and according to their knowledge they are honored
each man above his fellow [...] and so for the son of man [...] [for] [a man] You have increased his inheritance
in knowledge of Your truth [...] and according to his knowledge he shall [...] [for] the soul of Your servant abhors wealth
and unjust gain, and in the height of delights not [...] for my heart rejoices in Your covenant, and Your truth
delights my soul [...] and I blossom like a lily, and my heart is opened to an eternal fountain [...]
and my support is in a refuge from on high, and [...] toil [...] and it fades like a blossom before the wind [...]
and my heart reels in anguish, and my loins in trembling [...] and my groaning goes down to the deep
and it searches together in the chambers of Sheol [...] and I am terrified when I hear Your judgments together with the mighty
of strength, and Your dispute with the host of Your holy ones in the heavens, and [...]
and judgment on all Your works, and righteousness [...]
[...]
[...] my
[...] my iniquity [...]

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in dread of turmoil [...] toil from my eyes and grief [...] from my body and between [...]
in the murmuring of my heart [...]
I thank you, my God, for you have done wonders with dust, and with a creature of clay you have shown great strength; thanks, thanks [...] and I, what am I, that
[you have made me understand] your truth's secret and given me insight into your wondrous deeds [...] and put in my mouth thanksgivings, and on my tongue
[praise], and the melody of my lips in the place of joyful shouting [...] and I will sing praises in your acts of kindness, and on your might I will meditate all
the day [...] continually I will bless your name, and I will recount your glory among the sons of man, and in the abundance of your goodness
my soul shall delight [...] and I, I know that your mouth is truth, and in your hand is righteousness [...] and in your thought
all knowledge, and in your strength all might, and all glory is with you [...] in your anger are all the judgments of affliction
and in your goodness is abundance of forgiveness [...] and your mercies are for all the sons of your favor [...] for you have made them know your truth's secret
and in your wondrous mysteries you have given them insight [...] and for the sake of your glory you have purified man from transgression, that he may be made holy
to you from all abominations of impurity and guilt of unfaithfulness, to be united with the sons of [...] your truth, and in the lot with
your holy ones [...] to raise the maggot of the dead from the dust to the council of [your truth], and from a perverted spirit to your understanding [...]
and to stand in position before you with the everlasting host and [the spirits] [of eternity], and to be renewed with all [that is]
and comes to be, and with those who know, in the Community of joyful shouting [...]
[and] [I], I thank you, my God, I exalt you, my Rock [...] and in wondrous acts [...]
for you have made me know the secret of truth, and in [the mysteries] of [wonder] [you have made me understand] [and] [given me insight] [into] [your marvels]
[and] [your hidden things] you have revealed to me, and I look upon [...] kindness [...] and I know
[that] to you belongs righteousness, and in your acts of kindness [they will be judged] [...] and destruction is without your mercies [...]
and I, a fountain has been opened for me to bitter mourning [...] and toil is not hidden from my eyes
in my knowing the inclination of man and the response of mortal [I will contemplate] [and] [I will recognize] mourning, sin, and grief
of guilt [...] and they come into my heart and reach into my bones, to [...] and to murmur the murmurings of
grief and sighing, on the lyre of lamentation for all mourning [of grief] and bitter wailing, until iniquity is consumed and [there is no] [pain], and no affliction to make sick [...] and then
I will sing praises on the lyre of salvation, and the harp [of joy], [and] [the tambourine] [of gladness], and the flute of praise without
ceasing [...] and who among all your works can recount [all] [your marvels] [...] with the mouth of? all of them shall be praised
your name for everlasting ages [...] they shall bless you according to [their understanding], [and] [in] [all] [times] they shall proclaim together
with a voice of joyful shouting [...] and there is no grief or sighing, and iniquity shall not [be found] [again] [...] and your truth shall shine forth
for everlasting glory and eternal peace [...] Blessed are you, [O Lord], [who] have given to your servant
an understanding mind to comprehend your marvels, and [an answering] [tongue] [to] recount the abundance of your kindnesses [...]
Blessed are you, God of mercies and grace, according to the [greatness] of [your power] and the abundance of your truth, and [the multitude of]
your acts of kindness in all your works [...] Make glad the soul of your servant in your truth, and purify me
in your righteousness [...] as I have hoped for your goodness, and for your acts of kindness I wait [...] and for [your forgivenesses]
you have opened my breaches, and in my grief you have comforted me, for I have relied on your mercies [...] Blessed [are you],
O Lord, for you have wrought these things, and have set in the mouth of your servant thanksgivings, [praise],
and supplication, and an answering tongue [...] and you have prepared for me [a work] [...]
and [I shall have] [strength] to [in] [...] to [...]
and you [...]
[your truth] [...]
and I [...]
[...]

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[...] my soul widens [...] [r] [l] [...]
[...] [...] in joy and [gladness] [...] and [I will dwell] securely in a [holy] [peaceful] habitation, [in] quiet and tranquility
[in] [peace] and blessing, in tents of glory and salvation [...] and I will praise your name in the midst of those who fear you [...]
[For] [the Instructor]. [Thanksgivings] and prayer, to fall prostrate and supplicate continually from period to period [...] with the coming of light
for [its dominion] in the circuits of the day, according to its arrangement, according to the statutes of the great light, at the turning of evening, and the going forth of
light at the beginning of the dominion of darkness, for the appointed time of night [...] in its circuit, at the turning of morning, and at the end
of its gathering to its dwelling place, from the turning of light to the going forth of night, and before the coming of day [...] continually, in all
the births of time, the foundations of the period [...] and the circuit of the appointed times, in their arrangement, in their signs, for all
their dominion, in a faithful order from the mouth of God [...] and the testimony of what exists, and it shall be
and there is no end [...] and besides it there was not, and there will not be again [...] for God of knowledge
established it, and there is none other with him [...] and I, the Instructor, have known you, my God, by a spirit
which you have put in me [...] and faithfully I have listened to the secret of your wonder [...] by your holy spirit
[You have opened] within me knowledge in the mystery of your insight, and the spring of [your might] [...] [...] in the midst of
[those who fear you], for the abundance of mercy and zeal of destruction, and turning back [...]
[...] [in] the splendor of your glory, for [eternal] light [...]
[...] [from] the dread of wickedness, and there is no deceit, and [...] [...] [...]
[...] appointed times of desolation [...] for there is [no] [more] [...]
[...] [and] there is no more terror [...] for before [your anger] [...]
[...] they are terrified [...] and there is no righteous one with you [...] [...]
and [to] have insight into all your mysteries, and to answer a word [concerning] [your judgments] [...]
in your reproof, and for your goodness they watch [...] for by [your mercy] [...] [all]
those who know you [...] and at the time of your glory they will rejoice, and according to [...] [for] according to their insight
their drawing near, and according to their dominion they will serve you, according to [their divisions], [not] [to] turn back from you
and not to transgress your word [...] and I, from dust, [you have taken me], [and] [from] [clay] [I was formed]
to a source of impurity and nakedness of shame, from a heap of dust and kneaded [in] [water], [a] [foundation] [of] [worms], and a dwelling of
darkness [...] and the return of dust to the creature of clay, at the time of [your anger] [...] [dust] will return
to the place from which it was taken [...] and what can dust and ashes answer [concerning] [your judgment], [and] [what] can it understand
[in] [his deeds] [...] and how can it stand before the one who reproves it [...] and [...] holiness
[...] eternity, and a hope of glory, and a spring of knowledge, and the might of [wonder] [...] and they not
[are able] to recount all your glory, and to stand before your anger [...] and there is none to answer a word
concerning your reproof [...] for you are righteous, and there is none against you [...] and how much more one who returns to his dust [...]
and I am struck dumb [...] and what shall I say concerning this [...] according to my knowledge I have spoken, from the frame of a creature of clay [...] and what
shall I say, unless you have opened my mouth [...] and how shall I understand, unless you have given me insight [...] and what [shall I say]
when you have not uncovered my heart [...] and how shall I make my way straight, unless [you have established] [my steps] [...] [and] [what]
shall [my steps] stand? [None] [is strengthened] by strength [...] and how shall I rise up, [unless] [...]
and all [...] my steps in [nothing] [...]
the [...]
as [...]
and [...]

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[...] [transgression] born of [woman]
[...] your ... and your righteousness
[...] [and] [how] [shall I discern]? [not] I have seen this
[and] [I shall understand] [these things] [since] [not] [You have given me insight] [and] [how] shall I look, unless You have opened my eyes, and I hear
[without] [not] [...] set my heart [...] for to an uncircumcised ear a word is opened, and a heart
[of] [stone] [shall understand] [wonders] [...] and I shall know that You have done these things, my God [...] and what is flesh
[for] [...] [...] has worked wonders [...] and in Your design, to make mighty and to establish all for Your glory [...]
[...] in the host of knowledge, to recount to flesh mighty deeds and the statutes of truth to one born
[of woman] [...] [and] [...] You have brought into the covenant of Your people, and You have opened the heart of dust to take heed
[from] [...] [for him] [...] from the snares of judgment according to Your mercies [...] and I, a creature
[of clay] [and] [kneaded] [with water], [a structure] [of dust], and a heart of stone [...] to whom was I accounted until this [...] for
[...] [You have established] in the ear of dust, and the things of eternity You have engraved in the heart
[of] [stone] [...] [and] [...] You have caused to return, to bring into the covenant of Your people and to stand
[...] [in] [the judgments] [of the witnesses] in the everlasting foundation, for the light of lights forever [...] and darkness has fled
[...] [and] [a mound] without end, and endless periods of peace without [limit] [...]
[...] and I, a creature of dust [...]
[...] [and] [to bless] Your name I will open [my mouth] [...] [...]
[...] a creature [...] [...] [of God]
[...] [dust] [...] [...] [...] [...] [a hidden] [trap] [...]
[...] [...] [has been spread] a net, [a pit], [and] [in] [her paths] [snares] [of destruction] [...]
[...] [...] and ... a way has been opened for [...] [...] [to] [walk] [...]
in the paths of peace, and with flesh to do wonders [like] [these] [...] [for] [...] [lest]
my steps walk upon the snares of her traps, and the spreaders of [the net] [and] [the heap of] [...] [how]
shall I keep watch, being a creature of dust, from crumbling, and like wax [melting] [before] [fire] [...]
and from a fount of ashes [...] how shall I stand before a [stormy] wind [...] [and] [I] — [He establishes me] [in] [...]
and He shall guard him for the mysteries of His will [...] for He knows [to] [...] [...] [...]
[...] destruction, and trap upon trap the snares of wickedness are hidden [...]
[...] and in iniquity all the creature of deceit shall be consumed [...] for to the wrath [...]
[kneaded] of iniquity, and the creature of injustice comes to nothing, and the deeds of deceit [...]
[...] [...] [...] and I, a creature of [...]
[...] what shall stand strong against You [...] You are the God of [all] knowledge [...]
[...] You have made them [...] and apart from You nothing [...]
[and] [I], [a creature] of dust, I know by the spirit which You have placed in me, for [...]
[...] what [all] iniquity and deceit dwell together in insolence [...]
[all] [the deeds] of impurity unto sicknesses, and judgments of plague and [everlasting] destruction [...]
[...] to You belong wrath and [avenging] jealousy [...]
[...] a creature of clay [...]

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[...]
[...]
[...] [holy] which is in the heavens
[...] great, and it is the wonder [...] and they will not be able
[to] [understand] [these things and] [to] [recount] [Your wonders], and they will not restrain themselves from knowing in all
[...] [has returned] to his dust [...] and I am a man of transgression and rolled
[...] guilt of wickedness [...] and I, in the periods of wrath
[...] [to] [stand up] before the plague, and [...] to be on guard
[from] [...] [You have made known to me], my God, that there is hope for man
[...] above [...] and I, a creature of clay, have leaned
upon [Your] mighty [arm and] [...] my feet [...] and I know that truth
is Your mouth, [and] [none] [of Your word] [will] [turn] back [...] and I, in my time, will hold fast
to [Your covenant] [...] what, in the station You have set me [...] for
[...] man, and You will bring him back, and by what will [...]
[...] You have set, strength [...]
[...] in there is not [hope] [...]
[...] and I, a creature [...]
[...] [You have divided] [...]
[...] which [...]
[...] [evening] and morning with [the entrance of] [...]
[...] [the afflictions of] a man, and from [the pain of] [mankind]
[You will bring forth] in joy, [for] [to] [forgivenesses] they look [...] and at their post [they shall stand]
and the noble ones have not [perished], for You rebuke every destroying satan, and the will of [...]
to me, from of old You established for [...] in it, and You have opened my ear [...] like [...]
he will not come, for [...] or the men of the covenant have been deceived by them [...] and he will come [...]
in my frame, and [my inward parts] [with] [rebukes] before You [...] and I have feared Your judgment [...]
[...] [before] [You] [...] and who is acquitted in Your judgment [...] and what indeed [is he]
[...] we are in judgment, and he returns to his dust [...] what [can he understand]
[in] [...] [for] [You], [my God], have opened my heart to Your understanding, and You have uncovered [my ear]
[...] and to lean upon Your goodness [...] and my heart is disturbed like [...]
[...] and my heart, like wax, melts because of transgression and sin
[...] [until] its completion [...] Blessed are You, God of knowledge, who [have prepared]
[...] and You have afflicted Your servant, this for Your sake [...] for I know
[...] [and] for [Your kindness] I will hope in all my being, and Your name I will bless always [...]
[...] hope for Your servant, and do not abandon him in the periods of
[...] [Your] and Your glory and [Your goodness]
[...] upon in [...]

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Your light will stand from [then] [...]
Your light, without [ceasing] [...]
For you are a light for [...]
and you uncover the ear of dust [...] [...]
a plan which [...] and confirm it in [the ear of]
your servant forever [...] [the reports] of your wonder to shine forth
before the eyes of all who hear [...] with the right hand of your strength to guide all of them
by the power of your might [...] [he shall praise] your name and be strengthened in your glory [...]
You will not withdraw your hand from [...] [for] it to be [for him], strengthening himself in your covenant
and standing before you in [perfection] [...] [for] you opened [a spring] in the mouth of your servant and on my tongue
you engraved upon the measuring-line of [judgment], [to] [proclaim] to the creature from his understanding, and to interpret concerning these things
to dust like myself [...] and you opened [a spring] to reprove the creature of clay of his way, and the guilt of one born
of woman according to his deeds, and to open [the spring] of your truth to the creature whom you sustained by your strength [...]
to [raise up] according to your truth a herald, [and] [to] [proclaim] your good news to the poor according to the abundance of your mercies
[and] [to] [satisfy] from the spring of [knowledge] [all] [the stricken] of spirit, and mourners with everlasting joy [...]
[and] [you opened] [the mouth of] [your servant] [...] to [...] to [...] to [...]
[...] let them proclaim [...]
[...] forever, and your insight [...]
[...] in it, and in your land, and among the sons of gods it is honored [...] [...] who [shall stand]
[for] [ever] to praise you and to recount all your glory [...] and I, what [am I] [...] for from dust I was taken [...] and [you]
[my God], for your glory you have done all these things [...] according to the abundance of your mercies, grant a guard of your righteousness
[before] [you] always, unto deliverance [...] and interpreters of knowledge with all who walk with me, and reprovers of truth
[in] [all] my steps [...] and what is dust [...] in their hands, [and] [the work of] ash in their hand — behold, not [...] and you
[have fashioned] [the creature] of clay, and from the source of righteousness [you have made it] for your will [...] and concerning the sons you will test me [...]
[...] according to your greatness [...] [he returns to] [God's] dust [...] and over dust you have breathed a spirit
[of your holiness] [...] in [clay] [...] gods to unite with the sons of heaven
[...] forever, and there is no return of darkness [...] for
[...] and a light you have revealed, and it will not return
[...] [the spirit] [of your holiness] you have breathed to purge guilt
[...] [ministers] with your host, and those who walk
[...] from before you [...] for they are established in your truth [...]
[...] you have caused these to fall for your glory, and from the source of righteousness
[...] to [the lot of] the perverse creature, abhorred
[...] [the creature] abhorred
[...]

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[...]
[...]
name [...] the form of flesh
until the time [...] [and] who is appointed by You
in the judgments [...] to the angels of
until in [judgment] [...] and the mysteries of sin, to change
flesh in [their guilt], [for] [...] and all shall fly by it
the angels of [heaven] [...] [their source] in cords of spirit [...] and shall bow down
gods from the dwelling of [Your holiness], [and] [they] [shall not] [serve You] in the abode of Your glory [...] and You
man upon the [...] [...] [like] [a bird] bound until the time of Your favor [...]
not sending [his hand] [...] the heights of power and the abundance of flesh, to act wickedly
in [the times of] [Your wrath] [...] [Your] [to] [work wonders], to establish in the council of Your people
[...] the bastards, for [not]
[...] corpses to [not] [...]
[...] righteousness and [...]
[...] into the pit at the time of iniquities [...]
[...] every satan and destroyer [...]
[...] in their net, and to send them a nation [...] Your [...] wicked
[...] an insolent man among the abundance of treachery and [...] in afflictions and in judgments
to [...] in the unripe fruit, for all the spirits of the bastards act wickedly in flesh
and from [...] they have acted wickedly in their lives, and as [...] so their spirit acts wickedly
upon [...] to [...] [and] [to] wonder, Your mysteries You have revealed
my heart [...] I, to flesh [...] I knew
for [...] injustice at the time
[the end of] [wickedness] [...] and to all who look
[...] and it shall not be destroyed
from before [...] [You have made heavy] from among the sons of
God [those who hear] [...] [the borders of] the peoples
to strengthen them [...] [to] increase guilt
in his inheritance [...] You have abandoned them into the hand
all who [...] [...] [...]
You shall bring [...]
upon [...]

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[...] [judgment of] righteousness in [...]
[...] and to separate them from the station of [the holy ones] [...]
[...] with the congregation of your holy ones in wonder [...]
forever [...] and spirits of wickedness you will destroy from [...] [the deeds of]
evil shall no longer exist [...] and you will make a place of [wickedness] [to] [cast down] [lots] [...] all
spirits of injustice who will be plundered to mourning [...]
shall be bound for everlasting generations [...] and in the height of wickedness to [...]
shall multiply their grief to destruction [...] and against all [your deeds] [...]
your steadfast love, and to know all in your glory, and according to [...] [the appointed time] [you have made known]
the judgment of your truth [...] and the ear of flesh you have uncovered, and [...] [you have given understanding] to man in the purpose of
your heart, and the period of the appointed time you have made wise to [flesh] [...] [in] [the host of] the height you will judge on high
and concerning the inhabitants of the earth, on the earth [...] and also [in] [Sheol] beneath you will [judge] [...] and concerning the inhabitants of
darkness you will contend, to [declare righteous] the righteous and to [condemn] [the wicked], for there is none besides [you]
and it shall be to separate from [...] your word [...] [...]
to [...]
[...] [to] [the sons of] [...]
[and] [also] [spirits] [...] [from] [darkness]
[and] [...] [...] [...] and [accursed ones] [...]
so as not to [...] [their wickedness] [by] [the wisdom of] your glory, and they will not recognize [all]
the deeds of [your righteousness], [to] [iniquity] [...] [among] [the congregation of] [the sons of] heaven, and in the council of [the holy ones]
[they shall be exalted] [...]
counsel and [...]
ministers [...]
and they recognized them [...] [they] [shall sing joyfully] for [a song]
and to praise [...] [without] [ceasing] [...] [and] [I], a creature of [clay], according to my knowledge
I have recounted, in [the congregation of] [your holy ones], [magnifying] [and] [showing wonders] [to] [God] [...] [for] [you] are God
of knowledge [...] with [a mouth of] [strength], [from] [dawn] [to] [evening] [I will bless] [your name] [...]
For the Instructor. [A psalm], [a song] [of/for] [...] your [...]
for [...] the kings of old
[...] I have groaned
[...] [I will exalt myself] [...]

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[...] [holy] [...] [despised] [like me] [...]
[like me] [and] [frail] [is] [evil] [...] [he resembles] [me] [...] [you resemble]
[in] [you have instructed me] [...] [and] [who] [is equal] [to] [...] [who] [is like me]
[among] [the heavenly beings] [...] [to] [...] [the flow of] [my lips] [...] [who] [can contain] [who] [with] [tongue]
[he has appointed me] [...] [a friend] [of the] [King] [a companion] [to] [the holy ones] [...] [and] [not]
comes [...] [and] [to] [my glory] [nothing] [is compared] [...] [for] [I] [am with] [the heavenly beings] [is my station]
and glory [...] [a] [not] [with] [fine gold] [reckoned] [for me] [and] [pure gold] [or in furnaces] [not] [...]
in me [...] and the [...] [not] [is it reckoned] [in me] [...] [sing praise] [O beloved ones] [sing] [to] [the King] [of] [glory] [...]
[rejoice] [in] [the congregation of] [God] [shout for joy] [in] [the tents of] [salvation] [give praise] [in] [the holy] [dwelling] [...]
Exalt [together] [with] [the host of] [eternity] [...] [ascribe] [greatness] [to] [our God] [and] [glory] [to] [our King] [...] [sanctify]
[his name] [with] [lips of] [strength] [and] [a tongue of] [perpetuity] [lift up] [only] [your] [voice] [...] [in] [all] [times]
[proclaim] [a meditation of] [joy] [pour forth] [with] [everlasting] [joys] [and] [without] [ceasing] [...] [bow down]
in the Community, an assembly [...] [bless] [the] [one who works wonders of] [majesty] [and] [makes known] [the strength of] [his hand] [to] [seal]
mysteries and to reveal hidden things, to [raise up] [the stumbling] [and] [their fallen ones] [to] [return] [to walk] [the paths of] [knowledge]
[and] [to] [bring low] the loftiness of the proud is destined for eternal [ruin], to [end] [the mysteries of] [splendor] [and] [to] [establish] [the wonders of] [glory] [...]
[the] [judge] [in] [wrath] complete destruction to [...] [with] [the kindness of] [righteousness] [and] [with] [abundance of]
[mercies] [entreaty] [...] [mercies] [for] [the fruit-bearers of] [the good of] [his greatness]
[and] [a fountain] [...]
[...] [and] [is ended] [wickedness]
[...] [and] [has ceased] [oppression] [has ceased] [the oppressor]
[in] [wrath] [...] [has vanished] [deceit] [and] [there is no] [perversity] [in] [lack of] [knowledge]
[has shone forth] [light] [and] [joy] [pours forth] [has perished] [mourning] [and] [has fled] [sorrow] [...] [has shone forth] [peace]
[has ceased] [fear] [has been opened] [a fountain] [for] [the blessing of] [eternity] [and] [healing] [in] [all] [the periods of] [eternity] [...] [has ended]
[iniquity] [has ceased] [affliction] [so that there is] [no] [sickness] [...] [has been removed] [injustice] [and] [guilt] [shall] [not] [be]
still [...] [proclaim] and [say] [great] [is] [God] [who works] [wonders] [...] [for] [he has abased] [haughtiness]
loftiness until there is no remnant [...] and [he has raised] [from] [the dust] [the poor] [to] [the height of] [eternity] [and] [up to] [the skies]
he raises up in stature [...] and with [the heavenly beings] [in] [the congregation of] [the Community] [...] [and] [healing] [...] [wrath] [to] [the completion of]
eternity [...] and the stumblers of the earth [he raises] [without] [price] [and] [the might of] [eternity] [with] [their steps]
and everlasting joy in their dwelling places, [eternal] [glory] [and] [without] [ceasing] [for] [ages] [of] [eternity] [...]
[let them proclaim] [blessed] [is] [God] [the] [worker of wonders of] [majesty] [and] [who magnifies] to make known might, and [who justifies] [with] [knowledge] [all] [his works] [and] [good] [is upon] [their faces]
in their knowledge, in the abundance of his kindnesses, [and] [the multitude of] [his mercies] [to] [all] [the sons of] [his truth] [...] [we have known you]
O God of righteousness, and we have gained insight in [your truth] [King] [of] [glory] [...] [for] [we have seen] [your zeal]
in the power of might [...] and [we have recognized] [your judgments] [with] [a multitude of] [mercies] [and] [wondrous] [forgivenesses] [...]
What is flesh for these things? [...] and [what] [is reckoned] [dust] [and] [ashes] [to] [recount] [these things] [from] [age] [to] [age]
and to stand in station before [your face] [and] [to] [enter] [in] [community] [with] [the sons of] [heaven] [...] [and] [there is no] [mediator]
to answer a word according to your mouth, and [...] [to you] [for] [you have established us]
for [your will] in [...] [and] [we summon] [strength] [to] [hear]
[wonders] [like] [these] [...] [we have spoken] [to you] [and] [not]
[to] [a mediator] [of understanding] [...] [and] [you have inclined] [an ear] [to] [the utterance]
[our lips] [...] [proclaim] [and] [say] [blessed] [is] [God] [Most High] [the] [one who stretches out] [heaven] [by] [his power]
[and] [all] [their designs] [establishing] [with] [his strength] [the earth] [with] [his might] [making] [...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column 27 ========

[...those] to [...]
You have taken pleasure in [...]
in not [...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column 28 ========

[...] [dust] like me [...]
[...] your glory [...]
[...] from you in wonder and [...]
[...] [holiness] by means of [your might] [...]
[...] in the mouth of [...] to [...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column fA1 ========

[...] [your judgment] [...]
[...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column fA2 ========

[...] ...your [...] I sought favor [...]
[...] an answer [of the tongue] [...]
[...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column fA3 ========

[...]
[...] has come to be in the world
[...] for the men of your covenant [...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column fA4 ========

[...] iniquity and [guilt] [...]
[...] ... for there is no [mouth] [...]
[...] and [you will make known to me] [...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column fA5 ========

[...] [Your holy ones] and by [the appointed order] [...]
[...] to [you], sons of [...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column fA6 ========

[...] holy ones [...]
[...] they will bless your name in [...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column fA7 ========

[...] understanding, in [the heart] [...]
[...] your glory, and to recount [your mighty deeds] [...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column fA8 ========

[...] [to] recount [...]
[...] [all] these, and I will know that in [...]
[...] b [...] sh [...]
[...] l [...] l [...] [...] l [...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column fC1 ========

[...]
[...] [great] [are your mercies] [...]
[...] [you have made known] [these things] [...]
[...] [straying] [deceit] [...]
[...] an answer [...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column fC2 ========

[...] peace [...]
[...] [they will shine] like the sun [...]
[...] [a dwelling], the [holy place] [...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column fC3 ========

[...] father [...]
[...] flame [...]
[...]
[...] and to [understand] [...]
[...] [until] the limit of your judgment [...]
[...] to saturate with [...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column fC4 ========

[...] [to] [understand] in the response [...]
[...] [my station] in not the ... [...]
[...] until the period of [the response] [...]
[...] he raises up to/from [...]
[...] to the period [...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column fC5 ========

[...]
[...] m [...]
[...] sl ' [...]
[...] m [...]
[...] ' [...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column fC6 ========

[...]
for [light] [...]
and to purify [the hasty of] [...]
by Your favor [...]

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[...]
[...] [you will open] tablets [...]
[...] mʿ [...]

======== The Thanksgiving Hymns — Column fC8 ========

[...] y [...]
[...]
[...] ...-tah, by/in [not] [...]
[...]

======== The Habakkuk Pesher — Column 1 ========

[The] [pronouncement] [which] [Habakkuk] [the] [prophet] [saw]: [How] [long], [O] [LORD], have I cried out? and not
[will you hear]? [I cry out] [to you], "Violence!" [and] [you do not] [save]. [...] [Its interpretation:] [concerns] [the expectation of] a generation
[to come] [...] all [the things] that are [coming] upon them
[I cry out] [to you], "Violence!" [and] [you do not] [save]. [...] [Its interpretation:] [that] [they cry out] concerning
violence. [...] [Why] [do you show me] iniquity, [and] trouble [do you look upon]? [...]
[Its interpretation:] [concerns] [the fact that] [he looked] upon oppression and treachery [...]
[and] [devastation] [and] [violence] [are] [before me] [...]
[Its interpretation:] [...] they plunder wealth [...] [and] strife arises
[and] contention [breaks out]. [...] [The interpretation of] "strife": and "he plots it," that is
[...] therefore the law grows numb [...]
[Its interpretation:] [concerns] [the Spouter of] [the] [Lie] [and] [the men of] [his congregation] who rejected the law of God [...]
[and] justice [does] [not] [go forth] [victoriously]. [...] [for] [the wicked] surrounds the righteous [...]
[Its interpretation:] [the] [wicked] [one] [is] [the] [Wicked] [Priest] [and] [the] [righteous] one is the Teacher of Righteousness
[who] [...] therefore justice goes forth
perverted. [...] [Its interpretation:] [and] you do not [...]
[...] [Look] among [the] [nations] [and] [behold]
[and] be astonished, be utterly astonished, [for] [a deed] is being done [in] [your days] [that] you will not believe, though

======== The Habakkuk Pesher — Column 2 ========

It will be told [...] [the interpretation] [of] [the] [word] [concerning] the traitors with the man
of the lie, for they did not [believe] [in] [the words of] the Teacher of Righteousness from the mouth
of God [...] and concerning the [traitors] [of] [the] new [covenant], [for] [they did not]
believe in the covenant of God [and] [they profaned] the [name] of his holiness
And so the interpretation of the word [concerns] [the] [traitors] in the last
days [...] they are [the violators of] [the] [covenant] who will not believe
when they hear all that is [coming] [upon] [the] last generation, from the mouth of
the Priest in whose [heart] God gave [understanding] to interpret all
the words of his servants the prophets, [through] whom God recounted
all that is coming upon his people and [his congregation] [...] For behold, I am raising up
the Chaldeans, the [bitter] [and] [hasty] nation [...]
Its interpretation: concerns the Kittim, [who] [are] swift and mighty
in war, to destroy many. [And] [the] [land] [shall be] under the dominion of
the Kittim; [they shall possess] [many] [lands] and shall not believe
in the laws of [God] [...] [the] [one who goes] [through] [the breadth of] [the] [earth] [to] [possess] [dwellings] [not]
[his] [...] [its interpretation] [concerns] [the] [Kittim] [who] [...]
[...]

======== The Habakkuk Pesher — Column 3 ========

And on the plain they shall go to strike and to plunder the cities of the land
For he is the one who said, to possess dwelling places not his own [...] fearsome
and dreadful. From him his judgment and his dignity go forth [...]
Its interpretation: concerning the Kittim, whose dread and terror are upon all
the nations [...] and by design all their intent is to do evil, and with cunning and deceit
they walk with all the peoples [...] and the sound of his horses is more than leopards, and they are swifter
than wolves of the evening [...] and they spread out; his horsemen spread out from afar
they fly like an eagle hastening to devour. All of it comes for violence; the aim of
their faces is the east wind [...] [Its interpretation:] concerning the Kittim who
trample the land with [their horses] and with their beasts [...] and from afar
they come from the isles of the sea to devour [all] the peoples like an eagle
and there is no satiety [...] and with wrath and [anger] and with burning of the nose and rage
of nostrils they speak with all [the] [peoples], [for] he is the one who
said [the aim of] [their faces] [is the east wind] [...] [and] [he gathers] captives [like] [the sand] [...]
[Its interpretation:] [concerning] [the] [Kittim] [who] [...]
[...]
[...] [and] [he is] [among] [kings]

======== The Habakkuk Pesher — Column 4 ========

He scoffs at kings, and rulers are a mockery to him [...] Its interpretation: that
they will deride the many and scorn the honored ones; against kings
and princes they will jeer, and they will mock a great people [...] and he
will scoff at every fortress, and heap up earth and capture it [...]
Its interpretation: concerning the rulers of the Kittim, who scorn
the fortresses of the peoples and in mockery scoff at them [...]
and with a great people they surround them to seize them, and with terror and dread
they are given into their hand [...] and they destroy them because of the iniquity of those who dwell
in them [...] Then the spirit passed on and swept by, and he made this his strength,
his god [...] Its interpretation: [concerning] the rulers? of the Kittim
who, by the counsel of the house of [their guilt], pass on, one
before his fellow; [their rulers], [this] one after another they come
to destroy the [land] [...] [and] [he made] this? his strength, his god
Its interpretation: [that all] the peoples [will make]
for [...] to
[...] [Are] [not] [you] [from] [of old],
[O LORD], [my God], [my Holy One]? [We shall] not [die] [...] [O LORD]

======== The Habakkuk Pesher — Column 5 ========

for judgment you appointed him, and a rock for his reprover you established him [...] pure of eyes
from seeing evil, and to look at trouble you are not able [...]
The interpretation of the passage is that God will not annihilate his people by the hand of the nations,
but by the hand of his chosen one God will give the judgment of all the nations, and by their rebuke
all the wicked of his people will be condemned [...] who kept his commandments
in their distress. For he is the one who said, pure of eyes from seeing
evil [...] its interpretation is that they did not go astray after their eyes in the age of
wickedness [...] Why do you look on, traitors, and stay silent when the wicked swallows
one more righteous than he [...] Its interpretation concerns the house of Absalom
and the men of their council, who were silent at the rebuke of the Teacher of Righteousness
and did not help him against the Man of the Lie, who rejected
the Law in the midst of all their congregation. [...] and you make man like the fish of the sea,
like a creeping thing, to rule over it. [All of it] [with] [a hook] he brings up, and drags it in his net,
and gathers it in [his seine]. [Therefore] [he sacrifices] to his net; therefore he rejoices
[and] [exults], [and] [burns incense] [to] [his seine], [for] [by them] his portion is fat
[and] [his food is] [rich] [...] [Its interpretation concerns]

======== The Habakkuk Pesher — Column 6 ========

the Kittim, and they add their wealth to all their plunder,
like the fish of the sea [...] And as for that which he said, 'Therefore he sacrifices to his net'
and burns incense to his seine [...] Its interpretation: they
sacrifice to their standards, and their weapons of war are
the object of their fear [...] for through them his portion is fat and his food rich.
Its interpretation: that they apportion their yoke and
their tax, their food, upon all the peoples year by year,
to lay waste many lands [...] Therefore he empties his sword continually
to slay nations and does not spare [...]
Its interpretation concerns the Kittim, who will destroy many by the sword
youths, grown men and old men, women and children [...] and upon the fruit
of the womb they will have no mercy [...] Upon my watch I will stand
and take my post on my rampart, and watch to see what he will say
to me, and what [I shall answer] [concerning] my reproof [...] And the LORD answered me
[and] [said], [Write] [the vision] [and] [make it plain] upon the tablets, so that he who reads it may run
[the] [one who reads] [it] [...] [The interpretation of] [the] [matter] [is that]

======== The Habakkuk Pesher — Column 7 ========

And God spoke to Habakkuk to write down the things that are coming upon
the last generation, but he did not make known to him the fulfillment of the end-time [...]
And as for what it says, 'so that the one who reads it may run'
Its interpretation: it concerns the Teacher of Righteousness, to whom God made known
all the mysteries of the words of his servants the prophets [...] for the vision still has
an appointed time; it presses toward the end and will not lie [...]
Its interpretation: the final age will be prolonged, and it will exceed all
that the prophets have spoken, for the mysteries of God are wondrous [...]
If it tarries, wait for it, for it will surely come and will not
delay [...] Its interpretation: it concerns the men of truth
who do the Law, whose hands will not slacken from the service of
truth when the final age is drawn out over them, for
all the appointed times of God will come according to their fixed order, just as he decreed
for them in the mysteries of his wisdom [...] 'Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright'
[his soul] [in him] [...] Its interpretation: they will be doubled against them
[their sins] [and] [not] find favor in their judgment [...] to [...]
[...] [but the righteous] [by] [his faithfulness] [shall live] [...]

======== The Habakkuk Pesher — Column 8 ========

Its interpretation concerns all who do the Law in the House of Judah, whom
God will deliver from the house of judgment, on account of their suffering and their faithfulness
to the Teacher of Righteousness [...] And moreover, because wealth betrays an arrogant man, and he does not
abide, who has enlarged his appetite like Sheol, and [he], like death, is never satisfied [...]
and all the nations are gathered to him, and all the peoples are collected to him [...]
Shall not all of them take up a taunt against him, and mocking riddles for him,
and say, 'Woe to him who multiplies what is not his own — how long will he load himself
with debt [...] Its interpretation concerns the Wicked Priest, who
was called by the name of truth at the beginning of his standing; but when he ruled
over Israel, his heart became proud, and he forsook God and [betrayed] the statutes for the sake of
wealth [...] and he robbed and amassed the wealth of the men of violence who rebelled against God,
and he took the wealth of peoples, adding to himself the iniquity of guilt; and ways of
[abominations] he committed in every unclean defilement [...] Will they not suddenly rise up
and [those who bite you], and those who shake you awake, and you will become plunder to them [...]
For you have plundered many nations, and all the rest of the peoples will plunder you [...]
[Its interpretation]: [the] [word] concerns the priest who rebelled
[...] the statutes of [God] [...] against him

======== The Habakkuk Pesher — Column 9 ========

struck him with the judgments of wickedness [...] horrors of diseases
evil deeds they did to him, and acts of vengeance on his body of flesh [...] and that which
he said, "Because you have plundered many nations, all shall plunder you
the rest of the peoples [...] Its interpretation concerns the priests of Jerusalem
the last, who gather wealth and unjust gain from the plunder of the peoples
but at the end of days their wealth, together with their plunder, will be given into the hand
of the army of the Kittim, for they are the rest of the peoples [...]
from the blood of man and violence to the land, the city, and all who dwell in it [...]
Its interpretation concerns the [Wicked] Priest, whom because of the iniquity against the Teacher
of Righteousness and the men of his council, God gave into the hand of [his enemies] to afflict him
with a plague, to destroy him in bitterness of soul, because he had done wickedly
against His chosen one [...] "Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set
his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil" -- you have devised shame
for your house, cutting off many peoples, and [sinning against] [your own soul] [...] for
["the stone] [from] the wall will cry out, [and] the beam from the wood [will answer it]" [...]
[Its interpretation] [of] [the word] concerns the [priest] who [...]
[...]

======== The Habakkuk Pesher — Column 10 ========

for its stones to be laid in oppression, and the beam of its timber in robbery [...] and what
he said: 'the utmost parts of many peoples,' and 'you have sinned against your soul' [...]
Its interpretation: it is the house of judgment, where God will give
his judgment in the midst of many peoples, and from there He will bring him up for judgment
and in their midst He will condemn him, and with fire and brimstone He will judge him [...] Woe
to him who builds a city with blood, and founds a town with injustice [...] Is it not
behold, from the LORD of Hosts peoples toil for fire
and nations weary themselves for nothing [...]
Its interpretation concerns the Preacher of the Lie who led many astray
to build a city of vanity with blood, and to establish a congregation with falsehood
for the sake of its glory, wearying many in vain labor and making them conceive
in [deeds] of falsehood, so that their labor would be for nothing, so that they would come
to judgments of fire, because they blasphemed and reviled God's chosen ones [...]
For the earth will be filled with knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters
cover the sea [...] Its interpretation: [that]
in their return [...] to [...]
[...]

======== The Habakkuk Pesher — Column 11 ========

the Lie, and afterward knowledge will be revealed to them like the
waters of the sea, in abundance [...] "Woe to him who makes his neighbor drink, pouring in
his venom, indeed making him drunk, so that he may gaze upon their feasts [...]"
Its interpretation concerns the Wicked Priest, who
pursued the Teacher of Righteousness to swallow him up in the heat
of his wrath, at his house of exile [...] and at the time of the feast of rest,
the Day of Atonement, he appeared to them, to swallow them up
and to make them stumble on the day of fasting, their sabbath of rest [...] "You have been sated with
shame more than glory. Drink, you also, and stagger!
The cup of the LORD's right hand will turn around against you, and disgrace
upon your glory [...]"
Its interpretation concerns the priest whose disgrace became greater than his glory,
for he did not circumcise the foreskin of his heart, and he walked in the ways of
drunkenness, in order to add to the thirst [...] and the cup of the wrath of
[God] will swallow him up, to add [upon him] [his] [disgrace] and pain
[...] to [...] to [...] to [...]
[...] [for] [the violence] [done to Lebanon] [will cover you,] [and] [the destruction] [of the beasts]

======== The Habakkuk Pesher — Column 12 ========

shall terrify you - for the blood of man and violence to the land, the city, and all who dwell in it [...]
Its interpretation concerns the Wicked Priest, to repay him
his recompense which he dealt out against the poor, for Lebanon is
the council of the Community, and the beasts are the simple ones of Judah, the doer of
the Law [...] whom God will judge for destruction
just as he plotted to destroy the poor [...] and as for what it says, 'for the blood of'
the city and violence to the land' - its interpretation: the city is Jerusalem
in which the Wicked Priest committed abominable deeds and defiled
the sanctuary of God [...] and 'violence to the land' - these are the cities of Judah where
he plundered the wealth of the poor [...] What use is an idol, that its maker shaped it
[a molten image], a teacher of lies, for the one who fashioned it trusts in his own creations
to make mute idols [...] Its interpretation concerns all
the idols of the nations, which they made to serve them and to bow down
to them, but they will not save them on the day of judgment [...] Woe
to the one [who says] [to] wood, 'Awake!' [Arise!] [to] [the] silent [stone] [...]
[Can it] [teach]? [...] [Behold] [it] [is] [covered with] [gold] [and] [silver]
[and] [there] [is] [no] [breath] [at all] [within] [it] [...] [but] [the LORD] [is] [in] [his] [holy] [temple] [...]

======== The Habakkuk Pesher — Column 13 ========

Be silent before him, all the earth [...] Its interpretation: concerning all the nations
who served the stone and the wood [...] and on the day
of judgment God will destroy all who worship idols
and the wicked from the earth [...]

======== The Damascus Document — Column 1 ========

And now, listen, all who know righteousness, and understand the deeds of
God [...] for He has a dispute with all flesh, and judgment He will execute on all who despise Him [...]
for in their unfaithfulness in abandoning Him, He turned His countenance away from Israel and from His holy place
and gave them to the sword [...] and being mindful of the pact made with the fathers, He preserved a remnant
for Israel, and did not give them over to destruction [...] and in the era of wrath, three hundred
and ninety years after He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
He visited them [...] and He caused a root of planting to sprout from Israel and from Aaron, to possess
His land and to grow fat on the goodness of His soil [...] and they understood their iniquity and knew that
they were culpable men [...] and they resembled blind men, and those groping to find the road
twenty years [...] and God took note of their conduct, since they sought Him wholeheartedly
and He raised up for them a Teacher of Righteousness to guide them in the way of His heart [...] and made known
to later generations what He did in the last generation to the congregation of traitors
they are those who turn aside from the way [...] this is the time of which it was written, like a stubborn heifer
so Israel was stubborn [...] when the Man of Scoffing arose, who poured out upon Israel
waters of lies, and led them astray in a trackless waste, to bring low the eternal heights and to turn aside
from the righteous paths, and to shift away the boundary which the forefathers had set in their inheritance, in order to
bring upon them the curses of His covenant, to deliver them to the sword of the vengeance that avenges
the covenant [...] because they sought smooth things, and chose delusions, and watched eagerly
for breaches, and chose the fair neck, and justified the wicked and condemned the righteous [...]
and transgressed the covenant and broke the law, and banded together against the soul of the righteous, and against all who walk
in perfection, whom their soul detested, and they chased after them with the blade, exulting in conflict with [...] and anger burned

======== The Damascus Document — Column 2 ========

God, in their assembly, to make known all their multitudes and their deeds, as impurity before him [...]
And now listen to me, all who enter the covenant, and I will uncover your ears concerning the ways of
the wicked [...] God loves knowledge; wisdom and understanding he has set before him
prudence and knowledge, they serve him [...] long-suffering is with him, and abundance of forgiveness
to atone for those who turn from transgression [...] and dominion and strength and fierce fury in blazing fire
by the hand of all the angels of destruction, against those who turn aside from the way and abhor the statute, leaving no remnant
and no survivor for them [...] for God did not choose them from ancient eternity, and before they were established he knew
their deeds [...] and he abhorred the generations of blood, and he hid his face from the land
from until their completion [...] and he knew the years of their standing, and the number and explanation of their periods, for all
those who exist forever, and that which is to be, until what will come in their periods, for all the years of eternity [...]
and among all of them he set apart for his own use those designated by name, so as to preserve a remainder upon the earth, and to fill
the face of the world with their seed [...] and he made them known by the hand of his anointed ones of his holy spirit, and seers of
truth; and by clear specification he named their names, and those whom he hated he led astray [...]
And now, sons, listen to me, and I will uncover your eyes to see and to understand the deeds of
God, and to choose what he desires, and to reject what he hates [...] to walk perfectly
in all his ways, and not to explore the thoughts of a guilty inclination and eyes of fornication, for many
have gone astray by them, and mighty men of valor have stumbled by them, from former times until now [...] in their walking in the stubbornness of
their heart. The Watchers of heaven fell; they were caught in it, because they did not keep the commandments of God [...]
and their sons, whose height was like the height of cedars, and whose bodies were like mountains, fell [...]
all flesh that was on dry land perished, and it was as if they had never existed, for they did
their own will and did not keep the commandments of their Maker, until his anger burned against them [...]

======== The Damascus Document — Column 3 ========

By it the sons of Noah strayed, and their families; by it they were cut off [...]
Abraham did not walk in it, and was reckoned a friend for keeping the commandments of God, and did not choose
his own will [...] and he handed it down to Isaac and to Jacob, and they kept it and were recorded as friends
of God and partners in the covenant forever [...] the sons of Jacob strayed because of them and were punished for
their errors [...] and their sons, while in Egypt, followed the willful obstinacy of their heart, taking counsel against
the commandments of God, each one acting as seemed good to himself, and they ate the blood [...] and he cut off
their males in the wilderness. He said to them at Kadesh, 'Go up and possess the land,' but they followed their own spirit and did not listen
to the voice of their Maker, the commands of their Teacher, but murmured in their tents, and the anger of God burned
against their congregation [...] and their sons perished by it, and their kings were cut off by it, and their mighty men by it
perished, and their land became desolate by it [...] by it the first ones who entered the covenant were given up, and they were delivered
to the sword, for they abandoned God's covenant, chose their own desire, and strayed after the obstinacy
of their heart, each one acting on his own desire [...] but among those who clung steadfastly to God's commandments
who remained of them, God established His covenant with Israel forever, to reveal
to them the concealed matters in which the whole of Israel had gone astray: His holy Sabbaths and the festivals
of His glory, His righteous testimonies, and His true ways, and the desires of His will, which
a man is to perform and gain life through them. He laid open before them [...] and they dug a well for abundant waters
but those who rejected them shall not live [...] and they wallowed in the sin of man and in the ways of impurity
and they said, 'It is ours' [...] but God, by His wondrous mysteries, atoned for their iniquity and forgave their sin
and He built for them a faithful house in Israel, the like of which has never existed from former times till
now [...] those who hold fast to it are for everlasting life, and all the glory of Adam is theirs, just as
God established for them through Ezekiel the prophet, saying: the priests, the Levites, and the descendants

======== The Damascus Document — Column 4 ========

Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel strayed
from me, they shall offer to me fat and blood [...] the priests are the captivity of Israel
who went out from the land of Judah, and those who joined with them [...] and Zadok’s descendants are the elect of
Israel, those called by name, who stand in the last days [...] behold the exact statement of
their names according to their generations, and the time of their standing, and the number of their afflictions, and the years
of their sojourning, and the explanation of their deeds [...] the former holy things, for whom
God made atonement, and they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked [...] and all who come after them
to act according to the exact interpretation of the Torah in which the first ones were instructed until completing
the end of these years [...] according to the covenant which God established for the first ones, to atone
for their iniquities, so God will atone for them [...] and at the peaceful completion of the number of these
years, there is no more joining to the house of Judah, but rather each man shall stand upon
his fortress [...] the wall has been built, the boundary is far off, and during all these years
Belial shall be unleashed against Israel, just as God spoke through Isaiah the prophet, son of
Amoz, saying: Terror and pit and snare are upon you, inhabitant of the land [...] Its interpretation:
the three nets of Belial, concerning which Levi son of Jacob said
that he catches Israel with them, and presents them as three kinds of
righteousness [...] fornication ranks first, riches rank second, and the third
is defilement of the sanctuary [...] whoever escapes from this is caught by that, and whoever is saved from this is caught
by that [...] the builders of the wall who walked after 'Precept' - the precept is a spouter
of whom he said, 'They shall surely spout' [...] they are caught in two things: in fornication, by taking
two wives in their lifetimes [...] and the foundation of creation is: male and female he created them [...]

======== The Damascus Document — Column 5 ========

And those who entered the ark, two by two, entered the ark [...] and concerning the prince it is written,
"He shall not multiply wives for himself" [...] and David had not read in the sealed book of the Torah which
was in the ark, for no one in Israel had unsealed it since the day Eleazar died
and Joshua, and Joshua and the elders who served the Ashtoreth [...] and he hid it away.
It was not revealed until Zadok arose [...] and the deeds of David rose up, except for the blood of Uriah,
and God left these to him [...] and also they defile the sanctuary, in that they do not
separate as the law requires, and lay with a woman experiencing her flow of blood [...] and take
each man the daughter of his brother and the daughter of his sister [...] and Moses said,
"You shall not approach your mother's sister; she is the flesh of your mother." [...] and the law of forbidden unions applies to males,
so it is written, and as for them, the women [...] and should the brother's daughter expose the brother's nakedness
of her father, she is flesh [...] and also they have defiled their holy spirit, and with a blasphemous
tongue they have opened their mouth against the statutes of God's covenant, saying, "They are not established," and it is an abomination
that they speak concerning them [...] all of them are kindlers of fire and lighters of flames, spider's
webs are their webs, and adders' eggs are their eggs [...] whoever comes near them
shall not go unpunished [...] the more he consorts with them, the more he multiplies guilt, unless he is compelled [...] but formerly, God took note
of their deeds, and his wrath burned against their doings, for it is not a people of understanding [...]
they are a nation void of counsel, since there is no discernment in them [...] for formerly there stood
Moses and Aaron, by the hand of the Prince of Lights, but Belial raised up Jannes and
his brother, by his cunning device, when Israel was saved the first time [...]
and in the time of the devastation of the land there arose those who remove the boundary, and they led Israel astray [...]
and the land became desolate, for they spoke rebellion against the commandments of God given through Moses, and also

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with His holy anointed ones, and they prophesied falsely to turn Israel away from following
God [...] And God remembered the covenant of the forefathers, and He raised, out of Aaron, discerning men, and out of Israel
wise men [...] and He made them hear, and they dug the well: 'A well the princes dug, the nobles of the people delved it
with the staff.' [...] The well is the Law, and those who dig it are
the returnees of Israel who departed Judah's territory and dwelt as sojourners in the region of Damascus
whom God called all of them princes, for they sought Him, and their glory was not
disputed by anyone's mouth. [...] And the Staff is the one who expounds the Law, of whom
Isaiah said: 'who brings forth a tool for His work.' [...] And the nobles of the people are
those who came to dig the well with the statutes that the Staff decreed
to walk in them throughout the whole age of wickedness, and apart from them they shall not attain it, until there arises
one who teaches righteousness at the end of days. [...] And all who were brought into the covenant
not to enter the sanctuary to kindle His altar in vain [...] and they shall be those who shut
the door, as God said: 'Who among you will shut My door, and you shall not kindle My altar
in vain.' [...] unless they take care to act according to the interpretation of the Law for the age of wickedness, and to separate
from the sons of the pit, and to abstain from the wicked wealth that defiles, by vow and by dedication
and by the wealth of the sanctuary. [...] and to keep away from robbing the needy among His people, making [widows] their spoil
and from murdering orphans; and to separate between the unclean and the clean, and to make known between
the holy and the profane, and to keep the Sabbath day according to its interpretation, and the festivals
and the day of fasting, according to what those who entered the new covenant within the region of Damascus found
to set aside the holy things according to their interpretations. [...] to love each man his brother
as himself, and to strengthen the hand of the poor and needy and the stranger, and for each man to seek the welfare of

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his brother, and let no man act treacherously against the flesh of his kin [...] to abstain from the fornications
according to the law, to reprove a man, his brother, according to the commandment, and not to bear a grudge
day after day, keeping apart from every uncleanness as their law requires [...] and let no man make abominable
his holy spirit, as God has separated for them [...] all who walk
in these matters in perfect holiness, according to all his instruction; the covenant of God is faithfulness to them,
that they may live a thousand generations [...] And if they dwell in camps, according to the rule of the land, and they take
wives and beget sons, they shall conduct themselves by the statute, and in keeping with the rule of
the discipline, according to the rule of the law, as he said: 'between a man and his wife, and between a father'
and his son' [...] And all who reject it, when God visits the land to repay the recompense of the wicked
upon them, when the word comes that is written in the words of Isaiah, son of Amoz, the prophet,
who said: 'There shall come upon you, and upon your people, and upon your father's house, days such as have not'
come since the time Ephraim broke away from Judah [...] when Israel split into its two houses,
the prince of Ephraim from Judah [...] and everyone who retreated was handed over to the sword, but those who held firm
escaped to the northern land [...] just as he declared: 'And I will exile the tabernacle of your king'
and the pedestal of your images from the tents of Damascus' [...] The books of the law are the tabernacle of
the king, as he said: 'And I will raise up the fallen tabernacle of David' [...] The king
is the prince of the congregation [...] and the pedestals of the images, and the pedestal of the images, they are the books of the prophets
whose words Israel despised [...] And the star is he who interprets the law,
who comes to Damascus, as it is written: 'A star shall come forth out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise'
out of Israel' [...] The scepter is the leader of the whole assembly, and when he rises up he shall shatter
all the sons of Seth [...] These escaped in the first period of visitation

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And those who relapsed were given over to the blade [...] And such is the judgment of all who enter his covenant who
do not hold fast to these: they shall be visited for destruction by the hand of Belial. That is the day
when God will visit [...] were the princes of Judah, upon whom the wrath will be poured out
for they hoped for healing, but the affliction clung, and the affliction of all the rebels clung, because they did not turn from the way of
traitors, and they rolled about in whorish paths and in unjust riches, and vengeance and grudge-bearing
each man against his brother, and each man hated his neighbor [...] and each man hid himself from his near kin
and they drew near to lewdness, and grew strong for wealth and for gain, and each man did what was right in his own eyes [...]
and each man chose the stubbornness of his own heart, and did not separate from the people [...] and they broke loose with a high hand
to follow along the path of evildoers, of whom God spoke, saying their wine is the venom of serpents
and the cruel head of vipers [...] The serpents are the kings of the peoples, and their wine is
their ways, and the head of the vipers is the head of the kings of Greece, who came to execute
vengeance upon them [...] and in all this the builders of the wall and the daubers of plaster did not understand, for
one who weighs the wind and preaches lies preached to them, so that God's anger was kindled against his whole congregation [...]
And as Moses said: not for your righteousness nor for the uprightness of your heart do you come to possess
these nations, but because of his love for your fathers and his keeping of the oath [...]
And such is the judgment for the returnees of Israel: they turned aside from the way of the people, because of God's love for
the forefathers who testified after him; he loves those who come after them, for to them belongs
the covenant of the fathers [...] but against those who hate him, and against him who hates the builders of the wall, his anger was kindled, and as is the judgment
of this, so is it for everyone who rejects the commandments of God and abandons them and turns to the stubbornness of his own heart [...]
This is the word that Jeremiah spoke to Baruch son of Neriah, and Elisha
to Gehazi his servant [...] every man who joined himself to the renewed covenant within the land of Damascus [...]

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Any man who devotes a man to destruction from among men by the laws of the gentiles shall be put to death [...]
And as for what it says, 'You shall not take revenge and you shall not bear a grudge' against the sons of your people — and any man among those who enter
the covenant who brings against his companion a matter that was not established by rebuke before witnesses,
and brings it in his burning anger, or tells it to his elders to disgrace him — he is one who takes revenge and bears a grudge [...]
And it is written only that he takes revenge on his adversaries and bears a grudge against his enemies [...]
If he kept silent about it from day to day, and then in his burning anger spoke against him about a capital matter,
he has testified against him, since he failed to carry out what God commanded, saying to him, 'You shall surely
rebuke your companion, and you shall not bear sin because of him' [...] concerning the oath of which it
says, 'your hand shall not save you for yourself' [...] a man who administers an oath in the open field,
not before the judges nor by their statement � his own hand has kept for himself [...] and every lost thing
whose thief is not known, from the substance of the camp in which it was stolen, its owner shall administer an oath
with the oath of the curse [...] and the one who hears, if he knows and does not tell, he is guilty [...]
Every restitution for guilt that is returned, which has no owner, and its instruction and confession — the one who restores it, it belongs to the priest,
and it shall be his, besides the ram brought as the guilt offering [...] likewise every recovered lost object that has no
owner shall belong to the priests, for its finder does not know its rule [...]
If no owner is found for it, they shall keep it [...] Any matter in which
a man acts unfaithfully against the law, and his companion sees him, and he alone — if it is a capital matter, he shall make it known to him
before his eyes, in rebuking, to the Overseer, and the Overseer shall write it down with his own hand, until he does it
again before one witness; and he shall return and make it known to the Overseer [...] If he does it again and is caught before
one witness, his judgment is complete [...] But if there are two of them, and they testify concerning
a different matter, one each, the man shall be excluded from the purity, provided they are trustworthy —
and on the day he notices it, that person must report it to the Overseer [...] and regarding property they shall accept two
trustworthy witnesses, but regarding a single witness, so as to bar him from the purity [...] and he shall not be accepted

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A witness for the judges, to put a man to death by his testimony, who has not completed his days to pass
among those enrolled — let him fear God [...] Let no man be trusted against his fellow
as a witness who has defiantly broken any instruction of the precept, until he is cleared to return [...]
And this is the rule for the judges of the congregation [...] up to ten chosen men
from the congregation, according to the time: four from the tribe of Levi and Aaron, and from Israel
six, learned in the Book of Hagu and grounded in the covenant's principles, from among the sons of five
and twenty years old, up to sons of sixty years old [...] And let no one stand any longer, from one of
having reached sixty years or more, to render judgment for the assembly, because of human disloyalty
his days were shortened, and in the wrath of God against the inhabitants of the land he said to remove
their knowledge before they complete their days [...] concerning purification by water [...] Let no man
wash in dirty water, or in water too little to cover a man [...]
let no vessel be purified in them. And any pool in rock which does not have enough
to cover, which the unclean has touched, its water is unclean like the water of a vessel [...]
concerning the [Sabbath], observing it as its statute requires [...] let no man do, on the day
of the sixth [day], any work from the time that the disk of the sun
is distant from the gate by its fullness [...] for it is he who said, Keep
the Sabbath day, hallowing it [...] And on the Sabbath day let no man speak a
foolish or empty word [...] Let him not press his fellow for any debt [...] Let him not judge concerning wealth and profit [...]
Let him not speak about matters of work and labor to be done the next morning [...]
Let no man walk in the field to carry out the work of his business
[on] the Sabbath [...] Let him go no farther beyond his city's limits than a thousand cubits [...]
Let no man eat on the Sabbath day except what is prepared [...] and from what is lost
in the field, let him not eat nor drink, except if it was in the camp [...]

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on the road, and if he goes down to wash, he shall drink standing at his place, and let him not draw into
any vessel [...] Let him not send a foreigner's son to do his business on the day of the sabbath [...]
Let no man put on himself soiled garments, or garments brought in a bundle, unless
they have been washed in water or rubbed with frankincense [...] Let no man mix of his own will
on the sabbath [...] Let no man walk after the animal to graze it outside his city, except
within two thousand cubits [...] Let him not raise his hand to strike it with his fist, if
it is stubborn. Let him not take it out of his house [...] Let no man take out from the house
to outside space, or from outside space into the house [...] And if he is in a booth, let him not go out from it
and let him not enter it [...] Let him not open a sealed vessel on the sabbath [...] Let no man carry
on himself perfumes to go out and bring in and come in on the sabbath [...] Let him not lift, in his dwelling house,
a stone or dust [...] Let the nurse not carry the infant when going forth and entering on the sabbath [...]
Let no man press his male servant or his female servant or his hired worker on the sabbath
Let no man assist an animal to give birth on the sabbath day [...] and if it drops into a pit
or a ditch, let him not raise it up on the sabbath [...] Let no man rest in a place near
to the nations on the sabbath [...] Let no man profane the sabbath for wealth or gain on the sabbath [...]
And every human soul that falls into water, a place of water, or into a place
let no man bring him up by ladder, or rope, or vessel [...] Let no man go up to the altar on the sabbath
except the sabbath burnt offering, as it is written thus, apart from your sabbaths [...] Let him not send
to the altar a burnt offering, a grain offering, frankincense, or wood, by the hand of a man unclean with one
of the uncleannesses, to permit him to defile the altar [...] for thus it is written, the sacrifice
of the wicked is an abomination, yet the plea of the upright is like a welcome offering [...] And everyone who comes to
the house of worship shall not enter unclean, though washed [...] And when the trumpets of the assembly sound
he shall advance or delay, and they shall not cease from the work, all of it [...] the sabbath

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it is holy [...] No man shall have sexual relations with a woman within the sanctuary city, so as to defile
the city of the sanctuary with their impurity [...] any man who is dominated by the spirits of Belial
and speaks apostasy shall be tried in accordance with the ruling given for mediums and necromancers [...] And whoever goes astray
to profane the Sabbath and the festivals shall not be put to death, for it is for the sons of man
to guard him [...] and if he recovers from it, they shall guard him for seven years, and afterward
he may come into the assembly [...] Let no one send his hand to shed the blood of a man from among the nations
for the sake of riches and profit [...] and also let him not take anything of their wealth at all, lest
they blaspheme, except by the counsel of the company of Israel [...] Let no man sell an animal
or clean fowl to the nations, lest they sacrifice them [...] and from his threshing floor
or his winepress he shall not sell to them at all [...] And his male slave and his female slave he shall not sell
to them, who joined him in entering the covenant made with Abraham [...] Let no man make his soul detestable
with any beast or creeping thing, eating of them, from the larvae of bees to every
living creature that creeps in the waters [...] And the fish they shall not eat unless they are split open
alive and their blood poured out [...] And all the locusts, according to their kinds, shall be brought into fire or into water
while they are still alive, for this is the law of their creation [...] And all the wood and the stones
and the dust which are defiled by the impurity of man, as oil-defilements are in them, according to
their impurity, [the one who touches] them shall be defiled [...] And every fastened vessel, a nail or a peg in a wall
which are with the dead in a house shall be defiled with the impurity of one who is a vessel of work [...]
The Rule of the session of the cities of Israel [...] in keeping with these regulations, to distinguish between
the unclean and the clean, and to make known the distinction separating the sacred from the common [...] And these are the statutes
for the Instructor, to walk by them with every living being, according to the law for every time [...] And according to the law
of this shall the seed of Israel walk, and they shall not be cursed [...] And this is the Rule of the session
of the [camps] who walk by these in the age of wickedness, until there arises the anointed one, the Messiah of Aaron

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and Israel, up to ten men, as a minimum, for thousands and hundreds and fifties
and tens [...] and in a place of ten, a priest learned in the Book of Hagu shall not be lacking [...] over
his authority shall all of them be governed [...] and if he is not versed in all these, then a man from the Levites who is versed
in these — the lot shall go out — so that by his authority all who enter the camp shall depart and return [...] and if
there is a case concerning the law of affliction upon a man, the priest shall come and stand in the camp, and shall instruct him
the Overseer, in the exact interpretation of the law [...] and if he is simple, he shall confine him, for to them belongs
the judgment [...] and this is the Rule of the Overseer of the camp: he shall teach the Many concerning the works of
God, and make them understand His wondrous mighty acts, and recount before them the eternal events with their explanation [...]
and he shall have compassion on them like a father toward his sons, and shall tend to all their afflicted ones, like a shepherd his flock [...]
loosening all the fetters of their bonds, so that there be no oppressed or crushed one in his congregation [...]
and every one who is added to his congregation, he shall assess him according to his deeds, his understanding, his strength, his might, and his wealth [...]
and they shall enroll him in his place, according to his inheritance in the lot of light [...] no man shall have authority
among the men of the camp to bring a man into the congregation apart from the authority of the Overseer who is over the camp [...]
and no man among all who enter the covenant of God shall take or give to the sons of the pit, except
hand for hand [...] and let no man do any business of buying or selling except he inform
the Overseer who is in the camp, and act by counsel, so that they do not [go astray] [...] [and] [so] for [every] [one who takes] [a wife]
and the [...] [counsel] [...] and so too for one who divorces; and he shall [discipline] [their] [sons] [and] [their daughters]
[and] [their little ones] in a spirit of humility and in loving-kindness [...] let him not bear a grudge against them [in] [anger] [...]
[...] [their transgressions] and him who is not bound in [...]
[...] and this is the dwelling of the camps for all the [period] [of] [wickedness] [...] [and] [whoever]
[does not] [hold fast] [to] [these] shall not prosper to dwell in the land [...]
[...] [and] [these] are the ordinances for the Instructor [to] [walk] [by them] [with] [every] [living] [being]
[according] [to] [the] [judgment] [of] [each] [period], [as] [it] [was] [said]: [days] [will] [come] [upon] [you] [and] [upon] [your] [people] [and] [upon] [your] [father's] [house]

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who did not come from the day Ephraim turned away from upon Judah [...] and all who walk in these
the covenant of God is faithfulness to them, rescuing them out of every trap laid by the pit, since without warning the simple are caught and punished [...]
And the Rule of the session of all the camps [...] all of them shall be enrolled by their names: the priests first,
and the Levites second, then the sons of Israel in third place, with the proselyte ranked fourth [...] each one recorded there by name,
each man after his brother: the priests first, and the Levites second, and the sons of Israel
third, and the proselyte fourth [...] and thus shall they sit, and thus shall they be questioned about everything [...] and the priest who is appointed
head over the Many, from thirty years old to sixty years old, learned in the book
of Meditation and in all the ordinances of the Law, to speak them according to their ordinance [...] and the Overseer who is
over all the camps, from thirty years old [and] up to fifty years old, skilled in every
council of men, in whatever language matches its meaning [...] by his authority shall those who enter the congregation come in,
each man in his order [...] and concerning every matter which any man has to speak, he shall speak to the Overseer.
for every dispute and judgment [...] And this is the Rule of the Many, to provide for all their needs [...] wages of
two days for every month at the least, and they shall give it into the hand of the Overseer [...] and the judges
from it they shall give for [their wounded], and from it they shall support the poor and needy, and the elder who
[bows down], and the man who [is afflicted], and him who is taken captive by a foreign nation, and the virgin who
[has] no [redeemer], and the youth [who] has no one to seek him out [...] all the work of the community; and let not
[the house of the] [community] be cut off from [their hand] [...] And this is the exposition of the session of the [camp], [and these are the foundations]
[of the] [assembly] [...] And this is the exposition of the judgments by which [they shall judge] [them] [in] [the age]
of [wickedness], [until] the coming of the [Messiah] of Aaron and Israel; and he shall atone for their iniquity [with offering] [and] [sin-offering] [...]
[...] and [whoever] deals falsely with property, and he knows it, shall be [separated] [...]
[...] [and] [be punished] six days [...] and whoever [speaks] [...]
[And] [whoever] [bears a grudge] [against] [his fellow] not according to judgment, [shall be] [punished] [...] [...]
[...] for [...]

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[He shall swear] neither by Aleph and Lamed nor by Aleph and Dalet, except the oath of the sons/covenanters
by the oaths of the covenant [...] and the Law of Moses he shall not invoke, for in it is every interpretation of the Name [...]
And if he swears and transgresses and profanes the Name [...] and if by the oaths of the covenant [he swears] [before]
the judges [...] if he has transgressed, he bears the guilt, and he must acknowledge it and make restitution, and he shall not bear sin
[and] [he shall die] [...] and he who enters the covenant for all Israel as an eternal statute — their sons who reach
the age to pass among those enrolled shall have the oath of the covenant established upon them [...] and likewise
the rule, in every age of wickedness, for all who turn back from his corrupt way [...] on the day he speaks
with the Overseer who is over the Many; they shall enroll him under the sworn pledge of the covenant that
Moses [made] with Israel — his word, to [return] again unto the Torah of Moses with a whole heart and [with] [all]
soul, to what is found to do in [every] age [of his drawing near] [...] and no man shall inform him of
the judgments until he stands before the Overseer, lest he be enticed by him when he examines him [...]
And when he lays the obligation upon him to turn back to the Torah of Moses with the whole heart and all soul
[they] are cleared on account of him if he transgresses [...] and all that is revealed from the Law to the majority
of the camp, and he erred in it, [the Overseer shall inform] him of it and command him, and [he shall be taught]
for a full year, and according to his understanding shall his being [...] a fool and a madman, and every [simpleton] [and] [deviant]
and one dim of eyes so as [not] [to see], [and] the lame [or] the crippled [or] the deaf, and a young [child] — none
[of these] shall enter [into the midst of] the congregation, [for] [the angels] of [holiness] are [in your midst] [...] to them
[...] [he said] [to them]
[...]

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with you a covenant, and with all Israel [...] Therefore a man shall take an oath upon his soul to return to
Moses's law, since every detail is spelled out with precision within it [...] and the exact reckoning of their periods for the blindness of
Israel from all these things; behold, it is spelled out with precision within the scroll that divides up the times
into jubilee-cycles and weeks of years [...] and on the day a man binds his soul by oath to return
to Moses's law, the angel of Hostility shall turn away from following him, if he carries out his words [...]
For this reason Abraham underwent circumcision on the day he came to knowledge [...] and as for what he said, that which comes forth from your lips
you shall keep, to fulfill [...] every binding oath which a man takes upon his soul
to do a thing from the law, even were death the cost, he shall not buy his way out of it [...] all that
[a man] takes upon his soul to turn away [from] [the] [law], even at the price of death he shall not fulfill it [...]
[Concerning] the oath of the woman which [her husband] [said], to annul her oath [...] not
shall a man annul an oath about which he did not? [know it], to fulfill it; and if to annul it [...]
if it is to transgress the covenant, he shall annul it and not fulfill it [...] and likewise is the ruling for her father [...]
Concerning the ruling of the voluntary offerings: a man shall not vow to the altar anything gained by extortion [...] and also
the [priests] shall not take from Israel [anything extorted] [...] a man shall not dedicate the food of
his mouth [to] [God], for it is he who said: 'each man hunts his fellow with a net' [...] and not
[shall dedicate] a man from anything [...] [and] [if] [from] the field of his possession
he shall dedicate it to [God] [...] [also] this [ruling] [...] and he shall be punished
the one who vows [...] [the money] of [his assessed value] [...]
for [the judges] to [judge] [righteousness] [and] to [assess the value] [...] [after] [the] [one confessing] [...]
if [it was] [extortion], [and] [the] [extorted amount] [shall be repaid] [if] [he did] not [speak] [truth] [with] [his fellow] [...]

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faithful to them, granting them life across a thousand generations, just as scripture states: he maintains the covenant and steadfast love
for those who love me and keep my commandments, for a thousand generations. [...] and if they dwell in camps according to the Rule of
the land that existed from ancient times, and they take wives according to the custom of the law, and [beget] sons
and conduct themselves by the law [...] and by the ruling of the foundational statutes, in keeping with the Rule of the law,
as he said, between a man and his wife, and between a father and his son [...] and all who reject the commandments
and the statutes, to repay the wicked their due, when God visits the land [...]
when the word arrives, set down through the prophet Zechariah: sword, awake against
my shepherd and against the man who is my companion, declares God [...] strike the shepherd, so the flock will scatter,
and I will turn my hand against the little ones [...] and those who watch over him, they are the poor of the flock [...]
these shall escape in the time of the visitation, but the rest shall be delivered to the sword when the Messiah comes,
of Aaron and of Israel [...] as it was in the time of the first visitation, of which Ezekiel spoke,
by the hand of Ezekiel, to mark with a mark the marks upon the foreheads of those who sigh and groan [...]
but the rest were delivered up to the avenging sword, vengeance of the covenant [...] and so is the judgment for all who enter
his covenant, refusing to cling firmly to these statutes, so that they be visited for destruction by the hand of Belial [...]
that is the day when God will make visitation, as he spoke: the princes of Judah shall be like those who removed
the boundary against them; I will pour out wrath like water [...] for they came, they entered into the covenant of repentance,
yet they did not turn away from the path of traitors, but wallowed in the ways of harlotry and in wicked wealth,
and took vengeance and bore grudges each against his brother, and hated each his neighbor [...] and they hid themselves, each
against his own flesh, and drew near to lewdness, and grew powerful for wealth and for gain, and each man did
what was right in his own eyes [...] and each chose the stubbornness of his own heart, and did not separate from the people
and from their sin [...] but they acted with a high hand, walking in the ways of the wicked, of whom
God said concerning them: their wine is the venom of serpents and the cruel poison of asps [...] the serpents
are the kings of the peoples, their wine represents their conduct, and the venom of asps is the chief
of the kings of Greece, who comes against them to take vengeance [...] and in all this the builders of
the wall did not understand, nor those who daub it with plaster [...] for one who walks in wind and raises storms, and one who preaches to men
falsehood, against whom God's anger burned against all his congregation [...] and as Moses said
to Israel: not for your righteousness nor for the uprightness of your heart do you come to possess these nations,
but because he loved your fathers and kept the oath [...] so
is the judgment for those of Israel who returned, who turned away from the path of the people [...] through God's love for the forefathers
who testified concerning the people after God, and he loved those who came after them, for to them belongs
the covenant of the fathers [...] yet God despises and detests the builders of the wall; his wrath flared against them and against all
who walk after them [...] and according to this same judgment for all who reject the commandments of God [...]
and he abandoned them, and they turned to the stubbornness of their heart [...] so it is for all the men who entered into the covenant
the new, in the land of Damascus, but turned back and dealt treacherously and turned aside from the well of living water [...]
they shall not be reckoned in the council of the people, and in their register they shall not be enrolled, from the day of the gathering in of the unique teacher

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From the day of the Teacher of the Community until the rising of a messiah from Aaron and from Israel [...] and so is the judgment
for all who enter the congregation of the men of perfect holiness [...] and he shall be loathed for not doing the precepts of the upright
He is the man who is smelted in the midst of the furnace [...] when his deeds are revealed he shall be sent away from the congregation
like one whose lot did not fall among the taught of God [...] according to his unfaithfulness the men of
knowledge shall rebuke him, until the day he returns to take his place among the men of complete holiness, who have no
his lot in the midst of [...] and when his deeds are revealed, according to the exposition of the Law by which
the men of perfect holiness walk, no man shall associate with him in property or in labor
for all the holy ones belonging to the Most High have pronounced a curse upon him [...] and according to this judgment for all who reject the former ones
and the latter ones, who have set idols upon their hearts and walk in the stubbornness
of their heart — they have no portion in the House of the Law [...] according to the judgment of their fellows who turned back
with the men of mockery they shall be judged, for they spoke error against the laws of righteousness and rejected
the covenant and the pledge which they established in the land of Damascus, and it is the new covenant [...]
and they shall not have, neither they nor their families, a share within the Law-house [...] and starting from the day
of the gathering in of the Teacher of the Community until the completion of all the men of war who turned back
with the Man of the Lie, about forty years [...] and in that time shall burn
the anger of God against Israel, as he said: there is no king, and there is no prince, and there is no judge, and [there is none]
who reproves in righteousness [...] and those who repented of the transgression of Jacob kept the covenant of God [...] then a man shall speak
to his fellow, to justify each man his brother, to hold firm their footsteps along God's path [...] and shall pay heed
God to their words, and he shall hear, and a book of remembrance shall be written [before] [him] for those who fear God and for those who esteem
his name, until salvation and righteousness are revealed, and those who fear God [...] and you shall return and you shall see the difference between the righteous
and the wicked, between the servant of God and him who has not served him [...] and he shows mercy [to] [thousands] to those who love him
and to those who keep him, for a thousand generations [...] the House of Peleg, who went out from the holy city
and relied upon God in the time of Israel's unfaithfulness, and they defiled the sanctuary [...] and turned back again
to the way of the people in [a few] matters [...] [all of them], each man according to his own spirit, shall be judged in the council of
holiness [...] and all who broke through the boundary of the Law among those who entered the covenant, when
the glory of God is revealed to Israel, shall be cut off from the midst of the camp, and with them all who condemn
Judah in the days of its testing [...] and all who hold fast to these judgments, to [go out]
and to enter in keeping with the Law, and shall listen to the voice of a teacher and confess before God: we have sinned
we have done wickedly, both we and our fathers, in walking contrary to the laws of the covenant; [righteous]
and true are your judgments against us [...] and they shall not raise a hand against his holy laws and [judgments]
of his righteousness and his true testimonies [...] and they were disciplined by the former judgments by which
the men of the Community were judged, and they gave heed to what the Teacher of Righteousness proclaimed [...] and they shall not abandon
the laws of righteousness; when they hear them, they shall rejoice and be glad and their heart shall be strong [...] and they shall prevail
over all the sons of the world [...] and God shall atone for them, and they shall see his salvation, for they sought refuge in his holy name [...]