The Qumran Community · a new plain-English translation from the original language
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]