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