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