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