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2Q18

2Q18 — a non-biblical text from Qumran Cave 2, in Hebrew.

Square brackets mark reconstruction. Letters inside brackets are the editors’ restoration; a bracketed ellipsis […] stands where a word is lost altogether.
Hebrew · Dead Sea Scrolls
2Q18
Abegg, Bowley and Cook · every word parsed
Fragment f1
1
[אוהב] [אמונה] [אוהב] ת[קוף] [ו][מוצא׳ו] [מצא] [הון]
2
[ל][אוהב] [אמונ]ה אין [מחיר] [ו][אין] [משקל] [ל][טובת׳ו]׃
Fragment f2
1
[…] [עקובה] [היא] [ל][אויל] [ו][לא] [יכלכל׳נה] [חסר] [ל]ב׃
2
[כ][אבן] [משא] [תהיה] [עלי׳ו] [ו][לא] [יאחר] [ל][השליכ׳ה]׃
3
[כי] [ה][מוסר] [כ][שמ׳ה] [כן] [הוא] [ו][לא] [ל][רבים] [היא] [נ]כח׃
4
[…]
5
[…]
6
[הט] [שכמ׳ך] [ו][שא׳ה] [ו][אל] [תקץ] [ב][תחבולתי׳ה]׃
7
[ב][כל] [נפש׳ך] [קרב] [אלי׳ה] [ו][ב][כל] [מאד׳ך] [שמר] [דרכי׳]ה׃
8
[דרש] [ו][חקר] [בקש] [ו][מצא] [ו][התחזקת׳ה] [ו][אל] [תר]פ׳ה׃
9
[כי] [ל][אחור] [תמצא] [מנוחת׳ה] [ו][נהפך] [ל׳ך] [ל][ת]ענג׃
10
[ו][היתה] [ל׳ך] [רשת׳ה] [מכון] [עז] [ו][חבלת׳ה] בגדי כתם׃
11
[עלי] [זהב] [עול׳ה] [ו][מוסרתי׳ה] [פתיל] [תכ]לת׃
12
[בגדי] [כבוד] [תלבש׳נה] [ו][עטר]ת תפארת תעטר׳נה׃
13
[…]׃
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Transcriptions and morphology: Martin G. Abegg, Jr., James E. Bowley and Edward M. Cook, The Dead Sea Scrolls: Biblical and Non-Biblical Texts. Text-Fabric edition by Jarod Jacobs, Martijn Naaijer and Dirk Roorda, ETCBC, used by permission under CC BY-NC 4.0. Dictionary: Brown-Driver-Briggs. Square brackets mark letters reconstructed by the editors rather than preserved on the manuscript.

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