4Q156 — a non-biblical text from Qumran Cave 4, in Aramaic.
Square brackets mark reconstruction. Letters inside brackets are the editors’ restoration; a bracketed ellipsis […] stands where a word is lost altogether.
Aramaic · Dead Sea Scrolls
4Q156
Abegg, Bowley and Cook · every word parsed
Fragment f1
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[…] גמ[רי] […]
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[יהוה] [ו][מלא] חפנו׳ה[י] כש […]
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[ו][יעל] [מן] [גוא] [ל][פ]רכתא׃ וישוה [כשת][א] [על] [נור][א]
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[ל][קדם] [יהוה] [ו]יכסה עננא […] … […]
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[על] [שהדות][א] [ו]לא ימות׃ ויסב מן [דם] [תור][א]
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[ו][ידה] [ב][אצבעת׳ה] [ע]ל כסיא וקדם כסיא למדנחא׃
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[ידה] [שבעה] [זמנין] [מ]ן דמא באצבעת׳ה׃ ויכס׃
Fragment f2
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[…] [עלו׳]הי׃ ו[יס]ב [מן] [דם] [תור][א] [ו][מן] [דם] [צפיר][א]
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[ו][ישוה] [על] קרנ[י] מ[ד]ב[ח]א סח[ור] [סחור][׃] [ו][ידה] [עלו׳הי] [מן] [דמ][א]
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[ב][אצבעת׳ה] [ש]בעה [זמני]ן [ו][יד]כנ׳ה ויקדשנ׳ה [מן] [ט]מאת[׳הו]ן [די] [בני]
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[ישראל][׃] כד[י] […] ה על בית קדשא [ו][על] משכן זמנא ו[על]
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[מדבח][א][׃] [ו][יקרב] צפיר[א] חיא׃ ויסמך אהרן ת[רתין] [ידו׳]ה[י] [ע]ל
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[ראש][א] [די] [צ]פיר[א] [ח]יא׃ [ו][יהוד]א עלו׳הי כל […]
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[…] לכ[ל] [חטאי׳]הון […]׃
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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.
The words of this chapter
40 distinct words — each links to every other place it occurs.
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