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4Q253 — Commentary on Genesis B

4Q253 — the Commentary on Genesis B, from Qumran Cave 4, in Hebrew. A commentary on Genesis.

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
4Q253
Abegg, Bowley and Cook · every word parsed
Fragment f1
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[…] … […]
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[…] [י]שראל ו… […]
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[…] מן התבה […]
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[…] וק להודיע לנו[ח] […]׃
Fragment f2
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הטמאה ר […]
2
הו דמה […]
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טהורים מן הבריאה […]
4
עולת׳ו לרצון כאשר נקח […]
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ל׳ו שערי המרום כאש[ר] […]׃
Fragment f3
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[…] … הים […]
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[…] … בליעל וכא[שר] […]
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[…] יעזוב את […]׃
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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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24 distinct words — each links to every other place it occurs.

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