4Q264 — a copy of the Community Rule, from Qumran Cave 4, 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
4Q264
Abegg, Bowley and Cook · every word parsed
1
[ב][רחמי׳ו] [הגיש׳ני] [ו][ב][חסדי׳ו] [יביא] [משפט׳י][׃] [ו][ב][צדקת] אמת׳ו שפט׳ני וברוב טו[ב׳ו]
2
[יכפר] [בעד] [כל] [עונות׳י][׃] [ו][ב][צדקת׳ו] [יטהר׳ני] [מ][נדת] [א]נוש וחטאת בני אדם להודות [ל][אל]
3
[צדק׳ו] [ו][ל][עליון] [תפארת׳ו][׃] [ברוך] [אתה] [אל׳י] [ה][פותח] [ל][דעה] לב עבד׳ך׃ הכן ב[צד]ק כל מעש[י׳ו]
4
[ו][הקם] [ל][בן] [אמת׳ך] [כ][אשר] [רצית] [ל][בחירי] [אדם] [ל][התי]צב לפני׳ך לעד׃ כי מבלעדי׳ך
5
[לא] [תתם] [דרך] [ו][בלי] [רצונ׳ך] [לא] [יעשה] [כל][׃] [אתה] [ה]ורית כל דעה וכל הנהיה
6
[ב][רצונ׳ך] [היה] [ו][אין] [אחר] [זולת׳ך] [ל][השיב] [על] [עצ]ת׳ך ולהשכיל בכל מחשבת
7
[קדש׳ך] [ו][ל][הביט] [ב][עמק] [רזי׳ך] [ו][ל][התבונן] בכל נפלאותי׳ך עם כוח גבורת׳ך׃
8
[ו][מי] [יכול] [ל][הכיל] [את] [כבוד׳ך] [ו][מה] [אף] [הוא] [בן] [ה]אדם במעשי פלא׳ך׃ וילוד אשה
9
[מה] [יחשב] [ל][פני׳ך] [ו][הוא] [מ][עפר] [מגבל׳ו] [ו][לחם] [ר]מה מדור׳ו והוא מצוררקחמר
10
[קורץ] [ו][ל][עפר] [תשוקת׳ו][׃] [מה] [ישיב] [חמר] [ו][יוצר] [י]ד לעצת מה יבין׃
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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
92 distinct words — each links to every other place it occurs.
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