Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered - The Preterist Archive

Translation
Column 2 (or later) (1) with the paternal aunts of Bilhah, my m[other, and her sister, Deborah, who
nursed Rebeccah . . . (2) And he (the father) went into captivity, but Laban sent and rescued him.
Then he (Laban) gave him (Rotheos) Hannah, one of his maidservant[s. And she conceived and bore]
(3) her first [daughter], Zilpah. And he gave her the name Zilpah after the name of the city to wh[ich]
he had been taken captive. (4) Then she conceived and bore Bilhah, my mother. Hannah named her
Bilhah because, when she was born, (5) she hurried to suckle. So she said, 'My, how my daughter is in
a hurry.' So from then on she was called Bilhah. (6) vacat (7) And when Jacob my father, fleeing from
Esau his brother, came to Laban, and because [Rotheos], (8) the father of my mother Bilhah, di[ed],
Laban took charge of Hannah my grandmother and her two daughters. He gave one daughter (9) to
Leah and one to Rachel. When it came about that Rachel was not bearing sons . . . (10) Jaco]b, my
father. And Bilhah, my mother, was given to him; so she bore Dan [my] brother [. . . (11) tw]o
daughters . . .
Column 4 (or later) (1) [. . . in] the Pit (2) and great distress and devilish trials. And some among them
shall be purified to become the Elect of Righteousness . . . (3) for the sake of His Pious [On]es. For
the era of Evil has been completed, and all sinfulness will pas[s away]; (4) the time of Rightousness