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other impure persons, twelve cubits distance from (2) the pure food, in the designated part of town,
and the same distance to the northwest of any inhabited dwelling. (3) Any man suffering from the
various types of impurity should bathe himself and wash his clothing on the [seve]nth [da]y, and
afterwards he may eat (the pure food). For this is what it means, "Unclean, unclean!' (4) he should call
all the days of his affliction.' As for the woman who suffers a seven-day flux of blood, she should not
touch a man suffering from a flux, nor any implement that he touches, (5) nor anything upon which he
rests. But if she does touch (these things), she should wash her clothes and bathe and afterwards she
may eat (the pure food). At all costs she is [no]t to mingle during her seven (6) days, so that she does
n[o]t defile the camp of the Ho[ly O]nes of Israel. Nor is she to touch any woman suffer[ing] a
long[standing] flux. (7) And the person that is keeping a record of the period of impurity, whether a
man or a woman, is not to to[uch the menstruant] or the mourner during the period of uncleanness, but
only when she is cleansed [from her uncleanness, for (8) that uncleanness should be reckoned in the
same way as a flux [for] anyone who touches it. And if someone touches a [bodily] flux [or a seminal
emission, then [h]e should be unclean. Anyone touching any of these types of (9) impure people
should n[ot] eat the pure food during the seven days of his purification]. When someone is impure
because of touching a core[se, he is to bathe himself in water and wash (his clothes) and afterwa[rds]
Fragment 1 Column 2 (1) he may a[at . . .] (2) and sem[inal emission . . .]
Fragment 2 Column 1 (1) . . . who sprinkle upon him for the first time and he should bathe and wash
his clothes before (2) . . . on the seventh day. One is not to sprinkle on the sabbath (3) . . . on the
sabbath, only he should not touch the pure food until he changes (4) [his clothes . . .] Anyone who
touches a human seminal emission must immerse everything down to the last item of dress, and the
person that carries the item (5) [. . . must immerse, and the garment upon which the emission is found
or any item that carries it (the emission) (6) . . . And if there should be found in the camp any man that
is incapab[le] (or, that does not have enough) (7) . . . the garment that it/she has not touched, only he
should not touch it-his meat-and he that touches (8) . . . they should dwell. If he did not touch it, he
should wash it in water, but if (9) [he did touch it] . . . and he should wash (it). Regarding all
offerings, a man should wash
Fragment 2 Column 2 (1) his flesh, and thus . . . (2) but if . . . (3) with him . . . (4) to . . . (5) reptile.
Impure [people . . .] (6) and he that touches it . . . (7) and eve[ry . . .] (8) But if . . . (9) who . . .
Fragment 3 Column 1 (1) . . . God's revealing the apple of His eye, and (2) . . . every law . . . (3) or
every . . . (5) and she is unclean . . . (6) they pour liquid upon and he does not eat eat in purity, and
every . . . (7) [(everything) tha]t they will dissolve by rubbing, and whose solvent liquid has
evaporated, a man should not eat (8) . . . the impure among them, and also among garden vegetables .
. . (9) or a boiled cucumber. A man who [po]urs liquid upon a foodstuff
Fragment 3 Column 2 (1) . . .they are impure . . . (3) and everything that he possesses . . . (4) to purify,
and the remains of all the garden vegetables (5) from the moisture of dew he may eat, but if n[ot] . . .
(6) in the water, except a man . . . (7) the land, if there comes upon it . . . (8) the rain upon it, if a man
touches it . . . (9) in a field by all means he at the turn of the season of . . . (10) every frangible vessel
that . . . (11) which is in its middle . . . (12) the foodstuff upon which water has been poured . . .