Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered - The Preterist Archive

Translation
Manuscript A Fragment 1 (1)[. . . clothes] in which he has not performed (any) sacr[ed] rite. (2) . . .
and he should regard the clothes as impure(?).
Then he (a designated man, not the presiding priest) will slaugh[ter] (3) [the] heifer before him, and
he (the priest) will take up its blood in a new earthen vessel that (4) [has never drawn] near the altar
and sprinkle some of its blood with [his] finger seven (5) [times to]ward the front of the T[e]nt of
Meeting. Then he should cast the cedar wood (6) [and the hyssop and the scarlet] material into the
mid[st] of its (the heifer's) fire. (7) [Then the priest and the man who burns (the heifer) and the man
who gathers the heifer's ashes [should bathe] (8) [and wash their clothes, and they shall be unclean
until evening. And this they should establish as a ceremony (9) [for that water which removes the
impurity of sin, and as an Eternal Law. And] the priest should put on
Manuscript B Fragment 1 (1) . . . and the hyssop and the . . . (2) [a man] pure of all sin[full impurity . .
. (3) [And] the priest who atones with the blood of the heifer and all [the men should] put [on different
clothes (4) and wash their tu]ni[cs and] their seamed robes in which they made atonement in
performing the law [governing the removal of sin. (5) Each man should bathe] in wader and be