Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered - The Preterist Archive

Translation
Column 1 (Fragments 1 and 3) (1) [. . . and Terah was (2) seventy years old when he fathered
Abraham; and Abraham (3) was] ninety-nine years old [when he fathered Isaac; (4) and Isaac was
[sixty years old when he fathered Jacob; and Jacob (5) was] sixty-fi[ve year]s old [when he fathered
Levi . . . (7) and Levi was thirty-] five [year]s old when he fa[thered Kohath; and Kohath was (8)
twenty-] nine [year]s old when he fathered Am[r]am; Am[ram was (9) one hundred and ten years old
when he fathered] Aaron, and Aar[on] went out from Egy[pt. (10) (The total of) all] these [years:]
eleven thousand, five hundred and thirty-six . . .
Column 2 (2) . . . from the lan[d of Egypt . . .] (3) ye[ars (?) . . .] (4) the [Jo]rdan . . . (5) [in . . .] thirtyfive
(or more) [years;] in Gilgal . . . ye[ars . . . (6) in Timnath-Sera]h twenty years; and from the time
that [Joshua] died . . . (7) Cush-Rishathaim the king of [Aram-Naharain] (8) eight [year]s; Othniel the
s[on of Kenaz . . . (9) eighty years;] Eglon the king of Moab eighteen] ye[ars; (10) Eh]ud the son of
Gera, eighty years; Sham[gar the son of Anath,]
17. Hur And Miriam (4Q544)
This Aramaic text is difficult to characterize because it is so fragmentary, but it appears to be
concerned with genealogies of characters in the Book of Exodus, particularly Hur. If Line 8 is taken
with Line 9, the text would appear to make a connection between the Judean hero Hur and Miriam,
the sister of Moses, although none is anywhere made explicit in the Bible. According to Josephus, Hur
was Miriam's husband (Ant. 3.54), and the tradition being signalled here seems to bear this out.
Rabbinic literature, identifying Ephrath and Miriam, would have him as her son (Targum to 1 Chr.
2:19 and 4:4). Still, that there is tradition about a relationship between Hur and Miriam is not to be
gainsaid.