Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered - The Preterist Archive

Translation
Fragment 1 (1) [. . . t]en days . . . (2) thirty days [. . . he will be fined] (3) half of his food ration for
fift[een days . . .] (4) he will be fined for three months [half his food ration. A man that speaks prior to
the turn] (5) of his neighbor, though he (the latter) is enrolled ahead of him, must be separated [from
the Many . . .] (6) in them half his food ration. A man who . . . (7) thirty days. And a man who tells a
lie kn[owingly will be punished for six] (8) months, and fined during that time half his food ration . . .
(9) knowingly about everything, his penalty is thirty days and half his food ration . . . (10)
kno[wingly, they shall] separate him (from the Community) for six months...
Fragment 2 (1) The Sab[bath . . .] (2) on the Sabbath d[ay]. A [man] should not [wear garments that
are] soil[ed on the Sabbath day]. (3) A man should not . . . in garments th[at have] dust on them or . . .
(4) on the Sabbath day. [A ma]n [should not bring out] of his tent any vessel or food (5) on the
Sabbath day. A man should not lift out cattle which has fallen (6) in[to] the water on the Sabbath day.
But if it is a human being who has fallen into the wat[er (7) on the day of] the Sabbath, he will throw
him his garment to lift him out with it. But he will not lift an implement . . . (8) [. . . on the day of] the
Sabbath. And if an army . . .
Fragment 3 (1) . . . on the day of [the Sabbath. . .] (2) on the day of] the Sabbath, and not . . . (3) A
man from the seed of Aaron will [no]t sprinkle the waters [of impurity on the Sabbath day. . .] (4)
[The Passover is a (high) holiday, and a fast on the day of [the Sabbath .... A man] (5) may take his
cattle two thousand cub[its on the Sabbath day, but he may not walk unless he is a distance from] (6)
[the Temple of more than thirty stadia.. A [man] should not . . . (7) [When] there are in the Council of
the Community fif[teen men, Perfect in everything which has been revealed in all the Law] (8) [and
the Prophets, the Council of the Communi[ty] shall be founded [on Truth for an Eternal Planting and
true witnesses at the judgement, and the Elect] (9) of (God's) favor, and a pleasing fragrance to make
atonement for the land, from a[ll Evil . . .] (10) The Period of Wickedness will end in judgement, and
the . . . (11) In the first] week . . . (12) which were not to brought to the Garden of Eden. And the bone
of . . . (13) shall be for it forever, which was not brought nea[r . . . (14) to the] Holiness of the Garden
of Eden, and all the verdure in its midst is Holy. [When a woman conceives and bears a boy,] (15) she
shall be unclean seven days. Just as in the days of her menstrual impurity, she shall be unclean; and
th[irty three days she shall remain in the blood of (16) her purification. If she bears a girl, she will be
unclean [two weeks, just as in her menstrual period; and sixty-six days (17) she shall rema]in in the