The Qumran Community · a new plain-English translation from the original language
Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel strayed
from me, they shall offer to me fat and blood [...] the priests are the captivity of Israel
who went out from the land of Judah, and those who joined with them [...] and Zadok’s descendants are the elect of
Israel, those called by name, who stand in the last days [...] behold the exact statement of
their names according to their generations, and the time of their standing, and the number of their afflictions, and the years
of their sojourning, and the explanation of their deeds [...] the former holy things, for whom
God made atonement, and they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked [...] and all who come after them
to act according to the exact interpretation of the Torah in which the first ones were instructed until completing
the end of these years [...] according to the covenant which God established for the first ones, to atone
for their iniquities, so God will atone for them [...] and at the peaceful completion of the number of these
years, there is no more joining to the house of Judah, but rather each man shall stand upon
his fortress [...] the wall has been built, the boundary is far off, and during all these years
Belial shall be unleashed against Israel, just as God spoke through Isaiah the prophet, son of
Amoz, saying: Terror and pit and snare are upon you, inhabitant of the land [...] Its interpretation:
the three nets of Belial, concerning which Levi son of Jacob said
that he catches Israel with them, and presents them as three kinds of
righteousness [...] fornication ranks first, riches rank second, and the third
is defilement of the sanctuary [...] whoever escapes from this is caught by that, and whoever is saved from this is caught
by that [...] the builders of the wall who walked after 'Precept' - the precept is a spouter
of whom he said, 'They shall surely spout' [...] they are caught in two things: in fornication, by taking
two wives in their lifetimes [...] and the foundation of creation is: male and female he created them [...]