The Qumran Community · a new plain-English translation from the original language
his brother, and let no man act treacherously against the flesh of his kin [...] to abstain from the fornications
according to the law, to reprove a man, his brother, according to the commandment, and not to bear a grudge
day after day, keeping apart from every uncleanness as their law requires [...] and let no man make abominable
his holy spirit, as God has separated for them [...] all who walk
in these matters in perfect holiness, according to all his instruction; the covenant of God is faithfulness to them,
that they may live a thousand generations [...] And if they dwell in camps, according to the rule of the land, and they take
wives and beget sons, they shall conduct themselves by the statute, and in keeping with the rule of
the discipline, according to the rule of the law, as he said: 'between a man and his wife, and between a father'
and his son' [...] And all who reject it, when God visits the land to repay the recompense of the wicked
upon them, when the word comes that is written in the words of Isaiah, son of Amoz, the prophet,
who said: 'There shall come upon you, and upon your people, and upon your father's house, days such as have not'
come since the time Ephraim broke away from Judah [...] when Israel split into its two houses,
the prince of Ephraim from Judah [...] and everyone who retreated was handed over to the sword, but those who held firm
escaped to the northern land [...] just as he declared: 'And I will exile the tabernacle of your king'
and the pedestal of your images from the tents of Damascus' [...] The books of the law are the tabernacle of
the king, as he said: 'And I will raise up the fallen tabernacle of David' [...] The king
is the prince of the congregation [...] and the pedestals of the images, and the pedestal of the images, they are the books of the prophets
whose words Israel despised [...] And the star is he who interprets the law,
who comes to Damascus, as it is written: 'A star shall come forth out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise'
out of Israel' [...] The scepter is the leader of the whole assembly, and when he rises up he shall shatter
all the sons of Seth [...] These escaped in the first period of visitation