The Qumran Community · a new plain-English translation from the original language
on the road, and if he goes down to wash, he shall drink standing at his place, and let him not draw into
any vessel [...] Let him not send a foreigner's son to do his business on the day of the sabbath [...]
Let no man put on himself soiled garments, or garments brought in a bundle, unless
they have been washed in water or rubbed with frankincense [...] Let no man mix of his own will
on the sabbath [...] Let no man walk after the animal to graze it outside his city, except
within two thousand cubits [...] Let him not raise his hand to strike it with his fist, if
it is stubborn. Let him not take it out of his house [...] Let no man take out from the house
to outside space, or from outside space into the house [...] And if he is in a booth, let him not go out from it
and let him not enter it [...] Let him not open a sealed vessel on the sabbath [...] Let no man carry
on himself perfumes to go out and bring in and come in on the sabbath [...] Let him not lift, in his dwelling house,
a stone or dust [...] Let the nurse not carry the infant when going forth and entering on the sabbath [...]
Let no man press his male servant or his female servant or his hired worker on the sabbath
Let no man assist an animal to give birth on the sabbath day [...] and if it drops into a pit
or a ditch, let him not raise it up on the sabbath [...] Let no man rest in a place near
to the nations on the sabbath [...] Let no man profane the sabbath for wealth or gain on the sabbath [...]
And every human soul that falls into water, a place of water, or into a place
let no man bring him up by ladder, or rope, or vessel [...] Let no man go up to the altar on the sabbath
except the sabbath burnt offering, as it is written thus, apart from your sabbaths [...] Let him not send
to the altar a burnt offering, a grain offering, frankincense, or wood, by the hand of a man unclean with one
of the uncleannesses, to permit him to defile the altar [...] for thus it is written, the sacrifice
of the wicked is an abomination, yet the plea of the upright is like a welcome offering [...] And everyone who comes to
the house of worship shall not enter unclean, though washed [...] And when the trumpets of the assembly sound
he shall advance or delay, and they shall not cease from the work, all of it [...] the sabbath