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Damascus Document (Zadokite Work) 16

Genizá do Cairo

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And this is the regulation of the Censor of the camp. He shall instruct the many in the works of God, and shall make them understand His wondrous mighty acts, and shall narrate before them the things of the world since its creation.

2And he shall have mercy upon them as a father upon his children, and shall forgive all that have incurred guilt.

3As a shepherd with his flock he shall loose all the bonds of their knots… oppressed and crushed in his congregation.

4And every one who joins his congregation, he shall reckon him according to his works, his understanding, his might, his strength, and his wealth.

5And they shall record him in his place in accordance with his position in a lot of the camp.

6No man of the children of the camp shall have power to bring a man into the congregation without the word of the Censor of the camp.

7Nor shall any man of them who have entered into the covenant of God do business with the children of the pit unless hand to hand.

8No man shall do a thing as buying and selling unless he has spoken to the Censor of the camp, and he shall do it in the camp and not… and so to him who casts forth… they, and he who is not connected with…

9And this is the settlement of the camps.

10All shall not succeed to settle in the land…

11that have not come from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah.

12And as for all who walk in these the covenant of God standeth fast unto them to save them from all the snares of the pit, for suddenly….

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