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Damascus Document (Zadokite Work) 11

Cairo Genizah

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And this is the order in reference to the judges of the congregation.

2They shall amount to ten men selected from the congregation according to the time defined; four of the tribe of Levi and Aaron, and six of Israel learned in the Book of the Hagu and in the Ordinances of the Covenant, from five and twenty years old even unto sixty years old.

3But none shall be appointed when he is sixty years old and upward to judge the congregation.

4For through the trespasses of man his days were minished, and when the wrath of God was kindled against the inhabitants of the earth, He commanded their intelligence to depart from them before they completed their days.

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About Damascus Document (Zadokite Work)

An apocryphal or pseudepigraphal text — outside the canon of the Western churches, yet widely circulated among ancient Jews and Christians. Published here from a public-domain translation, edited for continuous reading.