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Damascus Document (Zadokite Work) 17

Cairo Genizah

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And the regulation of the dwellers of all the camps is:

2They shall be numbered all by their names, the Priests first, the Levites second, the children of Israel third, and the proselyte fourth.

3And they shall be recorded by their names one after another, the Priests first, the Levites second, the children of Israel third, and the proselyte fourth.

4And so they shall be seated and so they shall ask with regard to every matter.

5And the Priest who numbers the many shall be from thirty years old even unto sixty years old, learned in the Book of the Hagu and in all the judgements of the Law to direct them according to their judgments.

6And the Censor who is over all the camps shall be from thirty years old even unto fifty years old, a master in every counsel of men, and in every tongue…

7According to his word shall come in those who enter the congregation every man in his due order.

8And as regards any matter on which it shall be incumbent for any man to speak, he shall speak to the Censor in regard to any suit or cause.

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.