Dead Sea Scroll Rules

THE RULE OF THE COMMUNITY

1. All members must give everything they have to the Community (1QS 1:11-12, p. 3)

2. No one can go away from any of God’s commands for feasts and set times (1QS 1:13-15, p. 3)

3. All members must make a covenant with God to follow His commands (1QS 1:16-17, p. 3)

   1. The priests will lead the new members in the confession of the covenant (1QS 1:18-2:18, p. 3)

   2. Everyone must recite the confession every year (1QS 2:19-23, p. 5)

   3. No one’s rank shall change (1QS 2:23, p. 5)

   4. Anyone who refuses to make the annual confession shall be cast out of the Community (1QS 2:25, p.5)

   5. Members are cleansed by ritual cleansing of repentance and by following God’s commandments (1QS 3:8-9, p. 5)

4. All decisions of the Community are made by vote (1QS 5:3, p. 8)

5. Those who wish to enter the Community must make a binding oath in front of everyone that they will return to the Torah as it has been interpreted through revelation to the priests of the Community (1QS 5:8-9, p. 8)

6. Everyone will have their rank and deeds recorded in the Rule (1QS 5:23, p. 9)

   1. Everyone will be tested annually and promoted or demoted according to their works and spirit (1QS 5:24, p. 9)

7. No one should speak angrily against another or mutter against them (1QS 5:25-26, p. 9)

8. No one should rebuke anyone in front of others unless they are witnesses (1QS 6:1, p. 9)

9. The junior should always obey the senior (1QS 6:2, p. 9)

   1. The junior and senior will eat together, bless together, and take counsel together (1QS 6:3, p. 9)

10. For every group of 10 people, there must be at least 1 priest (1QS 6:3, p. 9)

    1. The priest should always be the first to bless the wine and bread whenever people eat together (1QS 6:4-6, p. 9)

    2. In every group of 10 people, there must be at least 1 that can interpret the Torah (1QS 6:6, p. 9)

11. The Many will need to watch a third of the night each year to read the Torah, explain its mandates, and bless (1QS 6:7-8, p. 9)

    1. Whenever the Many come together for a session of the Many, they come in by ranks: first the priests, then the elders, and then the others (1QS 6:8-9, p. 10)

    2. No one should interrupt another (1QS 6:10, p. 10)

    3. No one should talk before someone of greater rank (1QS 6:10-11, p. 10)

    4. No one should say anything without the Many allowing it (1QS 6:11, p. 10)

    5. If someone wants to speak, is prevented by the Examiner, but they are not in the position to ask the Many questions, they should say “I have something to say to the Many” and speak if allowed (1QS 6:11-13, p. 10)

12. If any Israelite wants to join the council of the Community, the Instructor at the head of the Many will test his insight to see if they is righteous and, if they is able, they will introduce him to the covenant (1QS 6:13-15, p. 10)

    1. If the person is introduced to the covenant, they will stand in front of the Many to be questioned concerning his duties and be included or excluded from the Community on that basis (1QS 6:15-16, p. 10)

    2. If they get included into the Community, they cannot touch the pure food of the Many or share their possession until after they have tested them for a year (1QS 6:16-17, p. 10)

    3. If they completes a year in the Community, the Many will question him about their duties and their deeds according to the law and vote on whether or not they can join the Community (1QS 6:18-19, p. 10)

    4. If they vote them to join, they will join the Community and give over all his wealth and possessions to the Inspector of the belongings of the Many (1QS 6:19-20, p. 10)

       1. The possessions and wealth given up by the initiate will become part of the Community items but will not be used for the Many (1QS 6:20, p. 10)

    5. The initiate cannot drink with the Many until they complete their second year (1QS 6:20-21, p. 10)

    6. When the initiate completes their second year, they will be examined by the Many (1QS 6:21, p. 10)

    7. If the Many votes on the initiate joining, they will enter into the rule according to their rank, they will share their possessions with the Many, and they will be given a vote among the Community (1QS 6:21-23, p. 10)

13. The Community is judged with scrutiny (1QS 6:24, p. 10)

    1. If anyone has lied about goods, they will be excluded from eating the pure food of the Many for a year and only be given a quarter of their allotted bread (1QS 6:24-25, p. 10)

    2. If anyone speaks sharply or harshly with someone else in the Community, they will be punished for a year (1QS 6:25-27, p. 10)

    3. If anyone says the Tetragrammaton for any reason at all, they will be excluded from the Community and not let back in (1QS 6:27-7:2, p. 11)

    4. If anyone speaks angrily to the priests they will be excluded from the pure food of the Many and will die if they disobey (1QS 7:2-3, p. 11)

       1. If they spoke angrily unintentionally, they will be punished for half a year (1QS 7:3-4, p. 11)

    5. If anyone intentionally insults someone else, they will be excluded for a year (1QS 7:4-5, p. 11)

    6. If anyone lies to someone else, they will be punished for half a year (1QS 7:5, p. 11)

    7. If anyone is negligent of someone else, they will be punished for a quarter year (1QS 7:5-6, p. 11)

    8. If anyone is negligent of the community possessions, they will replace the possessions of which they were negligent (1QS 7:6-7, p. 11)

       1. If they do not replace the community possessions, they will be punished for 60 days (1QS 7:10, p. 11)

    9. If anyone feels animosity for someone else without reason, they will be punished for half a year (1QS 7:10, p. 11)

       1. Later on the community changed this rule to make the punishment for feelings of animosity to be punished for a year (1QS 7:10, p. 11)

       2. If anyone retaliates for any reason, they will have this same punishment (1QS 7:11, p. 11)

    10. If anyone utters futile words, they will be punished for a quarter year (1QS 7:11, p. 11)

    11. If anyone interrupts someone else, they will be punished for 10 days (1QS 7:11-12, p. 11)

    12. If anyone lies down and sleeps during a session of the Many, they will be punished for 30 days (1QS 7:12, p. 11)

        1. If anyone leaves the session of the Many without reason or falls asleep up to 3 times during a session of the Many, they will be punished for 10 days (1QS 7:12-13, p. 11)

    13. If anyone needlessly walks naked in front of someone else, they will be punished for a quarter year (1QS 7:14, p. 11)

    14. If anyone spits in the session of the Many, they will be punished for 30 days (1QS 7:15, p. 11)

    15. If anyone takes out a ‘hand’ from under his clothes or his rags allow his nakedness to be seen, they will be punished for 30 days (1QS 7:15-16, p. 11)

    16. If anyone giggles loudly without reason, they will be sentenced to 30 days (1QS 7:16-17, p. 11)

    17. If anyone takes out their left hand to gesticulate with it, they will be punished for 10 days (1QS 7:17, p. 11)

    18. If anyone goes around defaming someone else, they will be excluded from the pure food of the Many for a year (1QS 7:17-18, p. 11)

        1. If anyone goes around defaming the Many, they will be excluded from the Community and never return (1QS 7:18, p. 11)

    19. If anyone complains about the founding of the Community, they shall be excluded from the Community and never return (1QS 7:29, p. 11)

    20. If anyone complains about someone else without reason, they will be punished for half a year (1QS 7:19-20, p. 11)

    21. If anyone betrays the Community and comes back, they will be punished for 2 years (1QS 7:20-21, p. 11)

        1. For the first year, they will not eat the pure food of the Many (1QS 7:21, p. 11)

        2. For the second year, they will not drink with the Many and must sit at the back of the men of the Community (1QS 7:22, p. 12)

        3. After the 2 years, the Many will be questioned about the readmitted and, if they allow, they shall enter their ranks and later be questioned (1QS 7:23, p. 12)

    22. If anyone has been with the Community council for 10 full years and betrays the Community, they cannot come back into the Community council (1QS 7:24-26, p. 12)

        1. Anyone who associates with such a person with pure things or goods will likewise be excluded (1QS 7:26-27, p. 12)

14. The Community council should have 12 men and 3 priests that know the law well (1QS 8:1-4, p. 12)

    1. When the Community council has been established in perfect behavior for 2 full years, they will be set apart from the Community as holy (1QS 8:10-11, p. 12)

15. If the Interpreter finds some secret in the Community, he must not keep it secret (1QS 8:11-12, p. 12)

16. If a man of the Community shuns any commandment, he cannot eat the pure food of the holy men or be with them until he has been cleansed from his evil and walks perfectly again (1QS 8:16-18, p. 13)

    1. If such a one is cleansed from his evil, walks perfectly again, and is allowed by the Many, he can resume his rank again (1QS 8:18-19, p. 13)

17. If anyone enters the council of holiness, walking perfectly, carelessly breaks one law of Moses, they will be excluded from the Community council and cannot return (1QS 8:21-23, p. 13)

    1. No man of holiness should associate with this person or his advise (1QS 8:23-24, p. 13)

    2. If he only acted in oversight, he will only be excluded from eating the pure food and the council and regulation (1QS 8:24, p. 13)

       1. He cannot judge anyone and no one can ask for his advice for 2 full years (1QS 8:25, p. 13)

       2. If he acts perfectly for those 2 years, he may return (1QS 8:25-26, p. 13)

18. If anyone sins from oversight, they will be punished for 2 years (1QS 9:1, p. 13)

    1. If anyone sins from carelessness, they will be excluded and cannot come back (1QS 9:1, p. 13)

    2. Anyone who sins from oversight will be tested for 2 full years and be allowed back in if the Many say so (1QS 9:2, p. 13)

19. The Instructor is to work with the times and ranks of each man as mandated and revealed by God (1QS 9:12-14, p. 14)

    1. He should promote the pure and intelligent (1QS 9:15-16, p. 14)

    2. He should not argue or reprimand those destined to die (1QS 9:16-17, p. 14)

       1. He should reproach those who have chosen to follow the right path (1QS 9:17-18, p. 14)

    3. He should teach those in the Community the mandates he has learned so that they will stay away from wickedness (1QS 9:19-21, p. 14)

20. If anyone acts in oversight, they will be excluded from pure food and the council for 2 full years and will be admitted back in they do not sin in the 2 years (4Q258 [4QSd] 2:1-2; cf. n.)

THE DAMASCUS DOCUMENT

1. Having more than one wife is a sin (CD-A 4:21-5:2, p. 36)

2. Lying with a menstruating woman is a sin (CD-A 5:7, p. 36)

3. Incest is a sin (CD-A 5:7-11, p. 36)

4. No swearing by ‘God’ (CD-A 15:1, p. 39)

5. No swearing by ‘Lord’ (CD-A 15:1, p. 39)

6. Only swearing by the youth’s oaths or the curses of the covenant are allowed (CD-A 15:1-2, p. 39)

7. No going against one’s own oath (CD-A 15:3, p. 39)

8. If anyone swears by the covenant, they must do it before the judges (CD-A 15:3-4, p. 39)

9. If anyone goes against one’s own oath they should confess it and make amends (CD-A 15:4-5, p. 39)

10. If anyone enters the covenant, they must make their sons take the oath for the covenant as well (CD-A 15:5-6, p. 39)

11. Anyone who is interested in the congregation and talks to the Inspector should take the covenant oath (CD-A 15:7-10, p. 39)

    1. No one should tell this person the precepts of the congregation until he is inspected by the Inspector (CD-A 15:10-11, p. 39)

    2. The Overseer should teach the initiate the orders that he should learn for a full year (CD-A 15:13-15, p. 39)

    3. No one stupid or insane can enter the congregation (CD-A 15:15-17, p. 39)

    4. No one blind, lame, or deaf may enter congregation (CD-A 15:15-17, p. 39)

    5. No one under age may enter the congregation (CD-A 15:15-17, p. 39)

12. No one should annul an oath even if they must die for it (CD-A 16:7-8, p. 40)

    1. No one should make any oath that will cause them to disobey Torah even if they must die (CD-A 16:8-9, p. 40)

    2. Men can annul womens’ oaths for them (CD-A 16:10, p. 40)

    3. No one should swear an oath if they don’t think they can fulfill it (CD-A 16:11-12, p. 40)

13. No one should offer anything unjustly earned (CD-A 16:13, p. 40)

    1. No priest should receive offerings earned unjustly (CD-A 16:13-14, p. 40)

    2. No one should call anything holy their own (CD-A 16:14-18, p. 40)

14. No one can accuse another as they want (CD-A 9:1, p. 40)

    1. No one should accuse a fellow without witnesses (CD-A 9:2-3, p. 40)

    2. No one should accuse a fellow when they are angry (CD-A 9:4, p. 40)

    3. No one should accuse a fellow to the elders to defame them (CD-A 9:4, p. 40)

15. No one should stay silent when their fellow sins (CD-A 9:5-7, p. 40)

16. No one should make an oath without the judges to witness it (CD-A 9:9-10, p. 40)

17. If anyone loses anything, they should make an oath cursing the one who might steal it (CD-A 9:10-12, p. 40)

    1. If anyone took the item and knows of the curse but does not say anything, they are guilty (CD-A 9:11-12, p. 40)

    2. If anyone took the item, they should give it back and confess it to the priest (CD-A 9:13-14, p. 40)

    3. If anyone finds a lost item without an owner, they should give it to the priests (CD-A 9:14-15, p. 40)

       1. If the priests do not find the owner, the person who found it will get to keep it (CD-A 9:16, p. 40)

18. If anyone sees someone else sin alone, he should tell the Inspector so they can write it down for the Inspector (CD-A 9:16-18, p. 40)

    1. If someone else reports that same person doing the same sin again to the Inspector then the person who was caught sinning by two separate witnesses will be guilty (CD-A 9:18-20, p. 41)

    2. If someone else reports that same person doing some other sin than what the first person caught the person sinning in, the person who sinned will be excluded from the pure food (CD-A 9:20-23, p. 41)

       1. For the sinner to be excluded from the pure food, both the witnesses must be trustworthy (CD-A 9:21-22, p. 41)

       2. The witnesses must also have reported the sinner to the Inspector on the same day that they caught the person sinning (CD-A 9:21-22, p. 41)

19. For anyone to be punished concerning wealth, they must have 2 trustworthy witnesses (CD-A 9:22-23, p. 41)

    1. For anyone to be punished concerning holy food, they must have 1 trustworthy witness (CD-A 9:22-23, p. 41)

20. No one can witness for any capital offense until they have fully entered into the congregation (CD-A 9:23-10:1-2, p. 41)

    1. No one who consciously disobeyed any command can be a witness against another until he has been let back into the congregation (CD-A 10:2-3, p. 41)

21. Judges of the congregation will be made up of 10 chosen men from the congregation for a set time (CD-A 10:4-5, p. 41)

    1. 4 must be from Levi (CD-A 10:4-5, p. 41)

    2. 6 must be from Aaron (CD-A 10:4-5, p. 41)

    3. They must know the Book of Meditation (CD-A 10:6-7, p. 41)

    4. They must be 25-60 years old (CD-A 10:6, p. 41)

22. Only certain water can be used for purification (CD-A 10:10, p. 41)

    1. No one should bathe in dirty water (CD-A 10:11, p. 41)

    2. No one should bathe in water that cannot cover a man (CD-A 10:11, p. 41)

    3. No one should purify a vessel with the purification water (CD-A 10:12, p. 41)

    4. If any bath is not filled enough to cover a man, it will become unclean whenever anyone unclean touches it (CD-A 10:12-13, p. 41)

23. Everyone should observe the sabbath (CD-A 10:14, p. 41)

    1. No one should work beginning a sun’s distance from sunset of sabbath (CD-A 10:14-15, p. 41)

    2. No one should say anything empty or stupid on sabbath (CD-A 10:17-18, p. 41)

    3. No one should speak about work or what they will do the next day on sabbath (CD-A 10:19, p. 41)

    4. No one should walk in a field to do work even if they want to on sabbath (CD-A 10:20-21, p. 41)

    5. No one should walk more than 1,000 cubits from the city on sabbath (CD-A 10:21, p. 41)

    6. No one should eat any food unless it had been prepared already on sabbath (CD-A 10:22, p. 41)

    7. No one should eat anything they find in the field on sabbath (CD-A 10:22-23, p. 41)

    8. No one should drink anything not from the camp on sabbath (CD-A 10:23, p. 41)

    9. If anyone is traveling and bathes, they should drink from where they are on sabbath (CD-A 11:1, p. 41)

       1. They should not fill any vessel with water on sabbath (CD-A 11:1-2, p. 41)

    10. No one should send a gentile to do what they want on sabbath (CD-A 11:2, p. 41)

    11. No one should wear dirty garments unless they have been washed with water or rubbed with incense on sabbath (CD-A 11:3-4, p. 42)

    12. No one should voluntarily fast on sabbath (CD-A 11:4-5, p. 42)

    13. No one should follow an animal outside the city unless it is less than 1,00 cubits on sabbath (CD-A 11:5-6, p. 42)

    14. No one should raise their hand to strike someone else on sabbath (CD-A 11:6, p. 42)

    15. No one should move anything inside their house outside on sabbath (CD-A 11:7-8, p. 42)

    16. No one should move anything outside their house inside on sabbath (CD-A 11:8, p. 42)

    17. No one should move anything inside their hut outside on sabbath (CD-A 11:8, p. 42)

    18. No one should move anything outside their hut inside on sabbath (CD-A 11:9, p. 42)

    19. No one should open a sealed vessel on sabbath (CD-A 11:9, p. 42)

    20. No one should wear perfumes anywhere on sabbath (CD-A 11:9-10, p. 42)

    21. No one should lift a stone or dust on sabbath (CD-A 11:10-11, p. 42)

    22. No wet-nurse should take a baby to go anywhere on sabbath (CD-A 11:11, p. 42)

    23. No one should make their servants or workers work on sabbath (CD-A 11:12, p. 42)

    24. No one should help an animal give birth on sabbath (CD-A 11:13, p. 42)

    25. No one should take an animal out of a pit or well if it falls in on sabbath (CD-A 11:13-14, p. 42)

    26. No one should stay in a place close to gentiles on sabbath (CD-A 11:14-15, p. 42)

    27. No one should gain wealth on sabbath (CD-A 11:15, p. 42)

    28. No one should offer anything to anyone who falls into a pit on sabbath (CD-A 11:16-17, p. 42)

    29. No one should offer anything on the altar except the sacrifice of sabbath on sabbath (CD-A 11:, p. 42)

24. No one should send any anything to the altar at all by anyone impure in any way (CD-A 11:18-21, p. 42)

25. Everyone who enters into the house of prostration must not be impure and must be washed (CD-A 11:21-22, p. 42)

    1. The service should not stop for someone impure or unwashed but that person shall before or after the trumpets (CD-A 11:22-23, p. 42)

26. No one should sleep with their wife in the same city as the temple (CD-A 12:1-2, p. 42)

27. Anyone who preaches apostasy will be judged as someone who has a necromancer or diviner (CD-A 12:2-3, p. 42)

28. Anyone who defiles the sabbath or a festival will not be excommunicated but should be kept in custody (CD-A 12:3-5, p. 42)

    1. If they do not return to their error, they will be kept in custody for another 7 years and then enter the assembly (CD-A 12:5-6, p. 42)

29. No one should kill any gentile for wealth (CD-A 12:6-7, p. 42)

    1. No one should take any wealth from a gentile (CD-A 12:7-8, p. 42)

       1. If the congregation advises it, its okay to take wealth from a gentile (CD-A 12:8, p. 42)

    2. No one should sell any animal to the gentiles (CD-A 12:8-9, p. 42)

    3. No one should sell anything from their granary or wine-press to a gentile (CD-A 12:10, p. 42)

30. No one should sell their servant (CD-A 12:10, p. 42)

31. No one should any living creature or creeper (CD-A 12:11-13, p. 43)

    1. No one should eat fish unless they have been split open and had their blood poured out (CD-A 12:13-14, p. 43)

    2. Living Locusts should be put through fire or water (CD-A 12:14-15, p. 43)

32. Any wood, stones, or dust with man’s impurity will will make anyone who touches it impure (CD-A 12:15-17, p. 43)

33. Any utensil, nail, or peg in the wall in the same house as a dead man is impure in the same way that anything else a dead man lies on becomes impure (CD-A 12:17-18, p. 43)

34. Anyone who enters with the covenant but is not diligent in being obedient to the commandments should be expelled from the congregation and reprimanded by everyone until he returns to being with the men of perfect holiness again (CD-B 20:1-6, p. 46)

    1. If anyone does not live in accordance with the congregation’s interpretation of the law, no one should associate with them in work or wealth (CD-B 20:, p. 46)

35. No one who is too quiet, stutters, or cannot enunciate should not read in the book of Torah (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 6 col. 2:1-3, p. 52)

36. No one who has been a captive of gentiles should enter in the service or touch the most holy things (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 6 col. 2:4-7, p. 52)

37. If anyone insults another not in the council, they will be kept apart for a year and be punished for half a year (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 4:2-3, p. 56)

    1. If anyone says something senseless, they will be punished for 10 days and kept apart for a quarter year (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 4:3-4, p. 56)

    2. If anyone interrupts another, they will be isolated and punished for 10 days (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 4:4-5, p. 56)

    3. If anyone lies down to sleep during the meeting of the Many, they will be kept apart for 30 days and punished for 10 days (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 4:5-6, p. 56)

    4. If anyone leaves the council of the Many without reason up to 3 times in a session, they will be punished for 10 days (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 4:6-8, p. 56)

       1. If they go away from the session again, they will be punished for 30 days (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 4:8-9, p. 56)

    5. No one is allowed to walk naked in front of another (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 4:9, p. 56)

    6. If anyone walks naked in front of creatures, they will be kept apart for half a year (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 4:9-10, p. 56)

    7. If anyone takes out their ‘hand’ from their clothes, they will be punished for 10 days (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 4:10-12, p. 56)

    8. If anyone bows down stupidly and makes their voice heard, they will be kept apart for 30 days and punished for 5 days (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 4:12-13, p. 56)

    9. If anyone takes out their left hand to gesticulate with it, they will be punished for 10 days (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 4:13-14, p. 56)

    10. If anyone slanders another, they will be kept apart from the pure food for a year (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 4:14-15, p. 56)

38. At the set time for expulsion, the congregation will expel those they have decided to expel (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 5:14-15, p. 57)

    1. Those who eat from their money will be expelled (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 5:14-15, p. 57)

    2. Those who seek their own peace will be expelled (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 5:15, p. 57)

39. The Inspector will write down those who will be expelled (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 5:16, p. 57)

40. The Levites and men of the camps will meet every third month to curse those who cannot keep the law (4Q226 [4QDa] Frag. 18 col. 5:16-18, p. 57)

41. Marriages should not be unequally yoked (4Q271 [4QDf] Frag. 1 col. 1:9-10, p. 57)

    1. No man should marry a woman who knows how to work in her father’s house (4Q271 [4QDf] Frag. 1 col. 1:11-12, p. 58)

    2. No man should marry a widow who prostitutes herself (4Q271 [4QDf] Frag. 1 col. 1:12, p. 58)

    3. No man should marry a woman who has had a bad reputation from her father’s house (4Q271 [4QDf] Frag. 1 col. 1:12-13, p. 58)

    4. No man should take a woman unless they are inspected and found to be trustworthy by the Inspector (4Q271 [4QDf] Frag. 1 col. 1:13-15, p. 58)

42. No one should purify any meat that had been sacrificed by gentiles (4Q271 [4QDf] Frag. 1 col. 2:8, p. 58)

    1. No one should purify any metal material which gentiles use to make images with (4Q271 [4QDf] Frag. 1 col. 2:8-10, p. 58)

43. If anyone despises the judgment of the Many, they will be excluded and cannot come back (4Q267 [4QDb] Frag. 12 lin. 1-2, p. 62)

    1. If anyone takes their meal outside of the rules, they must give it back to whomever they took it from (4Q267 [4QDb] Frag. 12 lin. 3-4, p. 62)

    2. If anyone approaches their wife with lust and outside of regulation, they will be excluded and cannot come back (4Q267 [4QDb] Frag. 12 lin. 4-5, p. 62)

THE HALAKHIC LETTER

1. The offering of the wheat that the Gentiles should not be eaten (4Q394 [4QMMTa] Frag. 1 col. 1:6-7, p. 80)

   1. The offering of the wheat of the Gentiles should not be brought into the temple (4Q394 [4QMMTa] Frag. 1 col. 1:8, p. 80)

2. The priests should see to the cereal-offerings being eaten with the fats and meat on the day of their sacrifice and to them not being postponed (4Q394 [4QMMTa] Frag. 1 col. 1:12-16, p. 80)

   1. Sin offerings should be slaughtered, burned, ashes collected, and water sprinkled at sunset(4Q394 [4QMMTa] Frag. 1 col. 1:16-19, p. 80)

3. Slaughtered sacrifices should be slaughtered north of the camp (4Q394 [4QMMTa] Frag. 1 col. 2:14-18, p. 80)

4. Anyone can eat the son of an animal after the animal has been slaughtered(4Q394 [4QMMTa] Frag. 2 lin. 6-7, p. 80)

5. Ammonites, Moabites, bastards, men with crushed testicles, and men with severed penises should not enter the assembly (4Q394 [4QMMTa] Frag. 2 lin. 8-9, p. 80)

6. Any flowing liquid is impure (4Q394 [4QMMTa] Frag. 3 lin. 5-6, p. 81)

7. Dogs should not be brought into the holy camp (4Q394 [4QMMTa] Frag. 3 lin. 8-9, p. 81)

8. Lepers should live outside the camp (4Q394 [4QMMTa] Frag. 3 lin. 14-16, p. 81)

9. Pregnant animals should not have the mother and son sacrificed on the same day (4Q396 [4QMMTc] Frag. 1 col. 1:2, p. 8)

10. Lepers should not eat any holy food  (4Q396 [4QMMTc] Frag. 1 col. 3:11, p. 82)

11. Every bone, with or without flesh on it, is considered as unclean as a dead person (4Q396 [4QMMTc] Frag. 1 col. 4:1-3, p. 82)

12. No pure animals should marry outside their species (4Q396 [4QMMTc] Frag. 1 col. 4:5-6, p. 82)

    1. No clothes should be made of mixed fabrics (4Q396 [4QMMTc] Frag. 1 col. 4:6-7, p. 82)

    2. No field should be sown with different types of seed (4Q396 [4QMMTc] Frag. 1 col. 4:7-8, p. 82)

OTHER HALAKHIC TEXTS

1. Anyone who has nothing can come to a threshing floor or press to eat some of the food and collect some for themselves (4Q159 [4QOrda] Frag. 1 col. 2:1-4, p. 86)

   1. Anyone who collects from someone else's threshing floor or press may not harvest with what they gather for themselves (4Q159 [4QOrda] Frag. 1 col. 2:4-5, p. 86)

2. Anyone who falls into poverty may sell themselves to a foreign family to be a day-laborer for a year (4Q159 [4QOrda] Frag. 2 lin. 1, p. 86)

   1. No master should deal with their slave or servant harshly (4Q159 [4QOrda] Frag. 2 lin. 1-2, p. 86)

   2. No one should sell themselves as a slave or servant to a gentile (4Q159 [4QOrda] Frag. 2 lin. 2, p. 86)

3. If a man calls his wife a fornicator when he first took her, they should examine her (4Q159 [4QOrda] Frag. 2 lin. 8, p. 87)

   1. If it is found out that she has fornicated, she should be put to death (4Q159 [4QOrda] Frag. 2 lin. 9, p. 87)

   2. If it is found out that the man lied, he should pay two minas and cannot divorce his wife his whole life (4Q159 [4QOrda] Frag. 2 lin. 9-10, p. 87)

4. Only the priest should sprinkle the water of purification on the impure (4Q274 [4QTohorot Bc] Frag. 1 lin. 6, p. 90)

THE RULE OF THE CONGREGATION

1. When Israelites come together at the end of days to assemble, there shall be children and women included and they shall read the regulations of the covenant and instruct them with it (1Q28a [1QSa] 1:1-5, p. 126)

2. There are rules for the armies of the congregation (1Q28a [1QSa] 1:6, p. 126)

   1. Israelites be taught the Book of Meditation and its regulations since their youth (1Q28a [1QSa] 1:6-8, p. 126)

   2. Initiates will be counted among the boys for 10 years (1Q28a [1QSa] 1:8, p. 126)

   3. At 20 years-old, they will enroll to enter the holy community among his family (1Q28a [1QSa] 1:8-9, p. 126)

      1. He shall not have intercourse with a woman until he is 20 years-old (1Q28a [1QSa] 1:9-11, p. 126)

   4. At 25 years-old, he shall take place among the foundations of the honly congregation to perform the service of the congregation  (1Q28a [1QSa] 1:12-13, p. 126)

   5. At 30 years-old, he shall become a chief of 100s, commander of 100, commander of 50, commander of 10, and shall judge disputes under Aaron and the priests (1Q28a [1QSa] 1:13-17, p. 126)

3. Based on whether he has a lot or a little, he will be more or less honorable than another (1Q28a [1QSa] 1:18, p. 126)

4. When a man grows older, they should give him a task according to his strength (1Q28a [1QSa] 1:19, p. 126)

5. No simpleton should come to hold office for disputes in the congregation or go to war (1Q28a [1QSa] 1:19-20, p. 126)

   1. A simpleton should have his family sign him up to do forced labor as best as he can do (1Q28a [1QSa] 1:21-22, p. 126)

6. The Levites shall lead the congregation in and out under Aaron (1Q28a [1QSa] 1:22-23, p. 126)

   1. The rank of the congregation is the chiefs of the clans, the commanders, the judges, and the officials (1Q28a [1QSa] 1:23-24, p. 127)

   2. Everyone should sanctify themselves for 3 days to prepare for a convocation of the assembly (1Q28a [1QSa] 1:25-27, p. 127)

   3. No one defiled by impurities of men should enter the assembly for congregation (1Q28a [1QSa] 2:4, p. 127)

   4. No one defiled in his flesh should enter the assembly for the congregation (1Q28a [1QSa] 2:5, p. 127)

   5. No one paralyzed in his hands or eyes or who is lame, blind, deaf, dumb, or has visible blemished flesh should enter the assembly for the congregation (1Q28a [1QSa] 2:5-7, p. 127)

   6. No old or tottering man should enter the assembly for the congregation (1Q28a [1QSa] 2:7, p. 127)

7. Everyone should sit in the assembly of the famous men and community council according to their dignity (1Q28a [1QSa] 2:12-14, p. 127)

   1. The Messiah of Israel should enter first, then the chiefs of the clans of Israel, then the chiefs of the clans of the congregation, then the wise and learned shall sit down (1Q28a [1QSa] 2:14-17, p. 127)

8. When they sit down at the table to drink the new one, no one should reach out to grab the bred or wine before the priest blesses the wine and the Messiah of Israel blesses the bread and the congregation (1Q28a [1QSa] 2:17-21, p. 127)

   1. At least 10 men should be gathered for the meal (1Q28a [1QSa] 2:22, p. 128)

*For full notes including charts comparing laws and their punishments: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hI7TAJ50hgGA1CFSTtFBVdGa88UXeR50zV1SXVV7gII/edit?usp=sharing