Text A.
11 [Lost.]
12 And this also shall be the judgement of all them who have entered into His covenant, who will not hold fast to these 〈statutes〉: they shall be visited for destruction through the hand 13 of Belial. This is the day on which God shall visit 〈as He hath spoken〉:
‘The princes of Judah were 〈like them that removed the landmark〉:
Upon them will I pour out 〈My〉 wrath 〈like water〉.’
14 For they are too sick to be healed,
And they have been at the head of all the rebels.
15 Because they have not turned from the way of traitors,
But have wallowed in the ways of harlots,
And in the wealth of wickedness and (in) revenge.
16 And every man beareth a grudge against his brother,
And every man hateth his neighbour.
17 And they committed trespass every man against his next of kin,
And drew near to unchastity:
Text B.
11 Aaron and Israel: Just as it was during the period of the first visitation, concerning which He spake through Ezekiel ‘to set a mark upon the foreheads of them that sigh and cry’, but the rest were delivered to ‘the sword that avengeth with 12 the vengeance of the covenant’.
And this also shall be the judgement of all them that have entered into His covenant, who will not hold fast to these statutes: they shall be visited for 13 destruction through the hand of Belial. This is the day on which God shall visit, as He hath spoken:
‘The princes of Judah were like them that remove the landmark:
Upon them will I pour out 〈My〉 wrath like water.’
15 Because they entered into the covenant of repentance
And yet have not turned from the way of traitors:
But have dealt wantonly in the ways of fornication,
In the wealth of wickedness and in revenge.
16 And every man beareth a grudge against his brother,
And every man hateth his neighbour.
17 And they committed trespass every man against his next of kin,
And drew near to unchastity:
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Fragments of a Zadokite Work / Damascus Document — R. H. Charles (1913)