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Ways of Righteousness (4Q421) — Source Text

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Hebrew, Qumran Cave 4. Apparatus-verified readings only, after Qimron composite edition (Zenodo, CC BY 4.0), p. 865. The Qimron PDF font encoding blocks direct body-text extraction; only apparatus-confirmed phrases are presented. Lacunae marked with [...]; no text conjectured.

4Q421 Fragment 1 (Apparatus-Confirmed)

[...]  כל  [...]
[...] לחזק לב [...] בשעת [...]
[...] כל עובדי [...] [...]
[...] עֹבְֵדי ִרשְׁעָה [...]
[...] [...]

Lines 1–5. Apparatus: "עֹבְֵדי ִרשְׁעָה" (workers of wickedness) apparatus variant, line 3. Qimron p. 865.

4Q421 Fragment 2 (Apparatus-Confirmed — Isaiah 57:15)

[...]
[...] כי כה אמר [...]
[...] ולהחיות לב נדכאים [...]
[...]

Line 25/26. Apparatus: "כי כה אמר ... ולהחיות לב נדכאים" = Isaiah 57:15. Cross-reference: 4Q436 (Barki Nafshi). Qimron p. 865.

Source Colophon

Apparatus-verified Hebrew after Elisha Qimron, The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Hebrew and Aramaic Texts (Zenodo 2020, CC BY 4.0), p. 865. Biblical cross-references: Isaiah 57:15; 4Q436 (Barki Nafshi). Lacunae marked with [...]; no text conjectured beyond apparatus-confirmed readings.

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