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Hodayot-like Text B — Source Text

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Hebrew and Aramaic, Qumran Cave 4. Apparatus-verified readings only, after Qimron composite edition (Zenodo, CC BY 4.0), pp. 874–875. The Qimron PDF font encoding blocks direct body-text extraction; only apparatus-confirmed phrases are presented. Lacunae marked with [...]; no text conjectured.

Fragment 1 (Apparatus-Confirmed Vocabulary)

[...]
[...] שירות [...]
[...] תחבשות [...]
[...]

(Thanksgiving/praise vocabulary; no continuous passage recoverable.)

Fragment 2, Column i — The Flourishing (Apparatus-Confirmed)

[...]
[...] ונשא ענף ועשה פרי [...]
   ויתן רב [...]
[...]
[...] לפאר לדורות עולמים ולעשות פרי [...]
[...]

Fragment 2, Column ii — The Judgment (Apparatus-Confirmed)

[...] ימוטו עליהם גחלים [...]
   ימטר על רשעים פחים ואש וגפרית [...]
[...]
[...] ולצים לצון חמדו להם [...]
[...] נחלי זפת [...]
[...] עקר שרשהי [...]

(Final phrase עקר שרשהי is Aramaic: "its roots were uprooted.")

Source Colophon

Apparatus-verified Hebrew and Aramaic after Elisha Qimron, The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Hebrew and Aramaic Texts (Zenodo 2020, CC BY 4.0), pp. 874–875. Biblical cross-references: Ps 140:11, Ps 11:6, Prov 1:22, Isa 34:9. Lacunae marked with [...]; no text conjectured beyond apparatus-confirmed readings.

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