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Hymn of the Lord's Vineyard — Source Text

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Hebrew transcription after Elisha Qimron, The Qumran Texts — Composite Edition (Zenodo, CC BY 4.0, 2020). Decoded from Miqdas Type1 font (old Mac Hebrew visual encoding); per-word byte-reversal applied to convert visual to logical order. All lacunae marked [...]. Lines 1–2 and 6 are too fragmentary for transcription.

Line 3: [...] לשער מרום הקודש [...]
Line 4: [...] מטעכה ופלגי כבודכה [...]
Line 5: [...] שעשועיכה [...]
Line 6: [...] מכה [...]

Source Colophon

4Q500 (4QHymn of the Vineyard). Cave 4, Qumran. Hebrew. One fragment. Published: Maurice Baillet, Qumrân grotte 4: III (4Q482–4Q520), DJD VII (Oxford: Clarendon, 1982). Transcription after Elisha Qimron, The Qumran Texts — Composite Edition (Zenodo, CC BY 4.0, 2020). Hebrew decoded from Miqdas Type1 custom font encoding using reverse-engineered Mac Hebrew character map; per-word byte-reversal converts visual to logical order. Key readings confirmed against NewPeninimMT Unicode text in the same document. All lacunae marked [...].

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