Cave 4 Hebrew. Qimron composite edition, pp. 202–205. Primary text preserved in Miqdas Type1 font (not extractable from PDF). The following represents confirmed Hebrew recovered from the apparatus (RamatGan Unicode font) and confirmed verbatim scripture quotations.
Fragment 7 — Confirmed Main Text
ואברהם בן שמנים שנה ושש שנים בלדת הגר את ישמעאל
(Genesis 16:16 — verbatim in fragment. Apparatus also preserves the variant reading לאברם for the first word.)
Apparatus Vocabulary — Confirmed from Fragments 1–6
The following Hebrew vocabulary is confirmed from the Qimron apparatus notes for these fragments. The precise line placements are as recorded in DJD XIX; the main text lines themselves are in Miqdas encoding and not directly extractable.
Tower of Babel section (Fragment 3 / apparatus p. 201–203):
בלת לשון ומפרד עמים
(confusing of tongue and separating of peoples)
תבלותם
(their confusion)
Textual variants (apparatus, p. 201–202):
תְּקלָּה — נְסִבָּה / סִבָּה — נְַקלָּה
(stumbling / cause-occasion / was contemptible — alternative readings for disputed passages)
Note on Reconstruction
The Qimron composite edition encodes the primary text of 4Q464 in the Miqdas Type1 Hebrew font, which uses a proprietary glyph-to-codepoint mapping incompatible with Unicode extraction. The apparatus commentary and cross-references appear in RamatGan Unicode Hebrew and are readable. This source text file presents only what can be directly verified. The DJD XIX edition (Maier, 1997) remains the authoritative edition for readers with access to physical or institutional copies.
Cross-references confirmed in apparatus: Genesis 15:13–15; Genesis 16:16; Jubilees 12:25–27; Zephaniah 3:9.
Other Rewritten Scripture scrolls in the Good Work Library: Admonition on the Flood · Apocryphal Pentateuch B · Apocryphon of Joshua · Apocryphon of Joshua — Source Text · Apocryphon of Moses · Apocryphon of Samuel-Kings · Book of Giants · Book of Giants — Source Text · Composition Concerning Divine Providence · Discourse on the Exodus · Exposition on the Patriarchs (4Q464) · Genesis Apocryphon · Joshua Apocryphon Fragment (3Q9) · Joshua Apocryphon Fragment (3Q9) — Source Text · Jubilees Fragments · Meditation on Creation · Paraphrase of Genesis-Exodus · Paraphrase of Kings · Prayer of Moses (2Q21) · Prayer of Moses (2Q21) — Source Text · Pseudo-Moses · Reworked Pentateuch · The Temple Scroll · Words of Moses
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