A — The Rules

Chapter 2

Premium narration

Previously called 4QTohorot B a, this tiny fragment represents a document describing the entry into the Covenant, known from the Community Rule, and alludes to a festival in the third month, i.e. the Feast of Weeks of Pentecost, when according to one of the Cave manuscripts of the Damascus Document the Qumran Covenant renewal took place. For the editio princeps, see P. S. Alexander and G. Vermes, DJD, XXVI, 200—16.

And the Guardian will come and the elders with him until.. and they shall enter by genealogy.. And the Guardian shall curse, saying 'Be damned without mercy. Let him be cursed..' And he will remove him] from his inheritance for ever.. when he visits destruction..