A — The Rules

Entry into the Covenant (4Q275)

1Previously called 4QTohorot B a, this tiny fragment represents a document describing the entry into the Covenant, known from the Community Rule (1QS), and alludes to a festival in the third month, i.e. the Feast of Weeks of Pentecost, when according to one of the Cave 4 manuscripts of the Damascus Document (4Q266) the Qumran Covenant renewal took place. For the editio princeps, see P. S. Alexander and G. Vermes, DJD, XXVI, 200—16.

2[And the Guardian will come] and the elders with him until... and they shall enter by genealogy... And the Guardian shall [curse (the unrepentant), saying 'Be damned without] mercy. [Let him be cur]sed ...' And he will remove him] from his inheritance for ev[er] ... when he visits destruction ...