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C — Calendars, Liturgies and Prayers
Chapter 10
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A manuscript from Cave consisting of papyrus fragments, edited by M. Baillet, lists evening and morning benedictions for each day of the month. The calendar followed appears to be lunar since evening precedes morning. The editor places the writing in the first quarter of the first century BCE.
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III And when the sun rises.. the firmament of heaven, they shall bless. Answering they shall say: Blessed be the God of Israel.. Today.. in the fourth of the gates of light.. On the fifth of the month in the evening, they shall bless. Answering, they shall say: Blessed be the God of Israel who hides.. before him in every division of his glory.. today the fourteenth.. light of the day. Peace be on you, Israel.. When the sun rises to illumine the earth, they shall bless, and again the number shall be eleven days to the feasts of joy and the appointed times of glory, for this day is in the fifteenth of the gates of light.. Peace be on you, Israel. On the sixth of the month in the evening, they shall bless. Answering, they shall say: Blessed be the God of Israel.. And when the sun rises to illumine the earth, they shall bless. Answering, they shall say Frs. 7-9.. Peace be on you, Israel.. On the seventh of the month in the evening, they shall bless. Answering, they shall say: Blessed be the God of Israel..
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Fr. On the twelfth of the month in the evening they shall bless..
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Prayer or Hymn Celebrating the Morning and the Evening One medium sized and fifteen or sixteen small fragments represent a collection of liturgical prayers of which only one can be partly translated. The document is akin to 4Q375 and as well as to 1Q29. Palaeographically the document is placed in the late second century BCE. For the editio princeps, see Annette Steudel, DJD, XXXVI, 298- 319. Fr. I.. B1essed art Thou, O Lord, who art righteous in all Thy ways. Be mighty in strength.. in Thy judgements. Thou who art faithful.. Thou art understanding with all intelligence.. might. Thou who art.. to bring out.. who hast created the morning as a sign to reveal the dominion of the light as the boundary of the daytime.. for their work. To bless Thy holy name Thou hast created them. For the light is good.. Thou art.. who hast created the evening as a sign to reveal the dominion of darkness.. from labour. Thou hast created them to bless Thy holy name] when they see that the light is good and when.. Thou hast created the evening as a sign the appearance of the dominion of darkness..
