C — Calendars, Liturgies and Prayers

Chapter 9

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Three badly worn manuscripts from Cave partly correspond to the foregoing fragments from Cave. They have preserved prayers for festivals, two of which are explicitly associated with the Day of Atonement and the Day of Firstfruits. The editor, M. Baillet, dates them to the beginning of the first century CE. 4Q507, fr. We are by iniquity since the womb, and since the breast by guilt. While we live, we walk in iniquity.. 4Q508, fr. And the righteous.. to grow fat thanks to the clouds of heaven and the produce of the land, to distinguish the righteous from the wicked. And Thou shalt make of the wicked our expiation, and by the upright Thou shalt destroy all our oppressors. And we will praise Thy name for ever and ever. For Thou hast created us for this and we answer Thee with this: Blessed be.. Fr.

.. Prayer for the Day of Atonement. Remember O Lord, the feast of mercies and the time of return.. Thou hast established it for us as a feast of fasting, and an everlasting precept.. Thou knowest the hidden things and the things revealed.. Fr.. Thou didst establish Thy Covenant with Noah.. 4Q509, fr. For Thou hast caused us to rejoice, removing our grief, and hast assembled our banished ones for a feast of.. Thou shalt gather our dispersed women for the season of.. Thy mercies on our congregation like rain-drops on the earth in the season of sowing.. and like showers on the grass in the seasons of sprouting and.. We shall recount Thy marvels from generation to generation. Blessed be the Lord who has caused us to rejoice.. Fr. Prayer for the Day of Firstfruits. Remember, O Lord, the feast of.. and the pleasing free-will offerings which Thou hast commanded.. to bring before Thee the firstfruits of Thy works..