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1QS 4:13

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Passage reference1QS 4:13

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1QS — Qumran-Digital 2025-11-11 source transcription

עד עמ כלמת כלה באש מחשכים וכול קציהם לדורותם באבל יגון ורעת מרורים בהויות חושכ עד

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Transcription attribution: © 2022 DFG-Projekt 465277421 Qumran-Digital: Text und Lexikon. Bereitgestellt durch das DFG-Projekt Nr. 465277421 Qumran-Digital: Text und Lexikon auf der Grundlage eines Textes des früheren Projekts Qumran-Wörterbuch der Niedersächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, der auf einem Vorläufertext von Martin Abegg basierte. 1QS, version 2025-11-11. Source: https://lexicon.qumran-digital.org/transcriptions/1QS/2025-11-11/index.html?v=2025-11-11

Source license: CC BY-SA 4.0. Attribution and ShareAlike apply to adaptations.

Changes: Joined unchanged primary source rows with LF; indexed each occurrence independently. Embedded parallels excluded from reading. Critical markup, alternatives, uncertain coordinates and exact rights evidence retained; no gap completion or accepted translation.

Brackets, lacuna marks, insertions, deletions and raised or lowered letters retain the source edition’s critical notation. They do not complete manuscript gaps.

Source alternative readings retain their own parentheses and a dashed outline. They are distinct from the primary reading even when text or word identifiers coincide; critical deletion and insertion marks remain significant.

Draft research notes are a separate retained annotation witness, not source text or accepted HSLT/HSRT. No draft gloss is displayed as translation.

Source: Exact bounded primary source and occurrence anchors
Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0
Reading language: heb
Source language: heb
Completeness: 1QS only: 284 source rows; one separate Handle Sheet v. row and 283 rows in columns I–XI. Cave 4 parallel metadata is not primary text; modern scholarly English excerpts remain archive-only.
Review: Unverified edition; not Human Sealed

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