Damascus Document

Damascus Document, CD-A column 12, Schechter 1910 English

|| it is holy. No man shall lie with a woman in the city of the Sanctuary to contaminate | the city of the Sanctuary by their uncleanness. Any man over whom the spirits of Belial will have dominion | and he will speak rebellion, he shall be judged according to the law of the “Ob and Yiddeoni.” And he who will err | to profane the Sabbath and the Feasts shall not be put to death; but it is upon the sons of man | *to watch him *whether he will be healed of it. And they shall watch him seven years and then | he shall come into the Congregation. None shall stretch out his hand to shed the blood of any man from among the gentiles | for the sake of wealth and gain. Nor shall he take anything of their property in order that they blaspheme not, | unless by the counsel of the *Congregation of Israel. No man shall sell an animal | or bird that is clean to the gentiles in order that they sacrifice them not. Nor shall he | sell them anything of his threshing-floor or his winepress in all his *property. Nor shall he sell them his manservant or maidservant | who entered with him into the covenant of Abraham. No man shall make himself abominable | with any living creature or creeping thing, to eat of them the beehives, even any living creature | that moveth in the waters. Nor shall the fish be eaten unless they *were split | alive and *their blood was shed*. But all the locusts after their kind shall come into fire or into water | whilst they are still living, for this is the manner of their creation. And all wood and stones | and dust which will be polluted by the uncleanness of man *shall be polluted like them*. According to | their uncleanness shall be unclean he who toucheth them. And every instrument, nail, or pillar in the wall | which will be with the dead in the house shall be unclean, *like the uncleanness of an instrument of work. | And *this is the usage of the settlement of the cities of Israel, according to these judgments to separate between | the clean and unclean and to make known *the difference between the holy and the profane. And these are the statutes | *to instruct to walk in them the whole nation *according to the law...*every time. And in this law | shall walk the whole seed of Israel and they shall not be cursed. And this is the usage of the settlement | ...*congregation...in the end of the wickedness and until there will arise the Anointed *from Aaron.