1 For [ … ] the war. The first attack of the Sons of Light shall be launched against the lot of the Sons of Darkness, against the army of Belial: against the band of Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon,
2 and [ … ] Philistia, and against the bands of the Kittim of Assyria; and with them, as helpers, the violators of the covenant. The sons of Levi and the sons of Judah and the sons of Benjamin, the exiles of the wilderness, shall fight against them
3 in [ … ] against all their bands, when the exiles of the Sons of Light return from the wilderness of the peoples to camp in the wilderness of Jerusalem. And after the war they shall go up from there
4 [ … ] the Kittim in Egypt. And in his time he shall go out with great fury to fight against the kings of the north, and his anger is to destroy and to cut off the horn of
5 [ … ] It is a time of salvation for the people of God, and an age of dominion for all the men of His lot, and everlasting destruction for all the lot of Belial. And there shall be
6 g[reat ]tumult [ … ] among the sons of Japheth. And Assyria shall fall with none to help him; and the dominion of the Kittim shall pass away, so that wickedness is subdued with no remnant; and there shall be no survivor
7 for the son[s] of Darkness. [blank]
8 And [the sons of righ]teousness shall shine ⟨shall be kindled⟩ to all the ends of the world, going on and shining until all the appointed times of darkness are complete. And at the appointed time of God the height of His greatness shall shine for all the ages of
9 e[ternity], for peace and blessing, glory and gladness and length of days for all the Sons of Light. And on the day the Kittim fall there shall be battle, and hard carnage before the God of
10 Israel; for that is a day appointed by Him from of old for a war of annihilation against the Sons of Darkness. On it there shall draw near, for great carnage, the congregation of gods and the assembly of
11 men — the Sons of Light and the lot of darkness — fighting together for the might of God, with the sound of a great multitude and the war-shout of gods and men, for a day of calamity. And it is a time of
12 distress fo[r … ] the people of God's redemption; and among all their distresses none has been like it, hastening on to its completion, for an everlasting redemption. And on the day of their war against the Kittim
13 [ … ] carnage in the battle. In three lots the Sons of Light shall prevail to strike down wickedness, and in three the army of Belial shall gird itself to turn back the lot of
14 [light]; and the fallen ⟨the standards⟩ of the ranks shall make the heart melt, but the might of God strengthens the h[eart of the Sons of Light]. And in the seventh lot the great hand of God subdues
15 [ … ] the angels of His dominion, and to all the men of [ … ] [blank]
16 [ … ] holy ones. He shall appear to the help of [ … ] truth, for the destruction of the Sons of Darkness. The[n … ]
17 [ … ] great [ … ] they shall lay a hand on [ … ]
letzte [And the courses of the heads of]
1 the fathers' houses of the congregation — fifty-two. And the heads of the priests they shall order after the Chief Priest and his deputy: twelve heads, to be ministering
2 in the perpetual offering before God. And the heads of the courses, twenty-six, shall minister in their courses. And after them the heads of the Levites, to minister continually — twelve, one
3 for a tribe. And the heads of their courses shall minister, each in his station. And the heads of the tribes and the fathers' houses of the congregation after them, to stand continually in the gates of the sanctuary.
4 And the heads of their courses, with those enrolled under them, shall stand at their appointed times, at their new moons and on the sabbaths and on all the days of the year, from fifty years of age and upward.
5 These shall stand over the burnt offerings and over the sacrifices, to set in order the incense of pleasing fragrance for the favour of God, to make atonement for all His congregation, and to be satisfied before Him continually
6 at the table of glory. All these they shall order at the appointed time of the year of release. And in the thirty-three remaining years of the war, the men of renown,
7 those called to the assembly, and all the heads of the fathers' houses of the congregation shall choose for themselves men of war for all the lands of the nations. From all the tribes of Israel they shall equip
8 for themselves men of valour, to go out to the host according to the summonses of the war, year by year. But in the years of release they shall not equip men to go out to the host, for it is a sabbath
9 of rest for Israel. In the thirty-five years of service the war shall be arrayed for six years, and those who array it are all the congregation together.
10 And the war of the divisions is in the remaining twenty-nine. In the first year they shall fight against Aram Naharaim; and in the second against the sons of Lud; and in the third
11 they shall fight against the rest of the sons of Aram — against Uz and Hul, Togar and Mesha, who are beyond the Euphrates. In the fourth and the fifth they shall fight against the sons of Arpachshad.
12 In the sixth and the seventh they shall fight against all the sons of Asshur and Persia, and the easterners as far as the great wilderness. In the eighth year they shall fight against the sons of
13 Elam. In the ninth they shall fight against the sons of Ishmael and Keturah. And in the ten years after them the war shall be divided against all the sons of Ham
14 [ … in ]their [dwell]ings. And in the remaining ten years the war shall be divided against all [the sons of Japhe]th in their dwellings.
15 [ … ] [blank] [ … ] [blank]
16 [ … ] the war-shout for all their service, for [ … ] according to those enrolled among them,
17 [ … ] and tens, over [ … ]
1 the orders of the war; and trumpets of the orders of the war; and trumpets of their summoning, when the gates of war are opened for the men of the ranks to go out; and trumpets of the war-shouts over the slain; and trumpets of