The Books of Enoch, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4

266 THE BOOKS OF ENOCH En« i iv
owpn poDJ ]i3p^ nsio 0171" pnrn ]ian^n^i
po"?!?
"piD"? nit ninna xnn r)i[D]'7[a] '7D''n xnn^i
x'7in^[ nn t3iE?p p]i[i tjwjpi •'ri&n S;I3B? mnn ]ai
"713 ]a t[nns7^ K^S72?T "PIDI n'?D xs^nx "PID*? 20
]in'?D[ xtt^iix ]iTn^i nb^ Jnin"? paTi n'piD xi;nx
ni7[^ntj^m nt&s; s^inu? mnn] ]ai xa'py t3B?p mx^""
pai2?i ^6 [ x^i&np S7''san Dpm^ ]xm xn ppi xa^s7 pT
ivw hD^B? ^iDi pTnn^ pmn pjau^i pnns;^ nn panp
•^iiz? ps7n[2? mnn pi pasD nsniz? iJ^a^ps? '?ID'? p n m phnji 25
pins;^ XD[2?pi xnD pnm n'?i3'? pnrija "713^ ^iio ^ri^x [x*? n]
» The scribe first, it would appear, wrote *'nnnB?, *his witnesses (sc. of God),' then he
deleted the Yod entirely and the He partially.
The scribe first wrote nn^'D*' SIQI; thus he thought, absent-mindedly, that n^Dn
came before D^a^D nS7nB? H.
^ XOan is written on X^1S7.
d The scribe had begun to write ^117, for X^1S7 or Xn*?1i7.
The scribe seems first to have written T ''S7**nB?, which he then carefully deleted (with
the exception of the Beth) and replaced with ''l^'DH; however, he forgot to write T again
before D12?p, 'that of justice'.
* Above the Qoph one can detect a small 'Ain. No doubt the scribe wished to correct ]*'D''2?p
to DB?p ''iny, but he gave up the idea.
« is followed by XI**!, struck out.
DI2?p mX"? is formed from pD^'B^p mXn.
p3 9, . . and all] its [deeds shall be (done)] in a[postasy. ^^And with its end]
there shall be chosen the elect, for witnesses to righteousness, from the
eternal plant of righteousness, [to whom] shall be given sevenfold wisdom
and knowledge. »i ^^And they will have rooted out the foundations of violence
and the structure of falsehood therein, to execute [judgement]. ^^And thereafter
shall arise the eighth Week, that of righteousness, in which [a sword]
shall be given to all the righteous, to exact a righteous judgement from all the