Florentino García Martínez and Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar provide an English translation of 4Q529 (4QWords of Michael) from Qumran.

Date
1999
Type
Manuscript
Source
Florentino Garcia Martinez
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Translation
Reference

4Q529 (4QWords of Michael), in Florentino García Martínez and Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1999), 2:1061, 1063

Scribe/Publisher
Brill
People
Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar, Florentino Garcia Martinez
Audience
Reading Public
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Transcription

Words of the book which Michael spoke to the angels […] 2 He said: « [I] found there troops of fire [… There] 3 [I saw] nine mountains: two to [the] Eas[t, and two to the West, and two to the North, and two] 4 [to] the [Sou]th. There I saw [the] angel Gabriel […] 5 in … and I showed him his vision. And he said to me: […] 6 In my book of my Great One, the Lord Eternal, it is written: Behold [… between] 7 the sons of Ham and the sons of Shem. And behold, my Great One, the Lord Eternal […] 8 when keshabin (?) tear from azdara (?) […] 9 And behold, a city will be built to the name of my Great One, [the Lord Eternal …] 10 all that is wicked shall be done before my Great One, [the] Lord [Eternal …] 11 And my Great One, the Lord Eternal, will remember his creation […] 12 [to] my [Gre]at One, the Lord Eternal, to him the mercy and to him […] 13 In the distant province there will be a man […] 14 is he; and he will say to him: «Behold, this […] 15 to me silver and gold […] and he will sa[y…] 16 [and] the righteous man […]

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