Mosheh' Farewell Exhortation

This is a fragment from the Dead Sea Community Scrolls

And YAHWEH called unto Mosheh in the fortieth year of the going out of the children of Yisrael from the land of Egypt, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, saying: Gather together all the congregation, and go up unto Mount Nebo and stand there, you and Eleazar, the son of Aaron.
Interpret the Torah unto the heads of the families, unto the Levites and all the priests; And enjoin upon the children of Yisrael the words of the Torah which I commanded you on mount Sinai to enjoin upon them.
Explain carefully in their hearing all that I exact of them; and call heaven and earth to witness concerning that which will befall them if they and their children walk not in the way which I have commanded them throughout their lives on earth.

For I declare that if they renounce Me and choose the filthy ways of the heathen and their abominations and their idols, and if they worship their godlings, these will prove to be but a trap and a snare.
And if they neglect any of the kodesh convocations, or the Sabbath which is itself a Covenant, or the festivals which I command them this day to observe, it shall redound to their being smitten with a great smiting in the midst of that land for the possession of which they are about to cross the Jordan.
For all the curses of the Covenant will come upon them and overtake them, to the end that they shall perish and be destroyed. Then shall they know that the truth has been evinced among them.
So Mosheh called Eleazar the son of Aaron and Yahshua Ben Nun and said unto them: Rehearse all the words of the Torah completely.

Give ear, O Yisrael, and hearken! This day are you to become a people unto YAHWEH your ABBA.
You shall keep My statutes and Mine orders and My commandments which I command you this day to perform .

When you cross the Jordan to possess you of great and goodly cities, of houses filled with all goodly things, of vineyards and olives which you didst not plant, and of hewn wells which you didst not hew; and when you eat and are satisfied,
Beware lest your heart become haughty and you forget that which I command you this day. For it is your life and the length of your days.
Then Mosheh summoned the children of Yisrael and said: This day it is forty years since we went out from the land of Egypt; and this day has YAHWEH our ABBA caused all these words, and all HIS judgments and commandments to issue from HIS mouth.
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance and your burden and your strife? When I am done with imparting unto you the Covenant and with enjoining the way in which ye are to walk, take you wise men who I shall serve to explain unto you and your children all the words of the Torah.
Take heed exceedingly unto your souls that ye do them, lest the wrath of YAHWEH your ABBA be fanned into flame and blaze against you, and HE shut up the heavens above that they rain no rain upon you, and the waters below, that the earth yield no produce for you.
And Mosheh went on to rehearse unto the children of Yisrael all these commandments which YAHWEH had commanded them to do.

Of the Year of Release

At the end of every seven years you shall observe a sabbatical rest of the land. The produce of the earth during that period of rest shall serve both you and the domestic beasts and the wild animals of the field for food; and what is left shall be for the needy among your brethren, who are in the land.
No man shall then sow his field or prune his vineyard, neither shall anyone glean the aftermath of the harvest, nor gather fruits for himself.
You shall observe all these words of the Covenant, to perform them.
If you attend carefully to the performance of this commandment, and if you truly 'relax your hand' in that year, it shall mean also that anyone who is a creditor of another and has a claim of any kind upon him in respect of a loan shall likewise 'relax his hand'. It shall be called the Release ordained by YAHWEH your ABBA.
One may exact payment from an alien, but not from any of one's own brethren. For in that year YAHWEH will bless you, and HE too will absolve you, of your iniquities.

Of the Day of Atonement

For your fathers were wanderers in the wilderness until the tenth day of the seventh month. <....>
On the tenth day of the month, all work shall be forbidden; and on that tenth day, atonement shall be made.
 <....> day of the month <....> shall take.<....>
  On that day, judgment shall be passed also upon the congregation of the malakim and upon the company of the kodesh Beings on behalf of the children of Yisrael and on behalf of the land. HE shall take of its blood and pour it upon the ground. And atonement shall be made for them. (The rest of the text is fragmentary. It describes the ritual of the Day of Atonement.)

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