Dead Sea Scroll 4Q164 - 4QIsaiah Pesher

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Translation by Mark Wessner

(a commentary on Isaiah 54:11-12)

1 And he will make all Israel like eye-paint around the eye. And I will found you in sapphires. Its meaning is
2 that they have founded the council of the Community, the priests and the people …
3 the assembly of their elect as a sapphire in the midst of stones. I will make like rubies -
4 all of your battlements. Its meaning is: the twelve chiefs of the priests who
5 illuminate with the judgement of the Urim and Thummim … without
6 any from among them missing, like the sun in all its lights, and all the gates of sparkling stones.
7 Its meaning regards the chiefs of the tribes of Israel in the last days …
8 its lot, the office of …

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