1 but he has showered on us his merciful favour for ever and ever And the priests will bless all
2 the men of God’s lot who walk unblemished in all his paths and they shall say: May he bless you with everything good,
3 and may he protect you from everything bad. May he illuminate your heart with the discernment of life and grace you with eternal knowledge.
4 May he lift upon you the countenance of his favour for eternal peace. And the levites shall curse all the men of
5 of the lot of Belial. They shall begin to speak and shall say: Accursed are you for all your wicked, blameworthy deeds. May he (God) hand you over to dread
6 into the hands of all those carrying out acts of vengeance.
7 Accursed, without mercy, for the darkness of your deeds, and sentenced
8 to the gloom of everlasting fire. May God not be merciful when you entreat him, nor pardon you when you do penance for your faults.
9 May he lift the countenance of his anger to avenge himself on you, and may there be no peace for you in the mouth of those who intercede)).
10 And all those who enter the covenant shall say, after those who pronounce blessings and those who pronounce curses: «Amen, Amen».
11 Blank And the priests and the levites shall continue, saying: Cursed by the idols which his heart reveres
12 whoever enters this covenant leaving his guilty obstacle in front of himself to fall over it.
13 When he hears the words of this covenant, he will congratulate himself in his heart, saying: ‘I will have peace,
14 in spite of my walking in the stubbornness of my heart’. However, his spirit will be obliterated, the dry with the moist, mercilessly.
15 May God’s anger and the wrath of his verdicts consume him for everlasting destruction.
16 May all the curses of this covenant stick fast to him. May God segregate him for evil, and may he be cut off from the midst of all the sons of light because of his straying from following God
17 on account of his idols and his blameworthy obstacle. May he assign his lot with the cursed ones for ever».
18 And all those who enter the covenant shall begin speaking and shall say after them: «Amen, Amen». Blank
19 Blank They shall act in this way year after year, all the days of Belial’s dominion. The priests shall enter
20 the Rule foremost, one behind the other, according to their spirits. And the levites shall enter after them.
21 In third place all the people shall enter the Rule, one after another, in thousands, hundreds,
22 fifties and tens, so that all the children of Israel may know their standing in God’s Community
23 in conformity with the eternal plan. And no one shall move down from his rank nor move up from the place of his lot.
24 For all shall be in a single Community of truth, of proper meekness, of compassionate love and upright purpose,
25 towards each other in the holy council, associates of an everlasting society. And anyone who declines to enter [the covenant of Go]d in order to walk in the stubbornness of his heart shall not [enter the Comjmunity of his truth, since
