Serekh Hayahad (The Rule of the Community) "10 Commandments" 8

1 In the Community council (there shall be) twelve men and three priests, perfect in everything that has been revealed about all 
2 the law to implement truth, justice, judgment, compassionate love and unassuming behaviour of each person to his fellow 
3 to preserve faithfulness on the earth with firm purpose and repentant spirit in order to atone for sin, doing justice 
4 and undergoing trials in order to walk with everyone in the measure of truth and the regulation of time. When these things exist in Israel 
5 the Community council shall be founded on truth, Blank like an everlasting plantation, a holy house for Israel and the foundation of the holy of 
6 holies for Aaron, true witnesses for the judgment and chosen by the will (of God) to atone for the earth and to render 
7 the wicked their retribution. Blank It (the Community) will be the tested rampart, the precious cornerstone that does not Blank 
8 /whose foundations do not shake or tremble in their place. Blank It will be the most holy dwelling 
9 for Aaron with total knowledge of the covenant of justice and in order to offer a pleasant /aroma/; and it will be a house of perfection and truth in Israel; 
10 {...} in order to establish a covenant in compliance with the everlasting decrees. /And these will be accepted in order to atone for the earth and to decide the judgment of the wicked {...(and there will be no iniquity/. When these have been established in the foundation of the Community for two full years /in/ perfect behaviour 
11 /they w ill be segregated/ (like) holy ones in the midst of the council of the men of the Community. And every matter hidden from Israel but which has been found out by 
12 the Interpreter, he should not keep hidden from them for fear of a spirit of desertion. And w hen these exist /as a community/ in Israel 
13 /in compliance with these arrangements/ they are to be segregated from within the dwelling of the men of sin to walk to the desert in order to open there His path. 
14 As it is written: «In the desert, prepare the way of ****, straighten in the steppe a roadway for our God». 
15 This is the study of the law which he commanded through the hand of Moses, in order to act in compliance with all that has been revealed from age to age, 
16 and according to what the prophets have revealed through his holy spirit. And anyone of the men of the Community, the covenant of 
17 the Community, who insolently shuns anything at all commanded, cannot approach the pure food of the men of holiness, 
18 and cannot know anything of their counsels until his deeds have been cleansed from every depravity, walking on the perfect path. Then they can include him 
19 in the council under the authority of the Many and later they will enrol him according to his rank. And (they shall apply) this regulation to all who enter the Community. 
20 Blank These are the regulations by which the men of perfect holiness shall conduct themselves, each with his fellow. 
21 All who enter the council of holiness of those walking along the path of perfection as has been commanded, anyone of them 
22 who breaks one word of the law of Moses impertinently or through carelessness will be banished from the Community council 
23 and shall not go back again; none of the men of holiness should associate with his goods or his advice on any 
24 matter. However if he acted through oversight he should be excluded from pure food and from the council and the regulation applied to him: 
25 «He cannot judge anyone and no-one should ask his advice for two whole years*. If his conduct is perfect 
26 in them, he may return to the interpretation and to the council [according to the authority of the Ma]ny, if he has not sinned again through oversight until two full years have passed. 
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