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Apocryphon of Joshua18

apocryphon-of-joshua

Frag. 22 Col. ii (cf. 4Q175)

the man wh[o ...] ... [...]

asked, and ... [...]

Blessed be yhwh, God of [Israel ...]

God [...]

At the moment when Josh[ua] fi[nis]hed pra[ising and giving] thanks with [his] psalms, [he said:]

«Cu[rsed be the ma]n who re[bui]lds this [cit]y! Upon [his] first-born] [he will found it]

[and with his youngest son he will] erect its gates» Blank And [now, cursed be the man of Belial,]

[who rises to b]e a fowler’s trap for his people and ruin for all his neighbour[s]. And there will ari[se]

[...] to be the two instruments of violence. And they will rebuild

this [city,] and erect for it a rampart and towers, to make it [into a fortress of wickedness]

[in the country, and] a great [e]vil {amongst the sons of Jacob. And they will sh[ed blood]} /in Israel, and a horror in Ephraim [and Judah;]

[And they will commit a profanation] in the land and a great blasphemy ‹among the sons of Jacob. And they will shed blood› like wa[ter upon the ramparts of the daugh- ter of Zion]

[and in the precincts of Jerusalem.] ... [...]