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Deuteronomy at Qumran / Chapter 14

Deuteronomy 14 — Dead Sea Scrolls

1 attestation entry • 0 variants • 4QDeut family

Manuscript Overview

Summary

Deuteronomy 14 contains the dietary laws (parallel to Lev 11) and the tithe legislation. 1QDeutᵇ preserves fragments of vv. 21–23. Otherwise sparse Qumran attestation.

Notable Variants

No significant content variants in preserved fragments.

Manuscripts

1QDeutᵇ (1Q5)

Scroll Condition

Sparse attestation.

21
tracks MT

You must not eat anything that has died on its own. You may give it to the foreigner residing in your towns, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a non-Israelite. For you are a people set apart as holy to the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.

The 'do not boil a kid in its mother's milk' command tracks MT.

1QDeutᵇ frag.