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Deuteronomy at Qumran / Chapter 29

Deuteronomy 29 — Dead Sea Scrolls

1 attestation entry • 0 variants • 4QDeut family

Manuscript Overview

Summary

Deuteronomy 29 narrates the covenant ceremony at Moab. 4QDeutᵇ preserves vv. 24–27.

Notable Variants

No significant content variants. The 'secret things belong to the LORD' passage (v. 28) — though not fully preserved in extant 4QDeutᵇ — has no documented variants.

Manuscripts

4QDeutᵇ (4Q29)

Scroll Condition

Sparse fragmentary attestation.

25
tracks MT

They went and served other gods, bowing down to them — gods they had never known and that He had never assigned to them.

The future-asking-of-the-curses scenario tracks MT.

4QDeutᵇ frag. 1