List of manuscripts from Qumran Cave 4

The following is a list of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the cave 4 near Qumran. Cave 4 is by far the most productive of all Qumran Caves, producing ninety percent of the Dead Sea Scrolls and scroll fragments (approx. 15,000 fragments from 500 different texts), including 9–10 copies of Jubilees, along with 21 tefillin and 7 mezuzot, as well as fragments from a scroll containing Exodus and Genesis written in Paleo-Hebrew.

Description

Wadi Qumran Cave 4 was discovered in August 1952, and was excavated from 22–29 September 1952 by Gerald Lankester Harding, Roland de Vaux, and Józef Milik.VanderKam, James C., The Dead Sea Scrolls Today, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994. pp. 10–11.Milik (1957). "Dix ans de découverte dans le désert de Juda" | Discoveries in the Judaean Desert; Milik (1976). The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments Qumran Cave 4 with the collaboration of Black M. Cave 4 is actually two hand-cut caves (4a and 4b), but since the fragments were mixed, they are labeled as 4Q. Cave 4 is the most famous of the Qumran Caves both because of its visibility from the Qumran plateau and its productivity. It is visible from the plateau to the south of the Qumran settlement. It is by far the most productive of all Qumran Caves, producing ninety percent of the Dead Sea Scrolls and scroll fragments (approx. 15,000 fragments from 500 different texts), including 9–10 copies of Jubilees, along with 21 tefillin and 7 mezuzot, as well as fragments from a scroll containing Exodus and Genesis written in Paleo-Hebrew.

List of manuscripts Some resources for more complete information on the scrolls are the book by Emanuel Tov, "Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert" for a complete list of all of the Dead Sea Scroll texts, as well as the online webpages for the Shrine of the Book and the Leon Levy Collection, both of which present photographs and images of the scrolls and fragments themselves for closer study. Information is not always comprehensive, as content for many scrolls has not yet been fully published.

4Q1–4Q100 <onlyinclude> Fragment or scroll identifier Fragment or scroll name Alternative identifier English Bible Association Language Date/script Description ReferenceQumran Cave 44QGen-Exod Genesis–Exodus4Q1Genesis 8:20–21; Exodus 1–4; 5:3–17; 6:4–21,25; 7:5–13,15–20; 8:20–22; 9:8; 22:14; 27:38–39,42–43; 34:17–21HebrewHasmoneanFragments from Genesis to Numbers4Q1 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QGenGenesis4Q2Genesis 1:1–27; 2:14–19; 4:2–4; 5:13HebrewRomanFragment of Genesis4Q2 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QGen4Q3Genesis 40–41HebrewHerodianFragments of Genesis4Q3 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QGen4Q4Genesis 1:18–27HebrewHasmoneanFragments of Genesis on the Beginning of Creation4Q4 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QGen4Q5Genesis 36–37; 40–43; 49HebrewHerodianFragments of Genesis4Q5 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QGen4Q6Genesis 48:1–11HebrewHasmoneanFragments of Genesis4Q6 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QGen4Q7Genesis 1:1–11,13–22; 2:6–7HebrewHasmoneanFragments of Genesis about Creation4Q7 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QGen/4QGen4Q8Genesis 1:8–10HebrewHerodianFragments of Genesis about the beginning to early mankind.4Q8 4QGen h1 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QGen4Q8aGenesis 2:17–184Q8 4QGen h2 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QGen4Q8bGenesis 12:4–5A paraphrase of Genesis4Q8 4QGen h-para at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QGen4Q8cGenesisThe title of a Genesis manuscript4Q8 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library 4QGen4Q9Genesis 41–43; 45HebrewHerodianFragments of Genesis4Q9 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QGen4Q10Genesis 1:9,14–16,27–28; 2:1–3; 3:1–2HebrewHerodianFragments of Genesis4Q10 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QpaleoGen-Exod Paleo-Genesis/Exodus4Q11Genesis 50:26; Exodus 1:1–5; 2:10,22–25; 3:1–4,17–21; 8:13–15, 19–21; 9:25–29, 33–35; 10:1–5; 11:4–10; 12:1–11, 42–46; 14:15–24; 16:2–7, 13–14,18–20,23–25,26–31,33–35; 17:1–3,5–11; 18:17–24; 19:24–25; 20:1–2; 22:23–24; 23:5–16; 25:7–20; 26:29–37; 27:1, 6–14; 28:33–35,40–42; 36:34–36HebrewHasmonean; Paleo-Hebrew scriptFragments of Genesis and Exodus4Q11 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QpaleoGenPaleo-Genesis4Q12Genesis 26:21–28; Exodus 6:25–30; 7:1–19,29; 8:1,5,12–26; 9:5–16,19–21,35; 10:1–12,19–28; 11:8–10; 12:1–2,6–8,13–15,17–22,31–32,34–39; 13:3–7,12–13; 14:3–5,8–9,25–26; 15:23–27; 16:1,4–5,7–8,31–35; 17:1–16; 18:1–27; 19:1,7–17,23–25; 20:1,18–19; 21:5–6, 13–14,22–32; 22:3–4,6–7,11–13,16–30; 23:15–16,19–31; 24:1–4,6–11; 25:11–12,20–29,31–34; 26:8,15,21–30; 27:1–3,9–14,18–19; 28:3–4,8–12,22–24,26–28,30–43; 29:1–5,20,22–25,31–41; 30:10,12–18,29–31,34–38; 31:1–8,13–15; 32:2–19,25–30; 33:12–23; 34:1–3,10–13,15–18,20–24,27–28; 35:1; 36:21–24; 37:9–16HebrewHasmonean; Paleo-Hebrew scriptFragment from Genesis4Q12 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QExodExodus4Q13Exodus 1:1–6,16–12; 2:2–18; 3:13 – 4:8; 5:3–14HebrewHerodianFragments of Exodus about Slavery in Egypt4Q13 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QExod4Q14Exodus 7:17–19,20–23; 7:26 – 8:1; 8:5–14,16–18,22; 9:10–11,15–20,22–25,27–35; 10:1–5,7–9,12–19,23–24; 11:9–10; 12:12–16,31–48; 13:18 – 14:3; 14:3–13; 17:1 – 18:12HebrewHerodianFragments of Exodus4Q14 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QExod4Q15Exodus 13:15–16 followed directly by 15:1HebrewHasmoneanFragments of Exodus about the Passover and a Hymn4Q15 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital LibraryMartinez and Tigchelaar, The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition (Brill 1997): page 2464QExod4Q16Exodus 13:3–5,15–16HebrewHasmoneanFragments of Exodus about the Passover and a Hymn4QExod-LevExodus–Leviticus4Q17Exodus 38:18–22; 39:3–19, 20–24; 40:8–27; Leviticus 1:13–15, 17–2:1HebrewEarly HellenisticFragments of Exodus and Leviticus4Q17 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QExodExodus4Q18Exodus 14:21–27HebrewHasmoneanFragments of Exodus4Q18 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QExod4Q19Exodus 6:3–6HebrewHerodianFragments of Exodus4Q19 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QExod4Q20Exodus 7:28–8:2HebrewHerodian Fragments of Exodus4Q20 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QExod4Q21Exodus 36:9–10HebrewRomanFragments of Exodus4Q21 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QpaleoExod (olim 4QExα) Paleo-Exodus4Q22Exodus 6:25–7:19,29–8:1,,12–22; 9:5–16, 19–21, 35–10:12, 19–28; 11:8–12:2,6–8, 13–15, 17–22, 31–32, 34–39; 13:3–8, 12–13; ... 37:9–16HebrewHasmonean; Paleo-Hebrew scriptFragments of Exodus;4Q22 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QLev-Num Leviticus–Numbers4Q23Leviticus 13:32-33; 14:22-34; 14:40-54; 15:10-11; 15:19-24; 16:15-29; 18:16-21; 19:3-8; 24:11-12; 26:26; 26:28-33; 27:5-22. Numbers 1:1-5; 1:21-22; 1:36-40; 2:18; 2:20; 2:31-32; 3:3-16; 3:18-19; 3:51; 4:1-12; 4:40-49; 5:1-9; 8:7-12; 8:21-22; 9:3-10; 9:19-20; 10:13-23; 11:4-5; 11:16-22; 12:3-12; 13:21; 22:5-6; 22:22-24; 26:5-7; 30:7; 32:8-15; 32:23-25; 32:27-42; 33:4-9; 33:22; 33:25; 33:28; 33:31; 33:33-34; 33:52-54; 35:4-5. HebrewHasmoneanFragments of Leviticus4Q23 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QLevLeviticus4Q24Leviticus 1:11–17; 2:1–15; 3:1, 8–14; 21:17–20, 24; 22:1–33; 23:1–25, 40; 24:2–23; 25:28–29, 45–49, 51–52HebrewHasmoneanFragments of Leviticus4Q24 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QLev4Q25Leviticus 1:1–7; 3:16–4:6, 12–14, 23–28; 5:12–13; 8:26–28HebrewHellenistic-RomanFragments of Leviticus4Q25 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QLev4Q26Leviticus 14:27–29, 33–36; 15:20–24; 17:2–11HebrewHellenistic-RomanFragments of Leviticus4Q26 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QLev4Q26aLeviticus 2:4–6, 11–18; 3:2–4,5–8; 19:34–37; 20:1–3, 27–21:4, 9–12, 21–24; 22:4–6, 11–17HebrewHellenistic-RomanFragments of Leviticus4QLev4Q26bLeviticus 7:19–26HebrewHellenistic-RomanFragments of Leviticus4QNumNumbers4Q27Numbers 11:31–12:11; 13:7–24; 15:41–16:11, 14–16; 17:12–17; 18:25–19:6; 20:12–13,16–17,19–29; 21:1–2,12–13; 22:5–21, 31–34, 37–38, 41–23:6,13–15,21–22, 27–24:10; 25:4–8,16–18; 26:1–5,7–10,12,14–34,62–27:5,7–8,10,18–19,21–23; 28:13–17,28,30–31; 29:10–13,16–18,26–30; 30:1–3,5–9,15–16; 31:2–6, 21–25, 30–33,35–36,38,43–44,46–32:1,7–10,13–17,19,23–30,35,37–39,41; 33:1–4,23,25,28,31,45,47–48,50–52; 34:4–9,19–21,23; 35:3–5,12,14–15,18–25,27–28, 33–36:2,4–7HebrewHerodianFragments of Numbers. A few lines are written in red ink4Q27 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QDeutDeuteronomy4Q28Deuteronomy 23:26–24:8Hebrew175–150 BCE Transitional: Archaic to HasmoneanFragments of Deuteronomy4Q28 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QDeut4Q29Deuteronomy 29:24–27; 30:3–14; 31:9–17,24–30, 32:1–3Hebrew150–100 BCE Early HasmoneanFragments of Deuteronomy4Q29 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library4QDeut4Q30Deuteronomy 3:25–26; 4:13–17,31–32; 7:3–4; 8:1–5; 9:11–12, 17–19,29; 10:1–2,5–8; 11:2–4,9–13,18–19; 12:18–19,26,30–31; 13:5–7,11–12,16; 15:1–5,15–19; 16:2–3,5–11,20–17:7,15–18:1; 26:19— 27:2,24–28:14,18–20,22–25,29–30,48–50,61; 29:17–19; 31:16–19; 32:3Hebrew150–100 BCE

HasmoneanFragments of Deuteronomy4QDeut4Q31Deuteronomy 2:24–33; 3:14–29; 4:1Hebrew124–75 BCE

Middle HasmoneanFragments of Deuteronomy4QDeut4Q32Deuteronomy 3:24; 7:12–16,21–26; 8:1–16Hebrew50–25 BCE Late HasmoneanFragments of Deuteronomy4QDeut4Q33Deuteronomy 4:23–27; 7:22–26; 8:2–14; 9:6–7; 17:17–18; 18:6–10,18–22; 19:17–21; 20:1–6; 21:4–12; 22:12–19; 23:21–26; 24:2–7; 25:3–9; 26:18–27:10Hebrew75–50 BCE Late HasmoneanFragments of Deuteronomy4QDeut4Q34Deuteronomy 9:12–14; 23:18–20; 24:16–22; 25:1–5,14–19; 26:1–5; 28:21–25,27–29Hebrew1–25 CE Middle HerodianFragments of Deuteronomy4QDeut4Q35Deuteronomy 1:1–17,22–23,29–41,43–2:6,28–30; 19:21; 31:9–11; 33:9–22Hebrew50–1 BCE Transitional: Hasmonean to Early HerodianFragments of Deuteronomy4QDeut4Q36Deuteronomy 20:9–13; 21:23; 22:1–9; 23:6–8, 12–16, 22–26; 24:1Hebrew100–50 BCE Late HasmoneanFragments of Deuteronomy4QDeut4Q37 Exodus 12:43–44, 46–51; 13:1–5; Deuteronomy 5:1–11, 13–15, 21–33; 6:1–3; 8:5–10; 11:6–10, 12–13; 30:17–18; 32:7–8Hebrew50 CE Late HerodianFragments of Exodus and Deuteronomy 4QDeut4Q38Deuteronomy 5:28–31; 11:6–13; 32:17–18, 22–23, 25–27Hebrew30–1 BCE Early HerodianFragments of Deuteronomy4QDeut4Q38aDeuteronomy 19: 8–16; 20: 6–19; 21:16; 23:22–26; 24:1–3; 25:19; 26:1–5, 18–19; 27:1Hebrew30–1 BCE Early HerodianFragments of Deuteronomy4QDeut4Q38bDeuteronomy 30: 16–18Hebrew50 CE Late HerodianFragments of Deuteronomy4Q38 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library. Accessed 20 May 20134QDeut4Q39Deuteronomy 10:1,14–15; 28:67–68; 29:2–5; 31:12; 33:1–2; 34:4–6,8Hebrew50 CE Late HasmoneanFragments of Deuteronomy about choosing Life or Death4QDeut4Q40Deuteronomy 3:18–22; 4:32–33; 7:18–22Hebrew50–1 BCE Transitional: Hasmonean to HerodianFragments of Deuteronomy4QDeutAll Souls Deuteronomy4Q41Deuteronomy 5:1–33; 6:1; 8:5–10Hebrew30–1 BCE Early HerodianFragments of Deuteronomy4QDeutDeuteronomy4Q42Deuteronomy 2:8; 4:30–34; 5:1–5, 8–9; 28:15–18, 33–36, 47–52, 58–62; 29:22–25Hebrew75–50 BCE Late HasmoneanFragments of Deuteronomy4QDeut4Q43Deuteronomy 6:4–11Hebrew75–50 BCE Late HasmoneanFragments of Deuteronomy about Loving God4QDeut4Q44Deuteronomy 32:9–10, 37–43Hebrew50 BCE–25 CE Late Hasmonean or Early HerodianFragments of Deuteronomy4QpaleoDeutPaleo-Deuteronomy4Q45Deuteronomy 7:2–7, 16–25; 11:28,30–12:1,11–12; 13:19; 14:19–22, 26–29; 15:5–6, 8–10; 19:2–3; 21:8–9; 22:3–6,12–15; 28:15–18, 20; 30:7–8; 32:2–8,10–11,13–14, 33–35; 33:2–8, 29; 34:1–2Hebrew100–25 BCE Paleo-Hebrew scriptFragments of Deuteronomy4QpaleoDeut4Q46Deuteronomy 26:14–15Hebrew250–200 BCE