Roland de-Vaux, Jozef T. Milik & Pierre Benoit, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, II: Les grottes de Muraba'at (Oxford, Clarendon 1961) pp. 104-9 as amended by Yadin in "Babatha's Ketubba" (IEJ 44, 1994, 75-101), p.86 and in "Expedition D--the Cave of the Letters" (IEJ 12, 1962, 227-257) p. 249 and by Tal Ilan in "Notes and Observations on a Newly Published Divorce Bill from the Judean Desert" (HTR 89, 1996 195-202), p. 198f

Recto, col.1

)dcmb t# tn# Nw#xrml dx)b 1

Pswhy} hn) hnd )mwy yt(r Nm Krtmw qb# 2

ytn) ykl )dcmb bty h[_ ] Nm Nsqn rb Pswhy {n rb 3

)bty )+lbnh N[m] Ntnwhy trb Myrm 4

t) yd hd Mdq Nm ytn) tywh yd )dcmb 5

rbg lwkl <h>tn) yhmlw Khml yk#pnb )y#r 6

Nykrt rps ynm ykl ywhl N[yd]bw Nybct yd ydwhy 7

Nybyrx lwk y)dwhyw [h#m] Nydk Nyqb# +gw 8

Myq yhy Ndk ykl (w[rp) ] Q N QQ QQ Qw Nqznw 9

ykl Plx) yl Nyrmt yd[ Nm]zbw Ny(brl Ml#mw 10

)zx ydk hr+# 11

Recto, col.2

)dcmb t# tn#[ Nw]#xrml d[x])b 12

hnd )mwy yt(r Nm h[ n]) Krtmw qb# 13

<trb> Myrm ytn) ykl[ Nsq]n rb Pswhy 14

)bty )+lbn[h ] N[m] Ntnwhy 15

yttn) t[yw]h yd )dcmb 16

)y#r yt) yd )nd tmdq Nm 17

)tn) yhml K[h]ml yk#pnb 18

Nybct yd ydwhy rbg lwkl 19

Nykrt r[p]s ynm ykl yhl Nydb 20

hnbhy q[ymg l]wk Nyd[b Ny]qb# +gw 21

Ndk Q [___ Nqznw] N[yby]rx lkw 22

Nmzbw Ny(brl Ml[#m]w [Myq yhy] 23

ydk hr+# ykl Plx[) ]yl Nyrm[t yd] 24

)[zx] 25

verso

[h]#pn l( [Ns]qn rb Pswhy 26

dh# hklm [rb] rz(yl) 27

dh# hklm rb Pswhy 28

dh# hnnx rb rz(l) 29

Text abbreviations:

c 10 - a gap of about 10 letters

vestig - a gap of uncertain length

{ }⁴ - a non-standard spelling used in the text, following the corrected spelling.

{ }⁵ - an original form which was changed by the scribe, following the changed form

{ }⁶ - a reading which is later corrected in this work, following the corrected reading

{ }⁷ - a reading which is later corrected in another work, following the corrected reading

{ }⁹ - an alternative version found in a duplicate of the text, following the version in this text

 

 

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