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Isaiah, Chapter 6 (Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa-a)

        
Isaiah, Chapter 6 (Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa-a)

        
Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa-a (c. 125 BCE, Israel Museum), 

        
Great Isaiah Scroll 1QIsa-a: Israel Museum / Google Art Project photograph (Wikimedia Commons, PD) + ETCBC dss transcription (Abegg; CC BY-NC 4.0) + KJV (bible-api.com) · ETCBC Dead Sea Scrolls transcription (Abegg data, CC BY-NC 4.0)

        
      


      
      
      

      

        
Introduction

        
Isaiah 6 from the Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa), the complete copy of Isaiah found in Cave 1 at Qumran in 1947 and now in the Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Copied around 125 BCE, it is roughly a thousand years older than the Leningrad Codex, the oldest complete Masoretic manuscript. This chapter stands in col. V (5), col. VI (6) of the scroll's 54 columns.
  1. Scan: each section is shown with the actual column of the scroll that carries it, cropped from the Israel Museum / Google Art Project photograph of the whole scroll published on Wikimedia Commons (public domain). The column for every verse comes from the transcription itself, which records the column and line of each word.
  2. Hebrew: the scroll's own text, verbatim from the ETCBC dss Text-Fabric dataset (Jacobs, Naaijer and Roorda, from Martin G. Abegg Jr.'s transcription; CC BY-NC 4.0). This is not the Masoretic text: 1QIsaa uses a fuller spelling (for example לוא for לא, כיא for כי) and differs from the Masoretic text in a number of readings. No vowel points exist in the scroll and none are added. Marks: ⟨x⟩ letters the scribe added above the line, [x] modern reconstruction of text lost to damage, {{x}} letters cancelled by an ancient scribe, ⟪x⟫ an ancient correction, a dot under a letter (x̣) an uncertain reading, ···· four dots written in place of the divine name (Tetrapuncta).
  3. English: the King James Version (1611, public domain), verbatim from bible-api.com. The KJV translates the Masoretic text, so where the scroll reads differently the English will not match the Hebrew shown; the scroll's reading can be checked on the column image.

      


      

        

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Manuscript: Great Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsa-a (c. 125 BCE, Israel Museum) — page scan from Great Isaiah Scroll 1QIsa-a: Israel Museum / Google Art Project photograph (Wikimedia Commons, PD) + ETCBC dss transcription (Abegg; CC BY-NC 4.0) + KJV (bible-api.com).

            
Original text: ETCBC Dead Sea Scrolls transcription (Abegg data, CC BY-NC 4.0) (public domain).

            
English translation: King James Version (1611) (public domain).

            
Verify: The scan image is the physical evidence. The original-language text is verifiable against the scan. The English translation is checkable against the original. Click any Greek, Hebrew, or Latin word for morphological analysis.

            
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            §6.1-7 · Isaiah 6:1-7 (1QIsa-a col. V lines 21-29; col. VI line 1)
            

              
              
              
            

          


          
          

            
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Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

                    
1בשנת מות המלך עוזיה אראה את אדוני יושב על כסאו̣ רם ונשא ושוליו מלאים את ההיכל 2שרפים עומדים ממעלה לו שש כנפים לאחד בשתים יכסה פניו ובשתים יכסה רגליו ובשתים יעופף 3וקראים זה אל זה קדוש קדוש יהוה צבאות מלא כול הארץ כבודו[ 4וינועו אמות הספים מקול הקורה והבית נמלא עשן 5ואמר אי̣ לי כי נד̣מיתי כיא איש טמה שפתים אנוכי ובתוך עם טמא[שפתים אנוכי יושב כ̣י̣א את המלך יהוה צבאות ראו עיני 6ויעוף אלי אחד מן השרפים ובידו רצפה במלקחים לקח מ̣ע̣ל המז̣[ב]ח̣ 7ו̣י̣ג̣[ע]ע̣ל פ̣[י]ו̣יואמר הנה נגע זה על שפתיך וסר[עוונך וחטאותיך תכפר

            
          


          

            
English · King James Version (1611)

                    
1In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. 4And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. 6Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

          

        

        
        


          

            §6.8-13 · Isaiah 6:8-13 (1QIsa-a col. VI lines 1-10)
            

              
              
              
            

          


          
          

            
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Hebrew · 1QIsa-a transcription

                    
8ואשמע את קול אדוני אמר את מי אשלח ומי ילך לנו ואמרה הנני שלחני 9ויואמר לך ואמרתה לעם הזה שמעו שמוע ועל תבינו ראו ראו ועל ת̣דעו 10השמ לב העם הזה ואוזניו הכבד ועיניו השע פן יראה בעיניו ובאוזניו ישמעו בלבבו יבין ושב ורפא לו 11ואמרה עד מתי יהוה ויואמר עד אשר אמ שאו ערים מאין יושב ובתים מאין אדם והאדמה תשאה שממה 12ורחק יהוה את האדם ורבה עזובה בקרב הארץ 13ועוד בה עשיריה ושבה והייתה לבער כאלה וכאלון אשר משלכת מצבת במה זרע הקודש מצבתה

            
          


          

            
English · King James Version (1611)

                    
8Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. 9And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. 11Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, 12And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. 13But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.

          

        

        
      


    

    

    

      

      

        
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Source & Cross-References

        
    
          
  • Source text: Great Isaiah Scroll 1QIsa-a: Israel Museum / Google Art Project photograph (Wikimedia Commons, PD) + ETCBC dss transcription (Abegg; CC BY-NC 4.0) + KJV (bible-api.com) — view original
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  • Critical edition: ETCBC Dead Sea Scrolls transcription (Abegg data, CC BY-NC 4.0)
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