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  Serekh ha-Yahad
4Q258 (Sd)
Parchment
Copied late first century B.C.--early first century A.D.
Height 8.8 cm (3 7/16 in.), length 21.5 cm (8 7/16 in.)
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Also known as the Community Rule, the Manual of Discipline contains a set of regulations ordering the life of the members of a Yahad or "Unity" group, whose members followed strict purity laws and rules of conduct.