The War Scroll

1 The trumpets shall keep sounding to direct the slingers, until they have finished hurling seven

2 times. And afterward the priests shall blow for them on the trumpets of return, and they shall come to the side of the

3 first battle-line, to take their station. And the priests shall blow on the trumpets of summoning, and there shall go out

4 three standards of skirmishers from the gates, and they shall stand between the battle-lines; and at their side the chariot-men,

5 on the right and on the left. And the priests shall blow on the trumpets a sustained note, directing the order of battle.

6 And the heads shall spread out to their ranks, each to his station. And when they stand in three ranks,

7 the priests shall blow for them a second blast, a low and steady note, directing the advance, until they draw near

8 to the battle-line of the enemy. And they shall stretch out their hand with the weapons of war. And the priests shall sound on the six trumpets of

9 the slain a sharp, insistent note, to direct the battle. And the Levites and all the people with the rams' horns shall sound

10 one note, a great war-shout, to melt the heart of the enemy. And with the sound of the shout the war-darts shall go out

11 to bring down the slain. The sound of the rams' horns shall fall silent, and on the tr[um]pets

12 the priests shall keep sounding a sharp, insistent note, directing the hand of the battle, until they have hurled at the battle-line of

13 [blank] the enemy seven times. And afterward the priests shall blow for them on the trumpets of return

14 a low, sustained, steady note. According to this rule the p[ries]ts shall blow for the three standards. And with

15 the first cast the [ … tru]mpets shall sound a great

16 shout, to direct the ba[ttle … And ]the priests [shall blow] for them

17 on the trum[pets … ] at their station in the battle-line

18 [ … ] and he shall stand

19 [ … the s]lain