Discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls

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Genesis Scroll
Language: Hebrew
Discovered: 1952
Date: Latter half of 1st century B.C.

This fragment is all that is left of a Genesis scroll that begins with the end of the fourth day of creation. The last line of this fragment reads: "and God created humankind."

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