This is a fragment of manuscript from the Dead Sea Scrolls, and part of a collection of fragments referred to as both 'The Secret of the Way Things Are' and 'A Sapiental Work.' This is one of the sparser, less well preserved fragments.

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Fragment 1

⁵Impose discipline on your lips, and on your tongue double doors ...
⁶Meditate on righteous words ... to those who seek ...
⁷Always with your mouth praise God ... your trembling ...
⁸Give joy to His name ...
⁹in the general assembly ...
¹⁰day and night...

Translation by Edward Cook