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...Chapter 12, in which Abraham's wife Sarah is taken by the Pharaoh in Egypt, the scroll adds a detailed account of Sarah's beauty, describing her feet, legs, face and hair...
...Chapter 13, where God instructs Abraham to walk "through the land in the length, and in the breadth thereof,'' the scroll adds a first-person account by Abraham of his journey...
...scroll reports, in Chapter 15, a colloquial discussion between Abraham and his wife after God promised them a son. Genesis makes no mention of such a conversation...
Precise details of the text will not be published until the four pages have been completely deciphered, but some interesting differences between the seventh scroll and the Book of Genesis have already come to light. Items...
...from being part of the Book of Lamech, the pages were an Aramaic version of Chapters 12 to 15 of Genesis, interwoven with stories and legends about the Patriarchs. As scholars examined the scroll further, it became clear that all of it deals with the Book of Genesis in the same order as the accepted text. The fragment mentioning Lamech that had misled the scholars was evidently part of Chapter 5 of Genesis...