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Nash Papyrus A Hebrew manuscript that contains the Ten Commandments and the Shema. The papyrus consists of four fragments from a single sheet and likely dates to the second century bc. Since it includes two such well-known passages side by side, it probably was not a biblical manuscript but was used for another purpose, perhaps as a liturgical text.

The text of the Ten Commandments on the Nash Papyrus is similar to the text from Exod 20:2–17 and Deut 5:6–21, except the sixth and seventh commandments (“You shall not murder” and “you shall not commit adultery”) are in reverse order. Also, the text of the Shema from Deut 6:4–5 includes an introductory phrase that is found in the Septuagint but not the Masoretic Text.

The papyrus was acquired in Egypt by W. L. Nash, and the contents were first made public by Stanley A. Cook in 1903. It now resides in the Cambridge University Library.

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