The Qumran caves have yielded a few manuscripts that belong to the Rewritten Bible class. Some 20 fragmentary Hebrew manuscripts of the Book of Jubilees, previously known only from Ethiopic, Greek, Latin and Syriac translations, were discovered in Caves 1, 2, 3, 4 and 11. But among the Qumran finds, the pride of place is occupied by the Aramaic Genesis Apocryphon of the first century BCE, an extended Aramaic paraphrase with substantially enriched interpretative supplements. The section relating to the story of Abraham is fairly well preserved. The adduced example concerns the account of the healing of the plague (impotence), which had been inflicted on Pharaoh and his men, due to Abraham's intervention after Sarah's forcible transfer to the royal palace.

Gen 12:19

Why did you say, "She is my sister", so that I took her as a wife for myself. Now here is your wife. Take her and depart!

GA 20:26-29

You told me, "She is my sister", whereas she is your wife. And I took her to be my wife. Behold your wife who is with me. Depart and go hence from all the land of Egypt. And now pray for me and my household that this evil spirit may depart from me. I prayed for him, and I laid my hands upon his head, and the plague went from him, and the evil spirit departed from him, and he lived.

Two columns of a Genesis commentary yielded by Cave 4 transmit the story of the flood (Gen. 6:3-9:25). The redactor adds to the biblical dates of the various events their equivalents in the 364-day solar calendar of the Qumran community. It thus becomes a standard example of the Rewritten Bible.

In the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month—on the first day of the week—on the seventeenth day (of the month), on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights—until the twenty-sixth day of the third month, the fifth day of the week.