Testament

  1 Reuben  |          for behold now at length 5 I am passing away. And he
  2 Reuben  |          constitution (of man) is 5 created. The second is the
  3 Reuben  |           fourth is the spirit of 5 obsequiousness and chicanery,
  4 Reuben  |      thenceforth until now I have 5 been on my guard and sinned
  5 Reuben  |         can Beliar overcome you. ~5 1 For evil are women, my
  6 Reuben  |         openly, but by a harlot's 5 bearing she beguiles him.
  7 Reuben  |      reproach. For in fornication 5 there is neither understanding
  8 Simeon  |        bowels without compassion. 5, 6 Because valour also has
  9 Simeon  |        cometh by the fear of God. 5 For if a man flee to the
 10 Simeon  |           even as the rest of his 5 brethren. Beware, therefore,
 11 Simeon  |          so appeareth it to men. ~5 1 Therefore was Joseph comely
 12 Simeon  |         corrupted in fornication, 5 and shall do harm to the
 13 Simeon  |      world under heaven from war. 5 Then the Mighty One of Israel
 14 Levi    |          men, and I prayed to the 5 Lord that I might be saved.
 15 Levi    |           far above all holiness. 5 In [the heaven next to]
 16 Levi    |          tender mercies for ever. 5 And therefore there have
 17 Levi    |          curse Him shall perish. ~5 1 And thereupon the angel
 18 Levi    |       sent me. And I destroyed at 5 that time the sons of Hamor,
 19 Levi    |      which they had wrought on 4, 5 my sister. And I slew Shechem
 20 Levi    |          thou and thy seed for 4, 5 ever. And the first anointed
 21 Levi    |          up early in the morning, 5 and paid tithes of all to
 22 Levi    |           shall be for a reproach 5 and for a curse there. For
 23 Levi    |        And Kohath was born in the 5 thirty-fifth year of my
 24 Levi    |         for they were born in one 5 day, he and my daughter.
 25 Levi    |           the law from his mouth. 5 Work righteousness, therefore,
 26 Levi    |         to the ordinances of God. 5 The offerings of the Lord
 27 Levi    |        places shall be laid waste 5 even to the ground because
 28 Levi    |        priest shall be taken hold 5 of by sorrow. And the fourth
 29 Levi    |           peace in all the earth. 5 The heavens shall exult
 30 Levi    |         his fathers, after he had 5 lived a hundred and thirty-seven
 31 Judah   |          a fourth son also. I was 5 swift in my youth, and obedient
 32 Judah   |          I took a bear by its paw 5 and hurled it down the cliff,
 33 Judah   |         with (this) other for two 5 hours; and I clave his shield
 34 Judah   |          and took all the spoil. ~5 1 On the next day we departed
 35 Judah   |     stakes, and entered the city, 5 while the men knew it not.
 36 Judah   |       ascent. And when we came to 5 their city their women rolled
 37 Judah   |           we encamped around, and 5 besieged it. And when they
 38 Judah   |          wickedness knew her not, 5 though he spent with her
 39 Judah   |      cursed her in the anguish of 5 my soul. And she also died
 40 Judah   |            and my girdle, and the 5 diadem of my kingdom in
 41 Judah   |     daughter's behalf; for he was 5 a king. And he adorned her
 42 Judah   |          man, my children; for he 5 who is drunken reverenceth
 43 Judah   |         not until my old age, nor 5 did I behold any joy. And
 44 Judah   |         father to the Canaanitish 5 woman Bathshua, which God
 45 Judah   |         caused grief to Jacob, my 5 father: for all things whatsoever
 46 Judah   |        him, And devour his flesh. 5 And he hindereth the sacrifices
 47 Judah   |       heart itself have they been 5 written down before the
 48 Judah   |          sin from the Lord and is 5 dominated by the earthly
 49 Judah   |          eunuchs for their wives. 5 Until the Lord visit you,
 50 Judah   |   Fountain giving life unto all.] 5 Then shall the sceptre of
 51 Judah   |         sake shall awake to life. 5 And the harts of Jacob shall
 52 Issachar|        them. And Reuben wept, and 5 at his voice Leah my mother
 53 Issachar|         Because of the mandrakes; 5 therefore, the Lord hearkened
 54 Issachar|         did in singleness of eye. 5 Therefore, when I was thirty-five
 55 Issachar|         his mind with corruption. 5 There is no envy in his
 56 Issachar|        commandments of the Lord. ~5 1 Keep, therefore, my children,
 57 Issachar|         He blessed all the saints 5 from Abel even until now.
 58 Issachar|       passed not through my lips. 5 If any man were in distress
 59 Zebulun |      conscious that I have sinned 5 all my days, save in thought.
 60 Zebulun |           my bowels was loosened. 5 And I wept with Joseph,
 61 Zebulun |          whosoever will not raise 5 up seed to his brother,
 62 Zebulun |         to watch him, till he was 5 sold to the Ishmaelites.
 63 Zebulun |        did even as Dan had said. ~5 I And now, my children,
 64 Zebulun |           of Joseph, because they 5 showed not mercy in their
 65 Zebulun |        until we came to Egypt. 4, 5 [And through compassion
 66 Zebulun |           same degree hath the 4, 5 Lord also upon him.] And
 67 Zebulun |            and two shoulders, two 5 hands, two feet, and all
 68 Zebulun |         fire, and destroy them 4, 5 throughout all generations.
 69 Dan     |          day to you, my children, 5 that in my heart I resolved
 70 Dan     |           eyes, and through lying 5 darkeneth his mind, and
 71 Dan     |           and thirdly, having his 5 own natural power he worketh
 72 Dan     |           that he is justly angry 5 If ye fall into any loss
 73 Dan     |           Beliar ruleth over it. ~5 1 Observe, therefore, my
 74 Dan     |          them shall Israel stand. 5 And whensoever ye depart
 75 Dan     |         day on which Israel shall 5 repent, the kingdom of the
 76 Naphtali|       believed him not. And as he 5 glorified the Lord, he grew
 77 Naphtali|         it beginneth in evil. For 5 there is no inclination
 78 Naphtali|        become not as Sodom, which 5 changed the order of nature.
 79 Naphtali|        they come into the land of 5 their fathers, they shall
 80 Naphtali|           to them that are near. ~5 1 For in the fortieth year
 81 Naphtali|          twelve branches of palm; 5 and Judah was bright as
 82 Naphtali|       mighty tempest of wind; and 5 our father, who was holding
 83 Naphtali|      angels shall cleave to you]. 5 As a man who has trained
 84 Gad     |         being young, he fell sick 5 by reason of the heat. And
 85 Gad     |         were bent on slaying him. 5 And the God of my fathers
 86 Gad     |    affliction it deviseth against 5 him if possibly he can be
 87 Gad     |       unto the salvation of men. ~5 1 Hatred, therefore, is
 88 Gad     |        holy man, because the fear 5 of God overcometh hatred.
 89 Gad     |          poison from thee he take 5 to swearing and so thou
 90 Gad     |           father, be not jealous; 5 but wait for the end of
 91 Gad     |          your father, and bury 4, 5 me near to my fathers. And
 92 Asher   |        twos, one over against the 5 other. For there are two
 93 Asher   |         action tendeth unto evil. 5 Another stealeth, doeth
 94 Asher   |    double-faced, but the whole is 5 good. For such men are like
 95 Asher   |          the evil from the good. ~5 1 Ye see, my children, how
 96 Asher   |       they meet the angels of the 5 Lord and of Satan. For when
 97 Asher   |          your children, that they 5 disobey Him not. For I have
 98 Joseph  |         High brought me up again. 5 I was sold into slavery,
 99 Joseph  | tribulations, nor in necessities. 5 For God is not put to shame
100 Joseph  |           receive beauty of face. 5 And if my lord were away
101 Joseph  |           to me under the plea of 5 instruction, that she might
102 Joseph  |       might deliver me from her. ~5 1 And again, at another
103 Joseph  |         me and observed the food, 5 and said unto me: Why is
104 Joseph  |      troubling her, I prayed unto 5 the Lord, and said unto