Testament
1 Reuben | together to visit him. And 4 he said to them: My children,
2 Reuben | that through them should be 4 done every work of man.
3 Reuben | spirit of insatiableness, 4 in the belly; the third,
4 Reuben | and touched her no more. ~4 1 Pay no heed, therefore,
5 Reuben | anguish on account of my 4 impiety. And yet my father
6 Reuben | through the accomplished 4 act they take them captive.
7 Reuben | wrought, are to them an 4 irremediable disease, and
8 Simeon | Nor was I afraid of ought. 4 For my heart was hard, And
9 Simeon | and so long as he that 4 is envied flourisheth, he
10 Simeon | ceaseth from his envy. ~4 1 And my father asked Concerning
11 Simeon | I was suffering justly, 4 and I grieved not. Now Joseph
12 Simeon | bringing near to Beliar. 4 For I have seen it inscribed
13 Simeon | shall be utterly destroyed. 4 Then shall fail the land
14 Simeon | For the bones of Joseph 4 the Egyptians guarded in
15 Levi | itself walls, and lawlessness 4 sat upon towers. And I was
16 Levi | them are the holy ones. 4 And in the highest of all
17 Levi | provoke the Most High. ~4 1 Now, therefore, know that
18 Levi | all the seed of Israel. 4 And there shall be given
19 Levi | vengeance on Shechem because 4 of Dinah, thy sister, and
20 Levi | which they had wrought on 4, 5 my sister. And I slew
21 Levi | mock them. Because also 4 they had wrought folly in
22 Levi | Lord, thou and thy seed for 4, 5 ever. And the first anointed
23 Levi | my father saw a vision 4 concerning me, that I should
24 Levi | so as not to cover your 4 shame. And ye shall be scattered
25 Levi | sojourners in our land 3, 4 And I saw concerning him,
26 Levi | And the sons of Kohath, 3, 4 Ambram, Issachar, Hebron,
27 Levi | whithersoever he goeth. 4 Yea, many friends shall
28 Levi | than all the Gentiles. 4 But if ye be darkened through
29 Levi | of God. And all who hate 4 you shall rejoice at your
30 Levi | knowing his dignity, taking 4 innocent blood through wickedness
31 Levi | of beloved ones; and his 4 priesthood shall be honoured
32 Levi | magnified in the world. 4 He shall shine forth as
33 Levi | witness, concerning the word 4 of your mouth. And his sons
34 Judah | and Leah my mother named 4 me Judah, saying, I give
35 Judah | wild mare I overtook, and 4 caught it and tamed it.
36 Judah | a stone of sixty pounds 4 weight, and hurled it and
37 Judah | should not be overcome. ~4 1 And in the south there
38 Judah | were drawn down against 4 us. And so my brothers secretly
39 Judah | there was a host of mighty 4 men amongst them, and we
40 Judah | theirs, and their three 4 walls we cast down. And
41 Judah | wounded on Mount Seir, and 4 as he went he died at Anoniram.
42 Judah | away she went and took for 4 Shelah a wife from Canaan.
43 Judah | and her beauty deceived 4 me, through the fashion
44 Judah | occasion of the lust be 4 present, he worketh the
45 Judah | that is, the glory of my 4 kingdom. And indeed I repented
46 Judah | the commandments of God, 4 and ye perish before your
47 Judah | to be diminished, which 4 the Lord gave me because
48 Judah | compassion upon his neighbour 4 They rob his soul of all
49 Judah | But the God of my fathers 4 had mercy on me, because
50 Judah | of them the Lord knoweth. 4 And there is no time at
51 Judah | gave the things upon the 4 earth; to him the things
52 Judah | the temple of God,] the 4 laying waste of the land,
53 Judah | commandments first and last. 4 [This Branch of God Most
54 Judah | into the fire for ever. 4 And they who have died in
55 Judah | open my bowels, for this 4 shall they who are kings
56 Issachar| mandrakes. For Reuben my brother 4 brought in mandrakes from
57 Issachar| rectitude before him. And 4 I was not a busybody in
58 Issachar| singleness of my heart. ~4 1 And now, hearken to me,
59 Issachar| waiteth for the will of God. 4 And the spirits of deceit
60 Issachar| Lord with thanksgiving. 4 For with the first-fruits
61 Issachar| they sin, they may the more 4 quickly return to the Lord;
62 Issachar| that was my neighbour's. 4 Guile arose not in my heart;
63 Zebulun | exceedingly, both in flocks 4 and herds, when with the
64 Zebulun | for the sake of Jacob our 4 father. And as he spoke
65 Zebulun | see what will become of 4 his dreams. Therefore it
66 Zebulun | they had done to Joseph. ~4 1 And after he was sold
67 Zebulun | will the Lord do to him. 4 For the sons of my brethren
68 Zebulun | until we came to Egypt. 4, 5 [And through compassion
69 Zebulun | needeth, have compassion for 4 him in bowels of mercy.
70 Zebulun | the same degree hath the 4, 5 Lord also upon him.]
71 Zebulun | earth swalloweth them up, 3, 4 and they vanish away. So
72 Zebulun | eternal fire, and destroy them 4, 5 throughout all generations.
73 Dan | and that lying and anger 4 are evil, because they teach
74 Dan | he disobeyeth him; though 4 a righteous man, he regardeth
75 Dan | And when the body does all 4 these things, the soul justifieth
76 Dan | his works may be wrought. ~4 1, 2 Understand ye, therefore,
77 Dan | not uplifted: be not moved 4 either to delight or to
78 Dan | another with a true heart. 4 I know that in the last
79 Dan | Therefore is the enemy eager 4 to destroy all that call
80 Naphtali| food and wine. And after 4 he was awake in the morning,
81 Naphtali| measure, and rule was all the 4 creation made. And as the
82 Naphtali| stocks and stones, spirits of 4 deceit. But ye shall not
83 Naphtali| inhabitants and fruitless. ~4 1 These things I say unto
84 Naphtali| bring you back into your 4 land, according to His abundant
85 Naphtali| them lifted up with them. 4 And when Levi became as
86 Naphtali| let us embark on our ship. 4 And when he had gone on
87 Naphtali| not Jacob that begat thee. 4 He caused me also, therefore,
88 Naphtali| from amongst the Gentiles. 4 If ye work that which is
89 Gad | it, and overtaking (it) 4 I seized its foot with my
90 Gad | twenty to our brethren] 4 And thus through covetousness
91 Gad | then looked on Joseph. ~4 I Beware, therefore, my
92 Gad | punished and be put to death. 4 And if it be a servant it
93 Gad | another, but of his own heart, 4 because the Lord looketh
94 Gad | and repent, forgive him. 4 But if he deny it, do not
95 Gad | will rest and be at peace. 4 And though a man become
96 Gad | obey your father, and bury 4, 5 me near to my fathers.
97 Asher | two kinds of action, and 4 two modes (of action), and
98 Asher | the whole is an evil work. 4 Though indeed he have love,
99 Asher | men like unto themselves. ~4 1 For good men, even they
100 Asher | Lord's example, in that he 4 accepteth not the seeming
101 Asher | that truth is a lie, nor 4 right wrong; for all truth
102 Asher | good, and keep it in all 4 commandments of the Lord,
103 Asher | Gentiles [God speaking in 4 the person of man]. [Therefore
104 Joseph | in the truth of the Lord. 4 These my brethren hated
105 Joseph | the keeper of the prison. 4 For the Lord doth not forsake
106 Joseph | of my father, and going 4 into my chamber, I wept
107 Joseph | turn from her evil lust. ~4 1 Often, therefore, did
108 Joseph | would deliver me from her 4 deceit. And when she had
109 Joseph | men. She therefore, being 4 afraid, besought that I
110 Joseph | gone out I wept, nor did 4 I taste that or any other
111 Joseph | cast myself over a cliff, 4 if thou wilt not lie with
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