20-haugh | heali-slaug | slave-zealo
Testament
1 Judah | thinking myself invincible. ~20 1 Know, therefore, my children,
2 Judah | his face to the judge. ~21 1 And now, my children,
3 Judah | persecute all righteous men. ~22 1 And the Lord shall bring
4 Judah | from my seed for ever. ~23 1 Now I have much grief,
5 Judah | captivity among the Gentiles. ~24 1 And after these things
6 Dan | abominations of the Gentiles, going a-whoring after women of the lawless
7 Issachar| blessed all the saints 5 from Abel even until now. For no other
8 Levi | was feeding the flocks in Abel-Maul, the spirit of understanding
9 Levi | the 3 faithful shall ye abhor. [And a man who reneweth
10 Judah | love Levi, that ye may abide, and exalt not yourselves
11 Levi | near Gebal, to the south of Abila And I kept these words in
12 Judah | eighteen years my father abode in peace with his brother
13 Reuben | until I had 13 wrought the abominable thing. For while Jacob our
14 Gad | Whatsoever a man doeth the hater abominateth him: and though a man worketh
15 Asher | adultery and fornication, and abstaineth from meats, and when he
16 Zebulun | the Lord satisfied me with abundance of fish when catching fish;
17 Naphtali| 4 land, according to His abundant mercy. And it shall be,
18 Levi | proud, lawless, lascivious, abusers of children and beasts. ~
19 Levi | and the earth, and the abysses are shaken at the presence
20 Judah | prayers of my father been accepted, I should have died childless.
21 Asher | s example, in that he 4 accepteth not the seeming good as
22 Joseph | her peace, 8 longing to accomplish her evil desire. And I gave
23 Reuben | poison, and then through the accomplished 4 act they take them captive.
24 Naphtali| we all rejoiced with one accord. ~7 1 These two dreams I
25 Judah | testifieth all things, and accuseth all; and the sinner is burnt
26 Judah | scattered all his people. Achor the king] a man of giant
27 Simeon | all things, that I may be acquitted of your sin. Now, if ye
28 Levi | Saviour of the world, Christ, acting godlessly], deceiving Israel,
29 Reuben | with which are thefts and acts of rapacity, that a man
30 Levi | threatening sword against Adam. 11 And he shall give to
31 Naphtali| on the neck to the head, adding to it the hair also for
32 Gad | thee; for 6 ofttimes he addresseth thee guilefully or busieth
33 Reuben | whom the Lord spake, 9 I adjure you by the God of heaven
34 Zebulun | they wished to kill him, I adjured them much with tears not
35 Reuben | the purpose of his soul admitted no evil desire. Therefore
36 Joseph | and I raised her up and admonished her. And she promised to
37 Reuben | of 9 God, nor obeying the admonitions of his fathers as befell
38 Reuben | your daughters, that they adorn not their heads and faces
39 Judah | through the fashion of her adorning. And I turned aside to her,
40 Reuben | men; and by means of their adornment they deceive first their
41 Judah | him I saw Parsaba, king of Adullam; and he spake unto us, and
42 Judah | chief herdsman Iram the Adullamite. And when I went to him
43 Levi | priests, (who are) idolaters, adulterers, lovers of money, proud,
44 Levi | defile: and with harlots and adulteresses shall ye be joined, and
45 Judah | the cranes; And they shall advance in evil, in covetousness
46 Joseph | earth-born is He [weak or] affrighted. 6 But in all those things
47 Zebulun | a stranger, or sick, or aged, I boiled the fish, and
48 Zebulun | brethren, because they had all agreed that if any one should declare
49 Naphtali| 3 And he said, weeping: Ah me, my son Joseph, thou
50 Dan | by nature; for wrath ever aideth such in lawlessness. This
51 Reuben | tastes are given 6, 7 to draw air and breath. The fifth is
52 Dan | their God, and should be alienated from the land of their inheritance
53 Judah | rule over 6 king and beggar alike. And from the king they
54 Simeon | that he let him go away alive, and 12 for five months
55 Reuben | punishment. For thus they allured the Watchers who were before
56 Simeon | restored, and that I might hold aloof from all pollution and envy
57 | although
58 Asher | be unclean, but they are altogether clean; because they walk
59 Simeon | remnant shall not be unto Amalek, And all the Cappadocians
60 Levi | his blessings he looked amiss upon us. For we sinned because
61 Asher | because in the manner of wild animals they seem to be unclean,
62 Judah | 4 as he went he died at Anoniram. And we pursued after the
63 Levi | of Beliar. And his sons answered him, saying, 3 Before the
64 Levi | are the angels who bear answers to the angels of the presence
65 Judah | father was free from 10 anxiety in the wars when I was with
66 Simeon | Therefore was Joseph comely in appearance and goodly to look upon,
67 Simeon | and poisonous spirit, so appeareth it to men. ~5 1 Therefore
68 Judah | Israel shall come, Until the appearing of the God of righteousness,
69 Levi | the Lord shall thy seed apportion. 17 And some of them shall
70 Joseph | adultery, 7 but in those that approach Him with a pure heart and
71 Judah | with death. But I and Gad approached on the east side of the
72 Zebulun | do ye also, my children, approve yourselves without malice,
73 Joseph | temptations He showed me approved, And in all of them I endured;
74 Judah | Mesopotamia, a daughter of Aram. 2 Now Er was wicked, and
75 Levi | heaven next to] it are the archangels, who minister and make propitiation
76 Judah | next day we departed to Aretan, a city strong and walled
77 Dan | done, since it seeth not aright. Therefore he that is wrathful,
78 Levi | second are the hosts of the armies which are ordained for the
79 Judah | Canaanites came sheathed in armour against our flocks, and
80 Judah | jealousy and of fornication arrayed themselves against me, until
81 Reuben | one may be boastful and arrogant. The sixth is the spirit
82 Judah | Jacob smote Esau with an arrow, and he was taken up wounded
83 Judah | before they had gone up the ascent. And when we came to 5 their
84 Levi | name of the 2 mountain is Aspis, which is near Gebal, to
85 Judah | went up, sustaining the assault of stones, upwards of three
86 Dan | wrath with lying; and they assist one another in order to
87 Naphtali| appeared to us, saying: Assyrians, Medes, Persians, [Chaldeans,]
88 Joseph | that if thou kill thyself, Asteho, the concubine of thy husband,
89 Joseph | Abraham, be with me; and ate. 8 And when she saw this
90 Judah | seize our spoil; and we attacked them and overcame them in
91 Reuben | that through officious attention one may be fair in seeming.
92 Reuben | not be able. For God will avenge them, and ye shall die by
93 Gad | heart, and leave to God the avenging. ~7 1 If a man prospereth
94 Asher | wherefore also eternal life awaiteth death. Nor may it be said
95 Levi | And after these things I awaked, and blessed the Most High,
96 Judah | committeth fornication is not aware when he suffers loss, and
97 Levi | guarded. 18, 19 And when I awoke, I understood that this (
98 Judah | woman Bathshua, which God bade me not to reveal. And wine
99 Levi | wives by force, and they banished them. But the wrath of the
100 Levi | entering into the holy place, bathe; and when thou offerest
101 Reuben | For had I not seen Bilhah bathing in a covered place, I had
102 Judah | cors of wheat, five hundred baths of oil, five hundred measures
103 Reuben | openly, but by a harlot's 5 bearing she beguiles him. Flee,
104 Joseph | husband, thy rival, 6 will beat thy children~ ~
105 Joseph | cast into prison, I was beaten, I was mocked; but the Lord
106 | becoming
107 Judah | And Jacob my father slew Beelesath, king of all the kings,
108 Levi | and what things should befall them until the day of judgement.
109 Simeon | because of Joseph this had befallen me, and I repented and wept;
110 Naphtali| thou seest not Jacob that begat thee. 4 He caused me also,
111 | beginning
112 Reuben | a harlot's 5 bearing she beguiles him. Flee, therefore, fornication,
113 Dan | a father or a mother, he behaveth towards them as enemies;
114 Issachar| singleness of soul, And beholdeth all things in uprightness
115 Levi | gloomy unto thee, in that it beholds all the unrighteous deeds
116 Judah | pestilence, death and the sword, beleaguering by enemies, and revilings
117 Dan | and in poverty; and he who believeth on Him shall reign amongst
118 Naphtali| 3 will the sun and moon belong . And we all of us ran together,
119 Judah | of the mind, to which it belongeth to turn whithersoever it
120 Judah | and He set the kingdom beneath the priesthood. To me He
121 Issachar| increased ten thousandfold His benefits in my 8 hands; and also
122 Gad | through covetousness we were bent on slaying him. 5 And the
123 Zebulun | him, he fled behind me, beseeching them. But meanwhile Reuben
124 Joseph | hand succoured me. I was beset with hunger, and the Lord
125 | Besides
126 Judah | we encamped around, and 5 besieged it. And when they opened
127 Gad | Bilhah were slaying the best of the flock and eating
128 Issachar| the poor and oppressed I bestowed the good things of the earth
129 Reuben | Eder, near to Ephrath in Bethlehem, Bilhah became drunk and
130 Simeon | 2 And the sons of Simeon bewailed their father. And they were
131 Reuben | And whom they cannot 3 bewitch by outward attractions,
132 Levi | his flocks when they were big with young; and Eblaen,
133 Levi | blemish or pollution, w bile yet thou art young, and
134 Levi | of every clean beast and bird offer a 14 sacrifice to
135 Reuben | after their forms, gave birth to giants, for the Watchers
136 Gad | darkness, and calleth the sweet bitter, and teacheth slander, and
137 Joseph | and He pleaded my cause; Bitterly spoken against by the Egyptians,
138 Levi | to thyself a wife without blemish or pollution, w bile yet
139 Levi | savour, a reasonable and a bloodless offering. 7 And [in the
140 Judah | crushed. I outran the wild boar, and seizing it as I ran,
141 Naphtali| And when he had gone on board, there arose a vehement
142 Issachar| youth. But Rachel said: Boast not, and vaunt not thyself;
143 Reuben | of pride, that one may be boastful and arrogant. The sixth
144 Zebulun | stranger, or sick, or aged, I boiled the fish, and dressed them
145 Reuben | father's death I had not boldness to look in his face, or
146 Naphtali| enemies, and ye shall be bowed down with every affliction
147 Judah | walls of iron and gates of brass; and we could not enter
148 Levi | to my father, I found a brazen shield; wherefore also the
149 Zebulun | against his brother. For this breaketh unity and divideth all kindred,
150 Asher | eating and drinking, and breaking the head of the dragon in
151 Naphtali| was born she seized the breast and hastened to suck it. ~
152 Asher | two inclinations in our 6 breasts discriminating them. Therefore
153 Judah | and adorned herself in bridal array, and sat in the city
154 Naphtali| of palm; 5 and Judah was bright as the moon, and under their
155 Levi | saw a second heaven far brighter and more brilliant, for
156 Zebulun | the merchants had left the broad road and marched through
157 Judah | upon us stones from the brow of the hill on which the
158 Naphtali| hold of them.] And 10, a bull upon the earth, with two
159 Naphtali| weep by these words, and I burned in my heart to declare that
160 Levi | of sacrifices, 8 whole burnt-offerings, first-fruits, freewill-offerings,
161 Levi | instructing me, and was busied on my behalf before the
162 Gad | addresseth thee guilefully or busieth himself about thee with
163 Issachar| playing the busybody with the business of your neighbour, 2 But
164 Gad | light to be darkness, and calleth the sweet bitter, and teacheth
165 Levi | of ungodliness, and the callousness (that comes) of sin. 8 For
166 Judah | of Jacob my father to the Canaanitish 5 woman Bathshua, which
167 Naphtali| spirit, and according to the capacity of the body doth He implant
168 Simeon | unto Amalek, And all the Cappadocians shall perish, And all the
169 Joseph | 2 1, 2 And this chief captain of Pharaoh entrusted to
170 Judah | four mighty men. And so we captured Hazor, and took all the
171 Judah | and heateth the body to carnal union; and if the occasion
172 Simeon | as ye saw in 6 Joseph's case. All his days he reproached
173 Gad | love of God. Righteousness casteth out hatred, humility destroyeth
174 Asher | upon righteousness, and casting away wickedness, it straightway
175 Levi | end, And the lawless shall cease to do evil. [And the just
176 Simeon | are hostile to him, and so ceaseth from his envy. ~4 1 And
177 Simeon | odour of Libanus; And as cedars shall holy ones be multiplied
178 Issachar| slandered any one, nor did I censure the life of any man, walking
179 Naphtali| Levi became as a sun, lo, a certain young man gave to him twelve
180 Naphtali| the family of Abraham, a Chaldean, God 11 fearing, free-born,
181 Naphtali| Assyrians, Medes, Persians, [Chaldeans,] Syrians, shall possess
182 Naphtali| Do ye also, therefore, charge your children that they
183 Naphtali| you. ~9 1 And when he had charged them with many such words,
184 Joseph | For endurance is a mighty charm, And patience giveth many
185 Judah | I used to master in the chase, and overtake all that was
186 Joseph | she lauded me openly as chaste, and in secret she said
187 Zebulun | indeed I have sinned, with chastening chastise me, my brethren
188 Zebulun | sinned, with chastening chastise me, my brethren but lay
189 Reuben | of 5 obsequiousness and chicanery, that through officious
190 Judah | and my brethren shall be chiefs of the tribes of Israel:
191 Judah | accepted, I should have died childless. But the God of my fathers
192 Zebulun | father; and when many were choked in the sea, I continued
193 Judah | his shield in twain, and I chopped off his feet, and killed
194 Judah | Lord said unto me: The Lord chose him rather than thee, to
195 Levi | the Saviour of the world, Christ, acting godlessly], deceiving
196 Levi | sons of Hamor not to be circumcised; for I was zealous because
197 Levi | that they had received the circumcision, and after that had been
198 Levi | leading into captivity, And cities and lands be destroyed,
199 Levi | the most holy things, and clad 6, 7 me with a holy and
200 Judah | other for two 5 hours; and I clave his shield in twain, and
201 Naphtali| to contain, and bringeth clay accordingly, so also doth
202 Asher | driveth away the good, and cleaveth to the evil, and is ruled
203 Judah | so my brothers secretly climbed up the wall on both sides
204 Levi | And all the saints shall clothe themselves with joy. ~19
205 Levi | glorious robe. The third clothed me with a linen vestment
206 Levi | earth shall be glad, And the clouds shall rejoice, [And the
207 Naphtali| to it the hair also for comeliness and glory, then the heart
208 Levi | and the callousness (that comes) of sin. 8 For if one keep
209 Joseph | And in divers ways doth He comfort, (Though) for a little space
210 Asher | pitieth the poor: the Lord who commandeth the 7 law he setteth at
211 Issachar| and am not conscious of committing any sin. 2 Except my wife
212 Judah | breastplate, behold nine men his companions began to fight with me.
213 Asher | love, yet is he wicked who concealeth what is evil for the sake
214 Reuben | to practise deceits, and concealments from kindred and friends.
215 Joseph | kill thyself, Asteho, the concubine of thy husband, thy rival,
216 Gad | call back them that are condemned to die, so hatred would
217 Levi | in the midst of all the congregation, Therefore I called his
218 Simeon | war of the Lord, and shall conquer all your hosts. And they
219 Reuben | reproach. Even until now my conscience causeth me anguish on account
220 Dan | wickedness and pride will conspire to attend constantly on
221 Reuben | may be pure 3 in mind. For constant meetings, even though the
222 Reuben | of life, with which the constitution (of man) is 5 created. The
223 Naphtali| tribulation, until the Lord have consumed you all. And after ye have
224 Naphtali| vessel, how much it is to contain, and bringeth clay accordingly,
225 Levi | called Jerusalem, as is contained in the book of Enoch the
226 Levi | commands of God. For ye shall contemn the holy things with jests
227 Levi | portions, 6 eating (them) contemptuously with harlots. And out of
228 Issachar| husband, and hath chosen continency. And had not Leah my mother
229 Judah | another. And there shall be continual wars in Israel; 2 And among
230 Levi | fornication; for this shall continue and shall by thy seed pollute
231 Asher | of the Lord, having your conversation therein, and resting therein.
232 Joseph | wickedness, and I have kept it to convict thee, if haply thou mayst
233 Asher | hidden) covetousness, in conviviality drunkenness, in laughter
234 Asher | scattered unto the four 3 corners of the earth. And ye shall
235 Naphtali| therefore, not eager to corrupt your doings through covetousness
236 Levi | upon me, and I saw all men corrupting their way, and that unrighteousness
237 Judah | they gave us five hundred cors of wheat, five hundred baths
238 Judah | old. Let no one bury me in costly apparel, nor tear open my
239 Zebulun | committed against Joseph; for I covenanted with my brethren not to
240 Levi | shall be rent, so as not to cover your 4 shame. And ye shall
241 Judah | sin, and I uncovered the covering of my sons' shame. After
242 Issachar| be led astray thereby; I coveted not any desirable thing
243 Issachar| The single-(minded) man coveteth not gold, He overreacheth
244 Dan | the sons of Judah will be covetous, Plundering other men's
245 Levi | waters dried up, And the fire cowering, And all creation troubled,
246 Naphtali| and because Rachel dealt craftily, and gave Bilhah in place
247 Judah | her according to the evil craftiness of his mother, for he did
248 Judah | feed the ravens and the cranes; And they shall advance
249 Dan | hand of Satan, that with cruelty and lying his works may
250 Dan | anger that persuaded me to crush Joseph as a leopard crusheth
251 Judah | down the cliff, and it was crushed. I outran the wild boar,
252 Dan | crush Joseph as a leopard crusheth a kid. 9 But the God of
253 Judah | giant in strength, twelve cubits high. 8, 9 And fear fell
254 Zebulun | the Troglodytes by a short cut. 7 But Reuben was grieved,
255 Issachar| longeth not after manifold dainties, He delighteth not in varied
256 Dan | eyes, and through lying 5 darkeneth his mind, and giveth him
257 Reuben | perisheth every young man, darkening his mind from the truth,
258 Judah | slinging against me stones and darts. And had not Dan my brother
259 Joseph | thou hast filled it with deadly enchantments; and how saidst
260 Levi | the 3 Lord. And ye shall deal lawlessly together with
261 Dan | life, that truth with just dealing is good and well pleasing
262 Naphtali| Bilhah, and because Rachel dealt craftily, and gave Bilhah
263 Naphtali| of Rotheus the brother of Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, who was
264 Reuben | and jealousy to practise deceits, and concealments from kindred
265 Levi | Most High, ye shall call a deceiver; and at last ye shall rush (
266 Reuben | near to idols, because it deceiveth the mind and understanding,
267 Levi | Christ, acting godlessly], deceiving Israel, and stirring up
268 Joseph | ensnare me, and sighing deeply she became downcast, though
269 Reuben | wherein I was poured out, and defiled the bed of my father Jacob.
270 Asher | refresheth the poor. He defileth the soul, and maketh gay
271 Levi | wrought folly in Israel by defiling my sister. And we departed
272 Joseph | Egyptians as one living delicately, for they that fast for
273 Simeon | Lord, and I learnt that deliverance from envy cometh by the
274 Judah | set upon our spoil, and delivering it up to our sons we fought
275 Simeon | some malicious jealousy, deluding him, gnaweth and with wicked
276 Judah | spirits, diviners, and 2 demons of error. Ye shall make
277 Gad | reproving him. For he who denieth may repent so as not again
278 Judah | and them. 6 And as we were departing the men of Tappuah set upon
279 Asher | Satan. For when the soul departs troubled, it is tormented
280 Judah | their 3 city. And in the depth of night our brethren came
281 Reuben | with the sons of men and derision with Beliar. For ye heard
282 Issachar| to Rachel. For though she desired them, she eat them not,
283 Asher | the genuine good. Another desireth not to see a good day with
284 Joseph | before her husband, while desiring to ensnare me when we were
285 Dan | longer shall Jerusalem endure desolation, Nor Israel be led captive;
286 Issachar| children. For the Lord hath despised me, 7 and I have not borne
287 Levi | Jacob: By thee will the Lord despoil the Canaanites, and will
288 Asher | from wickedness flee away, destroying the (evil) inclination by
289 Issachar| follow after their own wicked devices, And they shall be dispersed
290 Gad | the heart with evils and devilish poison. These things, therefore,
291 Simeon | folly. For I knew that I had devised an evil thing before the
292 Gad | with every affliction it deviseth against 5 him if possibly
293 Judah | away sleep from him, And devour his flesh. 5 And he hindereth
294 Zebulun | our father that thou alone didst this evil thing in Israel.
295 Levi | his mother bare him with difficulty, I called him Merari, that
296 Zebulun | pits, which our fathers digged 8 and found no water. For
297 Levi | slay him, not knowing his dignity, taking 4 innocent blood
298 Levi | in the fear of God with diligence; For though there be a leading
299 Judah | the kingdom of Judah to be diminished, which 4 the Lord gave me
300 Zebulun | a kid of the goats, and dip in it the coat of Joseph;
301 Asher | inclinations in our 6 breasts discriminating them. Therefore if the soul
302 Dan | either to delight or to disgust]. For first it pleaseth
303 Joseph | terrible man giving me with the dish a sword, and 3 I perceived
304 Naphtali| curse, And God shall be dishonoured among the Gentiles through
305 Asher | your children, that they 5 disobey Him not. For I have known
306 Dan | prophet of the Lord, he disobeyeth him; though 4 a righteous
307 Naphtali| not the law of God in the disorderliness of your doings. The Gentiles
308 Naphtali| fear of God, and do nothing disorderly in scorn or out of its due
309 Issachar| devices, And they shall be dispersed among the Gentiles. And
310 Gad | righteous, he loveth him not. He dispraiseth the truth, he envieth him
311 Dan | one another in order to disturb the heart; and when the
312 Joseph | give protection, And in divers ways doth He comfort, (Though)
313 Asher | clean,- like those that divide the hoof, but in very deed
314 Zebulun | this breaketh unity and divideth all kindred, and troubleth
315 Judah | that have familiar spirits, diviners, and 2 demons of error.
316 Judah | Lord shall bring upon them divisions one against another. And
317 Judah | in Hebron leaped upon my dog, and I caught it by the
318 Judah | sin from the Lord and is 5 dominated by the earthly kingdom.
319 Levi | to this are thrones and dominions, in which always they offer
320 Simeon | the flocks, and Reuben to Dothan, where were our necessaries
321 Asher | thought by them that are double 2 faced to sin, are just
322 Gad | swearing and so thou sin doubly. [Let not another man hear
323 Joseph | sighing deeply she became downcast, though she was not sick.
324 Judah | him on the greaves 2 and dragged him down, and so I Slew
325 Asher | breaking the head of the dragon in the water. He shall save
326 Naphtali| for power, the lungs for drawing 9 in, the loins for strength,
327 Judah | that we were alone, were drawn down against 4 us. And so
328 Zebulun | I boiled the fish, and dressed them well, and offered them
329 Levi | quenched, And the waters dried up, And the fire cowering,
330 Judah | discretion needeth the man who drinketh wine, my children; and herein
331 Reuben | the eating of meats and drinks; and by it strength is 8
332 Judah | mind, and it maketh the drunkard to talk filthily, and to
333 Zebulun | cast him into one of these dry pits, which our fathers
334 | during
335 Naphtali| tribes shall God appear [dwelling among men] on earth, To
336 Simeon | because no wickedness 2 dwelt in him; for some of the
337 Naphtali| two great horns, and an 7 eagle's wings upon its back; and
338 Judah | run in joyfulness, And the eagles of Israel shall fly in gladness;
339 Gad | hear of Joseph with the ears, or see him with the eyes
340 Joseph | afraid, Nor as one that is earth-born is He [weak or] affrighted.
341 Levi | were big with young; and Eblaen, who was born in his 10
342 Reuben | father, when we were in Eder, near to Ephrath in Bethlehem,
343 Levi | generation. 7 In my hundred and eighteenth year Joseph died. ~13 1
344 Gad | mercilessly, and was judged for eleven months, for so long a time
345 Joseph | TESTAMENT OF JOSEPH, THE ELEVENTH SON OF JACOB AND RACHEL. ~
346 Naphtali| said to us: Come, let us embark on our ship. 4 And when
347 Naphtali| is a season for a man to embrace his wife, And a season to
348 Joseph | child. 8 And for a time she embraced me as a son, and I knew
349 Judah | array, and sat in the city Enaim by the gate. For it was
350 Judah | my 7 heart. And I became enamoured of and I lay with her, and
351 Judah | not enter into it, and we encamped around, and 5 besieged it.
352 Joseph | all of them I endured; For endurance is a mighty charm, And patience
353 Dan | no longer shall Jerusalem endure desolation, Nor Israel be
354 Gad | man hear thy secrets when engaged in legal strife, lest he
355 Zebulun | words of Zebulun, which he enjoined on his sons before he died
356 Levi | knowledge upon the earth, And enlightened through the grace of the
357 Gad | away the darkness, and 8 enlighteneth the eyes, and giveth knowledge
358 Judah | captivity while some are enriched, so also shall every race
359 Judah | daughters of free men shall they enslave; Houses, lands, flocks,
360 Judah | laying waste of the land, the enslavement of yourselves among the
361 Levi | strange nations. And before entering into the holy place, bathe;
362 Reuben | unto his neighbour and to entertain love 10 each one for his
363 Levi | and does them, Shall be enthroned with kings, As was also
364 Judah | comely woman's face ever enticed me, and reproved Reuben
365 Zebulun | captive, And ye shall be evil entreated among the Gentiles, With
366 Joseph | chief captain of Pharaoh entrusted to me his house. And I struggled
367 Reuben | we were in Eder, near to Ephrath in Bethlehem, Bilhah became
368 Dan | none of the angels will be equal unto him. And His name shall
369 Judah | lo, it made me also to err, so that I was not ashamed
370 Zebulun | my brethren were sick, I escaped without 3 sickness, for
371 Levi | arise in Judah, and shall 15 establish a new priesthood, after
372 Judah | me shall the kingdom be established. ~18 1 And I know what evils
373 Naphtali| by Laban; and he gave him Euna his handmaid to wife, and
374 Joseph | enchantments. And when the eunuch who brought it came, I looked
375 Judah | they shall make some of you eunuchs for their wives. 5 Until
376 Levi | to His sons in truth for evermore; And there shall none succeed
377 | everywhere
378 Gad | prospereth, he welcometh evil-speaking, he loveth arrogance, for
379 Judah | that ye may abide, and exalt not yourselves 2 against
380 Simeon | darkness and gloom, and an exceeding great plague to the Egyptians,
381 Asher | and notwithstanding his excessive wickedness he doeth the
382 Naphtali| understanding, the belly for excrement, and the stomach for (grinding),
383 Gad | And now, my children, I exhort you, love ye each one his
384 Naphtali| with many such words, he exhorted them that they should 2
385 Gad | prosperity. For so it is expedient for you. And if he be further
386 Reuben | the fear of the Lord, and expend labour on good works, and
387 Gad | therefore, I say to you from experience, my children, that ye may
388 Levi | pollution 8 as I cannot express before men, for they shall
389 Dan | that it fall not into the extremity of evil. And it shall be
390 Asher | by them that are double 2 faced to sin, are just before
391 Simeon | flourisheth, he that envieth fadeth away. Two years therefore
392 Levi | godly the words of the 3 faithful shall ye abhor. [And a man
393 Zebulun | but were spit upon also, 8 falling down before him forthwith,
394 Judah | earthly kingdom, unless it falls away through sin from the
395 Judah | uplifted, 9 And there shall be false prophets like tempests,
396 Asher | provoketh God, and sweareth falsely against the Most High, and
397 Judah | following them that have familiar spirits, diviners, and 2
398 Reuben | which is (that) of error and fantasy.] And so perisheth every
399 Joseph | prayed unto the Lord. And I fasted in those seven years, and
400 Judah | my sons. For I said to my father-in-law: I will take counsel with
401 Levi | And in a strange country a fatherland, And in the midst of foes
402 Issachar| given to you than of the fatness of the earth, 6 whose fruits
403 Gad | praiseth him not; though a man feareth the Lord, and taketh pleasure
404 Levi | me with pure water, and fed me with bread and wine (
405 Judah | many shall they wrongfully feed the ravens and the cranes;
406 Judah | us. I, therefore, and Dan feigned ourselves to be Amorites,
407 Joseph | delivered me; Envied by my fellow-slaves, and He exalted me. ~2 1,
408 Judah | a wild ox feeding in the fields, and seizing it by the horns,
409 Judah | them and overcame them in fierce battle: for there was a
410 Reuben | the third, the spirit of fighting, in the liver and gall.
411 Judah | words of outrage, and in fightings and slanders, and transgressions
412 Gad | and all covetousness; 2 it filleth the heart with evils and
413 Judah | maketh the drunkard to talk filthily, and to transgress and not
414 Zebulun | earth, and wheresoever He findeth bowels of mercy He dwelleth
415 Levi | wash; and again, when thou finishest the sacrifice, wash Of twelve
416 Naphtali| children, recognizing in the firmament, in the earth, and in the
417 Reuben | TESTAMENT OF REUBEN, THE FIRST-BORN SON OF JACOB AND LEAH ~1
418 Judah | They shall swallow men like fishes: The sons and daughters
419 Joseph | delivered me from 3 the burning flame. I was cast into prison,
420 Joseph | Often, therefore, did she flatter me with words as a holy
421 Simeon | As a rose shall my bones flourish in Israel, And as a lily
422 Simeon | long as he that 4 is envied flourisheth, he that envieth fadeth
423 Zebulun | waters, and know when they flow together, they sweep along
424 Judah | the eagles of Israel shall fly in gladness; And all the
425 Levi | fatherland, And in the midst of foes shall prove a friend. 9
426 Judah | me that an angel of might followed me everywhere, that I should
427 Asher | work is good, because he followeth the Lord's example, in that
428 Levi | for as a man mocketh a fool, so did we mock them. Because
429 Zebulun | for this cause the Lord forbade that water should rise up
430 Asher | what God also hateth and forbiddeth by His commandments, warding
431 Asher | beginneth to do good, he forceth the issue of the action
432 Simeon | ones be multiplied from me forever, And their branches shall
433 | former
434 Reuben | their minds after their forms, gave birth to giants, for
435 Issachar| draw near to malice; And forsaking the commandments of the
436 Naphtali| Gentiles went astray, and forsook the Lord, and changed their
437 | forty
438 Levi | I took 6 a wife, and at forty-eight I went into Egypt. And behold,
439 Levi | thee. For from this day forward shall Shechem be 3 called
440 Reuben | produced, for in food is the foundation of strength. The seventh
441 Judah | God Most High, And this Fountain giving life unto all.] 5
442 Issachar| sake he served our father fourteen years. 11 And had not craft
443 Zebulun | died in the 2 hundred and fourteenth year of his life, two years
444 Naphtali| Chaldean, God 11 fearing, free-born, and noble. And he was taken
445 Levi | burnt-offerings, first-fruits, freewill-offerings, peace-offerings. And each
446 Simeon | and leadeth the mind into frenzy, and suffereth not prudence
447 Naphtali| without inhabitants and fruitless. ~4 1 These things I say
448 Reuben | rapacity, that a man may fulfill the desire of his heart;
449 Zebulun | with him weeping for seven furlongs, and my bowels yearned towards
450 Judah | the king of the city of Gaash with a mighty host was coming
451 Levi | Yea, many friends shall he gain more than his parents, And
452 Asher | defileth the soul, and maketh gay the body; he killeth many,
453 Judah | not to love money, nor to gaze upon the beauty of women;
454 Levi | is Aspis, which is near Gebal, to the south of Abila And
455 Levi | children, ye are a third generation. 7 In my hundred and eighteenth
456 Asher | the seeming good as the genuine good. Another desireth not
457 Dan | own, and over his soul it getteth the mastery, and 3 it bestoweth
458 Reuben | their forms, gave birth to giants, for the Watchers appeared
459 Zebulun | Zebulun, was born a good gift to my parents. For when
460 Judah | make your daughters singing girls and harlots, and ye shall
461 Naphtali| the earth. 8, 9 Then Levi, girt about with sackcloth, prayed
462 Zebulun | and said unto him: If thou givest not up the coat, we 13 will
463 Reuben | their minds, and by the glance of the eye instill the poison,
464 Simeon | all the land darkness and gloom, and an exceeding great
465 Levi | lowest is for this cause gloomy unto thee, in that it beholds
466 Judah | of the Lord. Since I also gloried that in wars no comely woman'
467 Levi | 6, 7 me with a holy and glorious robe. The third clothed
468 Simeon | jealousy, deluding him, gnaweth and with wicked spirits
469 Zebulun | us slay 10 a kid of the goats, and dip in it the coat
470 Levi | the world, Christ, acting godlessly], deceiving Israel, and
471 Levi | be like unto Sodom and 7 Gomorrah. And ye shall be puffed
472 Simeon | comely in appearance and goodly to look upon, because no
473 Dan | Plundering other men's goods like lions.] 8 Therefore
474 Gad | away (from a man) wealth gotten by evil 6 means He forgiveth
475 Joseph | was mocked; but the Lord granted me to find mercy in the
476 Gad | as an ox licketh up the grass of the field. 3 Therefore
477 Gad | 6 because he loved him greatly. And Joseph told our father
478 Judah | Hazor, and smote him on the greaves 2 and dragged him down,
479 Naphtali| excrement, and the stomach for (grinding), the windpipe for taking
480 Joseph | pain at my heart, and the groanings of my spirit oppress me;
481 Dan | mind keen to perceive the grounds for provocation; and then
482 Dan | angel of the Lord shall guide them both; For by them shall
483 Asher | goodness only, for God hath his habitation therein, and men desire
484 Simeon | hands; for my right hand was half withered for seven days.
485 Simeon | Then shall fail the land of Ham, And all the people shall
486 Levi | house, they most shamefully handled. And thus they did to all
487 Naphtali| and he gave him Euna his handmaid to wife, and she bore a
488 Joseph | and said unto me: I will hang myself, or cast myself over
489 Levi | I saw there a great sea hanging. 8 And further I saw a second
490 Simeon | ought. 4 For my heart was hard, And my liver was immovable,
491 Gad | succoured me, it had 10 hardly failed but my spirit had
492 Asher | whole is evil. Such men are hares; clean,- like those that
493 Simeon | fornication, 5 and shall do harm to the sons of Levi with
494 Judah | awake to life. 5 And the harts of Jacob shall run in joyfulness,
495 Naphtali| she seized the breast and hastened to suck it. ~2 1 And I was
496 Zebulun | generations. But I am now hastening away to my rest, as did
497 Naphtali| Bilhah, saying: My daughter hastens after what is new, for immediately
498 Gad | together with Satan, through hastiness of spirit, in all things
499 Gad | Whatsoever a man doeth the hater abominateth him: and though
500 Judah | imaginations of your thoughts in haughtiness of heart; and glory not
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