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Testament
501 Zebulun | light of righteousness, [And healing and compassion shall be
502 Gad | that prosper: so long as it heareth of or seeth their success,
503 Issachar| mandrakes; 5 therefore, the Lord hearkened to Rachel. For though she
504 Judah | the blessing of God, He hearkeneth not to a prophet when he
505 Gad | sick 5 by reason of the heat. And he returned to Hebron
506 Judah | feast; 3 and when I was heated he gave me his daughter
507 Judah | leading to fornication, and heateth the body to carnal union;
508 Levi | as it is written in the heavenly tables. And I said to him:
509 Judah | town, and seized upon the heights, and destroyed this city
510 Joseph | undefiled lips. But she held her peace, 8 longing to
511 Naphtali| father, who was holding the helm, departed from us. And we,
512 Levi | and said unto me: From henceforth become a priest of the Lord,
513 Simeon | mind is lightened. 6 And henceforward he sympathiseth with him
514 Zebulun | exceedingly, both in flocks 4 and herds, when with the straked rods
515 Judah | cattle, and I had for chief herdsman Iram the Adullamite. And
516 | herein
517 Zebulun | compassion and mercy without hesitation to all men, and give to
518 Simeon | up from Levi as it were a High-priest, and from Judah as it were
519 Levi | holy ones. 4 And in the highest of all dwelleth the Great
520 Judah | stones from the brow of the hill on which the city stood,
521 Judah | I know that 3 I raced a hind, and caught it, and prepared
522 Judah | devour his flesh. 5 And he hindereth the sacrifices of God; And
523 Asher | are like to stags and to hinds, because in the manner of
524 Issachar| son to Jacob, by way of hire for the mandrakes. For Reuben
525 Simeon | shall perish, And all the Hittites shall be utterly destroyed.
526 Naphtali| and 5 our father, who was holding the helm, departed from
527 Joseph | if my lord were away from home, I drank no wine; nor for
528 Judah | and to account himself honourable. ~15 1 He that committeth
529 Asher | like those that divide the hoof, but in very deed are 10
530 Judah | of the Lord, for there is hope for all them who hold 2
531 Judah | and behind as he sat on horseback, and I took up a stone of
532 Judah | spirits--- of 2 lust, of hot desire, of profligacy of
533 Judah | with (this) other for two 5 hours; and I clave his shield
534 Judah | men shall they enslave; Houses, lands, flocks, money shall
535 Gad | For he that is just and humble is ashamed to do what is
536 Reuben | draw ye near to Levi in humbleness of heart, that ye may receive
537 Judah | not my repentance, and my humiliation, and 3 the prayers of my
538 Joseph | succoured me. I was beset with hunger, and the Lord Himself nourished
539 Judah | of giant stature I found, hurling javelins before and behind
540 Judah | them. And we did to them no hurt, 9 and they became tributary
541 Issachar| of heart, and I became a husbandman for my father and my brethren,
542 Reuben | when they were with their husbands. And the women lusting in
543 Levi | And it has fire, snow, and ice made ready for the day of
544 Levi | become priests, (who are) idolaters, adulterers, lovers of money,
545 Judah | lewdness and witchcrafts, and idolatries which ye shall practise
546 Judah | love of money leadeth to idolatry; because, when led astray
547 Reuben | brother, when Reuben fell ill, his sons and his sons'
548 Judah | rewarded me according to the imagination of my heart, inasmuch as
549 Judah | after your lusts, nor in the imaginations of your thoughts in haughtiness
550 Levi | Shechem be 3 called a city of imbeciles; for as a man mocketh a
551 Simeon | was hard, And my liver was immovable, And my bowels without compassion.
552 Dan | your father, do ye also impart to your children [that the
553 Naphtali| capacity of the body doth He implant the spirit. And the one
554 Judah | be in thee: some shall be impoverished, being taken captive, and
555 Judah | Canaanites was wicked, but the impulse of youth blinded my 2 mind.
556 Judah | city strong and walled and inaccessible, threatening us 2 with death.
557 Levi | filled my 11 hands with incense, that I might serve as priest
558 Asher | uprooteth 8 the sin. But if it incline to the evil inclination,
559 Levi | heaven more brilliant and incomparable. 10 And when thou hast ascended
560 Judah | not ashamed. Such is the inebriated man, my children; for he
561 Zebulun | the Gentiles, With many infirmities and tribulations. 7 And
562 Naphtali| He made the earth without inhabitants and fruitless. ~4 1 These
563 Reuben | the second, the spirit of insatiableness, 4 in the belly; the third,
564 Simeon | Beliar. 4 For I have seen it inscribed in the writing of Enoch
565 Judah | away 2 from the truth, and inspires the passion of lust, and
566 | instead
567 Reuben | by the glance of the eye instill the poison, and then through
568 Levi | understanding, That thou mightst instruct thy sons concerning this;
569 Levi | peace-offerings. And each day he was instructing me, and was busied on my
570 Naphtali| him as his own peculiar instrument, And every wild beast shall
571 Judah | hostile kings. Then being insulted by them, I was therefore
572 Reuben | procreation and 9 sexual intercourse, with which through love
573 Judah | pouring out wine, owing to the intoxication of wine I was deceived,
574 Judah | weakness while thinking myself invincible. ~20 1 Know, therefore,
575 Dan | suffer loss voluntarily, or involuntarily, be not vexed; for from
576 Judah | I had for chief herdsman Iram the Adullamite. And when
577 Judah | had a city with walls of iron and gates of brass; and
578 Reuben | wrought, are to them an 4 irremediable disease, and to us a destruction
579 Asher | modes (of action), and two issues. Therefore all things are
580 Naphtali| Jacob standing by the sea of Jamnia, and we were 2 with him.
581 Judah | stature I found, hurling javelins before and behind as he
582 Levi | contemn the holy things with jests and laughter. ~15 1 Therefore
583 Judah | waters of Kozeba, the men of Jobel came against us to battle.
584 Zebulun | my heart sounded, and the joints of my body trembled, and
585 Judah | harts of Jacob shall run in joyfulness, And the eagles of Israel
586 Gad | to all men. Seek out the judgements of the Lord, and thy mind
587 Levi | shall be high priests, and judges, and scribes; For by their
588 Dan | 4 these things, the soul justifieth what is done, since it seeth
589 Dan | and so maketh the mind keen to perceive the grounds
590 Joseph | mercy in the sight of the keeper of the prison. 4 For the
591 Asher | maketh gay the body; he killeth many, and pitieth a few:
592 Asher | before God. For many in killing the wicked do two works,
593 Gad | and teacheth slander, and kindleth wrath, and stirreth up war,
594 Naphtali| a child well is kept in kindly remembrance: So also for
595 Asher | two inclinations, and two kinds of action, and 4 two modes (
596 Judah | he is stripped of his 3 kingship by becoming the slave of
597 Naphtali| young she was wont 8 to kiss me, and say: May I have
598 Naphtali| and bare me upon Rachel's knees, therefore she called my
599 Judah | when I was at the waters of Kozeba, the men of Jobel came against
600 Levi | fruits, gold, and silver. ~3 l Hear, therefore, regarding
601 Issachar| unto husbandry, And toil in labours in all manner of husbandry,
602 Judah | twenty days, I set up a ladder in the sight of all and
603 Zebulun | I was unable to bear his lamentations, and began to weep, and
604 Joseph | out, I came to myself, and lamented for her many days, because
605 Simeon | Egyptians, so that even with a lamp a man should not recognize
606 Gad | their success, it always languisheth. 6 For as love would quicken
607 Naphtali| because I was born upon her lap; and when I was still young
608 Levi | of money, proud, lawless, lascivious, abusers of children and
609 | later
610 | latter
611 Joseph | when we were alone. For she lauded me openly as chaste, and
612 Levi | Lord. And ye shall deal lawlessly together with Israel, so
613 Naphtali| His commandments, and the laws of every word, that the
614 Judah | the temple of God,] the 4 laying waste of the land, the enslavement
615 Zebulun | 6 And your enemies shall lead you captive, And ye shall
616 Reuben | against man, and they are the leaders in the works 3 of youth. [
617 Judah | sunder. A leopard in Hebron leaped upon my dog, and I caught
618 Levi | wash Of twelve trees having leaves 13, offer to the Lord, as
619 Gad | secrets when engaged in legal strife, lest he come to
620 Reuben | heart, for behold now at length 5 I am passing away. And
621 Levi | also teach your children letters, That they may have understanding
622 Judah | children, because of your lewdness and witchcrafts, and idolatries
623 Simeon | shall be as the odour of Libanus; And as cedars shall holy
624 Gad | dreams; and I wished to lick him out of the land of the
625 Gad | the living, even as an ox licketh up the grass of the field.
626 Levi | because of your priesthood, lifting yourselves up against 8
627 Levi | law which was given for to lighten every man this ye desire
628 Simeon | from him, and his mind is lightened. 6 And henceforward he sympathiseth
629 Levi | in heaven as of a king. Lighting up the light of knowledge
630 Levi | earth, so also be ye, the lights of Israel, (purer) than
631 Naphtali| make the body after the likeness of 3 the spirit, and according
632 Simeon | flourish in Israel, And as a lily my flesh in Jacob, And my
633 Issachar| good old age; with every limb sound, and with strength
634 Levi | third clothed me with a linen vestment like an ephod.
635 Dan | Plundering other men's goods like lions.] 8 Therefore shall ye be
636 Naphtali| me, my son Joseph, thou livest, though I behold thee not,
637 Naphtali| believe God that Joseph liveth, for I see always that the
638 Levi | wife, and she bare to him Lomni and Semei. And the sons
639 Dan | God for ever. 13 And no longer shall Jerusalem endure desolation,
640 Issachar| overreacheth not his neighbour, He longeth not after manifold dainties,
641 Joseph | But she held her peace, 8 longing to accomplish her evil desire.
642 Dan | anger, and love truth and longsuffering, ye shall perish. 2 For
643 Zebulun | should live, and the Lord loosed from them the 6 sandal which
644 Zebulun | substance of my bowels was loosened. 5 And I wept with Joseph,
645 Dan | is angry, and with sharp losses disturbeth his 3 mind, and
646 Judah | For the sake of money I lost my children, and had not
647 Levi | idolaters, adulterers, lovers of money, proud, lawless,
648 Gad | commandments concerning the loving of one's neighbour, 3 and
649 Levi | been shown to thee. The lowest is for this cause gloomy
650 Dan | long-suffering, meek and lowly, and 10 teacheth by his
651 Judah | of profligacy of filthy lucre. If ye drink wine in gladness,
652 Judah | tabernacle, Benjamin; the luminaries, Dan; Eden, Naphtali; the
653 Naphtali| the loins for power, the lungs for drawing 9 in, the loins
654 Reuben | continually beheld them, they lusted after them, and they conceived
655 Reuben | husbands. And the women lusting in their minds after their
656 Judah | who hath it to fall into madness 2 For the sake of money
657 Reuben | unto him, and summoned 10 magicians, and offered him love potions,
658 Levi | the day, And he shall be magnified in the world. 4 He shall
659 Judah | against us. And the men of Makir came upon us the fifth day,
660 Simeon | trouble of the spirit the face manifesteth. And now, my children, Make
661 Asher | deceit, and striving against mankind. Do ye, therefore, my children,
662 Judah | among my sons shall they mar, and shall cause the kingdom
663 Zebulun | left the broad road and marched through the Troglodytes
664 Judah | was in the plains. A wild mare I overtook, and 4 caught
665 Judah | wedding-feast I gave Onan to her in marriage; and he also in wickedness
666 Judah | that she who was about to marry should sit in fornication
667 Levi | And the angel said to me, Marvel not at this, for thou shalt
668 Simeon | Most High because of his marvellous works, [Because God hath
669 Dan | his soul it getteth the mastery, and 3 it bestoweth upon
670 Gad | evil, for it constantly mateth with lying, speaking against
671 Gad | it. And 9 regarding this matter I was wroth with Joseph
672 | meanwhile
673 Naphtali| hair; for by weight, and measure, and rule was all the 4
674 Judah | baths of oil, five hundred measures of wine, until the famine,
675 Judah | caught it, and prepared the meat for my father, and he did
676 Reuben | another man's wife, Nor meddle with affairs of womankind.
677 Naphtali| to us, saying: Assyrians, Medes, Persians, [Chaldeans,]
678 Dan | intercedeth for you, for he is a mediator between God and man, and
679 Dan | true and long-suffering, meek and lowly, and 10 teacheth
680 Judah | with the sons of men in meekness and righteousness; And no
681 Asher | is peaceful with joy he meeteth the angel of peace, and
682 Reuben | 3 in mind. For constant meetings, even though the ungodly
683 Levi | years old, and her name was Melcha. And she conceived and bare
684 Levi | And the invisible spirits melting away; And Hades taketh spoils
685 Zebulun | feet, and all the remaining members. For I have learnt in the
686 Joseph | for the Egyptian woman of Memphis, for very unceasingly did
687 Levi | the Gentiles in His tender mercies for ever. 5 And therefore
688 Naphtali| eaten and drunken with a merry heart, he covered his face
689 Naphtali| Jacob appointed me for all messages, 2 and as a deer did he
690 Issachar| from the field, and Rachel met him and took them. And Reuben
691 Levi | understanding, That thou mightst instruct thy sons concerning
692 Issachar| the Lord. 2 The single-(minded) man coveteth not gold,
693 Judah | and harlots, and ye shall mingle in 3 the abominations of
694 Naphtali| And after ye have become minished and made few, ye shall return
695 Levi | mocketh a fool, so did we mock them. Because also 4 they
696 Joseph | prison, I was beaten, I was mocked; but the Lord granted me
697 Levi | imbeciles; for as a man mocketh a fool, so did we mock them.
698 Asher | kinds of action, and 4 two modes (of action), and two issues.
699 Judah | wine in gladness, be ye modest in the fear of God. For
700 Judah | so long as he preserveth modesty. But if he go beyond this
701 Levi | And the sons of Merari, Mooli, and Mouses. And in the
702 Issachar| of pleasure. For on the morrow also she again gave up Jacob.
703 Judah | Issachar; the sea, Zebulun; the mountains, Joseph; the tabernacle,
704 Zebulun | rent his garments, (and) mourning, said: How shall I look
705 Levi | sons of Merari, Mooli, and Mouses. And in the ninety-fourth
706 Naphtali| reins for prudence, the muscles of the loins for power,
707 Judah | Jacob; and Leah my mother named 4 me Judah, saying, I give
708 Dan | thirdly, having his 5 own natural power he worketh thereby
709 Simeon | to Dothan, where were our necessaries and all our stores, Judah
710 Joseph | in tribulations, nor in necessities. 5 For God is not put to
711 Naphtali| head, and He joined on the neck to the head, adding to it
712 Zebulun | wherewithal to give to him that needed, and I walked with him weeping
713 Dan | encompasseth him with the net of deceit, and blindeth
714 | Nevertheless
715 Levi | and Mouses. And in the ninety-fourth year Ambram took Jochebed
716 Asher | wealth overwhelmeth many; and notwithstanding his excessive wickedness
717 Joseph | hunger, and the Lord Himself nourished me. 6 I was alone, and God
718 Simeon | And they shall be few in number, divided in Levi and Judah,
719 Naphtali| see always that the Lord numbereth him with you, 3 And he said,
720 Naphtali| brother of Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, who was born on one and
721 Levi | said to him: I pray 6 thee, O Lord, tell me Thy name,
722 Judah | Lord sware to me with an oath that He would not destroy
723 Judah | Lord gave me because of my obedience to my father. For I never
724 Judah | 5 swift in my youth, and obedient to my father in everything.
725 Naphtali| changed their order, and obeyed stocks and stones, spirits
726 Reuben | understanding the law of 9 God, nor obeying the admonitions of his fathers
727 Reuben | fourth is the spirit of 5 obsequiousness and chicanery, that through
728 Joseph | one day she came to me and observed the food, 5 and said unto
729 Dan | return to the Lord ye shall obtain mercy, And He shall bring
730 Judah | carnal union; and if the occasion of the lust be 4 present,
731 Gad | For fearing lest he should offend the Lord, he will not do
732 Levi | place, bathe; and when thou offerest the 12 sacrifices wash;
733 Levi | ordinances of God. 5 The offerings of the Lord ye shall rob,
734 Levi | shall be divided into three offices, for a sign of the glory
735 Reuben | chicanery, that through officious attention one may be fair
736 Gad | my sin, my children, that oftentimes I wished to kill him, because
737 Gad | sin against thee; for 6 ofttimes he addresseth thee guilefully
738 Simeon | went to Shechem to bring ointment for the flocks, and Reuben
739 Levi | gave me a branch of rich olive. The sixth 10 placed a crown
740 Naphtali| a vision on the Mount of Olives, on the east of Jerusalem,
741 Levi | of sin. 8 For if one keep oneself from these evil things,
742 Joseph | accordingly seizing an opportunity, she rushed unto me while
743 Issachar| For on all the poor and oppressed I bestowed the good things
744 Simeon | achievement, Nor was I afraid of ought. 4 For my heart was hard,
745 Judah | lest ye sin in words of outrage, and in fightings and slanders,
746 Judah | cliff, and it was crushed. I outran the wild boar, and seizing
747 Zebulun | by the servants of Joseph outside the gate, and so they made
748 Naphtali| hold of the sun, and Judah outstripped the others and seized the
749 Reuben | death. For if fornication overcomes not your mind, neither can
750 Issachar| man coveteth not gold, He overreacheth not his neighbour, He longeth
751 Judah | master in the chase, and overtake all that was in the plains.
752 Gad | fold, I pursued it, and overtaking (it) 4 I seized its foot
753 Asher | wickedness, it straightway overthroweth the evil, and uprooteth
754 Judah | the plains. A wild mare I overtook, and 4 caught it and tamed
755 Asher | the power of his wealth overwhelmeth many; and notwithstanding
756 Levi | Ambram, Issachar, Hebron, and Ozeel. And the sons of Merari,
757 Judah | and my 10 father built Pabael. I was twenty years old
758 Simeon | I said unto him, I am 2 pained in my liver. For I mourned
759 Naphtali| to him twelve branches of palm; 5 and Judah was bright
760 Levi | shall open the gates of paradise, And shall remove the threatening
761 Judah | when I went to him I saw Parsaba, king of Adullam; and he
762 Naphtali| of the other by a third part of a hair; for by weight,
763 Issachar| arose not in my heart; A lie passed not through my lips. 5 If
764 Judah | a slave to two contrary passions, And cannot obey God, Because
765 Joseph | endurance is a mighty charm, And patience giveth many good things. ~
766 Judah | mouth. I took a bear by its paw 5 and hurled it down the
767 Levi | first-fruits, freewill-offerings, peace-offerings. And each day he was instructing
768 Asher | evil works. 6 But if he is peaceful with joy he meeteth the
769 Judah | adorned her with gold and pearls, and caused her to pour
770 Dan | maketh the mind keen to perceive the grounds for provocation;
771 Reuben | the impiety without her 15 perceiving it, and leaving her sleeping
772 Levi | the sons of men, having no perception of these things sin and
773 Reuben | the spirit of lying, 6 in perdition and jealousy to practise
774 Judah | and keep my sayings to 2 perform all the ordinances of the
775 Dan | 6 desire that which is perishable, in order that he may be
776 Asher | angels of the Lord, and perished for 2 ever. For I know that
777 Reuben | error and fantasy.] And so perisheth every young man, darkening
778 Judah | but his mother did not permit it; for she wrought evil
779 Levi | prevented them. And they persecuted Abraham our father when
780 Joseph | Yet I went not astray, but persevered in the truth of the Lord.
781 Naphtali| saying: Assyrians, Medes, Persians, [Chaldeans,] Syrians, shall
782 Joseph | lie with me, and I will persuade my husband to depart from
783 Dan | by his wealth, whereby he persuadeth and overcometh wrongfully;
784 Levi | of the prophets by evil perverseness. And ye shall persecute
785 Issachar| Lest he should see the perversion of any of the commandments
786 Asher | work what is good, 9 he perverteth it to evil. For whenever
787 Judah | bring upon you famine and pestilence, death and the sword, beleaguering
788 Zebulun | sail upon another upright 3 piece of wood in the midst. And
789 Gad | Ishmaelites [for thirty pieces of gold, and ten of them
790 Naphtali| sailing by, without sailors or pilot; and there was written 3
791 Issachar| person maketh his soul to pine away,] Nor worry with insatiable
792 Simeon | being compassionate and pitiful, he bore no malice against
793 Zebulun | him into one of these dry pits, which our fathers digged
794 Dan | shall ye receive all the plagues of Egypt, And all the evils
795 Judah | overtake all that was in the plains. A wild mare I overtook,
796 Naphtali| all divided upon nine 7 planks, and Levi and Judah were
797 Levi | garment of truth, and the plate of faith, and the 3 turban
798 Issachar| walk in guilelessness, Not playing the busybody with the business
799 Joseph | came again to me under the plea of 5 instruction, that she
800 Joseph | me; 7 Slandered, and He pleaded my cause; Bitterly spoken
801 Reuben | into my mouth, and I eat no pleasant food; but I mourned over
802 Asher | lusts, so that they may please Beliar and men like unto
803 Levi | His children, And be well pleased in His beloved ones for
804 Dan | dealing is good and well pleasing to God, and that lying and
805 Judah | but she privily sent my pledges, and put me to shame. And
806 Reuben | and in their heart they plot against men; and by means
807 Judah | tamed it. I slew a lion and plucked a kid out of its mouth.
808 Judah | flocks, money shall they plunder: 8 And with the flesh of
809 Asher | stealeth, doeth unjustly, plundereth, defraudeth, and withal
810 Simeon | confusion; and as a wicked and poisonous spirit, so appeareth it
811 Levi | portion shall ye steal choice portions, 6 eating (them) contemptuously
812 Naphtali| Chaldeans,] Syrians, shall possess in captivity the twelve
813 Levi | gold and silver and every possession perish, The wisdom of the
814 Gad | deviseth against 5 him if possibly he can be put to death,
815 Reuben | magicians, and offered him love potions, but the purpose of his
816 Naphtali| filled with water, (and was) pounded by mighty waves, 6 until
817 Judah | took up a stone of sixty pounds 4 weight, and hurled it
818 Judah | mind. And when I saw her pouring out wine, owing to the intoxication
819 Judah | of the Presence, me; the powers of glory, Simeon; the heaven,
820 Reuben | pit, and as a beast to a precipice. ~3 1 Besides all these
821 Asher | worketh evil, because he would prefer even to die in evil for
822 Judah | hind, and caught it, and prepared the meat for my father,
823 Judah | occasion of the lust be 4 present, he worketh the sin, and
824 Issachar| in the house of the Lord, presenting them to the priest of the
825 Reuben | love the truth, and it will preserve you: hear ye the words of
826 Judah | may drink so long as he preserveth modesty. But if he go beyond
827 Joseph | night she came to me under pretence of visiting me. 7 And because
828 Joseph | she had no male child she pretended to regard me as a son, and
829 Joseph | deceit. And when she had prevailed nothing thereby, she came
830 Levi | our 9 sister, but the Lord prevented them. And they persecuted
831 Judah | wished to slay her; but she privily sent my pledges, and put
832 Reuben | seventh is the power of procreation and 9 sexual intercourse,
833 Levi | ye shall go astray, and profane the priesthood, and 2 pollute
834 Gad | giveth things good and 3 profitable to all men. Seek out the
835 Joseph | admonished her. And she promised to do this iniquity no more. ~
836 Levi | the head, and the ephod of prophecy. And they severally carried (
837 Levi | archangels, who minister and make propitiation to the Lord for all the
838 Gad | envy also against them that prosper: so long as it heareth of
839 Issachar| and the wickedness of men prospered, thou wouldst not now see
840 Judah | saying, Thou shalt be a king, prospering in all things. ~2 1, 2 And
841 Gad | that he may have 2 perfect prosperity. For so it is expedient
842 Joseph | those things doth He give protection, And in divers ways doth
843 Levi | adulterers, lovers of money, proud, lawless, lascivious, abusers
844 Levi | the midst of foes shall prove a friend. 9 Whosoever teaches
845 Naphtali| in God, my Children, and prudent, understanding the order
846 Levi | Gomorrah. And ye shall be puffed up because of your priesthood,
847 Reuben | himself from a woman, and purged his thoughts from all fornication,
848 Levi | purifying them with an unlawful purification; and your union shall be
849 Levi | Gentiles shall ye take to wife, purifying them with an unlawful purification;
850 Naphtali| because if ye keep silence in purity of heart, ye shall understand
851 Levi | round me a girdle like unto purple. The fifth gave me a branch
852 Zebulun | for the Lord knoweth the purposes of each. Have, therefore,
853 Levi | being rent, And the sun quenched, And the waters dried up,
854 Gad | languisheth. 6 For as love would quicken even the dead, and would
855 Issachar| sin, they may the more 4 quickly return to the Lord; For
856 Judah | the house. I know that 3 I raced a hind, and caught it, and
857 Levi | I saw seven men in white raiment saying unto me: Arise, put
858 Levi | would not be in the first rank, And Kohath was born in
859 Reuben | which are thefts and acts of rapacity, that a man may fulfill
860 Judah | slaughter of children, the rape of wives, the plundering
861 | rather
862 Judah | they wrongfully feed the ravens and the cranes; And they
863 Issachar| the land of Haran below a ravine of water. And Rachel said:
864 Naphtali| under their feet were twelve rays. [And the two, Levi and
865 Naphtali| the storm ceased, the ship reached the land as it were in peace.
866 Reuben | Watchers appeared to them as reaching even unto heaven. ~6 1 Beware,
867 Levi | understanding all their life, Reading unceasingly the law of God.
868 Levi | fire, snow, and ice made ready for the day of judgement,
869 Asher | look unto the thing that is really good, and keep it in all
870 Levi | sow evil things, Ye shall reap every trouble and affliction.
871 Levi | sweet- smelling savour, a reasonable and a bloodless offering.
872 Gad | with the eyes because he rebuked us to our faces saying that
873 Zebulun | shareth with his neighbour receiveth manifold 7 more from the
874 Joseph | her many days, because I recognized her guile and her deceit.
875 Naphtali| not be so, my children, recognizing in the firmament, in the
876 Asher | and provoketh, and yet he refresheth the poor. He defileth the
877 Judah | for those who had taken refuge in the tower, we set fire
878 Issachar| inasmuch 2 as she hath refused company with her husband,
879 Joseph | male child she pretended to regard me as a son, and so I prayed
880 Simeon | blinded my mind, so that I regarded him not as a brother, nor
881 Dan | though 4 a righteous man, he regardeth him not; though a friend,
882 Naphtali| spleen for laughter, the reins for prudence, the muscles
883 Joseph | unto me; In bonds, and He released me; 7 Slandered, and He
884 Zebulun | hands, two feet, and all the remaining members. For I have learnt
885 Joseph | be as our master. But I remembered the words of my father,
886 Judah | sacrifices of God; And he remembereth not the blessing of God,
887 Gad | be not envious of him, remembering that all flesh shall die;
888 Simeon | the seed of Canaan, And a remnant shall not be unto Amalek,
889 Zebulun | it up, for he wished to rend it with his sword, as he
890 Levi | desolate country, and shall renew the house of the 11 Lord.
891 Levi | ye abhor. [And a man who reneweth the law in the power of
892 Levi | sixty-fourth year, for I was renowned then in the midst of my
893 Asher | if it sin it straightway repenteth. For, having its thoughts
894 Simeon | s case. All his days he reproached us not concerning this thing,
895 Gad | when reproved, give over reproving him. For he who denieth
896 Judah | prophet when he speaketh, And resenteth the words of godliness.
897 Dan | children, 5 that in my heart I resolved on the death of Joseph my
898 Gad | Lord.] 3 And when he had rested for a little while, he said
899 Asher | conversation therein, and resting therein. For the latter
900 Simeon | grieved, for he wished to restore him to his father. 11 But
901 Simeon | against him. But the Lord restrained me, and withheld from 13
902 Levi | are all the spirits of the retributions for vengeance on men. 3
903 Judah | which God bade me not to reveal. And wine is a cause both
904 Judah | your time. Moreover, wine revealeth the mysteries of God and
905 Judah | After I had drunk wine I reverenced 7 not the commandment of
906 Judah | for he 5 who is drunken reverenceth no man. For, lo, it made
907 Judah | beleaguering by enemies, and revilings of friends, the slaughter
908 Judah | her to wife. And the Lord rewarded me according to the imagination
909 Simeon | glorified us, and gave us riches, and cattle and fruits.
910 Judah | therefore, my children, the (rights limit in wine; for there
911 Asher | good day with them that riot, lest he defile his body
912 Joseph | concubine of thy husband, thy rival, 6 will beat thy children~ ~
913 Zebulun | merchants had left the broad road and marched through the
914 Judah | And from it shall grow a rod of righteousness to the
915 Zebulun | herds, when with the straked rods he had his portion. I am
916 Judah | and he did eat. And the roes I used to master in the
917 Judah | 5 their city their women rolled upon us stones from the
918 Judah | shine forth; And from your root shall arise a stem; 6 And
919 Judah | we fought with them and routed them; and their allies from
920 Zebulun | therein. And I let down a rudder behind it, and I stretched
921 Dan | ye fall into any loss or ruin, my children, be not afflicted;
922 Asher | cleaveth to the evil, and is ruled by Beliar; even though it
923 Zebulun | in the midst of you, as a ruler in the midst of his sons;
924 Reuben | Joseph, that we should be for rulers]. Therefore I command you
925 Simeon | the Lord, the evil spirit runneth away from him, and his mind
926 Naphtali| Then Levi, girt about with sackcloth, prayed for us all unto
927 Simeon | because he saw that I was sad; and I said unto him, I
928 Joseph | deadly enchantments; and how saidst thou: I come not near to
929 Zebulun | wood in the midst. And I sailed therein along the shores,
930 Naphtali| behold, there came a ship sailing by, without sailors or pilot;
931 Naphtali| ship sailing by, without sailors or pilot; and there was
932 Naphtali| things. 2 Then my father saith unto me: I believe God that
933 Dan | shall bring you into His sanctuary, And He shall give you peace.
934 Zebulun | price of Joseph, and bought sandals for themselves, and their
935 Levi | for they sought to do to Sarah and Rebecca as they had
936 Zebulun | Wherefore also the Lord satisfied me with abundance of fish
937 Simeon | from 8 you. For this maketh savage the soul and destroyeth
938 Levi | the Lord appear among men Saving every race of men. 12 And
939 Levi | the Lord a sweet- smelling savour, a reasonable and a bloodless
940 Judah | your father, and keep my sayings to 2 perform all the ordinances
941 Naphtali| ungodly. And the Lord shall scatter them upon the face of all
942 Judah | unto all.] 5 Then shall the sceptre of my kingdom shine forth;
943 Joseph | 3 I perceived that (her) scheme was to beguile me. And when
944 Levi | priests, and judges, and scribes; For by their mouth shall
945 Zebulun | the land of Canaan, by the sea-coast, I made a catch of fish
946 Judah | For the kings shall be as sea-monsters. They shall swallow men
947 Asher | truth of the Lord, and I searched out the commandments of
948 Levi | earth, as the water of the seas; And the angels of the glory
949 Reuben | spirit of fornication is seated in the nature and in the
950 Gad | not another man hear thy secrets when engaged in legal strife,
951 | seem
952 Naphtali| behold thee not, and thou seest not Jacob that begat thee.
953 Judah | taken up wounded on Mount Seir, and 4 as he went he died
954 Naphtali| strength; and to him that seizeth them 3 will the sun and
955 Naphtali| was born on one and 10 the self-same day with Rachel. And Rotheus
956 Levi | she bare to him Lomni and Semei. And the sons of Kohath,
957 Joseph | soothing me with gifts, and sending to me every delight of the
958 Levi | day. But I saw that the sentence of God was for evil upon
959 Levi | hath heard thy prayer, To separate thee from iniquity, and
960 Asher | compassion upon him who serveth his turn in 3 evil; and
961 Levi | ephod of prophecy. And they severally carried (these things) and
962 Reuben | power of procreation and 9 sexual intercourse, with which
963 Levi | his 10 house, they most shamefully handled. And thus they did
964 Judah | drunkenness ariseth and 3 shamelessness stealeth in. But if ye would
965 Reuben | changed themselves into the shape of men, and 7 appeared to
966 Zebulun | For in his price I had no share, my children. But Simeon
967 Zebulun | catching fish; for he that shareth with his neighbour receiveth
968 Dan | him who is angry, and with sharp losses disturbeth his 3
969 Judah | that I was going up 2 to shear my sheep, and adorned herself
970 Judah | kings of the Canaanites came sheathed in armour against our flocks,
971 Zebulun | upon me your hands 3 to shed innocent blood, for I have
972 Simeon | of Israel shall glorify Shem, For the Lord God shall
973 Judah | them; and their allies from Shiloh we slew, and we did not
974 Zebulun | sailed therein along the shores, catching fish for the house
975 Zebulun | hath but one head, and two shoulders, two 5 hands, two feet,
976 Levi | iniquity, and that thou shouldst become to Him a son, And
977 Asher | mischief. There is a man who showeth no compassion upon him who
978 Simeon | became strong exceedingly; I shrank from no achievement, Nor
979 Issachar| in uprightness of heart, Shunning eyes (made) evil through
980 Zebulun | sons of my brethren were sickening and were dying on account
981 Judah | Gad approached on the east side of the city, and Reuben
982 Judah | climbed up the wall on both sides by stakes, and entered the
983 Joseph | around how to ensnare me, and sighing deeply she became downcast,
984 Issachar| in distress I joined my sighs with his, And I shared my
985 Levi | into three offices, for a sign of the glory of the Lord
986 Naphtali| souls; because if ye keep silence in purity of heart, ye shall
987 Levi | whole heart, And walk in simplicity according to all His law.
988 Judah | shall make your daughters singing girls and harlots, and ye
989 Asher | men, even they that are of single face, though they be thought
990 Issachar| well-pleasing to the Lord. 2 The single-(minded) man coveteth not
991 Judah | and much people with them, single-handed I rushed upon the king of
992 Judah | and accuseth all; and the sinner is burnt up by his own heart,
993 Gad | one's neighbour, 3 and it sinneth against God. For if a brother
994 Judah | was about to marry should sit in fornication seven days
995 Judah | and I took up a stone of sixty pounds 4 weight, and hurled
996 Levi | was born in Egypt, in my sixty-fourth year, for I was renowned
997 Naphtali| his mind, so also is his skill; and as his purpose, so
998 Gad | sweet bitter, and teacheth slander, and kindleth wrath, and
999 Judah | outrage, and in fightings and slanders, and transgressions of the
1000 Judah | revilings of friends, the slaughter of children, the rape of
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