Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs 8
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The copy of the testament of Naphtali, which he ordained at the time of his death, in the hundred and thirty-second year of his life.
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When his sons were gathered together in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, while still in good health, he made them a feast of food and wine.
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And after he was awake in the morning, he said to them: I am dying; and they believed him not. And as he glorified the Lord, he grew strong and said that after yesterday's feast he should die.
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And he began then to say: Hear, my children, ye sons of Naphtali, hear the words of your father. I was born from Bilhah, and because Rachel dealt craftily and gave Bilhah in place of herself to Jacob, and she conceived and bare me upon Rachel's knees.
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For do ye not see, my children, that in all things the Lord made everything good in its season: the spirit, the flesh, and the soul?
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The sense of hearing He gave to hear, and the sense of seeing to see, and the sense of smelling to smell, and the tongue for speech, and the hands to work, and the feet to walk.
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Be ye therefore not eager to corrupt your doings through covetousness or with vain words to beguile your souls; because if ye keep silence in purity of heart, ye shall understand how to hold fast the will of God.
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Sun and moon and stars change not their order; so do ye also change not the law of God in the disorderliness of your doings. The Gentiles went astray, and forsook the Lord, and changed their order.
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