Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs 7
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The copy of the words of Dan, which he spake to his sons in his last days, in the hundred and twenty-fifth year of his life.
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For he called together his family and said: Hearken to my words, ye sons of Dan, and give heed to the words of your father.
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I have proved in my heart, and in my whole life, that truth with just dealing is good and well-pleasing to God, and that lying and anger are evil, because they teach man all wickedness.
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I confess this day to you, my children, that in my heart I resolved on the death of Joseph my brother, the true and good man.
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And I rejoiced that he was sold, because his father loved him more than us. For the spirit of jealousy and vainglory said to me: Thou thyself art not his son but thou also art his son.
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And one of the spirits of Beliar stirred me up, saying: Take this sword and with it kill Joseph; so shall thy father love thee when he is dead.
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Now this is the spirit of anger that persuaded me to crush Joseph as a leopard crusheth a kid. But the God of my fathers did not suffer him to fall into my hands.
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And now, my children, behold I am dying, and I tell you of a truth that unless ye keep yourselves from the spirit of lying and of anger, and love truth and longsuffering, ye shall perish.
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For anger is blindness, and does not suffer one to see the face of any man with truth. For though it be a father or mother, he treateth them as enemies.
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He that is wrathful, if he be a mighty man, hath a threefold power in his anger: one by the help of his servants, and a second by his wealth, whereby he persuadeth and overcometh wrongfully, and the third of his own nature while he hath the anger.
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