10 For whatsoever things he told our father, he believed him. (T12) 11 I confess now my gin, my children, that oftentimes I wished to kill him, because I hated him from my heart. (T12) 12 Moreover, I hated him yet more for his dreams; and I wished to lick [*1] him out of the land of the living, even as an ox licketh up the grass of the field. (T12)
Testament of Gad 1:10–12
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