3 Since I also gloried that in wars no comely woman's face ever enticed me, and reproved Reuben my brother concerning Bilhah, the wife of my father, the spirits of jealousy and of fornication arrayed themselves against me, until I lay with Bathshua the Canaanite, and Tamar, who was espoused to my sons. (T12) 4 For I said to my father-in-law: I will take counsel with my father, and so will I take thy daughter. (T12) 5 And he was unwilling but he showed me a boundless store of gold in his daughter's behalf; for be was a king. (T12)
Testament of Judah 3:3–5
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