1 AND now, my children, I command you, love Levi, that ye may abide, and exalt not yourselves against him, lest ye be utterly destroyed. (T12) 2 For to me the Lord gave the kingdom, and to him the priesthood, and He set the kingdom beneath the priesthood. (T12) 3 To me He gave the things upon the earth; to him the things in the heavens. (T12) 4 As the heaven is higher than the earth, so is the priesthood of God higher than the earthly kingdom, unless it falls away through sin from the Lord and is dominated by the earthly kingdom. (T12) 5 For the angel of the Lord said unto me: The Lord chose him rather than thee, to draw near to Him, and to eat of His table and to offer Him the first-fruits of the choice things of the sons of Israel; but thou shalt be king of Jacob. (T12) 6 And thou shalt be amongst them as the sea. (T12) 7 For as, on the sea, just and unjust are tossed about, some taken into captivity while some are enriched, so also shall every race of men be in thee: some shall be impoverished, being taken captive, and others grow rich by plundering the possessions of others. (T12) 8 For the kings shall be as sea-monsters. (T12) 9 They shall swallow men like fishes: the sons and daughters of freemen shall they enslave; houses, lands, flocks, money shall they plunder: (T12) 10 And with the flesh of many shall they wrongfully feed the ravens and the cranes; and they shall advance in evil in covetousness uplifted, and there shall be false prophets like tempest, and they shall persecute all righteous men. (T12) 11 And the Lord shall bring upon them divisions one against another. (T12) 12 And there shall be continual wars in Israel; and among men of another race shall my kingdom be brought to an end, until the salvation of Israel shall come. (T12) 13 Until the appearing of the God of righteousness, that Jacob, and all the Gentiles may rest in peace. (T12) 14 And He shall guard the might of my kingdom for ever; for the Lord aware to me with an oath that He would not destroy the kingdom from my seed for ever. (T12) 15 Now I have much grief, my children, because of your lewdness and witchcrafts, and idolatries which ye shall practise against the kingdom, following them that have familiar spirits, diviners, and demons of error. (T12) 16 Ye shall make your daughters singing girls and harlots, and ye shall mingle in the abominations of the Gentiles. (T12) 17 For which things' sake the Lord shall bring upon you famine and pestilence, death and the sword, beleaguering by enemies, and revilings of friends, the slaughter of children, the rape of wives, the plundering of possessions, the burning of the temple of God, the laying waste of the land, the enslavement of yourselves among the Gentiles. (T12) 18 And they shall make so… (T12)
Testament of Judah 4:1–36
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