23 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, and to cast away the will of Beliar. (T12) 24 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. (T12) 25 The Gentiles went astray, and forsook the Lord, and charged their order, and obeyed stocks and stones, spirits of deceit. (T12)
Testament of Naphtali 1:23–25
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