7 And I tell you that he smote me with a sore plague in my loins for seven months; and had not my father Jamb prayed for me to the Lord, the Lord would have destroyed me. (T12) 8 For I was thirty years old when I wrought the evil thing before the Lord, and for seven months I was sick unto death. (T12) 9 And after this I repented with set purpose of my soul for seven years before the Lord. (T12)
Testament of Reuben 1:7–9
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