12 For if fornication overcomes not your mind, neither can Beliar overcome you. (T12) 13 For evil are women, my children; and since they have no power or strength over man, they use wiles by outward attractions, that they may draw him to themselves. (T12) 14 And whom they cannot bewitch by outward attractions, him they overcome by craft. (T12)
Testament of Reuben 2:12–14
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