Testament of Reuben 2:13–21

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) ¹⁵ For moreover, concerning them, the angel of the Lord told me, and taught me, that women are overcome by the spirit of fornication more than men, and in their heart they plot against men; and by means of their adornment they deceive first their minds, and by the glance of the eye instil the poison, and then through the accomplished act they take them captive. (T12) ¹⁶ For a woman cannot force a man openly, but by a harlot's bearing she beguiles him. (T12) ¹⁷ Flee, therefore, fornication, my children, and command your wives and your daughters, that they adorn not their heads and faces to deceive the mind: because every woman who useth these wiles bath been reserved for eternal punishment. (T12) ¹⁸ For thus they allured the Watchers [*1] who were before the flood; for as these continually beheld them, they lusted after them, and they conceived the act in their mind; for they changed themselves into the shape of men, and appeared to them when they were with their husbands. (T12) ¹⁹ And the women lusting in their minds after their forms, gave birth to giants, for the Watchers appeared to them as reaching even unto heaven. (T12) ²⁰ Beware, therefore, of fornication; and if you wish to be pure in mind, guard your senses from every woman. (T12) ²¹ And command the women likewise not to associate with men, that they also may be pure in mind. (T12)