5 Moreover, I became strong exceedingly; I shrank from no achievement nor was I afraid of ought. For my heart was hard, and my liver was immovable, and my bowels without compassion. (T12) 6 Because valour also has been given from the Most High to men in soul and body. (T12) 7 For in the time of my youth I was jealous in many things of Joseph, because my father loved him beyond all. (T12)
Testament of Simeon 1:5–7
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