# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 117: Joseph 7

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/117 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**117:1** But because her heart was set upon me to commit lewdness, she sighed, and her countenance fell.

**117:2** And when her husband saw her, he said unto her, Why is thy countenance fallen?

**117:3** And she said, I have a pain at my heart, and the groanings of my spirit do oppress me; and so he comforted her who was not sick.

**117:4** Then she rushed in to me while her husband was yet without, and said unto me, I will hang myself, or cast myself into a well or over a cliff, if thou wilt not consent unto me.

**117:5** And when I saw the spirit of Beliar was troubling her, I prayed unto the Lord, and said unto her, Why art thou troubled and disturbed, blinded in sins?

**117:6** Remember that if thou killest thyself, Sethon, the concubine of thy husband, thy rival, will beat thy children, and will destroy thy memorial from off the earth.

**117:7** And she said unto me, Lo then thou lovest me; this alone is sufficient for me, that thou carest for my life and my children: I have expectation that I shall enjoy my desire.

**117:8** And she knew not that because of my God I spake thus, and not because of her.

**117:9** For if a man hath fallen before the passion of a wicked desire, then by that hath he become enslaved, even as also was she.

**117:10** And if he hear any good thing with regard to the passion whereby he is vanquished, he receiveth it unto his wicked desire.

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