# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 127: Joseph 17

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/127 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**127:1** Ye see, my children, what great things I endured that I should not put my brethren to shame.

**127:2** Do ye also love one another, and with long-suffering hide ye one another’s faults.

**127:3** For God delighteth in the unity of brethren, and in the purpose of a heart approved unto love.

**127:4** And when my brethren came into Egypt, and learnt that I returned their money unto them, and upbraided them not, yea, that I even comforted them, and after the death of Jacob I loved them more abundantly, and all things whatsoever he commanded I did very abundantly, then they marvelled.

**127:5** For I suffered them not to be afflicted even unto the smallest matter; and all that was in my hand I gave unto them.

**127:6** Their children were my children, and my children were as their servants; their life was my life, and all their suffering was my suffering, and all their sickness was my infirmity.

**127:7** My land was their land, my counsel their counsel, and I exalted not myself among them in arrogance because of my worldly glory, but I was among them as one of the least.

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