# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 130: Joseph 20

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/130 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**130:1** I know that after my death the Egyptians will afflict you, but God will undertake your cause, and will bring you into that which He promised to your fathers.

**130:2** But carry ye up my bones with you; for when my bones are taken up, the Lord will be with you in light, and Beliar shall be in darkness with the Egyptians.

**130:3** And carry ye up Zilpah your mother, and lay her near Bilhah, by the hippodrome, by the side of Rachel.

**130:4** And when he had said these things, he stretched out his feet, and slept the long sleep.

**130:5** And all Israel bewailed him, and all Egypt, with a great lamentation.

**130:6** For he felt even for the Egyptians even as his own members, and showed them kindness, aiding them in every work, and counsel, and matter.

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