# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 131: Benjamin 1

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/131 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**131:1** The record of the words of Benjamin, which he set forth to his sons, after he had lived a hundred and twenty years.

**131:2** And he kissed them, and said: As Isaac was born to Abraham in his hundredth year, so also was I to Jacob.

**131:3** Now since Rachel died in giving me birth, I had no milk; therefore I was suckled by Bilhah her handmaid.

**131:4** For Rachel remained barren for twelve years after that she had borne Joseph: and she prayed the Lord with fasting twelve days, and she conceived and bare me.

**131:5** For our father loved Rachel dearly, and prayed that he might see two sons born from her: therefore was I called the son of days, which is Benjamin.

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