# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 137: Benjamin 7

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/137 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**137:1** Flee ye therefore, my children, the evil-doing of Beliar; for it giveth a sword to them that obeyeth, and the sword is the mother of seven evils.

**137:2** First the mind conceiveth through Beliar, and first there is envy; secondly, desperation; thirdly, tribulation; fourthly, captivity; fifthly, neediness; sixthly, trouble; seventhly, desolation.

**137:3** Therefore also Cain is delivered over to seven vengeances by God, for in every hundred years the Lord brought one plague upon him.

**137:4** Two hundred years he suffered, and in the nine hundredth year he was brought to desolation at the flood, for Abel his righteous brother’s sake.

**137:5** In seven hundred years was Cain judged, and Lamech in seventy times seven; because for ever those who are likened unto Cain in envy unto hatred of brethren shall be judged with the same punishment.

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