The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 138
Benjamin 8
Children are told to flee ill-doing, envy, and hatred of brethren and to cleave to goodness and love.
1o ye also therefore, my children, flee ill-doing, envy, and hatred of brethren, and cleave to goodness and love.
2 He that hath a pure mind in love, looketh not after a woman unto fornication; for he hath no defilement in his heart, because the Spirit of God resteth in him.
3 For as the sun is not defiled by shining over dung and mire, but rather drieth up both and driveth away the ill smell: so also the pure mind, constrained among the defilements of the earth, rather edifieth, and itself suffereth no defilement.
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Children are told to flee ill-doing, envy, and hatred of brethren and to cleave to goodness and love.
He that hath a pure mind in love looketh not after a woman unto fornication.
The Spirit of God resteth in the one who hath no defilement in his heart from pure love.
The sun is not defiled by shining over dung and mire but drieth up both and driveth away the ill smell.
The pure mind constrained among the defilements of the earth rather edifieth and itself suffereth no defilement.
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