# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 138: Benjamin 8

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/138 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**138:1** Do ye also therefore, my children, flee ill-doing, envy, and hatred of brethren, and cleave to goodness and love.

**138:2** 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.

**138:3** 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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