# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 30: Levi 14

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/30 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**30:1** And now, my children, I have learnt from the writing of Enoch that at the last ye will deal ungodly, laying your hands upon the Lord in all malice; and your brethren shall be ashamed because of you, and to all the Gentiles shall it become a mocking.

**30:2** For our father Israel shall be pure from the ungodliness of the chief priests who shall lay their hands upon the Saviour of the world.

**30:3** Pure is the heaven above the earth, and ye are the lights of the heaven as the sun and the moon.

**30:4** What shall all the Gentiles do if ye be darkened in ungodliness?

**30:5** So shall ye bring a curse upon our race for whom came the light of the world, which was given among you for the lighting up of every man.

**30:6** Him will ye desire to slay, teaching commandments contrary to the ordinances of God.

**30:7** The offerings of the Lord will ye rob, and from His portion will ye steal; and before ye sacrifice to the Lord, ye will take the choicest parts, in despitefulness eating them with harlots.

**30:8** Amid excesses will ye teach the commandments of the Lord, the women that have husbands will ye pollute, and the virgins of Jerusalem will ye defile; and with harlots and adulteresses will ye be joined.

**30:9** The daughters of the Gentiles will ye take for wives, purifying them with an unlawful purification; and your union shall be like unto Sodom and Gomorrah in ungodliness.

**30:10** And ye will be puffed up because of the priesthood lifting yourselves up against men.

**30:11** And not only so, but being puffed up also against the commands of God, ye will scoff at the holy things, mocking in despitefulness.

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