# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 36: Judah 1

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/36 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**36:1** The copy of the words of Judah, what things he spake to his sons before he died.

**36:2** They gathered themselves together, and came to him, and he said to them: I was the fourth son born to my father, and my mother called me Judah, saying, I give thanks to the Lord, because He hath given to me even a fourth son.

**36:3** I was swift and active in my youth, and obedient to my father in everything.

**36:4** And I honoured my mother and my mother’s sister.

**36:5** And it came to pass, when I became a man, that my father Jacob prayed over me, saying, Thou shalt be a king, and prosperous in all things.

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