# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 53: Judah 18

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/53 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**53:1** For I have read also in the books of Enoch the righteous what evils ye shall do in the last days.

**53:2** Take heed, therefore, my children, of fornication and the love of money; hearken to Judah your father, for these things do withdraw you from the law of God, and blind the understanding of the soul, and teach arrogance, and suffer not a man to have compassion upon his neighbour: they rob his soul of all goodness, and bind him in toils and troubles, and take away his sleep and devour his flesh, and hinder the sacrifices of God; and he remembereth not blessing, and he hearkeneth not to a prophet when he speaketh, and is vexed at the word of godliness.

**53:3** For one who serveth two passions contrary to the commandments of God cannot obey God, because they have blinded his soul, and he walketh in the day-time as in the night.

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