# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 54: Judah 19

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/54 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**54:1** My children, the love of money leadeth to idols; because, when led astray through money, men make mention of those who are no gods, and it causeth him who hath it to fall into madness.

**54:2** For the sake of money I lost my children, and but for the repentance of my flesh, and the humbling of my soul, and the prayers of Jacob my father, I should have died childless.

**54:3** But the God of my fathers, who is pitiful and merciful, pardoned me, because I did it in ignorance.

**54:4** For the prince of deceit blinded me, and I was ignorant as a man and as flesh, being corrupted in sins; and I learnt my own weakness while thinking myself unconquerable.

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