# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 64: Issachar 3

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/64 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**64:1** When, therefore, I grew up, my children, I walked in uprightness of heart, and I became a husbandman for my parents and my brethren, and I brought in fruits from the field according to their season; and my father blessed me, for he saw that I walked in simplicity.

**64:2** And I was not a busybody in my doings, nor malicious and slanderous against my neighbour.

**64:3** I never spoke against any one, nor did I censure the life of any man, but walked in the simplicity of my eyes.

**64:4** Therefore when I was thirty years old I took to myself a wife, for my labour wore away my strength, and I never thought upon pleasure with women; but through my labour my sleep sufficed me, and my father always rejoiced in my simplicity.

**64:5** For on whatever I laboured I offered first to the Lord, by the hands of the priests, of all my produce and all first-fruits; then to my father, and then took for myself.

**64:6** And the Lord increased twofold His benefits in my hands; and Jacob also knew that God aided my simplicity, for on every poor man and every one in distress I bestowed the good things of the earth in simplicity of heart.

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