The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 68
Issachar 7
The fifth son of Jacob died at one hundred and twenty-two years old with every limb sound and strength unabated.
1 am a hundred and twenty-two years old, and I know not against myself a sin unto death.
2 Except my wife, I have not known any woman.
3 I never committed fornication in the haughtiness of my eyes; I drank not wine, to be led astray thereby; I coveted not any desirable thing that was my neighbour’s; guile never entered in my heart; a lie never passed through my lips; if any man grieved, I wept with him, and I shared my bread with the poor.
4 I never ate alone; I moved no landmark; in all my days I wrought godliness and truth.
5 I loved the Lord with all my strength; likewise also did I love every man even as my own children.
6 So ye also do these things, my children, and every spirit of Beliar shall flee from you, and no deed of malicious men shall rule over you; and every wild beast shall ye subdue, having with yourselves the God of heaven walking with men in simplicity of heart.
7 And he commanded them that they should carry him up to Hebron, and bury him there in the cave with his fathers.
8 And he stretched out his feet and died, the fifth son of Jacob, in a good old age; and with every limb sound, and with strength unabated, he slept the eternal sleep.
Did You Know?
The fifth son of Jacob died at one hundred and twenty-two years old with every limb sound and strength unabated.
Except his wife, he had not known any woman and never committed fornication in the haughtiness of his eyes.
He never ate alone, moved no landmark, shared his bread with the poor, and wept with any man who grieved.
He commanded that they carry him up to Hebron and bury him there in the cave with his fathers.
Guile never entered his heart, a lie never passed through his lips, and he coveted no desirable thing of his neighbour.
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