# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 68: Issachar 7

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/68 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**68:1** I am a hundred and twenty-two years old, and I know not against myself a sin unto death.

**68:2** Except my wife, I have not known any woman.

**68:3** 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.

**68:4** I never ate alone; I moved no landmark; in all my days I wrought godliness and truth.

**68:5** I loved the Lord with all my strength; likewise also did I love every man even as my own children.

**68:6** 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.

**68:7** And he commanded them that they should carry him up to Hebron, and bury him there in the cave with his fathers.

**68:8** 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.

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