# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 73: Zebulun 5

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/73 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**73:1** And now, my children, I bid you to keep the commands of the Lord, and to show mercy upon your neighbour, and to have compassion towards all, not towards men only, but also towards beasts.

**73:2** For for this thing’s sake the Lord blessed me; and when all my brethren were sick I escaped without sickness, for the Lord knoweth the purposes of each.

**73:3** Have therefore compassion in your hearts, my children, because even as a man doeth to his neighbour, even so also will the Lord do to him.

**73:4** For the sons of my brethren were sickening, were dying on account of Joseph, because they showed not mercy in their hearts; but my sons were preserved without sickness, as ye know.

**73:5** And when I was in Canaan, by the sea-coast, I caught spoil of fish for Jacob my father; and when many were choked in the sea, I abode unhurt.

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