The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 8
Simeon 1
Simeon spoke his parting words to his sons in the hundred and twentieth year of his life.
1he copy of the words of Simeon, what things he spake to his sons before he died, in the hundred and twentieth year of his life, in the year in which Joseph died.
2 For they came to visit him when he was sick, and he strengthened himself and sat up and kissed them, and said to them:—
Did You Know?
Simeon spoke his parting words to his sons in the hundred and twentieth year of his life.
Simeon final year of life coincided with the year in which Joseph died.
His sons came to visit Simeon when he was sick near the end of his life.
Though sick, Simeon strengthened himself and sat up to address his sons.
Before speaking, the dying Simeon kissed the sons who had come to visit him.
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