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The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 8

1 min 2 verses Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII (translated by Rev. Dr. Sinker, 1870), public domain. Chapters are numbered in order from Reuben 1 to Benjamin 12, and verse numbers are this archive's own sentence divisions.

Simeon 1

Simeon spoke his parting words to his sons in the hundred and twentieth year of his life.

T1🔗he 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:—

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1

Simeon spoke his parting words to his sons in the hundred and twentieth year of his life.

2

Simeon final year of life coincided with the year in which Joseph died.

3

His sons came to visit Simeon when he was sick near the end of his life.

4

Though sick, Simeon strengthened himself and sat up to address his sons.

5

Before speaking, the dying Simeon kissed the sons who had come to visit him.

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