# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 95: Gad 1

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/95 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**95:1** The record of the testament of Gad, what things he spake unto his sons, in the hundred and twenty-seventh year of his life, saying: I was the seventh son born to Jacob, and I was valiant in keeping the flocks.

**95:2** I guarded at night the flock; and whenever the lion came, or wolf, or leopard, or bear, or any wild beast against the fold, I pursued it, and with my hand seizing its foot, and whirling it round, I stunned it, and hurled it over two furlongs, and so killed it.

**95:3** Now Joseph was feeding the flock with us for about thirty days, and being tender, he fell sick by reason of the heat.

**95:4** And he returned to Hebron to his father, who made him lie down near him, because he loved him.

**95:5** And Joseph told our father that the sons of Zilpah and Bilhah were slaying the best of the beasts, and devouring them without the knowledge of Judah and Reuben.

**95:6** For he saw that I delivered a lamb out of the mouth of the bear, and I put the bear to death; and the lamb I slew, being grieved concerning it that it could not live, and we ate it, and he told our father.

**95:7** And I was wroth with Joseph for that thing until the day that he was sold into Egypt.

**95:8** And the spirit of hatred was in me, and I wished not either to see Joseph or to hear him.

**95:9** And he rebuked us to our faces for having eaten of the flock without Judah.

**95:10** And whatsoever things he told our father, he believed him.

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