# The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, chapter 96: Gad 2

Source: https://enocharchive.com/books/the-testaments-of-the-twelve-patriarchs/96 (Enoch Archive, public-domain translation).

**96:1** I confess now my sin, my children, that oftentimes I wished to kill him, because I hated him to the death, and there were in no wise in me bowels of mercy towards him.

**96:2** Moreover, I hated him yet more because of his dreams; and I would have devoured him out of the land of the living, even as a calf devoureth the grass from the earth.

**96:3** Therefore I and Judah sold him to the Ishmaelites for thirty pieces of gold, and ten of them we hid, and showed the twenty to our brethren: and so through my covetousness I was fully bent on his destruction.

**96:4** And the God of my fathers delivered him from my hands, that I should not work iniquity in Israel.

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