The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs 96
Gad 2
The speaker confesses he oftentimes wished to kill him, hating him to the death with no bowels of mercy.
1 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.
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.
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.
4 And the God of my fathers delivered him from my hands, that I should not work iniquity in Israel.
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The speaker confesses he oftentimes wished to kill him, hating him to the death with no bowels of mercy.
He hated him yet more because of his dreams and would have devoured him even as a calf devoureth the grass from the earth.
He and Judah sold him to the Ishmaelites for thirty pieces of gold, fully bent on his destruction through covetousness.
Of the thirty pieces of gold from the sale they hid ten and showed twenty to their brethren.
The God of his fathers delivered him from the speaker's hands that he should not work iniquity in Israel.
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