Testament of Benjamin

Chapter 7

  1. 1 Therefore, my children, I tell you, flee the malice of Beliar; for he giveth a sword to them that obey him.
  2. 2 And the sword is the mother of seven evils. First the mind conceiveth through Beliar, and first there is bloodshed; secondly ruin; thirdly, tribulation; fourthly, exile; fifthly, dearth; sixthly, panic; seventhly, destruction.
  3. 3 Therefore was Cain also delivered over to seven vengeances by God, for in every hundred years the Lord brought one plague upon him.
  4. 4 And when he was two hundred years old he began to suffer, and in the nine-hundredth year he was destroyed. For on account of Abel, his brother, with all the evils was he judged, but Lamech with seventy times seven.
  5. 5 Because for ever those who are like Cain in envy and hatred of brethren, shall be punished with the same judgment.