Testament of Issachar

Chapter 5

  1. 1 Keep, therefore, my children, the law of God, And get singleness. And walk in guilelessness, Not playing the busybody with the business of your neighbour,
  2. 2 But love the Lord and your neighbour, Have compassion on the poor and weak.
  3. 3 Bow down your back unto husbandry, And toil in labours in all manner of husbandry, Offering gifts to the Lord with thanksgiving.
  4. 4 For with the first-fruits of the earth will the Lord bless you, even as He blessed all the saints
  5. 5 from Abel even until now. For no other portion is given to you than of the fatness of the earth,
  6. 6 whose fruits are raised by toil. For our father Jacob blessed me with blessings of the earth and of
  7. 7 first-fruits. And Levi and Judah were glorified by the Lord even among the sons of Jacob; for the Lord gave them an inheritance, and to Levi He gave the priesthood, and to Judah the kingdom.
  8. 8 And do ye therefore obey them, and walk in the singleness of your father; [for unto Gad hath it been given to destroy the troops that are coming upon Israel].