Testament of Judah

Chapter 1

  1. 1 The copy of the words of Judah, what things he spake to his sons before he died. They gathered
  2. 3 themselves together, therefore, and came to him, and he said to them: Hearken, my children, to Judah your father. I was the fourth son born to my father Jacob; and Leah my mother named
  3. 4 me Judah, saying, I give thanks to the Lord, because He hath given me a fourth son also. I was
  4. 5 swift in my youth, and obedient to my father in everything. And I honoured my mother and my
  5. 6 mother's sister. And it came to pass, when I became a man, that my father blessed me, saying, Thou shalt be a king, prospering in all things.