Testament of Zebulun

Chapter 6

  1. 1 I was the first to make a boat to sail upon the sea, for the Lord gave me understanding and
  2. 2 wisdom therein. And I let down a rudder behind it, and I stretched a sail upon another upright
  3. 3 piece of wood in the midst. And I sailed therein along the shores, catching fish for the house of my father until we came to Egypt.
  4. 4 [And through compassion I shared my catch with every stranger. And if a man were a stranger, or sick, or aged, I boiled the fish, and dressed them well, and offered them to all men, as every man
  5. 6 had need, grieving with and having compassion upon them. Wherefore also the Lord satisfied me with abundance of fish when catching fish; for he that shareth with his neighbour receiveth manifold
  6. 7 more from the Lord.] For five years I caught fish [and gave thereof to every man whom I saw,
  7. 8 and sufficed for all the house of my father]. And in the summer I caught fish, and in the winter I kept sheep with my brethren.