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The Testament of Simeon Concerning Envy

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Section 8

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8. And Simeon made an end of commanding his sons

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,

and

slept

with

his

fathers

,

being

an

hundred

and

twenty

years

old

.

And

they

laid

him

in

a

coffin

of

incorruptible

wood

,

to

take

up

his

bones

to

Hebron

.

And

they

carried

them

up

in

a

war

of

the

Egyptians

secretly

:

for

the

bones

of

Joseph

the

Egyptians

guarded

in

the

treasure

-

house

of

the

palace

;

for

the

sorcerers

told

them

that

at

the

departure

of

the

bones

of

Joseph

there

should

be

throughout

the

whole

of

Egypt

darkness

and

gloom

,

and

an

exceeding

great

plague

to

the

Egyptians

,

so

that

even

with

a

lamp

a

man

should

not

recognise

his

brother

.