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The Testaments of the XII Patriarchs 5 — Reuben Chapter 5

The Testaments of the XII Patriarchs · Restored Names Edition · first paragraph

1For evil are women, my children; and since they have no power or strength over man, they use wiles by outward attractions that they may draw him to themselves.

2And whom they cannot bewitch by outward attractions, him they overcome by craft.

3For moreover, concerning them, the angel of Yahuah (Lord) told me, and taught me, that women are overcome by the spirit of fornication more than men, and in their heart they plot against men; and by means of their adornment they deceive first their minds, and by the glance of the eye instil the poison, and then through the accomplished act they take them captive.

4For a woman cannot force a man openly, but by a harlot's bearing she beguiles him.

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