The Testaments of the XII Patriarchs · Restored Names Edition · first paragraph
1For in his price I had no share, my children.
2But Simeon and Gad and six other of our brethren took the price of Joseph, and bought sandals for themselves, and their wives, 'and their children,' saying:
3We will not eat of it, for it is the price of our brother's blood, but we will assuredly tread it under foot, because he said that he would be king over us, 'and so let us see what will become of his dreams'.
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