Testament of Job

Kohler1897 English translation, printed page 335

Testament of Job. 335 nakedness, and four drachmas (coins) of silver or gold’. 3. Then the Lord blessed all that was left to me, and after a few days I became rich again in merchandise, in flocks and all things which I had lost, and I received all in double number again. 4. Then I also took as wife your mother and became the father of you ten in place of the ten children that had died. 5, And now, my children, let me admonish you: ‘Behold I die. You will take my place. 6. Only do not forsake the Lord. Be charitable towards the poor; Do not disregard the feeble. Take not unto yourselves wives from strangers. 1) ¢. Behold, my children, I shall divide among you what I possess, so that each may have control over his own and have full power to do good with his share”. 8. And after he had spoken thus, he brought all his goods and divided them among his seven sons, but he gave nothing of his goods to his daughters. 9. Then they said to their father: “Our lord and father! Are we not also thy children? Why, then, dost thou not also give us a share of thy possessions?” 10. Then said Job to his daughters: ‘Do not become angry my daughters. Ε have not forgotten you. Behold, I have preserved for you a possession better than that which your brothers have taken”. 11. And he called his daughter whose name was Day (Yemima) and said to her: “Take this double ring used as a key and go to the treasure-house and bring me the golden casket, that I may give you your possession”. 12. And she went and brought it to him, and he opened it and took out three-stringed girdles about the appearance of which no man can speak. 13. For they were not earthly work, but celestial sparks of light flashed through them like the rays of the sun. 14. And he gave one string to each of his daughters and said: “Put these as girdles around you in order that all the days of your life they may encircle you and endow you with every thing good”. ἢ τῶν αλλοτριων This shows both Jewish and Essene origin: Jewish Kinship.