Chapter XIX
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1And now, my children, you have heard everything. Choose, then, for yourselves either darkness or light, either the law of the Lord or the ways 1 Lit. ‘works’. of Beliar. 2And we answered our father, saying, In the Lord's presence we will live our lives in accordance with his law. 3And our father said, The Lord is a witness, and his angels are witnesses, and I am a witness, and you are witnesses, of what you have said. 4And we said, We are witnesses. And with this Levi brought his commands to his sons to an end; and he stretched out his feet, and was gathered to his fathers, when he was a hundred and thirty seven years old. 5And they put him in a coffin; and later on they buried him in Hebron, by the side of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Notes:
1 Lit. ‘works’.