My LORD’s BibleTestament of Issachar 1
1THE copy of the words of Issachar.
Διαθήκη Ἰσαχὰρ τοῦ πέμπτου Ἰακὼβ καὶ Λείας
2For he called his sons and said to them: Hearken, my children, to Issachar your father; give ear to the words of him who is beloved of the Lord.
3I was born the fifth son to Jacob, by way of hire for the mandrakes.
᾿Αντίγραφον λόγων Ἰσαχάρ. γὰρ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ἴ ἑκατὸν δέκα καὶ ἐννέα ἐννέα καὶ δέκα. ἑκατὸν πεντήκοντα καὶ ἐννέα ἀκούσατεδ τέκνα ᾿Ισαχὰρ τοῦ πατρὸς ὑμῶν ὅ ἐνωτίσασθε ῥήματα ἠγαπημένον ὑπὸ Κυρίου. γάρ.
4For Reuben my brother brought in mandrakes from the field, and Rachel met him and took them.
5And Reuben wept, and at his voice Leah my mother came forth.
ἘΕγὼ ἐτέχθην Γπέμπτος υἱὸς τῷ Ἰακωβ᾽᾽ ἐν μισθῷ τῶν μανδραγόρων,
6Now these mandrakes were sweet-smelling apples which were produced in the land of Haran below a ravine of water.
Ῥουβὶμϑ Ἐγὰρ ὃ ἀδελφός μου ἤνεγκεν ἃ Ἐὲκ τοῦ ἀγροῦ καὶ προσαπαντήσασα ποιῖὴ ἡ Ῥαχιὴλ᾽ Γαὐτὸν ἔλαβεν αὐτούς Ἔκλαιε δὲ γῇ καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ φωνῇ αὐτοῦ ἐξῆλθεν Λεία ἡ μήτηρ μου ὅτι
7And Rachel said: I will not give them to thee, but they shall be to me instead of children.
8For the Lord hath despised me, and I have not borne children to Jacob.
Ἦσαν δὲ ταῦτα μῆλα εὔοσμα γίνονται τῇ γῇ ΧαράνΞ, ὑποκάτω φάραγγος ὑδάτων.
9Now there were two apples; and Leah said to Rachel: Let it suffice thee that thou hast taken my husband: wilt thou take these also?
10And Rachel said to her: Thou shalt have Jacob this night for the mandrakes of thy son,
ἘΠπε μοι. δὲ Ῥαχήλ οὐ δώσω Ἔσοι ταῦτα ἀλλ᾽ ἵνα σχῶ ταῦτα ἀντὶ τέκνων. Ἐπαρεῖδε γάρ με ὁ Κύριος, καὶ τέκνα οὐκ ἐγέννησα ἦσαν δὲ τς Ἰακώβ,
11And Leah said to her: Jacob is mine, for I am the wife of his youth.
12But Rachel said: Boast not, and vaunt not thyself; for he espoused me before thee, and for my sake he served our father fourteen years.
Δύο οὖν ἦσαν τὰ Καὶ εἶπεν ἡ δύο. ἱπρὸς Ῥαχήλ᾽
13And had not craft increased on the earth and the wickedness of men prospered, thou wouldst not now see the face of Jacob.
14For thou art not his wife, but in craft wert taken to him in my stead.
ἘΤκανούσθω σοιδ ὅτι ἔλαβες τὸν καὶ εἶπεν Ἵ. τοῖς υἱοῖς αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ χρόνῳ τῆς τελευτῆς αὐτοῦ, ὅτε ἔμελλε τελευτᾶν τὴν ζωὴν αὐτοῦ, ἐκάλεσε τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶπεν. ἄνδραδ μὴ καὶ ταῦτα λήψῃ ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ; δὲ αὐτῇ Ῥαχήλϑϑ. Ἔστω σοι ᾿Ιακὼβ Ἐτῇ νυκτὶ ταύτῃ ἀντὶ τῶν μανδραγόρων σου. δὲ πρὸς αὐτὴν ἡ Λεία ἐστιν ὁ ἐγώ εἰμι Δία πρὸς γυνὴ νεότητος αὐτοῦ. εἶπε Ῥαχήλϊ. ἘΜὴ Μὲ καυχῶ μηδὲ δόξαζε σεαυτήν Ἐδτι ἐμὲ πρότερόν σου ἡρμόσατο, χῶ μηδὲ καὶ ἐδούλευσε Ἐτῷ πατρὶ ἡμῶν δόξαζε ἐμὸν γάρ εἰ μὴ ὁ δόλος Τί σοι ποιήσω, ὅτι ἐπλήκἀγώ. ἐπλήθυνεν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς καὶ ἡ θυνεν ὁ δόλος καὶ ἡ πανουργία ἡ δὲ πονηρία τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐχώτῶν ἀνθρώπων καὶ ὁ δόλος Ῥαχὴλ ρῆσεν, οὐκ ἂν εἶ σὺ ὁρῶσα τὸ προεχώρειΐ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς εἰ δὲ οὖν ὅτι πρόσωπον τοῦ Ἰακώβ ὅ, μή, σὺ οὐκ ἂν ἧς ὁρῶσα πρ. Ἶ. ἐμὲ προγὰρ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ εἶ ἀλλὰδῆ δόλῳ ἀντὶ ἐμοῦ σιν ἠὲ εἰσήχθης ὅδ,
15And my father deceived me, and removed me on that night, and did not suffer Jacob to see me; for had I been there, this had not happened to him.
ἘΚαὶ ἐμὲ ἐπλάνησεν ὁ πατήρ μου, μοσται. παρθενίας, τοὺς μανδραγόρου, αὖ. ἀΓ τοδᾶὰ λήψει. εἶπεν, ὦ, εἶπε δὲ καὶ ἔστω, ἰδοὺ ἔστω. μπὲ. προχωρεῖ προσχωρεῖ προχοροῦσιν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς δὲ μὴ εἰ δὲ προεχώρουν σὺ οὐκ ἂν ἧς ὁρῶσα οὐκ ἂν ἧς σὺ ὁρῶσα οὗ γὰρ οἷδες με μετέστησέ με τὴν νύκτα καὶ δδ οὐκ εἴασε ἰδεῖν, ὅτι Ἰακὼβ ἰδεῖν με, ἐπεῖ, ἐὰν ἤμην ἐκεῖ αὐτῷ οὐκ ἐγένετο οὖν ἀντὶ τῶν μανδραγούρων ἐκμισθῶ σοι νύκτα τῷ ἐγίνετο Ἰακώβδι͵ ἘΈγνω δὲ Ἰακὼβ τῇ Λείᾳ καὶ Γσυλλαβοῦσα Εἰ ἐμέδ, καὶ διὰ τοῦτον τὸν μισθὸν ἐκλήθην δ᾽ Ἰσαχάρ.
16Nevertheless, for the mandrakes I am hiring Jacob to thee for one night.
17And Jacob knew Leah, and she conceived and bare me, and on account of the hire I was called Issachar.
Τότε ὥφθη τῷ ἄγγελος Κυρίου Ῥ, Λαβὲ λέγων, Ἐδτι τέκνα τέξει Ραχήλ, Ἐ ἐπειδὴ κατέπτυσεν συνουὉ ἀνδρὸς καὶ ἐξελέξατο τὴν ἐγκράτειαν.
18Then appeared to Jacob an angel of the Lord, saying: Two children shall Rachel bear, inasmuch as she hath refused company with her husband, and hath chosen continency.
19And had not Leah my mother paid the two apples for the sake of his company, she would have borne eight sons; for this reason she bare six, and Rachel bare the two: for on account of the mandrakes the Lord visited her.
Καὶϑ εἰ καὶ ἀντὶ φτοῦ ἑνὸς ἐκμισθώσω σοι μίαν νύκτα. ὅτι διέπτυσε. γουρον καὶ ἀντὶ τοῦ ἑνὸς ἀντὶ ταύτης ἐκμισθώσω ἐκμισθῶ σοι αὐτόν μίαν νύκτα ἐν μιᾷ νυκτί καὶ ἔρρηψεν αὑτῇ τὸ ἐν μανδράγουρον εἶπεν ἕνα τῶν μανδραγόρων καὶ τὸν ἕνα καὶ ἀντὶ τοῦ ἕνος ἐκμισθώσω εἶπεν. Ἕνα τῶν μανδραγόρων λήψομαι, καὶ ἀντὶ τοῦ ἑνὸς ἐκμισθώσω σοι ἐν τῇ εἰσῆλθε Ἶ. πρὸς τὴν ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ νυκτί πάλιν ἕωθεν ἀντέστρεψε καὶ τὸ ἕτερον μανδράγορον εἰποῦσα τῇ Ῥαχήλ. Λαβὲ τοῦτο καὶ ἐκμισθοῦμαι αὐτὸν καὶ τῇ νυκτὶ ταύτῃ. καὶ ἔλαβε τὰ δύο μῆλα ἐπειδὴ κατέπτυσε συνουσίαν ἀνδρός, ἔδωκε αὐτῇ ἐν μισθῷ ἑνὸς μανδραγόρον καὶ καταφρονήσει ἡρμόσατο καὶ ἐξελέξατο ἐγκράτειαν. Α΄ ἢ
20For He knew that for the sake of children she wished to company with Jacob, and not for lust of pleasure.
21For on the morrow also she again gave up Jacob.
Τούτου ἕνεκε δύο τέκνα τέξεται, ὅτι ἐν τοῖς μανδραγόροις ἐπεσκέψατο αὐτὴν ὁ Κύριος, γὰρ ὅτι διὰ τέκνα ἤθελεν συνεῖναι τῷ ᾿Ιωακὼβ καὶ οὐ διὰ φιληδονίαν. καὶ γὰρ εἰ μὴ Λίαν ἡ μήτηρ μον ἀντὶ συνουσίας ἀπέδωτο τὰ δύο μᾶλα, ὀκτὼ υἱοὺς εἶχε τεκεῖν, διὰ τοῦτο ἔτεκεν ἕξ, τοὺς δὲ δύο ἔτεκεν ἡ ῬῬαχήλ. μὴ ἡ μήτηρ μου ἀντὶ συνουσίας ἀπέδοτο τὰ δύο ἣν δὰ μῆλα, ἔτι ὀκτὼ υἱοὺς ἔμελλε διὰ τοῦτο ἕξ ἔτεκε, Ῥαχιὴλ τέτοκε τοὺς δύο ὅτι ἐν Ἐτοῖς μανδραγόροις ἐπεσκέψατο αὐτὴν Κύριος.
22Because of the mandrakes, therefore, the Lord hearkened to Rachel.
23For though she desired them, she cat them not, but offered them in the house of the Lord, presenting them to the priest of the Most High who was at that time.
Εἴδε γὰρ ὅτι διὰ τέκνα δ᾿ Ἶον δν ἤθελεν συνεῖναι τῷ Ἰακώβ, καὶ οὐ διὰ φιληδονίαν. γὰρ καὶ Καὶ τῇ ἐπαύριον προσἸρκώβ, τῇ ἐπαύριον ἀπέδωκε τὸν θεῖσα ἀπήτησε ᾿Ιακὼβ ἵνα λάβῃ ᾿Ιακώβ, Ἔν μανδραγόλάβῃ ἔτι ἄλλον μανδραγόἐς ροις ὃ οὖν ἐπήκουσε Κύριος ρον μανδρατῇ Ῥαχήλτ, ῃ καί γε ποθήσασα τούτους οὐκ ἔφαγεν, ἀλλὰ ᾽ ἀνέθηκεν ᾽ ταῦτα ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου προσάξασαδἜ τῷ ἱερεῖ δδ ἱερεῖ τῷ ἐν τῷ τότε χρόνῳϑ͵
24When, therefore, I grew up, my children, I walked in uprightness of heart, and I became a husbandman for my father and my brethren, and I brought in fruits from the field according to their season.
ἘΌτε οὖν ἡδρύνθηνἐγὼδ, μου, ἐπορεύθηνϑ ἐκείνῳ. εὐθύτητι καρδίας, ἐγενόμην γεωργὸς Ἐτῷ πατρί ται καὶ τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς καὶ ἔφερον καρποὺς ἀγρῶν τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἀγρῶν κατὰ καιρὸν αὐτῶν. ἥ ἣ ἔλαβεν τὰ μῆλα καὶ συνουσίας γάμον καὶ τὰ δύο τέκνα Ῥαχὴλ ἔτεκεν. μανδραγόρα, μανδράγουρον, τὴν ἄλλην μανδραγόραν. μανδρα᾿Ιακώβ, ἐπεπόθησις γὰρ ἣν ἐν αὐτῇ καὶ οὗ διὰ τόκον. καὶ ἔλαβεν ἹῬαχὴλ ἔτι ἄλλον Καὶ ηὐλόγει με ὁ πατήρ μου βλέπων Ἔδτι ἐν ἁπλότητι πορεύομαι αὐτοῦ.
25And my father blessed me, for he saw that I walked in rectitude before him.
26And I was not a busybody in my doings, nor envious and malicious against my neighbour.
Καὶ οὐκ θρώπου, εἰμὶδ περίεργος Ἐὲν ταῖς πράἀξεσίν μουδ, οὐδὲ φθονερὸς πορευύ. αὐῖδ βάσκανος Ἐχῷ πλησίον μου. κατελάλησά ἁπλότητι τινος πώποτεθ, οὐδὲ ἔψεξα βίον ἀνθρώπου δι Τριάκοντα πέντε ἐτῶν ἔλαβον ἐμαυτῷ ὁ γυναῖκα, Ἢ δὶ ὅτι ὁ κάματος κατήσθιε τὴν ἰσχύν καὶ οὐκ ἐνενόουν τοῦτο. ἡδονὴνδ᾽ γυναικός, Γἀλλὰ διὰ τοῦ κόπουδξ ὁ ὕπνος περι-
27I never slandered any one, nor did I censure the life of any man, walking as I did in singleness of eye.
28Therefore, when I was thirty-five years old, I took to myself a wife, for my labour wore away my strength, and I never thought upon pleasure with women; but owing to my toil, sleep overcame me.
Καὶ ἔχαιρε ἐπὶ τῇ ἁπλότητί ἔκαμνον ὁ πατήρ μου διότι καὶ Ἐν πᾶν πρῶτον γέννημα πᾶσαν ἃ τῷ Κυρίῳ προσέφερον ἔπειτα καὶ τῷ πατρί Κύριος ἐμυριοπλασίασεξ τὰ ἀγαβὰ καὶ τότε ἐγώ. ἐδιπλασίαζε τὰ ἀγαθά. καὶ οὐ διεμέρισα διὰ τοῦτος. Πάντοτε εὐλόγει ὁ πατήρ ὁ γῆς ἐν ἁπλότητι καρδίας μουδὶ, Καὶ νῦν Ἑὰκούσατέ μου, καὶ πορεύεσθε ἐν ἀπλύτητι. Γκαρδίας ὑμῶν ᾿ς εἶδον ἐν ὑμῖν εὐαρέστησιν ἁπλοῦς χρυσίον οὐδ πλεονεκτεῖ αὐτῇ. οἱ ποικίλων οὐκ ἐφίεται Ἔσθῆτα διάφορον οὐ θέλει. θυμεῖ,
29And my father always rejoiced in my rectitude, because I offered through the priest to the Lord all first-fruits; then to my father also.
30And the Lord increased ten thousandfold His benefits in my hands; and also Jacob, my father, knew that God aided my singleness.
Χρόνους πολλοὺς ἐπιγράφει τοῦ ζῆν ὁ τὸν πληἀλλὰ μόνον ἐκδέχεται Ἐτὸ θέλημα τοῦ Θεοῦ, πλεονεκ-
31For on all the poor and oppressed I bestowed the good things of the earth in the singleness of my heart.
Καί πνεύματα ὃ τῆς πλάνης οὐδὲν ἘΪσχύουσιν πρὸς τεῖ αὐτόν, οὐ Τεῖδεν ἐπιδέξασθαι κάλλος θηλείας ζῆν. μὴ. ἐν διαστροφῇ μιάνῃ τὸν νοῦν αὐτοῦ, οὐχ οὐκ ὑπογράφει ζῆν, οὐχὶ γράφει ζῆν, οὐ ζητεῖ ζῆν. Οἱ λον
32And now, hearken to me, my children, and walk in singleness of your heart, for I have seen in it all that is well-pleasing to the Lord. '
33The single-minded man coveteth not gold, he overreacheth not his neighbour, he longeth not after manifold dainties, he delighteth not in varied apparel.
Οὐ ζηλοῖ ἐν διαβουλίοις οὐ βάσκανος ἐκτήκει τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἐ οὐδὲ Γπερισπασμὸς ἐν ἀπληστείᾳ ἐν νοΐ μόνε
34He doth not desire to live a long life, but only waiteth for the will of God.
35And the spirits of deceit have no power against him, for he looketh not on the beauty of women, lest he should pollute his mind with corruption.
Πορεύεται ἐν Ἐδἁπλότητι Γψυχῆς ὁρᾷ ἐν εὐθύτητι Γκαρδίας εὐθύτητι. Ἐμὴ ἐπιδεχόμενοςδ Ἐῤφθαλμοὺς πονηροὺς ἀπὸ τῆς ᾿ πλάνης τοῦ κόσμου τητι, μὲ διαστραμμενὰν τὰς ἐντολὰς τοῦ Κυρίου.
36There is no envy in his thoughts, no malicious person maketh his soul to pine away, nor worry with insatiable desire in his mind.
37For he walketh in singleness of soul, and beholdeth all things in uprightness of heart, shunning eyes made evil through the error of the world, lest he should see the perversion of any of the commandments of the Lord.
Φυλάξατε οὖν μου νόμον Θεοῦ, καὶ Ἐτὴν ἁπλότητα κτήσασθε, ἐν ἀκακίᾳ πορεύεσθε, ἐντολὰς μὴ περιεργαζόμενοι τοῦδ πλησίον τὰς πράξεις. Κυρίνυ ᾿Αλλὰ τὸν Κύριον καὶ τὸν πλησίον ἴ τὰ πένητα καὶ ἀσθενῆ ἐλεήσατε,
38Keep, therefore, my children, the law of God, and get singleness, and walk in guilelessness, not playing the busybody with the business of your neighbour, but love the Lord and your neighbour, have compassion on the poor and weak.
39Bow down your back unto husbandry, and toil in labours in all manner of husbandry, offering gifts to the Lord with thanksgiving.
Ὕποτίθετεῦ τὸν νῶτον ὑμῶν τὸ γεωργεῖν ἔργοις καὶ ἐργάζεσθε ἐν ἔργοις ἑκάστην γεωργίαν, ᾿ δῶρα μετ᾽ εὐχαριστείας Κυρίῳ προσφέροντες Ὅτιϊδ ἂν πρωτογεννήμασιν.δ καρπῶν ἴτῆς γῆς εὐλογήσει ὑμᾶς Κύριος Γκαθὼς εὐλόγησε πάντας τοὺς ἁγίους ἀπὸ ᾿Αβὲλ ἕως τοῦ νῦν.
40For with the first-fruits of the earth will the Lord bless you, even as He blessed all the saints from Abel even until now.
Οὐ γὰρ δέδοται ὑμῖν ἄλλη μερὶς εἰ μὴ Ἑτῆς πιότητος τῆς γῆς πόνοις καρπῶν ἧς ἐν
41For no other portion is given to you than of the fatness of the earth, whose fruits are raised by toil.
42For our father Jacob blessed me with blessings of the earth and of first-fruits.
Ἔτι καὶ ὁ πατήρ μου Δι᾿ ὃ καὶ ὁ πατὴρ ἡμῶν Ἰακὼβϑ εὐλογίαις ἐν ταῖς εὐλογίαις ἡμῶν γῆς καὶ ἀπαρχῶν καρπῶν αὐτοῦ ἐκληροδότησε τῷ Λευὶ εὐλόγησέ με.
43And Levi and Judah were glorified by the Lord even among the sons of Jacob; for the Lord gave them an inheritance, and to Levi He gave the priesthood, and to Judah the kingdom.
44And do ye therefore obey them, and walk in the singleness of your father; for unto Gad hath it been given to destroy the troops that are coming upon Israel.
Καὶ τὸ πρωτεῖον καὶ ᾿Ιούδας ἐδοΛευὶδδ καὶ Ἰούδας ἐδοξάξάσθη ἐν υἱοῖς Ἰακώβ. ἐσθησαν παρὰ Κυρίου καὶ ὃ ἐν κλήρωσεν υἱοῖς Ἰακώβ. Καὶ Κύριος κληροδότησεν αὐτούς καὶ αὐτοῖς τῷ μὲν Λευὶ ἔδωκε ἀρὰ ἱερατείαν, τῷ δὲ Ἰούδᾳ τὴν βασιλείαν. ὑμεῖς αὐτοῖς ὑπακούετε καὶ ὁ τῇ ἁπλότητι τοῦ τὰ πατρὸς ὑμῶν περιπατεῖτε δὲ Γὰδ ἀπολέσαι τὰ τῷ, Ἐξπερχόμενα πειρατήρια τῷ Ἰσραήλ.