ASHER
Name: Asher
Father: Jacob
Mother: Zilpah
Sons: Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
Numbers: 41,500
LIFE OF ASHER
JACOB BLESSES ASHER:
“Out of Asher his Bread shall be fat, And he shall yield royal dainties.”
MOSES BLESSES ASHER:
And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
ZILPAH FOR LEAH: Genesis 30:13 (Happy)
And Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher."
Dwelt among the Canaanites
And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war,
Moved to Egypt
TESTAMENT OF ASHER
The copy of the Testament of Asher,
what things he spake to his sons in the hundred and twenty-fifth year of his life.
For while he was still in health, he said to them:
Hearken, ye children of Asher, to your father, and I will declare to you all that is upright in the sight of the Lord.
Two ways hath God given to the sons of men, and two inclinations, and two kinds of action, and two modes (of action), and two issues. Therefore all things are by twos, one over against the other. For there are two ways of good and evil, and with these are the two inclinations in our breasts
discriminating them.
Therefore if the soul take pleasure in the good (inclination), all its actions are in righteousness; and if it sin it straightway repenteth. For, having its
thoughts set upon righteousness, and casting away wickedness, it straightway overthroweth the evil, and uprooteth the sin.
But if it incline to the evil inclination, all its actions are in wickedness, and it driveth away the good, and cleaveth to the evil, and is ruled by Beliar; even though it work what is good, he perverteth it to evil. For whenever it beginneth to do good, he forceth the issue of the action into evil for him, seeing that the treasure of the inclination is filled with an evil spirit.
For I have known that ye shall assuredly be disobedient, and assuredly act ungodly, not giving heed to the law of God, but to the commandments of men, being corrupted through wickedness. And therefore shall ye be scattered as Gad and Dan my brethren, and ye shall know not your lands, tribe, and tongue. But the Lord will gather you together in faith through His tender mercy, and for the sake of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.]
And when he had said these things unto them he commanded them, saying: Bury me in Hebron. And he fell asleep and died at a good old age. And his sons did as he
had commanded them, and they carried him up to Hebron, and buried him with his fathers.