BINYAMIYN
Name: Benjamin
Hebrew name: Binyamiyn
Father: Jacob
Mother: Rachel
Birth: Date 14th Day, 7th Month, 1st Year , 6th Week , 44Jth Jubilee Jubilees 32:2
Death: Goshen, Egypt Age 125 years old
Sons: The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites: 39 of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. Num 26:37-39
Numbers: 45,600
Life of Benjamin
JACOB BLESSES BENJAMIN:
“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;
In the morning he shall devour the prey,
And at night he shall divide the spoil.”
MOSES BLESSES BENJAMIN: And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.
RACHEL: Genesis 35:18 (Jacob said Pain Sorrow Son of My Right Hand)
And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Testament of Benjamin
The copy of the words of Benjamin
He had lived a hundred and twenty-five years. And he kissed them, and said:
Rachel my mother died in giving me birth, I had no milk; therefore I was suckled by Bilhah her handmaid. For Rachel remained barren for twelve years after she had borne Joseph; and she prayed the Lord with fasting twelve days, and she conceived and bare me. For my father loved Rachel dearly, and prayed that he might see two sons born from her. Therefore was I called Benjamin, that is, a son of days.
For my father loved Rachel dearly, and prayed that he might see two sons born from her. Therefore was I called Benjamin, that is, a son of days.
And when I went into Egypt, to Joseph, and my brother recognized me, he said
What did they tell my father when they sold me ? And I said unto him, They dabbled thy coat with blood and sent it,
And he called to him his brethren and said: Do not tell my father what ye have done unto me, but tell him as I have told Benjamin. And let the thoughts among you be such, and let not these things come to the heart of my father.
1 Do ye also, therefore, my children, love the Lord God of heaven and earth, and keep His commandments, following the example of the good and holy man Joseph.
How many men wished to slay him, and God shielded him! For he that feareth God and loveth his neighbour cannot be smitten by the spirit of Beliar, being shielded by the fear of
God. Nor can he be ruled over by the device of men or beasts, for he is helped by the
Lord through the love which he hath towards his neighbour.
For Joseph also
besought our father that he would pray for his brethren, that the Lord would not impute to them as sin whatever evil they had done unto him.
And thus Jacob cried out:
My good child, thou hast prevailed over the bowels of thy father Jacob. And he embraced him, and kissed him for two hours, saying:And let your mind be unto good, even as ye know me; for he that hath his mind right seeth all things rightly.
As for him who hath the fear of God, he protecteth him as with a shield; him that loveth God he helpeth; him that rejecteth the Most High he admonisheth and turneth back; and him that hath the grace of a good spirit he loveth as his own soul.
If ye do well, even the unclean spirits will flee from you; and the beasts will dread you. For where there is reverence for good works and light in the mind, even darkness fleeth away from him.
And when he finished his words, he said: I command you, my children, carry up my bones out of Egypt, and bury me at Hebron, near my 2 fathers. So Benjamin died a
hundred and twenty-five years old, at a good old age, and they 3 placed him in a coffin. And in the ninety-first year from the entrance of the children of Israel into
Egypt, they and their brethren brought up the bones of their fathers secretly during the Canaanitish war; and they buried them in Hebron, 4 by the feet of their fathers.
And they returned from the land of Canaan and dwelt in Egypt until the day of their departure from the land of Egypt.
"Testament of the Twelve Patriachs" by R. H. Charles
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