Testament of Judah 1

¹The copy of the words of Judah, what things he spake to his sons before he died. ²They gathered themselves together, therefore, and came to him, and he said to them: Hearken, my children, to Judah your father. ³I was the fourth son born to my father Jacob; and Leah my mother named me Judah, saying, I give thanks to the Lord, because He hath given me a fourth son also. ⁴I was swift in my youth, and obedient to my father in everything. ⁵And I honoured my mother and my mother's sister. ⁶And it came to pass, when I became a man, that my father blessed me, saying, Thou shalt be a king, prospering in all things.