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Testament of Simeon 1
Simeon, at one hundred and twenty years old and at the death of Joseph, gathers his sons to his bedside to deliver his final words. The pairing of Simeon's dying hour with Joseph's death is not incidental — it frames the testimony that follows within the shadow of the Joseph master type, the brother who was sold and raised up, whose death marks the close of an era for the whole house of Israel. Simeon, who bore particular guilt in that selling, now speaks at the precise moment Joseph's mortal sojourn ends.
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The copy of the words of Simeon, what things he spake to his sons before he died, in the hundred and twentieth year of his life, in the year in which Joseph died. For they came to visit him when he was sick, and he strengthened himself and sat up and kissed them, and said to them:—
