CHAPTER 6
1 Beware, therefore, of fornication; and if you wish to be pure in mind, guard your senses from every woman.
2 And command the women likewise not to associate with men, that they also may be pure in mind.
3 For constant meetings, even though the ungodly deed be not wrought, are to them an irremediable disease, and to us a destruction of Beliar and an eternal reproach.
4 For in fornication there is neither understanding nor †godliness, and all jealousy dwelleth in the lust thereof.
5 Therefore, then, ⌈I say unto you,⌉ ye will be jealous ⌈against the sous of Levi,⌉ and will seek to be exalted over them; but ye shall not be able.
6 For God will avenge them ⌈and ye shall die by an evil death⌉.
7 For to Levi God gave the sovereignty [and to Judah with him and to me also, and to Dan and Joseph, that we should be for rulers].
8 Therefore I command you to hearken to Levi, because he shall know the law of the Lord, and shall give ordinances for judgment and shall sacrifice for all Israel until the consummation of the times, as the anointed High Priest, of whom the Lord spake.
9 I adjure you by the God of heaven to do truth each one unto his neighbour and to entertain love each for his brother.
10 And draw ye near to Levi in humbleness of heart, that ye may receive a blessing from his mouth.
11 For he shall bless Israel and Judah, because him hath the Lord chosen to be king over all the nation.
12 And bow down before his seed, for on our behalf it will die in wars visible and invisible, and will be among you an eternal king.