Dan's Testimony

Dan’s testimony, the seventh son of Jacob and Bilhah, the jealous one. He counsels against anger saying that ‘it giveth peculiar vision.’ This is a notable thesis on anger.
Speaking to his sons in his last days when he was 125 years old; “I have proven in my heart, and in my whole life, that truth with just dealing is good and well pleasing to G-d, and that lying and anger are evil, because they teach man all wickedness. And now, my children, behold I am dying, and I tell you of a truth, that unless ye keep yourselves from the spirit of lying and of anger, and love truth and longsuffering, ye shall perish.
For anger is blindness, and does not suffer one to see the face of any man with truth. For though it be a father or a mother, he behaved towards them as enemies; though it be a brother, he knoweth him not; though it be a prophet of G-d, he disobeyth him; though a righteous man, he regardeth him not; though a friend, he doth not acknowledge him.
For the spirit of anger encompasseth him with the net of deceit, and blindeth his eyes, and through lying darkeneth his mind, and giveth him its own peculiar vision. For anger is an evil thing for it troubleth even the soul itself. And the body of the angry man it maketh its own, and over his soul it getteth the mastery, and it bestoweth upon the body power that it may work all iniquity. The spirit goeth always with lying at the right hand of satan, that with cruelty and lying his works may be wrath.
Understand ye, therefore, the power of wrath, that it is vain. For it first of all giveth provocation by word; then by deeds it strentheneth him who is angry, and with sharp losses disturbeth his mind, and so stirreth up with great wrath his soul.
Moreover, a twofold mischief is wrath with lying; and they assist one another in order to disturb the heart; and when the soul is continually disturbed, G-d departeth from it, and Beliar ruleth over it.
Observe my children, the commandments of G-d, and keep His Law; depart from wrath, and hate lying, that G-d ay dwell among you, and Beliar may flee from you. Love the L-rd though all your life, and one another with a true heart.
I have read in the book of Enoch, the righteous, that your prince is satan, and that all the spirits of wickedness and pride will conspire to attend constantly on the sons of Levi, to cause them to sin before G-d. When ye return to G-d, ye shall obtain mercy, and He shall bring you into His sanctuary, and He shall give you peace.
And the saints shall rest in Eden, and in the New Jerusalem shall the righteous rejoice, and it shall be unto the glory of G-d forever. And no longer shall Jerusalem endure desolation, nor Israel be led captive; for G-d shall be in the midst of it living amongst men, and the Holy One of Israel shall reign over it in humility and in poverty; and he who believeth on Him shall reign amongst men in truth.
Draw near unto G-d and unto the angel that interceded for you, for he is a mediator between G-d and man, and for the peace of Israel he shall stand up against the kingdom of the enemy. G-d will transform them into a nation that doeth His will, for none of the angels will be equal unto Him. And His name shall be in every place in Israel, and among the Gentiles. Impart all this to your children that the Savior of the Gentiles may receive you; for He is true and long-suffering.”
And when he has said these things he kissed them all, and fell asleep at a good old age.
Dan prophesied unto them that they would forget their G-d, and would be alienated from the land of their inheritance and from the race of Israel, and from the family of their seed.