1 Then Jacob sent for all his children and said to them, “Gather around me that I may inform you of everything which will come upon you and what will overtake each one of you in the last days.”
2 So they gathered around Israel from the eldest to the youngest of them.
3 Then Jacob-Israel spoke up and said to his sons, “Listen, O sons of Jacob, listen to your father Israel, from Reuben my firstborn to Benjamin.”
4 Then he told them what would come upon the twelve children, calling each one of them and his tribe by name; and he blessed them with the celestial blessing.
5 After this they were silent for a short time in order that he might rest.
6 So the heavens rejoiced that he could observe the places of repose.*
7 And behold, there approached numerous tormentors differing in their aspects.
8 They were prepared to torment the sinners, who are these: adulterers, male and female; those lusting after males; the vicious who degrade the semen given by God; the astrologers and the sorcerers; the evildoers and the worshipers of idols who hold onto abominations; and the slanderers who pass judgment(?) with two tongues (deceitfully).
9 And as to all these sinners, their punishment is the fire which will not be extinguished and the outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.
10 [Here there is a lacuna in the Arabic text. In the Bohairic, Jacob is again taken up, this time to heaven, where all is light and joy.
11 He sees Abraham and Isaac and is shown all the joys of the redeemed.
12 Jacob returns to earth, gives instructions for his burial in the land of his fathers, and passes away at the age of 147 years.
13 The Lord comes down with the angels Michael and Gabriel to bear Jacob’s soul to heaven.
14 Joseph orders his father’s body to be embalmed in the Egyptian manner.
15 Forty days are spent in the embalming process, and eighty more days are spent in mourning for the patriarch. ]