BEHOLD! I have therefore made known unto you these things while I live: for I have said it that ye should learn the things that are excellent; for El Elohiym has commanded me to instruct you: and I will set before you some of the commandments of his judgment before I die.
Remember that formerly Mosheh assuredly called heaven and earth to witness against you and said:
If ye transgress the Torah ye shall be dispersed, but if ye guard it ye shall be guarded.
And other things also he used to say unto you when ye the twelve tribes were together in the desert.
And after his death ye cast them away from you: on this account there came upon you what had been predicted. And now Mosheh used to tell you before they befell you, and lo! they have befallen you: for ye have forsaken the Torah.
Lo! I also say unto you after ye have suffered, that if ye obey those things which have been said unto you, ye will receive from El Elohiym whatsoever has been laid up and reserved for you.
Moreover, let this cepher be for a testimony between me and you, that ye may remember the commandments of El Elohiym, and that also there may be to me a defence in the presence of him who sent me.
And remember ye the Torah and Tsiyon, and the holy land and your brethren, and the covenant of your fathers, and forget not the feasts and the Shabbaths.
And deliver ye this cepher and the Truth of the Torah to your sons after you, as also your fathers delivered them to you.
And at all times make request perseveringly and pray diligently with your whole heart that El Elohiym may be reconciled to you, and that he may not reckon the multitude of your sins, but remember the rectitude of your fathers.
For if he judge us not according to the multitude of his mercies, woe unto all us who are born.