Nir rose from his sleep, and blessed the Lord, who had appeared unto him, saying: ‘Blessed is the Lord God of my fathers, who has spoken unto me, (some MSS. add—who will not allow the depreciation of my priesthood in the priesthood of my fathers, as thy word), who made a great priest in my days in the womb of my wife Sopanima. (Some MSS. add—31. Because I had no family and this child shall be to me in the place of my family, and shall be as a son to me, and thou shalt honour him with Thy servants