These compiled twelve books, supposedly written by the twelve sons of Jacob on their death bed, are a part of the pseudepigraha apocrypha, which means they are considered of unknown authorship, and they were never included in canonized scripture. Yet they hold valuable lessons and commands on purity and godliness. They were translated with a compilation by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr. in 1926 into old English, in the book entitled "The Forgotten Books of Eden." They are here translated into modern English by Pamela Ayn Austen.