Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

Whoever kills a man, thou shalt slay the murderer on the testimony of witnesses; and one witness shall not testify against a soul that he should die.

But when thou hast turned away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou wilt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and return to their dust.

And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found.

which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?

And Moses said to the children of Israel, Behold, God has called by name Beseleel the son of Urias the son of Or, of the tribe of Juda,

For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.

the Lord your God who goes before your face, he shall fight against them together with you effectually, according to all that he wrought for you in the land of Egypt;

And their seed shall perish from Esebon to Daebon; and their women have yet farther kindled a fire against Moab.

behold he will stretch his bow against him, and he covers the bottom of the sea.

The daughter of Gallim shall flee; Laisa shall hear; one shall hear in Anathoth.

And Amalec dwells in the land toward the south: and the Chettite and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwells in the hill country: and the Chananite dwells by the sea, and by the river Jordan.

Remove from me the way of iniquity; and be merciful to me by thy law.

And they departed from Selmona, and encamped in Masuruth.

I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of thy countenance has helped me.

He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him after him: he will bring him down in his snare.

So they ate, and were completely filled; and he gave them their desire.

And Seon king of Esebon would not that we should pass by him, because the Lord our God hardened his spirit, and made his heart stubborn, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as on this day.

ye shall not enter into the land for which I stretched out my hand to establish you upon it; except only Chaleb the son of Jephonne, and Joshua the son of Naue.

causing a hypocrite to be king, because of the waywardness of the people.

And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them that they may minister to me as priests.

For by thee shall I be delivered from a troop; and by my God I will pass over a wall.

But if they will not pass over armed with you to war before the Lord, then shall ye cause to pass over their possessions and their wives and their cattle before you into the land of Chanaan, and they shall inherit with you in the land of Chanaan.

How should one pursue a thousand, and two rout tens of thousands, if God had not sold them, and the Lord delivered them up?

or in the case of a man on whomsoever the spirit of jealousy should come, and he should be jealous of his wife, and he should place his wife before the Lord, and the priest shall execute towards her all this law.

And he has delivered my soul from death, that my life may praise him in the light.

For they shall be as a turpentine tree that has cast its leaves, and as a garden that has no water.

On the fourth day Elisur the son of Sediur, the prince of the children of Ruben.

And the chief of the house of the families of the divisions of Caath, was Elisaphan the son of Oziel.

And from the half belonging to the children of Israel thou shalt take one in fifty from the men, and from the oxen, and from the sheep, and from the asses, and from all the cattle; and thou shalt give them to the Levites that keep the charges in the tabernacle of the Lord.

thou shalt take a wife, and another man shall have her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell in it; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes of it.

Go, say to them, Return ye to your houses;

And all these things shall come upon thee in the last days, and thou shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt hearken to his voice.

And Moses departed into the camp, himself and the elders of Israel.

There shall be their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings to the calves and rams and lambs according to their number, according to their ordinance.

Take the number of them from five and twenty years old and upwards until fifty years old, every one that goes in to perform the services of the tabernacle of witness.

Because the Lord thy God is a God of pity: he will not forsake thee, nor destroy thee; he will not forget the covenant of thy fathers, which the Lord sware to them.

And he said, Leave us not, because thou hast been with us in the wilderness, and thou shalt be an elder among us.

Then Phinees stood up, and made atonement: and the plague ceased.

They were not disappointed of their desire: but when their food was yet in their mouth,

I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise;

Rebuke the wild beasts of the reed: let the crowd of bulls with the heifers of the nations be rebuked, so that they who have been proved with silver may not be shut out: scatter thou the nations that wish for wars.

The mouth of the righteous will meditate wisdom, and his tongue will speak of judgment.

Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done it? who shall recompense him?

And they are glad, because they are quiet; and he guides them to their desire haven.

And my seed shall serve him: the generation that is coming shall be reported to the Lord.

As for my God, his way is perfect: the oracles of the Lord are tried in the fire; he is a protector of all them that hope in him.

He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.

And dost thou understand the band of Pleias, and hast thou opened the barrier of Orion?

For by them he will judge the nations: he will give food to him that has strength.

For there is one that says to the Mighty One, I have received blessings; I will not take a pledge:

Hearken, Job, and hear me: be silent, and I will speak.

And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind:

My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping.

Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.

thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.

I have chosen the way of truth; and have not forgotten thy judgments.

And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be to you a holy anointing oil throughout your generations.

Madebena also is amazed, and the inhabitants of Gibbir.

and has filled him with a divine spirit of wisdom and understanding, and knowledge of all things,

And the opening of the tunic in the midst woven closely together, the opening having a fringe round about, that it might not be rent.

And if the cloud went not up, they did not prepare to depart, till the day when the cloud went up.

the numbering of them of the tribe of Ephraim, was forty thousand and five hundred.

All that were numbered of the camp of Dan, were a hundred and fifty-seven thousand and six hundred: they shall set out last according to their order.

And their charge was the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and all the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they do holy service, and the veil, and all their works.

If his children should forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

for he has set at nought the word of the Lord and broken his commands: that soul shall be utterly destroyed, his sin is upon him.

And these are the charges of the things borne by them according to all their works in the tabernacle of witness: they shall bear the chapiters of the tabernacle, and the bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and the veil, and there shall be their sockets, and their pillars, and the curtain of the door of the tabernacle.

For their gods are not as our God, but our enemies are void of understanding.

Thy calf shall be slain before thee, and thou shalt not eat of it; thine ass shall be violently taken away from thee, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given to thine enemies, and thou shalt have no helper.

Thou shalt not do so to thy God; for they have sacrificed to their gods the abominations of the Lord which he hates, for they burn their sons and their daughters in fire to their gods.

For ye are passing over Jordan, to go in and inherit the land, which the Lord our God gives you to inherit always, and ye shall dwell in it.

but stand thou here with me, and I will tell thee all the commands, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, and let them do so in the land which I give them for an inheritance.

And the Lord said to me, Behold, I have begun to deliver before thee Seon the king of Esebon the Amorite, and his land, and do thou begin to inherit his land.

and in this wilderness which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; how the Lord thy God will bear thee as a nursling, as if any man should nurse his child, through all the way which ye have gone until ye came to this place.

And ye shall not accept ransoms for life from a murderer who is worthy of death, for he shall be surely put to death.

And they departed from Masuruth, and encamped in Banaea.

And the sons of Ruben and the sons of Gad answered, saying, Whatsoever the Lord says to his servants, that will we do.

Then the man shall be clear from sin, and that woman shall bear her sin.

Thou shalt send forth thy Spirit, and they shall be created; and thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; beside the perpetual whole-burnt-offering; there shall be their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings.

He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering.

These are the families of Aser according to their numbering, forty-three thousand and four hundred.

ye shall offer to me their meat-offering. They shall be to you unblemished, and ye shall offer their drink-offerings.

And God opened the eyes of Balaam, and he sees the angel of the Lord withstanding him in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand, and he stooped down and worshipped on his face.

And Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites.

And ye shall eat it in any place, ye and your families; for this is your reward for your services in the tabernacle of witness.

And when he ceased speaking all these words, the ground clave asunder beneath them.

And your little ones, who ye said should be a prey, them will I bring into the land; and they shall inherit the land, which ye rejected.

And Chaleb stayed the people from speaking before Moses, and said to him, Nay, but we will go up by all means, and will inherit it, for we shall surely prevail against them.

And their strength shall be as a thread of tow, and their works as sparks, and the transgressors and the sinners shall be burnt up together, and there shall be none to quench them.

And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails over from the sea; and it brought them down upon the camp a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on that side, round about the camp, as it were two cubits from the earth.

the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands: and my people has loved to have it thus: and what will ye do for the future.

Behold, I am against the prophets that put forth prophecies of mere words, and slumber their sleep.

but they that wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.

Therefore howl ye for Moab on all sides; cry out against the shorn men in a gloomy place. I will weep for thee,