Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And westward, four thousand and five hundred by measure: and three gates; the gate of Gad, one, and the gate of Asser, one, and the gate of Nephthalim, one.

LAMED. To bring down under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

From the cry of Esebon even to Aetam their cities uttered their voice, from Zogor to Oronaim, and their tidings as a heifer of three years old, for the water also of Nebrin shall be dried up.

say thou to him, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I pull down those whom I have built up, and I pluck up those whom I have planted.

And they set their pollutions in the house, on which my name was called, by their uncleannesses.

As for the prophet, and the priests, and the people, who shall say, The burden of the Lord, I will even take vengeance on that man, and on his house.

And I will destroy out of the cities of Juda, and the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of them that make merry, and the voice of them that rejoice, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for the whole land shall become a desolation.

And there has happened in thee perverseness in thy fornication beyond other women, and they have committed fornication with thee, in that thou givest hires over and above, and hires were not given to thee; and thus perverseness happened in thee.

But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name: he will enter into judgment with his adversaries, that he may destroy the earth;

But by the way by which he came, by it shall he return, and shall not enter into this city: thus saith the Lord.

I will bring you out from the nations, and will take you out of the lands wherein ye were dispersed, with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath.

Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and lament, ye rams of the flock: for your days have been completed for slaughter, and ye shall fall as the choice rams.

And they shall not at all teach every one his fellow citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them: for I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.

And there were porches opening into the inner court, and palm-trees on the posts on this side and on that side: and it had eight steps.

and in thine hands has been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak.

He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.

THE PROPHECIES OF JEREMIAS AGAINST THE NATIONS OF AeLAM.

And his appointed portion was given him continually by the king of Babylon from day to day, until the day when he died.

Now art thou broken in the sea, thy traders are in the deep water, and all thy company in the midst of thee: all thy rowers have fallen.

a golden bell and a pomegranate on the border of the tunic round about, for the ministration, as the Lord commanded Moses.

And ye shall not defile the land whereon ye dwell, on which I dwell in the midst of you; for I am the Lord dwelling in the midst of the children of Israel.

And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and being greatly provoked he sware, saying,

Because the wise in heart shall say this, and a wise man listens to my word.

And they placed him in custody, for they did not determine what they should do to him.

And we took possession of all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed every city in succession, and their wives, and their children; we left no living prey.

Teach me, O Lord, the way of thine ordinances, and I will seek it out continually.

According to the number of the days during which ye spied the land, forty days, a day for a year, ye shall bear your sins forty years, and ye shall know my fierce anger.

And thou shalt be distracted, because of the sights of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

(for I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them:) and if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom:

And the name of that place was called the Graves of Lust; for there they buried the people that lusted.

And God gave improvement in understanding both to him, and to Eliab the son of Achisamach of the tribe of 27.

And all Israel round about them fled from the sound of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years with anxiety.

For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.

Sing to God that rides on the heaven of heaven, eastward: lo, he will utter a mighty sound with his voice.

And the Lord said to Moses, Fear him not; for I have delivered him and all his people, and all his land, into thy hands; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Seon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Esebon.

But the Lord will not leave him in his hands, nor by any means condemn him when he is judged.

And Moses and Aaron and the rulers of Israel took the number of the sons of Caath according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage;

And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have sinned, for I did not know that thou wert standing opposite in the way to meet me; and now if it shall not be pleasing to thee for me to go on, I will return.

and the lofty ones shall fall by the sword, and the Libanus shall fall with his lofty ones.

And the cloud overshadowed them by day, when they departed from the camp.

And these are the sons of Galaad; to Achiezer, the family of the Achiezerites; to Cheleg, the family of the Chelegites.

and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering.

I will sing to the Lord while I live; I will sing praise to my God while I exist.

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

and asses, sixty-one thousand.

who strengthens my feet as hart's feet, and sets me upon high places.

And the Lord said to Moses, Take for thyself sweet herbs, stacte, onycha, sweet galbanum, and transparent frankincense; there shall be an equal weight of each.

For the sons of Benjamin according to their kindreds, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes forth with the host,

And the sons of Gad built Daebon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

And the children of Israel did all things that the Lord commanded Moses; thus they encamped in their order, and thus they began their march in succession each according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families.

The mustering of them according to number, every male from a month old and upwards, was six thousand and fifty.

How then do ye comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.

And they departed from Etebatha, and encamped in Ebrona.

Let him remove his rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

if God has assayed to go and take to himself a nation out of the midst of another nation with trial, and with signs, and with wonders, and with war, and with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great sights, according to all the things which the Lord our God did in Egypt in thy sight.

Lo! are not these things stored up by me, and sealed among my treasures?

And wilt thou call a cloud with thy voice, and will it obey thee with a violent shower of much rain?

And it came to pass when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Arise, O Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered: let all that hate thee flee.

And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.

(Oh that I had a hearer,) and if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; and as to the written charge which I had against any one,

In the day of vengeance I will recompense, whensoever their foot shall be tripped up; for the day of their destruction is near to them, and the judgments at hand are close upon you.

So that thou shouldest know that the Lord thy God he is God, and there is none beside him.

Only we took the cattle captive, and took the spoil of the cities.

But Job has not spoken with understanding, his words are not uttered with knowledge.

Not one of these men shall see this good land, which I sware to their fathers,

And the head of the house of the families of the division of Merari, was Suriel the son of Abichail: they shall encamp by the side of the tabernacle northwards.

And they made vestments of fine linen, a woven work, for Aaron and his sons,

And wilt thou send lightnings, and they shall go? and shall they say to thee, What is thy pleasure?

And they departed from Ebrona, and encamped in Gesion Gaber.

and Sophar, and Jazer, and they set them up,

He instructs my hands for war: and thou hast made my arms as a brazen bow.

And persons of women who had not known lying with man, all the souls, thirty-two thousand.

the numbering of them of the tribe of Benjamin, was thirty-five thousand and four hundred.

And on the eighth day there shall be to you a release: ye shall do no servile work in it.

And they shall make with it perfumed incense, tempered with the art of a perfumer, a pure holy work.

And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this was the gift of Elisur the son of Sediur.

To Esriel, the family of the Esrielites; to Sychem, the family of the Sychemites.

And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, Go with the men: nevertheless the word which I shall speak to thee, that thou shalt take heed to speak. And Balaam went with the princes of Balac.

Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are destroyed, thou shalt see it.

The people departed from the Graves of Lust to Aseroth; and the people halted at Aseroth.

When he slew them, they sought him: and they returned and called betimes upon God.

And fire went forth from the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

And God filled them with wisdom, understanding and perception, to understand to work all the works of the sanctuary, and to weave the woven and embroidered work with scarlet and fine linen, to do all work of curious workmanship and embroidery.

The Lord smite thee with an evil sore, on the knees and the legs, so that thou shalt not be able to be healed from the sole of thy foot to the crown of thy head.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Let the man be by all means put to death: do ye all the congregation, stone him with stones.

Instruct me, and I will search out thy law, and will keep it with my whole heart.

I the Lord have spoken, Surely will I do thus to this evil congregation that has risen up together against me: in this wilderness they shall be utterly consumed, and there they shall die.

so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious of guilt.

from five and twenty years old and upwards to the age of fifty years, every one that goes in to minister and do service in the tabernacle of witness.

Therefore thus saith the Lord; Because thou has forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore receive thou the reward of thine ungodliness and thy fornication.

And they built to Baal the altars that are in the valley of the son of Ennom, to offer their sons and their daughters to king Moloch; which things I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Juda to sin.

and he will sharpen a sword against the Chaldeans, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles and upon her wise men;

And I will destroy Moab, saith the Lord, as he comes up to the altar, and burns incense to his gods.

Yet thou saidst, I am innocent: only let his wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, whereas thou sayest, I have not sinned.