Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And all the male first-born in number by name, from a month old and upwards, were according to their numbering twenty-two thousand and two hundred and seventy-three.

from five and twenty years old and upward till fifty years old, every one that goes in to minister in the services of the tabernacle of witness.

And I spoke to you, and ye did not hearken to me; and ye transgressed the commandment of the Lord; and ye forced your way and went up into the mountain.

For Amalec and the Chananite are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; because ye have disobeyed the Lord and turned aside, and the Lord will not be among you.

Bosor in the wilderness, in the plain country of Ruben, and Ramoth in Galaad belonging to Gad, and Gaulon in Basan belonging to Manasse.

They remembered not his hand, the day in which he delivered them from the hand of the oppressor.

To Sophan, the family of the Sophanites.

And ye shall there remember your ways, and your devices wherewith ye defiled yourselves; and ye shall bewail yourselves for all your wickedness.

Because thou didst not remember thine infancy, and thou didst grieve me in all these things; therefore, behold, I have recompensed thy ways upon thine head, saith the Lord: for thus hast thou wrought ungodliness above all thine other iniquities.

And they shall have within a border of hewn stone round about of a span broad, and over the tables above screens for covering them from the wet and from the heat.

Therefore I said, Do they not commit adultery with these? and has she also gone a-whoring after the manner of a harlot?

The king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his hands were enfeebled: anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in travail.

And there shall yet be fields bought in the land, of which thou sayest, it shall be destitute of man and beast; and they are delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.

A snare, and fear, and the pit, are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab.

Her cities are become like a dry and trackless land; not so much as one man shall dwell in it, neither shall a son of man lodge in it.

SAMECH. Thou has visited us in wrath, and driven us away: thou has slain, thou has not pitied.

And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have done thus to you, that my name may not be profaned in your evil ways, and in your corrupt devices, saith the Lord.

And they went in to her, as men go in to a harlot; so they went in to Oola and to Ooliba to work iniquity.

Behold, he shall come up as a lion from Jordan to Gaethan; for I will speedily drive them from her, and I will set all the youths against her: for who is like me? and who will resist me? and who is this shepherd who will stand before me?

And they shall buy fields for money, and thou shalt write a book, and seal it, and shalt take the testimony of witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda, and in the cities of the mountain, and in the cities of the plain, and in the cities of the south: for I will turn their captivity.

He that flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he that comes up out of the pit shall even be taken in the snare: for I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their visitation.

And he brought me into the inner court, and behold there were two chambers in the inner court, one behind the gate looking to the north, turning southward, and one behind the southern gate, but which looks to the north.

These are all the things they have spoken against thee in a proverb, saying,

And I will take vengeance on Babylon, and bring forth out of her mouth what she has swallowed down, and the nations shall no more be gathered to her:

Thou hast veiled thyself with a cloud because of prayer, that I might be blind,

He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanes:

And the numbering of them according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage, was three thousand and two hundred.

And they departed from Oboth, and encamped in Gai, on the other side Jordan on the borders of Moab.

And Moses wrote this song in that day, and taught it to the children of Israel; and Moses went in and spoke all the words of this law in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Naue.

And the oxen, thirty-six thousand;

This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.

Deliver me from the gain sayings of the people: thou shalt make me head of the Gentiles: a people whom I knew not served me,

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

One golden censer of ten shekels, full of incense.

And the sons of Bale were Adar and Noeman; to Adar, the family of the Adarites; and to Noeman, the family of the Noemanites.

This is the numbering which Moses and Aaron and the rulers of Israel, being twelve men, conducted: there was a man for each tribe, they were according to the tribe of the houses of their family.

And having forced their passage, they went up to the top of the mountain; but the ark of the covenant of the Lord and Moses stirred not out of the camp.

And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.

And the Amorite who dwelt in that mountain came out to meet you, and pursued you as bees do, and wounded you from Seir to Herma.

asses, thirty thousand and five hundred;

Take the Levites instead of all the first-born of the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle, and the Levites shall be mine; I am the Lord.

These are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt:

So shall I keep thy law continually, for ever and ever.

at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: the strange children lied to me.

And ye sat down and wept before the Lord our God, and the Lord hearkened not to your voice, neither did he take heed to you.

This is the numbering of the family of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.

And Amalec and the Chananite that dwelt in that mountain came down, and routed them, and destroyed them unto Herman; and they returned to the camp.

One calf of the herd, one ram, one he-lamb of a year old for a whole-burnt-offering,

And they departed from Gai, and encamped in Daebon Gad.

These are the sons of Benjamin by their families according to their numbering, thirty-five thousand and five hundred.

And Moses finished speaking to all Israel.

And the whole numbering of the children of Israel with their host from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes out to set himself in battle array in Israel, came to

And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and shall overtake thee, until he shall have consumed thee, and until he shall have destroyed thee; because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commands, and his ordinances which he has commanded thee.

and had changed their rivers into blood; and their streams, that they should not drink.

and be cast off. AIN. Thou hast set us alone in the midst of the nations.

Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he has taken against Babylon; and his devices, which he has devised upon the Chaldeans inhabiting it: surely lambs of their flock shall be destroyed: surely pasture shall be cut off from them.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

As is the mother, so is thy mother's daughter: thou art she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of thy sisters have rejected their husbands and their children: your mother was a Chettite, and your father an Amorite.

And he said to me, This chamber that looks to the south, is for the priests that keep the charge of the house.

And they are just men, and shall take vengeance on them with the judgment of an adulteress and the judgment of blood: for they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

Thus saith the Lord God, Bring up a multitude upon them, and send trouble and plunder into the midst of them.

For at the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth shall quake, and a cry shall be heard among the nations.

Your elder sister who dwells on thy left hand is Samaria, she and her daughters: and thy younger sister, that dwells on the right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

And the chamber that looks to the north is for the priests that keep the charge of the altar: they are the sons of Sadduc, those of the tribe of Levi who draw near to the Lord to serve him.

Son of man, set thy face against Thaeman, and look toward Darom, and prophesy against the chief forest of Nageb,

All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.

six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

And the sons of Dan according to their families; to Same, the family of the Sameites; these are the families of Dan according to their families.

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

on the other side of Jordan, in the valley near the house of Phogor, in the land of Seon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Esebon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel smote when they came out of the land of Egypt.

And these things shall be signs in thee, and wonders among thy seed for ever;

The strange children waxed old, and fell away from their paths through lameness.

He sent against them the dog-fly, and it devoured them; and the frog, and it spoiled them.

And for the ransoms of the two hundred and seventy-three which exceed the Levites in number of the first-born of the sons of Israel;

And ye dwelt in Cades many days, as many days as ye dwelt there.

I walked also at large: for I sought out thy commandments.

and persons, sixteen thousand.

And he said to them, Take heed with your heart to all these words, which I testify to you this day, which ye shall command your sons, to observe and do all the words of this law.

And they departed from Daebon Gad, and encamped in Gelmon Deblathaim.

All that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron and the rulers of Israel numbered, namely, the Levites, according to their families and according to the houses of their lineage,

The Lord lives; and blessed be my God; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

thou shalt even take five shekels a head; thou shalt take them according to the holy didrachm, twenty oboli to the shekel.

For this is no vain word to you; for it is your life, and because of this word ye shall live long upon the land, into which ye go over Jordan to inherit it.

All the families of Samei according to their numbering, sixty-four thousand and four hundred.

because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with gladness and a good heart, because of the abundance of all things.

And they inherited his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan eastward.