Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And he guided them into a straight path, that they might go to a city of habitation.

and he shall take away from Juda every man who shall be able to lift up his head, and every one able to accomplish anything; and his camp shall fill the breadth of thy land, O God with us.

He shall eat an allotted portion, besides the sale of his hereditary property.

Let the sea be moved, and the fullness of it; the world, and they that dwell in it.

Of the tribe of Issachar, Ilaal the son of Joseph.

Let all that worship graven images be ashamed, who boast of their idols; worship him, all ye his angels.

When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity have watched; it is that they may be utterly destroyed for ever.

thou shalt not consent to him, neither shalt thou hearken to him; and thine eye shall not spare him, thou shalt feel no regret for him, neither shalt thou at all protect him:

Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, say they, has heard?

For thou hast been my helper, and in the shelter of thy wings will I rejoice.

And I shut up the sea with gates, when it rushed out, coming forth out its mother's womb.

I will bless the Lord who has instructed me; my reins too have chastened me even till night.

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to thy name, O Lord; the righteous shall wait for me, until thou recompense me.

And when Aaron lights the lamps in the evening, he shall burn incense upon it; a constant incense-offering always before the Lord for their generations.

Hear me speedily, O Lord; my spirit has failed; turn not away thy face from me, else I shall be like to them that go down to the pit.

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, instructing babes.

But let him that curses that day curse it, even he that is ready to attack the great whale.

And whatever daughter is heiress to a property of the tribes of the children Israel, such women shall be married each to one of her father's tribe, that the sons of Israel may each inherit the property of his father's tribe.

Our fathers in Egypt understood not thy wonders, and remembered not the multitude of thy mercy; but provoked him as they went up by the Red Sea.

For oh that he would grant my desire, and my petition might come, and the Lord would grant my hope!

They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.

and they made of it the bases of the door of the tabernacle of witness,

And they shall keep all the furniture of the tabernacle of witness, and the charges of the children of Israel as to all the works of the tabernacle.

O Lord, in thy good pleasure thou didst add strength to my beauty: but thou didst turn away thy face, and I was troubled.

If the Lord choose us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey.

And if the Lord shall enlarge thy borders, as he sware to thy fathers, and the Lord shall give to thee all the land which he said he would give to thy fathers;

And ye shall keep all his commandments, as many as I command thee to-day, that ye may live, and be multiplied, and that ye may go in and inherit the land, into which ye go across Jordan to inherit it:

My heart, O God, is ready, my heart is ready: I will sing, yea will sing psalms.

But if a man have no near kinsman, so as to make satisfaction for his trespass to him, the trespass-offering paid to the Lord shall be for the priest, besides the ram of atonement, by which he shall make atonement with it for him.

The proud doer dwelt not in the midst of my house; the unjust speaker prospered not in my sight.

Thou hast put gladness into my heart: they have been satisfied with the fruit of their corn and wine and oil.

And the wild beasts come in under the covert, and rest in their lair.

Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground.

Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause.

And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go to this people? And I said, behold, I am here, send me. And he said, Go, and say to this people,

Of Issachar, Nathanael the son of Sogar.

For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

Thou wilt on no account save them; thou wilt bring down the people in wrath.

And they slew the kings of Madian together with their slain subjects; even Evi and Rocon, and Sur, and Ur, and Roboc, five kings of Madian; and they slew with the sword Balaam the son of Beor with their other slain.

Lo! I have fled afar off, and lodged in the wilderness. Pause.

The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.

And to Levi he said, Give to Levi his manifestations, and his truth to the holy man, whom they tempted in the temptation; they reviled him at the water of strife.

Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness: they have fulfilled their intention.

Send forth thine hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children;

I will exult and be glad in thy mercy: for thou hast looked upon mine affliction; thou hast saved my soul from distresses.

All that saw me mocked me: they spoke with their lips, they shook the head, saying,

Thou didst call upon me in trouble, and I delivered thee; I heard thee in the secret place of the storm: I proved thee at the water of Strife. Pause.

And the scribes shall speak further to the people, and say, What man is he that fears and is cowardly in his heart? Let him go and return to his house, lest he make the heart of his brother fail, as his own.

And they said, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob understand.

The daughter of Sion shall be deserted as a tent in a vineyard, and as a storehouse of fruits in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock;

And if ye sacrifice a bullock from the herd for a whole-burnt-offering or for a sacrifice, to perform a vow or a peace-offering to the Lord,

He shall not be afraid of any evil report: his heart is ready to trust in the Lord.

Mine eye is troubled because of my wrath; I am worn out because of all my enemies.

Who will bring the salvation of Israel out of Sion? when the Lord brings back the captivity of his people, let Jacob exult, and Israel be glad.

I am become as it were a wonder to many: but thou art my strong helper.

His forces that were numbered, were fifty-seven thousand and four hundred.

And as for the swine, because he divides the hoof, and makes claws of the hoof, yet he chews not the cud, he is unclean to you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, ye shall not touch their dead bodies.

But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty.

But I drew his own sword, and beheaded him, and removed reproach from the children of Israel.

For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of our fathers:

Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to its foundations.

And Moses said to Core, Hearken to me, ye sons of Levi.

Also in Choreb ye provoked the Lord, and the Lord was angry with you to destroy you;

and her husband should hear, and hold his peace at her in the day in which he should hear, then thus shall all her vows be binding, and her obligations, which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand.

To him who alone made great lights; for his mercy endures for ever.

Ye shall not do altogether as we do here to-day, every man that which is pleasing in his own sight.

They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and cannot be separated.

Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, O Lord, that innocent blood may not be charged on thy people Israel: and the blood shall be atoned for to them.

And thou shalt return and hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and shall keep his commands, all that I charge thee this day.

And the Lord that goes with thee shall not forsake thee nor abandon thee; fear not, neither be afraid.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Thou art my refuge from the affliction that encompasses me; my joy, to deliver me from them that have compassed me. Pause.

Who brings up clouds from the extremity of the earth: he has made lightnings for the rain: he brings winds out of his treasures.

Behold the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity.

And they shall take one calf of the herd, and its meat-offering, fine flour mingled with oil: and thou shalt take a calf of a year old of the herd for a sin-offering.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid his place waste.

Let his days be few: and let another take his office of overseer.

And Joshua the son of Naue was filled with the spirit of knowledge, for Moses had laid his hands upon him; and the children of Israel hearkened to him; and they did as the Lord commanded Moses.

For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which cannot be escaped, a day of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.

And the Lord thy God shall bless thee in every work of thine hands, in the offspring of thy body, and in the offspring of thy cattle, and in the fruits of thy land, because the Lord thy God will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

And the Lord said to me, Do not ye quarrel with the Moabites, and do not engage in war with them; for I will not give you of their land for an inheritance, for I have given Aroer to the children of Lot to inherit.

Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the ends of the earth for thy possession.

They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.

Remember not our old transgressions; let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us; for we are greatly impoverished.

Understand now, ye simple among the people; and ye fools, at length be wise.

Or longer than the measure of the earth, or the breadth of the sea.

The ordinances of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is bright, enlightening the eyes.

For hitherto ye have not arrived at the rest and the inheritance, which the Lord our God gives you.

And if ye shall go forth to war in your land against your enemies that are opposed to you, then shall ye sound with the trumpets; and ye shall be had in remembrance before the Lord, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

They are overthrown and fallen: but we are risen, and have been set upright.

Let thy hand be found by all thine enemies: let thy right hand find all that hate thee.

So Eliphaz the Thaemanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of 18.

Arise, O Lord, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thine holiness.

And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I shall not be able by myself to bear you.

Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.

He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generation:

Ye shall hear indeed, but ye shall not understand; and ye shall see indeed, but ye shall not perceive.