Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

thou shalt surely report concerning him, and thy hands shall be upon him among the first to slay him, and the hands of all the people at the last.

And the inheritance shall not go about from one tribe to another, but the children of Israel shall steadfastly continue each in his own inheritance.

Wretched daughter of Babylon! blessed shall he be who shall reward thee as thou hast rewarded us.

And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long wilt thou hold out, saying, Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? for, behold, thy memorial is abolished from the earth, even thy sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; and thou thyself sittest down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labours and my pangs which now beset me: but say some word against the Lord, and die.

He hoped in the Lord: let him deliver him, let him save him, because he takes pleasure in him.

And these ye shall eat of all that are in the water, ye shall eat all that have fins and scales.

And thou shalt not offer strange incense upon it, nor and offering made by fire, nor a sacrifice; and thou shalt not pour a drink-offering upon it.

At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are as the appearance of the morning star.

Galaad is mine; and Manasses is mine; and Ephraim is the help of mine head; Judas is my king;

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Then will I confess that thy right hand can save thee.

I will keep thine ordinances: O forsake me not greatly.

Let the Lord begin and wound me, but let him not utterly destroy me.

Who is this king of Glory? the Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.

And the border shall go out to Dephrona, and its termination shall be at Arsenain; this shall be your border from the north.

The nations shall be troubled, and they that inhabit the ends of the earth shall be afraid of thy signs; thou wilt cause the outgoings of morning and evening to rejoice.

Take heed to thyself that there be not a secret thing in thine heart, an iniquity, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, draws nigh; and thine eye shall be evil to thy brother that is in want, and thou shalt not give to him, and he shall cry against thee to the Lord, and there shall be great sin in thee.

If I should go up to heaven, thou art there: if I should go down to hell, thou art present.

Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he instruct sinners in the way.

Deliver me not, O Lord, to the sinner, according to my desire: they have devised mischief against me; forsake me not, lest they should be exalted. Pause.

O Lord, I have loved the beauty of thy house, and the place of the tabernacle of thy glory.

My heart said to thee, I have diligently sought thy face: thy face, O Lord, I will seek.

Seven weeks shalt thou number to thyself; when thou hast begun to put the sickle to the corn, thou shalt begin to number seven weeks.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or to lie down at thy manger?

And they departed from Picriae, and came to Aelim; and in Aelim were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm-trees, and they encamped there by the water.

And he made the ephod of gold, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined.

The eye has looked upon him, but shall not see him again; and his place shall no longer perceive him.

For mine eyes are to thee, O Lord God: I have hoped in thee; take not away my life.

My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.

then thou shalt arise and go up to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou shalt come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and they shall search out the matter and report the judgment to thee.

Sion heard and rejoiced; and the daughters of Judea exulted, because of thy judgments, O Lord.

The Lord is the strength of his people, and the saving defender of his anointed.

established for ever and ever, done in truth and uprightness.

Bless our God, ye Gentiles, and make the voice of his praise to be heard;

But thou, O Lord, art most high for ever.

And they went up to the valley of the cluster, and spied the land, and turned aside the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land, which the Lord gave them.

And when thou shalt have entered into the land which the Lord thy God gives thee, thou shalt not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.

A voice of the Lord who shakes the wilderness; the Lord will shake the wilderness of Cades.

And I made a cloud its clothing, and swathed it in mist.

There is none like to thee, O Lord, among the god; and there are no works like to thy works.

Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for I have hoped in thee; make known to me, O Lord, the way wherein I should walk; for I have lifted up my soul to thee.

Who then has not known in all these things, that the hand of the Lord has made them?

Let the stars of that night be darkened; let it remain dark, and not come into light; and let it not see the morning star arise:

if thou shalt hearken to do all these commands, which I charge thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways continually; thou shalt add for thyself yet three cities to these three.

Troubles come on out of the secret chambers, and cold from the mountain-tops.

To thee, O Lord, will I cry; and to my God will I make supplication.

And every first-fruits in all the sanctified things among the children of Israel, whatsoever they shall offer to the Lord, shall be for the priest himself.

Who says to his father and mother, I have not seen thee; and he knew not his brethren, and he refused to know his sons: he kept thine oracles, and observed thy covenant.

And they made a prey of the women of Madian, and their store, and their cattle, and all their possessions: and they spoiled their forces.

And they shall not hurt, nor shall they at all be able to destroy any one on my holy mountain: for the whole world is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as much water covers the seas.

And thou hast not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a wide place.

And it shall come to pass when the scribes shall have ceased speaking to the people, that they shall appoint generals of the army to be leaders of the people.

His heart is established, he shall not fear, till he shall see his desire upon his enemies.

(for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:)

And he shall recount to them their works, and their transgressions, for such will act with violence.

The rivers shall clap their hands together; the mountains shall exult.

But if her husband should straitly forbid her in the day in which he should hear her, none of her vows or obligations which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand, because her husband has disallowed her, and the Lord shall hold her guiltless.

Only with thine eyes shalt thou observe and see the reward of sinners.

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of witness; and thou shalt assemble all the congregation of the sons of Israel.

whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.

And thou shalt take away innocent blood from among you, if thou shouldest do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord thy God.

I will instruct thee and guide thee in this way wherein thou shalt go: I will fix mine eyes upon thee.

They that are oppressed of a multitude will be ready to cry out; they will call for help because of the arm of many.

Let all the earth fear the Lord; and let all that dwell in the world be moved because of him.

Their meat-offering shall be fine flour mingled with oil; three tenth deals for one calf, and two tenth deals for one ram.

Taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man who hopes in him.

And thou shalt anoint the altar of burnt-offerings, and all its furniture; and thou shalt hallow the altar, and the altar shall be most holy.

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seed, lest the fruit be devoted, and whatsoever seed thou mayest sow, with the fruit of thy vineyard.

And on the sabbath-day ye shall offer two lambs of a year old without blemish, and two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat-offering, and a drink-offering.

Let a snare which they know not come upon them; and the gin which they hid take them; and let them fall into the very same snare.

In God will we make our boast all the day, and to thy name will we give thanks for ever. Pause.

And if he have no daughter, ye shall give his inheritance to his brother.

Thou hast set our transgressions before thee: our age is in the light of thy countenance.

The Lord is compassionate, and merciful; long suffering, and abundant in mercy.

For thou shouldest not say, There shall be no visitation of a man, whereas there is a visitation on him from the Lord.

the Lord gives wisdom to the blind: The Lord sets up the broken down: the Lord loves the righteous: the Lord preserves the strangers;

who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who causes grass to spring up on the mountains, [and green herb for the service of men;]

And if thou shouldest go forth to engage with thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every wicked thing.

But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage.

They shall be fully satisfied with the fatness of thine house; and thou shalt cause them to drink of the full stream of thy delights.

ease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself so as to do evil.

who turned the rock into pools of water, and the flint into fountains of water.

I am blameless, for I have not transgressed.

And his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of his inheritance.

They have said in their heart, even all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth.

and the sons of Eliab, Namuel, and Dathan, and Abiron: these are renowned men of the congregation; these are they that rose up against Moses and Aaron in the gathering of Core, in the rebellion against the Lord.

Wherefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.

And if a man should be caught stealing one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and having overcome him he should sell him, that thief shall die; so shalt thou remove that evil one from yourselves.

And those that died in the plague were four and twenty thousand.

I have been afflicted and brought down exceedingly: I have roared for the groaning of my heart.

The long-lived are not wise as such; neither do the aged know judgment.

Deliver me from all my transgressions: thou hast made me a reproach to the foolish.

Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may hymn thy glory, and thy majesty all the day.

then his brother's wife shall come forward before the elders, and shall loose one shoe from off his foot, and shall spit in his face, and shall answer and say, Thus shall they do to the man who will not build his brother's house in Israel.

He lay down, he rested as a lion, and as a young lion; who shall stir him up? they that bless thee are blessed, and they that curse thee are cursed.

and on the north side a hundred every way, and on the south side a hundred every way, and their posts twenty and their sockets twenty.