Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And they shall put a blue cloth for a cover on the golden altar, and shall cover it with a blue skin cover, and put in its staves.

Ask for thyself a sign of the Lord thy God, in the depth or in the height.

And I said, How long, O Lord? And he said, Until cities be deserted by reason of their not being inhabited, and the houses by reason of there being no men, and the land shall be left desolate.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And the priest shall offer one for a sin-offering; and the other for a whole-burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him in the things wherein he sinned respecting the dead body, and he shall sanctify his head in that day,

And the Lord said to Moses, One chief each day, they shall offer their gifts a chief each day for the dedication of the altar.

Woe to them that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who wait at it till evening: for the wine shall inflame them.

Woe to the transgressor! evils shall happen to him according to the works of his hands.

And Aaron shall separate the Levites for a gift before the Lord from the children of Israel: and they shall be prepared to perform the works of the Lord.

in the second month, on the fourteenth day; in the evening they shall offer it, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs shall they eat it.

And I will go forth according to his commandments, for I have kept his ways; and I shall not turn aside from his commandments,

And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud went up from the tabernacle of witness.

For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

And Moses said to the Lord, Why hast thou afflicted thy servant, and why have I not found grace in thy sight, that thou shouldest lay the weight of this people upon me?

And Aaron said to Moses, I beseech thee, my lord, do not lay sin upon us, for we were ignorant wherein we sinned.

Of the tribe of Zabulon, Gudiel the son of Sudi.

And the Lord said to Moses, How long does this people provoke me? and how long do they refuse to believe me for all the signs which I have wrought among them?

Of what value to me is the abundance of your sacrifices? saith the Lord: I am full of whole-burnt-offerings of rams; and I delight not in the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and goats:

Thus shalt thou do to one calf or to one ram, or to one lamb of the sheep or kid of the goats.

Thus it is with thee and all thy congregation which is gathered together against God: and who is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?

And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded Moses, so did they.

And this shall be to you of the first-fruits of their gifts, of all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel; to thee have I given them and to thy sons and thy daughters with thee, a perpetual ordinance; every clean person in thy house shall eat them.

He that touches the dead body of any man, shall be unclean seven days.

And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his rod twice; and much water came forth, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.

And having departed from Oboth, they encamped in Achalgai, on the farther side in the wilderness, which is opposite Moab, toward the east.

Behold, a people has come forth out of Egypt, and has covered the face of the land, and it has encamped near to me; and now come, curse it for me, if indeed I shall be able to smite it, and cast it out of the land.

All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I repulsed them.

wild beasts, and all cattle; reptiles, and winged birds:

And Balac said to Balaam, What hast thou done to me? I called thee to curse my enemies, and behold thou hast greatly blessed them.

Now therefore flee to thy place: I said, I will honour thee, but now the Lord has deprived thee of glory.

Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has caused my wrath to cease from the children of Israel, when I was exceedingly jealous among them, and I did not consume the children of Israel in my jealousy.

But the sons of Core died not.

He will not take pleasure in the strength of a horse; neither is he well-pleased with the legs of a man.

Let all thy works, O Lord, give thanks to thee; and let thy saints bless thee.

And if there be no brethren of his father, ye shall give the inheritance to his nearest relation of his tribe, to inherit his possessions; and this shall be to the children of Israel an ordinance of judgment, as the Lord commanded Moses.

And at the new moons ye shall bring a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord, two calves of the herd, and one ram, seven lambs of a year old without blemish.

And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you; beside the sin-offering for atonement, and the continual whole-burnt-offering, its meat-offering, and its drink-offering according to its ordinance for a smell of sweet savour, a burnt-sacrifice to the Lord.

Even to him who gives salvation to kings: who redeems his servant David from the hurtful sword.

And if her vow be made in the house of her husband, or the obligation upon her soul with an oath,

And they took all their plunder, and all their spoils, both man and beast.

Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God; thy good Spirit shall guide me in the straight way.

Surely these men who came up out of Egypt from twenty years old and upward, who know good and evil, shall not see the land which I sware to give to Abraam and Isaac and Jacob, for they have not closely followed after me:

Coals of fire shall fall upon them on the earth; and thou shalt cast them down in afflictions: they shall not bear up under them.

And they departed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

for even there thy hand would guide me, and thy right hand would hold me.

And the border shall go down from Sepphamar to Bela eastward to the fountains, and the border shall go down from Bela behind the sea Chenereth eastward.

And ye shall appoint to yourselves cities: they shall be to you cities of refuge for the slayer to flee to, every one who has killed another unintentionally.

So Thersa, and Egla, and Melcha, and Nua, and Malaa, the daughters of Salpaad, married their cousins;

The Lord God of your fathers add to you a thousand-fold more than you are, and bless you as he has spoken to you.

These also shall be accounted Raphain like the Enakim; and the Moabites call them Ommin.

To him who smote Egypt with their first-born; for his mercy endures for ever.

For only Og the king of Basan was left of the Raphain: behold, his bed was a bed of iron; behold, it is in the chief city of the children of Ammon; the length of it is nine cubits, and the breadth of it four cubits, according to the cubit of a man.

And ye drew nigh and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire up to heaven: there was darkness, blackness, and tempest.

Who smote many nations, and slew mighty kings;

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord thy God will certainly not acquit him that takes his name in vain.

houses full of all good things which thou didst not fill, wells dug in the rock which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards which thou didst not plant, then having eaten and been filled,

Thou shalt keep therefore the commands, and the ordinances, and these judgments, which I command thee this day to do.

Take heed to thyself that thou forget not the Lord thy God, so as not to keep his commands, and his judgments, and ordinances, which I command thee this day:

And it came to pass after forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.

And the Lord said to me, Go, set out before this people, and let them go in and inherit the land, which I sware to their fathers to give to them.

but the land into which thou goest to inherit it, is a land of mountains and plains; it shall drink water of the rain of heaven.

For the sake of thy servant David turn not away the face of thine anointed.

And there shall be a place which the Lord thy God shall choose for his name to be called there, thither shall ye bring all things that I order you to-day; your whole-burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the first-fruits of your hands, and every choice gift of yours, whatsoever ye shall vow to the Lord your God.

And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not again do according to this evil thing among you.

Ye shall eat every clean bird.

For the poor shall not fail off thy land, therefore I charge thee to do this thing, saying, Thou shalt surely open thine hands to thy poor brother, and to him that is distressed upon thy land.

And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow which dwells among you, in whatsoever place the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name should be called there.

They have unrighteously laid wait in narrow places, and have not known the righteous way.

Thou shalt do according to the law and to the judgment which they shall declare to thee: thou shalt not swerve to the right hand or to the left from any sentence which they shall report to thee.

a sorcerer employing incantation, one who has in him a divining spirit, and observer of signs, questioning the dead.

But if there should be in thee a man hating his neighbour, and he should lay wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him, that he die, and he should flee to one of these cities,

If then they should answer peaceably to thee, and open to thee, it shall be that all the people found in it shall be tributary and subject to thee.

and shouldest see among the spoil a woman beautiful in countenance, and shouldest desire her, and take her to thyself for a wife,

Thou shalt not wear a mingled garment, woollen and linen together.

Thou hast turned us back before our enemies; and they that hated us spoiled for themselves.

And it shall come to pass toward evening he shall wash his body with water, and when the sun has gone down, he shall go into the camp.

Remember all that the Lord thy God did to Mariam in the way, when ye were going out of Egypt.

And if men should strive together, a man with his brother, and the wife of one of them should advance to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and she should stretch forth her hand, and take hold of his private parts;

and thou shalt rejoice in all the good things, which the Lord thy God has given thee, thou and thy family, and the Levite, and the stranger that is within thee.

And Moses charged the people on that day, saying,

And the Lord thy God shall multiply thee for good in the offspring of thy body, and in the offspring of thy cattle, and in the fruits of thy land, on thy land which the Lord sware to thy fathers to give to thee.

your wives, and your children, and the stranger who is in the midst of your camp, from your hewer of wood even to your drawer of water,

For this command which I give thee this day is not grievous, neither is it far from thee.

when all Israel come together to appear before the Lord your God, in the place which the Lord shall choose, ye shall read this law before all Israel in their ears,

Bless, Lord, his strength, and accept the works of his hands; break the loins of his enemies that have risen up against him, and let not them that hate him rise up.

in all the signs and wonders, which the Lord sent him to work in Egypt on Pharao, and his servants, and all his land;

But put forth thine hand, and touch all that he has: verily he will bless thee to thy face.

Now his three friends having heard of all the evil that was come upon him, came to him each from his own country: Eliphaz the king of the Thaemans, Baldad sovereign of the Saucheans, Sophar king of he Minaeans: and they came to him with one accord, to comfort and to visit him.

For why died I not in the belly? and why did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately?

The old lion has perished for want of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another.

who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:

For what is my strength, that I continue? what is my time, that my soul endures?

Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.

Does the rush flourish without water, or shall the flag grow up without moisture?

If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him: if he should pass by me, neither thus have I known it.

And thou didst clothe me with skin and flesh, and frame me with bones and sinews.

For he knows the works of transgressors; and when he sees wickedness, he will not overlook it.

For the ear tries words, and the palate tastes meats.

shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, and terror from him fall upon you?