Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

My friends and my neighbours drew near before me, and stood still; and my nearest of kin stood afar off.

Thus do thou say to him, Behold, I give him a covenant of peace:

They made it of the same material according to the making of it, of gold, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined, as the Lord commanded Moses;

It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.

If thy neighbour owe thee a debt, any debt whatsoever, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge:

And it shall come to pass when ye shall have heard these ordinances, and shall have kept and done them, that the Lord thy God shall keep for thee the covenant and the mercy, which he sware to your fathers.

But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

For how sayest thou, I am righteous, yet he has not hearkened to me? for he that is above mortals is eternal.

And the Lord said to me, Arise, go down quickly from hence, for thy people whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt have transgressed; they have gone aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them, and have made themselves a molten image.

And the sons of Symeon:the family of the sons of Symeon: to Namuel, belonged the family of the Namuelites; to Jamin the family of the Jaminites; to Jachin the family of the Jachinites.

They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy dominion;

And the Lord said to Moses, Go up to the mountain that is in the country beyond Jordan, this mount Nabau, and behold the land Chanaan, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession.

Then the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I give into thine hand all that he has, but touch not himself. So the devil went out from the presence of the Lord.

Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I new not.

the great wonders, and the mighty hand which Moses displayed before all Israel.

Come, ye children, hear me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Three tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil for one calf, and two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil for one ram.

And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, more than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures.

And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord seven days.

And mine eye has seen mine enemies, and mine ear shall hear the wicked that rise up against me.

For every first-born is mine; in the day in which I smote every first-born in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to myself every first-born in Israel: both of man and beast, they shall be mine: I am the Lord.

to make known to the sons of men thy power, and the glorious majesty of thy kingdom.

Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.

They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me.

Restore to me the joy of thy salvation: establish me with thy directing Spirit.

They rewarded me evil for good, and bereavement to my soul.

So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts: they will go on in their own ways.

And thou shalt see it, and thou also shalt be added to thy people, as Aaron thy brother was added to them in mount Or:

Every one that touches the tabernacle of the Lord, dies: shall we die utterly?

And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

What man is there that desires life, loving to see good days?

to keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and his ordinances, all that I charge thee to-day, that it may be well with thee?

His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is as cast iron.

A tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for each lamb, as a meat-offering, a sweet-smelling savour, a burnt-offering to the Lord.

And their sons who have not known shall hear, and shall learn to fear the Lord thy God all the days that they live upon the land, into which ye go over Jordan to inherit it.

Thou hast sold thy people without price, and there was no profit by their exchange.

Repay to our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached thee, O Lord.

So their heart was brought low with troubles; they were weak, and there was no helper.

Thou hast created the north and the west: Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.

and thou shalt have a trowel on thy girdle; and it shall come to pass when thou wouldest relieve thyself abroad, that thou shalt dig with it, and shalt bring back the earth and cover thy nuisance.

If I should be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness of it.

The king of the forces of the beloved, of the beloved, will even grant them for the beauty of the house to divide the spoils.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

But thou didst help me because of mine innocence, and hast established me before thee for ever.

And ye shall bring near whole-burnt-offerings, a sacrifice for a smell of sweet savour to the Lord, on the first day thirteen calves of the herd, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old; they shall be without blemish.

With him are wisdom and power, with him counsel and understanding.

But as when terror falls upon men, with dread and a sound in the night,

And who is he that made the whole world under heaven, and all things therein?

Then they believed his words, and celebrated his praise.

Neither is it beyond the sea, saying, Who will go over for us to the other side of the sea, and take it for us, and make it audible to us, and we will do it?

The sinner will watch for the righteous, and gnash his teeth upon him.

My paths are ruined; for they have stripped off my raiment: he has shot at me with his weapons.

Sanctify ye the Lord himself; and he shall be thy fear.

whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the similitude of a temple.

Of Aser, Phagaiel the son of Echran.

And the barriers of heaven fear him, and by a command he has slain the apostate dragon.

But if her husband should utterly cancel the vow in the day in which he shall hear it, none of the things which shall proceed out of her lips in her vows, and in the obligations contracted upon her soul, shall stand to her; her husband has cancelled them, and the Lord shall hold her guiltless.

and thy oxen and thy sheep are multiplied to thee, and thy silver and thy gold are multiplied to thee, and all thy possessions are multiplied to thee,

I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.

But now the Lord will stand up for judgment, and will enter into judgment with his people.

For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, and hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, and thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me!

young men and virgins, old men with youths:

And thou shalt set the Levites before the Lord, and before Aaron, and before his sons; and thou shalt give them as a gift before the Lord.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the rulers of the synagogue went forth out of the camp to meet them.

Shall thy wonders be known in darkness? and thy righteousness in a forgotten land?

that my glory may sing praise to thee, and I may not be pierced with sorrow. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever.

All the first-fruits that are in their land, whatsoever they shall offer to the Lord, shall be thine: every clean person in thy house shall eat them.

Thou didst mount men upon our heads; we went through the fire and water; but thou broughtest us out into a place of refreshment.

To Zara the family of the Zaraites; to Saul the family of the Saulites.

Now if ye will indeed hearken to all the commands which I charge thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, and to serve him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,

and they made the two emerald stones clasped together and set in gold, graven and cut after the cutting of a seal with the names of the children of Israel;

the miracles which he wrought before their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Tanes.

And if any one should take a wife, and dwell with her, and hate her,

And whatsoever man shall be clean, and is not far off on a journey, and shall fail to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people, because he has not offered the gift to the Lord in its season: that man shall bear his iniquity.

He brought them up on the strength of the land; he fed them with the fruits of the fields; they sucked honey out of the rock, and oil out of the solid rock.

And man being in honour, understands not: he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is like to them.

And the Lord was very angry with Israel; and for forty years he caused them to wander in the wilderness, until all the generation which did evil in the sight of the Lord was extinct.

when they were few in number, very few, and sojourners in it.

And this is what they shall give, as many as pass the survey, half a didrachm which is according to the didrachm of the sanctuary: twenty oboli go to the didrachm, but the half of the didrachm is the offering to the Lord.

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the poor, and the right of the needy ones.

This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty.

though he will not spare it, and will not leave it, but will keep it in the midst of his throat:

And Balac said to him, Come yet with me to another place where thou shalt not see the people, but only thou shalt see a part of them, and shalt not see them all; and curse me them from thence.

For the Lord desires not to look on error, for he is the Almighty One.

Evil men have gone out from you, and have caused all the inhabitants of their land to fall away, saying, Let us go and worship other gods, whom ye knew not,

And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; and he will bless the off-spring of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the herds of thine oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep, on the land which the Lord sware to thy fathers to give to thee.

Deliver me not over to the desire of them that afflict me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and injustice has lied within herself.

And the blue that was left, and the purple, and the scarlet they made into garments of ministry for Aaron, so that he should minister with them in the sanctuary;

For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of my understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength.

If thy children will deep my covenant, and these my testimonies which I shall teach them, their children also shall sit upon thy throne for ever.

and shalt take away her garments of captivity from off her, and she shall abide in thine house, and shall bewail her father and mother the days of a month; and afterwards thou shalt go in to her and dwell with her, and she shall be thy wife.

The mountains of the wilderness shall be enriched; and the hills shall gird themselves with joy.

And I will meditate on all thy works, and will consider thy doings.

Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thine ordinances.

And they departed from Raphaca, and encamped in Aelus.

If Balac should give me his house full of silver and gold, I shall not be able to transgress the word of the Lord to make it good or bad by myself; whatsoever things God shall say, them will I speak.

For he remembered them, in making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.

They shall bear thee up on their hands, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

And the first rank departed by the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.