Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

Sound the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, proclaim a solemn service:

One shall not give fine gold instead of it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it.

Thou hast made us a proverb among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.

I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame.

My pains return upon me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.

Cursed is the man whosoever shall make a graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of craftsmen, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say, So be it.

Look down from thy holy house, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given them, as thou didst swear to our fathers, to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey.

Were not they too formed as I also was formed in the womb? yea, we were formed in the same womb.

For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance;

Thou shalt have a true and just weight, and a true and just measure, that thou mayest live long upon the land which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance.

They were afraid, they answered no longer; they gave up their speaking.

Thou shalt surely restore his pledge at sunset, and he shall sleep in his garment, and he shall bless thee; and it shall be mercy to thee before the Lord thy God.

sending a dream, or in the meditation of the night; (as when a dreadful alarm happens to fall upon men, in slumberings on the bed:)

Thou shalt not deliver a servant to his master, who coming from his master attaches himself to thee.

all flesh would die together, and every mortal would return to the earth, whence also he was formed.

then the father and the mother of the damsel shall take and bring out the damsel's tokens of virginity to the elders of the city to the gate.

For he is not now regarding his wrath, nor has he noticed severely any trespass.

And if a man have two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and both the loved and the hated should have born him children, and the son of the hated should be first-born;

and the table and all its furniture,

Because they afflicted the weak and helpless: and he will vindicate the judgment of the meek.

Thus shalt thou do to all the cities that are very far off from thee, not being of the cities of these nations which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit their land.

One witness shall not stand to testify against a man for any iniquity, or for any fault, or for any sin which he may commit; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, shall every word be established.

We know that god has disposed his works, having made light out of darkness.

The Lord thy God shall raise up to thee a prophet of thy brethren, like me; him shall ye hear:

And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?

thou shalt surely set over thee the ruler whom the Lord God shall choose: of thy brethren thou shalt set over thee a ruler; thou shalt not have power to set over thee a stranger, because he is not thy brother.

Seven days shalt thou keep a feast to the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose for himself; and if the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy fruits, and in every work of thy hands, then thou shalt rejoice.

and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them.

Wilt thou not mark the old way, which righteous men have trodden?

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee from thence; therefore I charge thee to do this thing.

And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.

and the sparrow, and the owl, and the seamew,

And Jeremias said to the king, If I tell thee, wilt thou not certainly put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not at all hearken to me.

His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.

thou shalt utterly destroy all the dwellers in that land with the edge of the sword; ye shall solemnly curse it, and all things in it.

And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer women than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren.

But thou shalt kill according to all thy desire, and shalt eat flesh according to the blessing of the Lord thy God, which he has given thee in every city; the unclean that is within thee and the clean shall eat it on equal terms, as the doe or the stag.

And he shall give food in thy fields to thy cattle; and when thou hast eaten and art full,

Only the Lord chose your fathers to love them, and he chose out their seed after them, even you, beyond all nations, as at this day.

And I turned and went down from the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to heaven; and the two tables of the testimonies were in my two hands.

that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion: I will exult in thy salvation.

who brought thee through that great and terrible wilderness, where is the biting serpent, and scorpion, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee a fountain of water out of the flinty rock:

Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, he has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity.

And the Lord thy God shall remove from thee all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou hast seen, and all that thou hast known, will he lay upon thee; but he will lay them upon all that hate thee.

for the Lord thy God in the midst of thee is a jealous God, lest the Lord thy God be very angry with thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out thence with a mighty hand, and a high arm: therefore the Lord appointed thee to keep the sabbath day and to sanctify it.

For the Lord shall judge his people, and comfort himself concerning his servants.

And take good heed to your hearts, for ye saw no similitude in the day in which the Lord spoke to you in Choreb in the mountain out of the midst of the fire:

The Lord is my strength and my song, and is become my salvation.

And to Machir I gave Galaad.

and brought Israel through the midst of it: for his mercy endures for ever:

And he sent forth his weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

And the hand of the Lord was upon them to destroy them out of the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.

So Jacob ate and was filled, and the beloved one kicked; he grew fat, he became thick and broad: then he forsook the God that made him, and departed from God his Saviour.

So shall the sayings of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be pleasing continually before thee, O Lord my helper, and my redeemer.

So I took of you wise and understanding and prudent men, and I set them to rule over you as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and officers to your judges.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are loosened: my heart in the midst of my belly is become like melting wax.

It shall be a place of refuge for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for him that sojourns among you; these cities shall be for a place of refuge, for every one to flee thither who has killed a man unintentionally.

Two tribes and half a tribe have received their inheritance beyond Jordan by Jericho from the south eastwards.

I will give thee thanks; for thou art fearfully wondrous; wondrous are thy works; and my soul knows it well.

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than the half didrachm in giving the offering to the Lord, to make atonement for your souls.

The Lord is the strength of them that fear him; and his covenant is to manifest truth to them.

I have made thee small among the nations, utterly contemptible among men.

And they departed from Raphidin, and encamped in the wilderness of Sina.

Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and let thy heart be strengthened: yea wait on the Lord.

And the Lord shall make desolate the sea of Egypt; and he shall lay his hand on the river with a strong wind, and he shall smite the seven channels, so that men shall pass through it dry-shod.

For ye will turn away from him to desert him yet once more in the wilderness, and ye will sin against this whole congregation.

And Moses said to them, Why have ye saved every female alive?

But if he be wholly silent at her from day to day, then shall he bind upon her all her vows; and he shall confirm to her the obligations which she has bound upon herself, because he held his peace at her in the day in which he heard her.

But I hoped in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.

Their oxen are fat: there is no falling down of a hedge, nor going out, nor cry in their folds.

A tenth deal for every lamb, for the fourteen lambs.

He looks from his prepared habitation on all the dwellers on the earth;

And he shall offer one kid of the goats for a sin-offering to the Lord; it shall be offered beside the continual whole-burnt-offering and its drink-offering.

Turn away from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

And Moses said to the Lord,

I behaved agreeably towards them as if it had been our neighbour or brother: I humbled myself as one mourning and sad of countenance.

The Lord supports all that are falling, and sets up all that are broken down.

And the sons of Juda, Er and Aunan; and Er and Aunan died in the land of Chanaan.

He suffered no man to wrong them; and he rebuked kings for their sakes:

Sinners have drawn their swords, they have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy one, and to slay the upright in heart.

And the name of the Madianitish woman who was smitten, was Chasbi, daughter of Sur, a prince of the nation of Ommoth: it is a chief house among the people of Madiam.

And I was as a man that hears not, and who has no reproofs in his mouth.

And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, the man who sees truly says,

Let those that seek my soul, to destroy it, be ashamed and confounded together; let those that wish me evil be turned backward and put to shame.

And Balaam said to Balac, Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will go to enquire of God.

And Balac yet again sent more princes and more honourable than they.

and he shall exalt the horn of his people, there is a hymn for all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people who draw near to him.

And he has appointed brooks to cause Er to dwell there; and it lies near to the coasts of Moab.

in embroidered clothing: virgins shall be brought to the king after her: her fellows shall be brought to thee.

And how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we sojourned in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

I have delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.

And every open vessel which has not a covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.

They have laid them as sheep in Hades; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their help shall fail in Hades from their glory.

And every thing that opens the womb of all flesh, whatsoever they bring to the Lord, whether man or beast, shall be thine: only the first-born of men shall be surely redeemed, and thou shalt redeem the first-born of unclean cattle.

Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay thy vows to the Most High.

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation: and my tongue shall joyfully declare thy righteousness.