Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And Moses was exceeding indignant, and said to the Lord, Do thou take no heed to their sacrifice: I have not taken away the desire of any one of them, neither have I hurt any one of them.

When ye stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: and though ye make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.

who in companionship with me sweetened our food: we walked in the house of God in concord.

And if thou shalt destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard thy name shall speak, saying,

There shall be one law for you and for the strangers abiding among you, a perpetual law for your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.

Of the tribe of Nephthali, Nabi the son of Sabi.

They shall return at evening, and be hungry as a dog, and go round about the city.

And Mariam was separated without the camp seven days; and the people moved not forward till Mariam was cleansed.

Therefore am I troubled at him; and when I was reproved, I thought of him. Therefore let me take good heed before him: I will consider, and be afraid of him.

And if thou doest thus to me, slay me utterly, if I have found favour with thee, that I may not see my affliction.

and upon every high tower, and upon every high wall,

And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, was Nathanael son of Sogar.

And in the day in which the tabernacle was pitched the cloud covered the tabernacle, the place of the testimony; and in the evening there was upon the tabernacle as the appearance of fire till the morning.

which my lips framed, and my mouth uttered in my affliction.

And afterwards the Levites shall go in to perform the works of the tabernacle of witness; and thou shalt purify them, and present them before the Lord.

Why do ye wrong my people, and shame the face of the poor?

When the heavenly One scatters kings upon it, they shall be made snow-white in Selmon.

And he brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds asunder.

He makes grass to grow for the cattle, and green herb for the service of men, to bring bread out of the earth;

Save me from the mire, that I stick not in it: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters.

And the mean man shall be brought low, and the great man shall be disgraced, and the lofty eyes shall be brought low.

But I will hope continually, and will praise thee more and more.

One calf of the herd, one ram, one he-lamb of a year old for a whole-burnt-offering;

He shall redeem their souls from usury and injustice: and their name shall be precious before him.

and a basket of unleavened bread of fine flour, even loaves kneaded with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil, and their meat-offering, and their drink-offering.

For I was plagued all the day, and my reproof was every morning.

Thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragon; thou didst give him for meat to the Ethiopian nations.

then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring his gift for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley-meal: he shall not pour oil upon it, neither shall he put frankincense upon it; for it is a sacrifice of jealousy, a sacrifice of memorial, recalling sin to remembrance.

And Aaron and his sons shall finish covering the holy things, and all the holy vessels, when the camp begins to move; and afterwards the sons of Caath shall go in to take up the furniture; but shall not touch the holy things, lest they die: these shall the sons of Caath bear in the tabernacle of witness.

Butter and honey shall he eat, before he knows either to prefer evil or choose the good.

Thou art the God that doest wonders; thou hast made known thy power among the nations.

And he guided them with a cloud by day, and all the night with a light of fire.

And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the dry land.

For he knows our frame: remember that we are dust.

Take the number of the sons of Levi, according to the houses of their families, according to their divisions; number ye them every male from a month old and upwards.

Therefore many among them shall be weak, and fall, and be crushed; and they shall draw nigh, and men shall be taken securely.

O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on us from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;

I should have put down their enemies very quickly, and should have laid my hand upon those that afflicted them.

His forces that were numbered, were forty-five thousand and six hundred and fifty.

the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet teaching unlawful things, he is the tail.

Of Nephthali, Achire the son of Aenan.

O God, transgressors have risen up against me, and an assembly of violent men have sought my life; and have not set thee before them.

And it came to pass in the first month, in the second year after their going forth out of Egypt, at the new moon, that the tabernacle was set up.

and the ark of the covenant, and its bearers, and the altar and all its furniture.

and blossoms proceeding from its branches, three on this side, and three on the other, made equal to each other.

Justice and judgment are the establishment of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

And the sockets of their pillars of brass, and their hooks of silver, and their chapiters overlaid with silver, and all the posts of the court overlaid with silver:

Shall the axe glorify itself without him that hews with it? or shall the saw lift up itself without him that uses it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? but it shall not be so;

And they made the oracle, a work woven with embroidery, according to the work of the ephod, of gold, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined.

Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I cannot lift myself up, for I am full of dishonour.

For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me: I will intreat his judgment.

For thus shall thy countenance shine again, as pure water; and thou shalt divest thyself of uncleanness, and shalt not fear.

If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.

If he should withhold the water, he will dry the earth: and if he should let it loose, he overthrows and destroys it.

Thou wilt separate life from my spirit; and yet keep my bones from death.

Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.

The priests the Levites, the sons of Sadduc, who kept the charges of my sanctuary when the house of Israel went astray from me, these shall draw night to me to minister to me, and shall stand before my face, to offer sacrifice to me, the fat and the blood, saith the Lord God.

Behold I bring upon this city, and upon all the cities belonging to it, and upon the villages of it, all the evils which I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their neck, that they might not hearken to my commands.

Son of man, thy brethren, and the men of thy captivity, and all the house of Israel are come to the full, to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, Keep ye far away from the Lord: the land is given to us for an inheritance.

They are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

They were instructed by me, and I strengthened their arms; and they devised evils against me.

And if he shall revolt from him, to send his messengers into Egypt, that they may give him horses and much people; shall he prosper? shall he that acts as an adversary be preserved? and shall he that transgresses the covenant be preserved?

Wherefore has Apis fled from thee? thy choice calf has not remained; for the Lord has utterly weakened him.

O Lord, remember me, and visit me, and vindicate me before them that persecute me; do not bear long with them; know how I have met with reproach for thy sake, from those who set at nought thy words;

Turn from heaven, and look from thy holy habitation and from thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength? where is the abundance of thy mercy and of thy compassions, that thou hast withholden thyself from us?

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Go into the chamber, to Somnas the treasurer, and say to him, Why art thou here?

when I shall give up Egypt to destruction, and the land shall be made desolate with the fullness thereof; when I shall scatter all that dwell in it, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

But Ismael escaped with eight men and went to the children of Ammon.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man: and it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot.

Forasmuch as he will cause a division among his brethren, the Lord shall bring upon him an east wind from the desert, and shall dry up his veins and quite drain his fountains: he shall dry up his land, and spoil all his precious vessels.

And Ezekias prayed to the Lord, saying,

And the cherubs were the same living creature which I saw by the river of Chobar.

for I sent them not, saith the Lord; and they prophesy in my name unjustly, that I might destroy you, and ye should perish, and your prophets, who unrighteously prophesy lies to you.

And the open space of the gate without to the open space of the porch of the gate within was fifty cubits.

Shalt thou reign, because thou art provoked with thy father Achaz? they shall not eat, and they shall not drink: it is better for thee to execute judgment and justice.

bring more evils on the glorious ones of the earth.

Will a woman forget her child, so as not to have compassion upon the offspring of her womb? but if a woman should even forget these, yet I will not forget thee, saith the Lord.

so have I prepared and taken counsel in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Juda: be ye of good courage.

Then I passed through the air and came into the captivity, and went round to them that dwelt by the river of Chobar who were there; and I sat there seven days, conversant in the midst of them.

Woe to them that deepen their counsel, and not by the Lord. Woe to them that take secret counsel, and whose works are in darkness, and they say, Who has seen us? and who shall know us, or what we do?

thus will I do to you, O house of Israel, because of the unrighteousness of your sins.

And these are the borders of the land that lies northward, from the great sea that comes down, and divides the entrance of Emaseldam;

For a voice of one publishing from Dan shall come, and trouble out of mount Ephraim shall be heard of.

And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.

since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, and shall be counted as spittle?

A voice was heard in Rama, of lamentation, and of weeping, and wailing; Rachel would not cease weeping for her children, because they are not.

and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.

And I am very angry with the heathen that combine to attack her: forasmuch as I indeed was a little angry, but they combined to attack her for evil.

Then all the men that knew that their wives burned incense, and all the women, a great multitude, and all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathura, answered Jeremias, saying,

And he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen; but thou shalt yet see evil practices greater then these.

He that walks in righteousness, speaking rightly, hating transgression and iniquity, and shaking his hands from gifts, stopping his ears that he should not hear the judgment of blood, shutting his eyes that he should not see injustice.

NUN. He has watched over my sins, they are twined about my hands, they have come up on my neck: my strength has failed; for the Lord has laid pains on my hands, I shall not be able to stand.

The Lord Almighty shall protect them, and they shall destroy them, and overwhelm them with sling-stones; and they shall swallow them down as wine, and fill the bowls as the altar.

and come out of thy place from the farthest north, and many nations with thee? all of them mounted on horses, a great gathering, and a large force?

Moab is ruined, even his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.