Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And there shall be a passage for my people that is left in Egypt: and it shall be to Israel as the day when he came forth out of the land of Egypt.

I waited, (for I had not spoken,) because they stood still, they answered not.

And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; beside the continual whole-burnt-offering: there shall be their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings.

They who used to reverence me, now have come against me like snow or congealed ice.

Of the tribe of Gad, Gudiel the son of Macchi.

until righteousness return to judgment, and all the upright in heart shall follow it. Pause.

He shall dwell with thee, he shall dwell among you where he shall please; thou shalt not afflict him.

But the Lord has softened my heart, and the Almighty has troubled me.

who fashioned their hearts alone; who understands all their works.

But thou, O Lord God, art compassionate and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy and true.

Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it out on the ground as water.

And thou shalt forget trouble, as a wave that has passed by; and thou shalt not be scared.

And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the passover to the Lord.

Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he sware to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness.

or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light.

And they came to Balaam, and they say to him, Thus says Balac the son of Sepphor: I beseech thee, delay not to come to me.

His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.

The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer:

These were famous men of the congregation, heads of the tribes according to their families: these are heads of thousands in Israel.

Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into Hades, for iniquity is in their dwellings, in the midst of them.

Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not.

They shall be brought with gladness and exultation: they shall be led into the king's temple.

Let the Lord God of spirits and of all flesh look out for a man over this congregation,

There shall be one law and one ordinance for you, and for the stranger that abides among you.

Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities;

For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap.

Let them be before the Lord continually; and let their memorial be blotted out from the earth.

Yet they rejoiced against me, and plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew it not: they were scattered, but repented not.

Thou shalt not unjustly withhold the wages of the poor and needy of thy brethren, or of the strangers who are in thy cities.

And Job lived after his affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation.

Thine insolence has risen up against thee, the fierceness of thine heart has burst the holes of the rocks, it has seized upon the strength of a lofty hill; for as an eagle he set his nest on high: thence will I bring thee down.

according to all things which thou didst desire of the Lord thy God in Choreb in the day of the assembly, saying, We will not again hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and we will not any more see this great fire, and so we shall not die.

And Moses said to Core, Sanctify thy company, and be ready before the Lord, thou and Aaron and they, to-morrow.

But the helpless missed not whatever need they had, and I did not cause the eye of the widow to fail.

O Lord, thou shalt open my lips; and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their food in due season.

And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.

And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Pause.

And God met Balaam, and put a word into his mouth, and said, return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

saying, Touch not my anointed ones; and do my prophets no harm.

Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me; and days of anguish seize me.

gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the infants at the breast: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

And these were the sons of Juda, according to their families: to Selom belonged the family of the Selonites; to Phares, the family of the Pharesites; to Zara, the family of the Zaraites.

And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.

then opens he the understanding of men: he scares them with such fearful visions:

She has hardened herself against her young ones, as though she bereaved not herself: she labours in vain without fear.

And the redemption of them shall be from a month old; their valuation of five shekelsit is twenty oboli according to the holy shekel.

Let their sword enter into their own heart, and their bows be broken.

who fed thee with manna in the wilderness, which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not; that he might afflict thee, and thoroughly try thee, and do thee good in thy latter days.

While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, Fire has fallen from heaven, and burnt up the sheep, and devoured the shepherds like wise; and I having escaped alone am come to tell thee.

But God shall deliver my soul from the power of Hades, when he shall receive me. Pause.

And it came to pass when all the men of war dying out of the midst of the people had fallen,

And every one who shall touch a man slain by violence, or a corpse, or human bone, or sepulchre, shall be unclean seven days.

Cursed is the man that dishonours his father or his mother: and all the people shall say, So be it.

All who were numbered of the camp of Ruben, were a hundred and fifty-one thousand and four hundred and fifty: they with their forces shall proceed in the second place.

And we cried to the Lord, and the Lord heard our voice, and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt; and now we are in the city of Cades, at the extremity of thy coasts.

On this day the Lord thy God charged thee to keep all the ordinances and judgments; and ye shall observe and do them, with all your heart, and with all your soul.

I called my servant, and he hearkened not; and my mouth intreated him.

and overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy endures for ever.

For I hoped in thee, O Lord: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

For every one that does this is an abomination to the Lord thy God, even every one that does injustice.

Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

Let those that say to me, Aha, aha, quickly receive shame for their reward.

and restore that which thy right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.

Then shall those who seal themselves that they may not learn the law be made manifest.

All the day my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me,

And Moses and Aaron numbered them by the word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded them.

And all its spoils thou shalt gather into its public ways, and thou shalt burn the city with fire, and all its spoils publicly before the Lord thy God; and it shall be uninhabited for ever, it shall not be built again.

And this shall turn to me for salvation; for fraud shall have no entrance before him.

And if he should say to thee, I will not go out from thee, because he continues to love thee and thy house, because he is well with thee;

As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so shall he flourish.

Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: thou shalt not appear before the Lord thy God empty.

And he gave them their request, and sent fullness into their souls.

He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made.

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear causes between your brethren, and judge rightly between a man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.

And when I saw that ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a molten image, and had gone astray out of the way, which the Lord commanded you to keep;

and the heron, and the swan, and the stork,

And he knows the divisions of the clouds, and the signal overthrows of the ungodly.

And if an unjust witness rise up against a man, alleging iniquity against him;

he clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep.

And let him suck the poison of serpents, and let the serpent's tongue slay him.

And when he turns, he is a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.

For before the child shall know good or evil, he refuses evil, to choose the good; and the land shall be forsaken which thou art afraid of because of the two kings.

My strength is dried up, like a potsherd; and my tongue is glued to my throat; and thou hast brought me down to the dust of death.

They made the oracle square and double, the length of a span, and the breadth of a span, double.

Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is overseerthe oil of the light, and the incense of composition, and the daily meat-offering and the anointing oil, are his charge; even the oversight of the whole tabernacle, and all things that are in it in the holy place, in all the works.

and of the fullness of the land in season: and let the things pleasing to him that dwelt in the bush come on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of him who was glorified above his brethren.

And the priest shall bring her, and cause her to stand before the Lord.

He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.

And thence they came to the well; this is the well of which the Lord said to Moses, Gather the people, and I will give them water to drink.

And if he should smite him with an iron instrument, and the man should die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.

Of these ye shall not take any thing alive;

but the Lord of hosts shall send dishonour upon thine honour, and burning fire shall be kindled upon thy glory.

And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.