Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

Thou didst cleave fountains and torrents; thou driedst up mighty rivers.

For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life is vain.

If I said, I will speak thus; behold, I should have broken covenant with the generation of thy children.

I will meditate on thy commandments, and consider thy ways.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

For their good things were in their hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly.

And thou shalt take the money of the offering from the children of Israel, and shalt give it for the service of the tabernacle of testimony; and it shall be to the children of Israel a memorial before the Lord, to make atonement for your souls.

lest ye transgress, and make to yourselves a carved image, any kind of figure, the likeness of male or female,

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, saying,

And the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his whole-burnt-offering.

Therefore ye shall circumcise the hardness of your heart, and ye shall not harden your neck.

My bones, which thou madest in secret were not hidden from thee, nor my substance, in the lowest parts of the earth.

For he shall not multiply to himself horses, and he shall by no means turn the people back to Egypt, lest he should multiply to himself horses; for the Lord said, Ye shall not any more turn back by that way.

I arose and perceived it not: I looked, and there, was no form before my eyes: but I only heard a breath and a voice, saying,

And he has also enticed thee out of the mouth of the enemy:

Mine eyes are continually to the Lord; for he shall draw my feet out of the snare.

And he shall live, and there shall be given him of the gold of Arabia: and men shall pray for him continually; and all the day shall they praise him.

In darkness he digs through houses: by day they conceal themselves securely: they know not the light.

and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering.

They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.

My mouth shall declare thy righteousness openly, and thy salvation all the day; for I am not acquainted with the affairs of men.

and the veil of the gate of the court, the work of an embroiderer of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen twined; the length of twenty cubits, and the height and the breadth of five cubits, made equal to the curtains of the court;

take heed to thyself that thy heart be not puffed up, and ye transgress, and serve other gods, and worship them:

And they departed from the wilderness of Sina, and encamped at the Graves of Lust.

But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be glorified in righteousness.

then it shall be that whensoever he shall divide by inheritance his goods to his sons, he shall not be able to give the right of the first-born to the son of the loved one, having overlooked the son of the hated, which is the first-born.

Yet Job vainly opens his mouth, in ignorance he multiplies words.

and the candle-stick for the light and all its furniture,

hearing the oracles of God, receiving knowledge from the Most High, and having seen a vision of God in sleep; his eyes were opened.

Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.

and wine makes glad the heart of man, to make his face cheerful with oil: and bread strengthens man's heart.

And thou shalt eat all the spoils of the nations which the Lord thy God gives thee; thine eye shall not spare them, and thou shalt not serve their gods; for this is an offence to thee.

Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.

But thou hast numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape thee?

And they came to him, and said, We will build here folds for our cattle, and cities for our possessions;

For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again thou hast changed and art terribly destroying me;

And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people will arise and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land, into which they are entering: and they will forsake me, and break my covenant, which I made with them.

And as to their lamps, which are on the ends, knops proceeded from them; and sockets proceeding from them, that the lamps might be upon them; and the seventh socket, on the top of the candlestick, on the summit above, entirely of solid gold.

The mountain of God is a rich mountain; a swelling mountain, a rich mountain.

And the father of the damsel shall say to the elders, I gave this my daughter to this man for a wife;

And to Ruben and to Gad I gave the land under Galaad as far as the brook of Arnon, the border between the brook and as far as Jaboc; the brook is the border to the children Amman.

If thou wilt hearken to the commands of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his ordinances, and his judgments; then ye shall live, and shall be many in number, and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all the land into which thou goest to inherit it.

Thus saith the Lord, Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with an outstretched neck, and with winking of the eyes, and motion of the feet, at the same time drawing their garments in trains, and at the same time sporting with their feet:

For these are given to me for a present out of the midst of the children of Israel: I have taken them to myself instead of all the first-born of the sons of Israel that open every womb.

Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, as ye tempted him in the temptation.

For they were the occasion to the children of Israel by the word of Balaam of their revolting and despising the word of the Lord, because of Phogor; and there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord.

They provoked me to anger with strange gods; with their abominations they bitterly angered me.

I will offer to thee whole-burnt-sacrifices full of marrow, with incense and rams; I will sacrifice to thee oxen with goats. Pause.

And if her husband should in any wise cancel them after the day in which he heard them, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Now then slay every male in all the spoil, slay every woman, who has known the lying with man.

the likeness of any beast of those that are on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird which flies under heaven,

renewing against me my torture: and thou hast dealt with me in great anger, and thou hast brought trials upon me.

Lest thou shouldest say in thine heart, My strength, and the power of mine hand have wrought for me this great wealth.

Come, hear, and I will tell, all ye that fear God, how great things he has done for my soul.

Hear me, O Lord; for thy mercy is good: according to the multitude of thy compassions look upon me.

These are the ordinances which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and daughter in her youth in the house of her father.

Remember what things Amalec did to thee by the way, when thou wentest forth out of the land of Egypt:

and its lamps, lamps for burning, and oil for the light,

An thou hast sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.

For the Lord shall build up Sion, and shall appear in his glory.

And one shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust in him.

And ye beheld their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are among them.

All these things shall the righteous gain, and the truehearted shall possess his wealth.

It is burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of thy presence.

And he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace-offering to the Lord with the basket of unleavened bread; and the priest shall offer its meat-offering and its drink-offering.

and from them that persecute me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me in thy mercy.

And there was interwoven with it a woven work of four rows of stones, a series of stones, the first row, a sardius and topaz and emerald;

What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? or a man be blameless in regard to his works?

Let all those that seek thee, O Lord, exult and rejoice in thee; and let them that love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.

And when the cloud went up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel departed; and in whatever place the cloud rested, there the children of Israel encamped.

And Elius continued, and said, I will again speak,

But he shall acknowledge the first-born of the hated one to give to him double of all things which shall be found by him, because he is the first of his children, and to him belongs the birthright.

And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee?

Hear, hear ye my words, for I will declare in your hearing.

And they shall take down the tabernacle, and the sons of Gedson shall set forward, and the sons of Merari, who bear the tabernacle.

Thine eyes saw my unwrought substance, and all men shall be written in thy book; they shall be formed by day, though there should for a time be no one among them.

And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gedson, Caath, and Merari.

He leads counsellors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth.

For I said, Lest mine enemies rejoice against me: for when my feet were moved, they spoke boastingly against me.

And he stretched out the curtains over the tabernacle, and put the veil of the tabernacle on it above as the Lord commanded Moses.

Wherefore do ye conceive evil, ye swelling mountains? this is the mountain which God has delighted to dwell in; yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever.

And he shall not multiply to himself wives, lest his heart turn away; and he shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

Gold and crystal shall not be equalled to it, neither shall vessels of gold be its exchange.

They sacrificed to devils, and not to God; to gods whom they knew not: new and fresh gods came in, whom their fathers knew not.

there is a deep gulf and a rushing stream beneath it, and thy table came down full of fatness. Judgment shall not fail from the righteous;

When it has melted at the approach of heat, it is not known what it was.

And I will go down, and speak there with thee; and I will take of the spirit that is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear together with thee the burden of the people, and thou shalt not bear them alone.

The right hand of the Lord has exalted me: the right hand of the Lord has wrought powerfully.

Behold then the one that hates iniquities, and that destroys the wicked, who is for ever just.

There shall be an establishment on the earth on the tops of the mountains: the fruit thereof shall be exalted above Libanus, and they of the city shall flourish as grass of the earth.

He sent from on high and took me, he drew me to himself out of many waters.

They provoked Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the holy one of the Lord.

And Idumea shall be a desert: every one that passes by shall hiss at it.

Each one according to his ability, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he has given thee.

The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. A song of Pause.

And on the second day twelve calves, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old without blemish.

Thou shalt pay him his wages the same day, the sun shall not go down upon it, because he is poor and he trusts in it; and he shall cry against thee to the Lord, and it shall be sin in thee.