Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And Araba and Jordan are the boundary of Machanareth, even to the sea of Araba, the salt sea under Asedoth Phasga eastward.

and the altar and all its furniture;

Thou shalt not have respect to persons in judgment, thou shalt judge small and great equally; thou shalt not shrink from before the person of a man, for the judgment is God's; and whatsoever matter shall be too hard for you, ye shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.

Look upon me, and have mercy upon me; for I am an only child and poor.

These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses called Ause the son of Naue, Joshua.

And there shall nothing of the cursed thing cleave to thy hand, that the Lord may turn from his fierce anger, and shew thee mercy, and pity thee, and multiply thee, as he sware to thy fathers;

For God has withholden wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding.

They have a mouth, but they cannot speak; they have eyes, but they cannot see;

For the Lord your God, he is God of gods, and the Lord of lords, the great, and strong, and terrible God, who does not accept persons, nor will he by any means accept a bribe:

A king is not saved by reason of a great host; and a giant shall not be delivered by the greatness of his strength.

Look thou upon me, and have mercy upon me: give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn my face away from them, and they shall be devoured; and many evils and afflictions shall come upon them; and they shall say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me.

For I knew not that darkness would come upon me, and thick darkness has covered me before my face.

There shall not be a harlot of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a fornicator of the sons of Israel; there shall not be an idolatress of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be an initiated person of the sons of Israel.

But thy robe is warm, and there is quiet upon the land.

But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now what I have seen;

And on the fifteenth day of this month is a feast; seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread.

And in thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

then shall the two men between whom the controversy is, stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days.

There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest.

Thou shalt not be able to eat in thy cities the tithe of thy corn, and of thy wine, and of thine oil, the first-born of thine herd and of thy flock, and all your vows as many as ye shall have vowed, and your thank-offerings, and the first-fruits of thine hands.

And now, O Lord, let thy strength be exalted, as thou spakest, saying,

If spears should come against him, men will effect nothing, either with the spear or the breast-plate.

then I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before you.

For I will greatly honour thee, and will do for thee whatsoever thou shalt say; come then, curse me this people.

Cursed shall be thy barns and thy stores.

because of the voice of the slanderer and reviler; because of the enemy and avenger.

And he brought water out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down as rivers.

Between the porch and the altar let the priests that minister to the Lord weep, and say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them, lest they should say among the heathen, Where is their God?

but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to destroy their memorial from the earth. The righteous cried, and the Lord hearkened to them,

Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.

His beauty is as the firstling of his bull, his horns are the horns of a unicorn; with them he shall thrust the nations at once, even from the end of the earth: these are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of Manasse.

I cried to God, and the Lord hearkened to me.

And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this was the gift of Naasson the son of Aminadab.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

For the wind passes over it, and it shall not be; and it shall know its place no more.

And I broke the jaw-teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.

Instead of thy fathers children are born to thee: thou shalt make them princes over all the earth.

but ye shall surely curse them, the Chettite, and the Amorite, and the Chananite, and the Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Gergesite; as the Lord thy God commanded thee:

who shall go out before them, and who shall come in before them, and who shall lead them out, and who shall bring them in; so the congregation of the Lord shall not be as sheep without a shepherd.

But God shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the house of thy father, days which have never come, from the day that Ephraim took away from Juda the king of the Assyrians.

And Job died, an old man and full of days: and it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up. This man is described in the Syriac book as living in the land of Ausis, on the borders of Idumea and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab; and having taken an Arabian wife, he begot a son whose name was Ennon. And he himself was the son of his father Zare, one of the sons of Esau, and of his mother Bosorrha, so that he was the fifth from Abraam. And these were the kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over: first, Balac, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dennaba: but after Balac, Jobab, who is called Job, and after him Asom, who was governor out of the country of Thaeman: and after him Adad, the son of Barad, who destroyed Madiam in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gethaim. And his friends who came to him were Eliphaz, of the children of Esau, king of the Thaemanites, Baldad sovereign the Sauchaeans, Sophar king of the Minaeans.

Because he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the needy and poor man, and that to slay him that was pricked in the heart.

learn to do well; diligently seek judgment, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.

Moreover he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole support of bread.

therefore the Lord will humble the chief daughters of Sion, and the Lord will expose their form in that day;

I will go on in the might of the Lord: O Lord, I will make mention of thy righteousness only.

For many dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked doers has beset me round: they pierced my hands and my feet.

And if too I ate my morsel alone, and did not impart of it to the orphan;

And Moses and Aaron took these men who were called by name.

Who say, What will the Lord do to us? or what will the Almighty bring upon us?

They tempted me, they sneered at me most contemptuously, they gnashed their teeth upon me.

Let him not see the milk of the pastures, nor the supplies of honey and butter.

And every man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall fall: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Plague the Madianites as enemies, and smite them,

For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death, for each will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.

He lies down upon a gathering of stones, and shall live in the mist of flints.

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

And take each man his censer, and ye shall put incense upon them, and shall bring each one his censer before the Lord, two hundred and fifty censers, and thou and Aaron shall bring each his censer.

And the Lord said to me, They have spoken rightly all that they have said to thee.

I will meditate on thine ordinances: I will not forget thy words.

For if thou desiredst sacrifice, I would have given it: thou wilt not take pleasure in whole-burnt-offerings.

But blessed is the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

And thy prayer shall be as the morning star, and life shall arise to thee as from the noonday.

My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.

Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made by bruises many without cause.

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and he shall sanctify him with burning fire, and it shall devour the wood as grass.

Thou openest thine hands, and fillest every living thing with pleasure.

Therefore the Lord shall not take pleasure in their young men, neither shall he have pity on their orphans or on their widows: for they are all transgressors and wicked, and every mouth speaks unjustly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.

and now he has hated her, and attaches reproachful words to her, saying, I have not found tokens of virginity with thy daughter; and these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall unfold the garment before the elders of the city.

But to the sinner God has said, Why dost thou declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in thy mouth?

and their pillars four, and their sockets four of brass, and their hooks of silver, and their chapiters overlaid with silver.

For every first-born among the children of Israel is mine, whether of man or beast: in the day in which I smote every first-born in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them to myself.

And if he should smite him with a stone thrown from his hand, whereby a man may die, and he thus die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.

For he broke to pieces the brazen gates, and crushed the iron bars.

And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.

And the priest shall take pure running water in an earthen vessel, and he shall take of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle of witness, and the priest having taken it shall cast it into the water.

While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, The horsemen formed three companies against us, and surrounded the camels, and took them for a prey, and slew the servants with the sword; and I only escaped, and am come to tell thee.

And the sons of Phares were, to Asron, the family of the Asronites; to Jamun, the family of the Jamunites.

And they departed from the Graves of Lust, and encamped in Aseroth.

And on the candlestick seven golden lamps, and its snuffers gold, and its funnels gold.

But if thou shouldest say in thine heart, This nation is greater than I, how shall I be able to destroy them utterly?

to turn a man from unrighteousness, and he delivers his body from a fall.

And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away.

The day is thine, and the night is thine; thou hast prepared the sun and the moon.

and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,

I will point to him, but not now; I bless him, but he draws not near: a star shall rise out of Jacob, a man shall spring out of Israel; and shall crush the princes of Moab, and shall spoil all the sons of Seth.

But thou shalt not redeem the first-born of calves and the first-born of sheep and the first-born of goats; they are holy: and thou shalt pour their blood upon the altar, and thou shalt offer the fat as a burnt-offering for a smell of sweet savour to the Lord.

His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.

and the Lord be angry with you, and restrain the heaven; and there shall not be rain, and the earth shall not yield its fruit, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land, which the Lord has given you.

A little is better to the righteous than abundant wealth of sinners.

that the Lord spoke to me, saying,

Then Israel sang this song at the well, Begin to sing of the well;

And I undertook to understand this, but it is too hard for me,

Fear not when a man is enriched, and when the glory of his house is increased.

and we will arm ourselves and go as an advanced guard before the children of Israel, until we shall have brought them into their place; and our possessions shall remain in walled cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

For what is man, that thou hast magnified him? or that thou givest heed to him?