Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

Thy ways and thy devices have brought these things upon thee; this is thy wickedness, for it is bitter, for it has reached to thy heart.

And the eastern coasts between Loranitis, and Damascus, and the land of Galaad, and the land of Israel, the Jordan divides to the sea that is east of the city of palm-trees. These are the eastern coasts.

For of a truth, Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste the whole world, and the countries thereof,

When I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou hast not warned him, to give warning to the wicked, to turn from his ways, that he should live; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.

And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm-tree; I shall live a long while.

for they are enemies to you by the treachery wherein they ensnare you through Phogor, and through Chasbi their sister, daughter of a prince of Madiam, who was smitten in the day of the plague because of Phogor.

things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the sons shall not be put to death for the fathers; every one shall be put to death for his own sin.

And Edom said to him, Thou shalt not pass through me, and if otherwise, I will go forth to meet thee in war.

They shall make mention of thy name from generation to generation: therefore shall the nations give thanks to thee for ever, even for ever and ever.

And thou shalt be confident, because thou hast hope; and peace shall dawn to thee from out of anxiety and care.

For I am ready for plagues, and my grief is continually before me.

(for I nourished them as a father from my youth and guided them from my mother's womb.)

the princes digged it, the kings of the nations in their kingdom, in their lordship sank it in the rock: and they went from the well to Manthanain,

All these things are come upon us: but we have not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt unrighteously in thy covenant.

And Edom shall be an inheritance, and Esau his enemy shall be an inheritance of Israel, and Israel wrought valiantly.

for I am full of words, for the spirit of my belly destroys me.

And Balaam answered and said to the princes of Balac, If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I shall not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord God, to make it little or great in my mind.

how he withstood thee in the way, and harassed thy rear, even those that were weary behind thee, and thou didst hunger and wast weary; and he did not fear God.

Render a recompense to thy servant: so shall I live, and keep thy words.

And he took up his parable, and said, rise up, Balac, and hear; hearken as a witness, thou son of Sepphor.

But I am poor and needy; the Lord will take care of me; thou art my helper, and my defender, O my God, delay not.

Thou shalt make for thyself judges and officers in thy cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee in thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment:

For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.

they have ears, but they cannot hear; for there is no breath in their mouth.

for he causes a man to be in pain, and restores him again: he smites, and his hands heal.

if thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments, all that I charge thee this day, to do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord thy God.

In that day the mountains shall be consumed, and the hills, and the forests, and fire shall devour both soul and body: and he that flees shall be as one fleeing from burning flame.

But the Lord was jealous of his land, and spared his people.

It shall not seem hard to thee when they are sent out free from thee, because thy servant has served thee six years according to the annual hire of a hireling; so the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all things whatsoever thou mayest do.

the likeness of any reptile which creeps on the earth, the likeness of any fish of those which are in the waters under the earth;

Whereas he trust not in his servants, and perceives perverseness in his angels.

And when he shall be established in his government, then shall he write for himself this repetition of the law into a book by the hands of the priests the Levites;

And all the pins of the court round about of brass, and they were overlaid with silver.

Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

And I charged you at that time, saying, The Lord your God has given you this land by lot; arm yourselves, every one that is powerful, and go before your brethren the children of Israel.

For thou art the boast of their strength; and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted,

He overlaid the posts with silver, and cast for each post golden rings, and gilded the bars with gold; and he gilded the posts of the veil with gold, and made the hooks of gold.

and the table of shewbread, and all its furniture, and the shewbread upon it,

And hast thou been instructed in the breadth of the whole earth under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it?

He will deliver me from my mighty enemies, and from them that hate me; for they are stronger than I.

Establish with me a token for good; and let them that hate me see it and be ashamed; because thou, O Lord, hast helped me, and comforted me.

And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor's voice.

And he took the testimonies, and put them into the ark; and he put the staves by the sides of the ark.

Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel for the wicked is far from him.

Let sinners be driven away into Hades, even all the nations that forget God.

He loved cursing also, and it shall come upon him; and he took not pleasure in blessing, so it shall be removed far from him.

And they assembled all the congregation on the first day of the month in the second year; and they registered them after their lineage, after their families, after the number of their names, from twenty years old and upwards, every male according to their number:

I will raise up to them a prophet of their brethren, like thee; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them as I shall command him.

Let one drive him from light into darkness.

And iniquity shall burn as fire, and shall be devoured by fire as dry grass: and it shall burn in the thickets of the wood, and shall devour all that is round about the hills.

While he is yet speaking, another messenger comes, saying to Job, While thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking with their elder brother,

Thou shalt pass over this day the borders of Moab to Aroer;

The station of the camp of Ephraim shall be westward with their forces, and the head of the children of Ephraim shall be Elisama the son of Emiud.

To him who smote great kings: for his mercy endures for ever:

But they rejected me for ever; whenever I rise up, they speak against me.

I shall not die, but live, and recount the works of the Lord.

Behold I and the children which God has given me: and they shall be for signs and wonders in the house of Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells in mount Sion.

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.

Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just.

But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, that he gives thee strength to get wealth; even that he may establish his covenant, which the Lord sware to thy fathers, as at this day.

And these are the names of the sons of Gedson according to their families; Lobeni and Semei:

And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, and a rock shall be worn out of its place.

The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and closed upon the congregation of Abiron.

and the second row, a carbuncle and sapphire and jasper;

And I charged upon you at that time all the commands which ye shall perform.

And to Zabulon he said, Rejoice, Zabulon, in thy going out, and Issachar in his tents.

Make a brazen laver, and a brazen base for it, for washing; and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of witness and the altar, and thou shalt pour forth water into it.

And they sinned yet more against him; they provoked the Most High in the wilderness.

Wilt thou establish with him foundations for the ancient heavens? they are strong as a molten mirror.

And the judges shall make diligent inquiry, and, behold, if and unjust witness has borne unjust testimony; and has stood up against his brother;

And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall hiss for the flies, which insect shall rule over a part of the river of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of the Assyrians.

They counted all my bones; and they observed and looked upon me.

He has laboured unprofitably and in vain, for wealth of which he shall not taste: it is as a lean thing, unfit for food, which he cannot swallow.

He has had regard to the prayer of the lowly, and has not despised their petition.

Ye shall not destroy the family of Caath from the tribe out of the midst of the Levites.

But the mercy of the Lord is from generation to generation upon them that fear him, and his righteousness to children's children;

And I made my petition before the Lord as also at the first forty days and forty nights: I ate no bread and drank no water, on account of all your sins which ye sinned in doing evil before the Lord God to provoke him.

Thus I also have been deserted of all; and I am ruined, and become an outcast.

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

And the priest shall cause the woman to stand before the Lord, and shall uncover the head of the woman, and shall put into her hands the sacrifice of memorial, the sacrifice of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest shall be the water of this conviction that brings the curse.

Thou hast made all the borders of the earth; thou hast made summer and spring.

until I go into the sanctuary of God; and so understand the latter end.

And ye shall take one ruler from each tribe to divide the land to you by lot.

And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.

Wilt thou visit him till the morning, and judge him till the time of rest?

If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.

And he that has vowed shall shave the head of his consecration by the doors of the tabernacle of witness, and shall put the hairs on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace-offering.

But thy friends, O God, have been greatly honoured by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened.

Let his name be blessed for ever: his name shall endure longer than the sun: and all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

but there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, by reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities.

The afflictions of my heart have been multiplied; deliver me from my distresses.

executing judgment for the stranger and orphan and widow, and he loves the stranger to give him food and raiment.

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth, and until now will I declare thy wonders;

He is swift on the face of the water: let his portion be cursed on the earth; and let their plants be laid bare.

On the second day Nathanael son of Sogar, the prince of the tribe of Issachar, brought his offering.

Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer's yoke:

And they departed from Aseroth, and encamped in Rathama.