Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And we will not any longer inherit with them from the other side of Jordan and onwards, because we have our full inheritance on the side beyond Jordan eastward.

And ye shall encamp outside the great camp seven days; every one who has slain and who touches a dead body, shall be purified on the third day, and ye and your captivity shall purify yourselves on the seventh day.

and shall fine him a hundred shekels, and shall give them to the father of the damsel, because he has brought forth an evil name against a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife: he shall never be able to put her away.

and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?

Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn.

Such a one as would not reverence the face of an honourable man, neither knows how to give honour to the great, so as that their persons should be respected.

And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; beside the perpetual whole-burnt-offering; their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings.

Behold, the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him, those that hope in his mercy;

And ye shall bring whole-burnt-offerings, a sacrifice to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old; they shall be to you without blemish.

Thou shalt not lend to thy brother on usury of silver, or usury of meat, or usury of any thing which thou mayest lend out.

The Lord is near to them that are of a contrite heart; and will save the lowly in spirit.

And thou shalt set him before Eleazar the priest, and thou shalt give him a charge before all the congregation, and thou shalt give a charge concerning him before them.

For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment?

I will give thanks to thee even in a great congregation: in an abundant people I will praise thee.

And again, he chastens him with sickness on his bed, and the multitude of his bones is benumbed.

And the sons of Issachar according to their families: to Thola, the family of the Tholaites; to Phua, the family of the Phuaites.

and the garments of priesthood for the sons of Aaron and the anointing oil, and the compound incense.

To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them.

The Lord knows the ways of the perfect; and their inheritance shall be for ever.

Their soul abhorred all meat; and they drew near to the gates of death.

Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the stranger and the fatherless, and widow; thou shalt not take the widow's garment for a pledge.

For I will declare mine iniquity, and be distressed for my sin.

And one shall arise out of Jacob, and destroy out of the city him that escapes.

And my belly is as a skin of sweet wine, bound up and ready to burst; or as a brazier's labouring bellows.

God is not as man to waver, nor as the son of man to be threatened; shall he say and not perform? shall he speak and not keep to his word?

They hurt his feet with fetters; his soul passed into iron,

And now do ye also tarry here this night, and I shall know what the Lord will yet say to me.

And it shall come to pass whenever the Lord thy God shall have given thee rest from all thine enemies round about thee, in the land which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, thou shalt blot out the name of Amalec from under heaven, and shalt not forget to do it.

And our heart has not gone back; but thou hast turned aside our paths from thy way.

and from Manthanain to Naaliel, and from Naaliel to Bamoth, and from Bamoth to Janen, which is in the plain of Moab as seen from the top of the quarried rock that looks toward the wilderness.

And if too I overlooked the naked as he was perishing, and did not clothe him;

And the children of Israel say to him, We will pass by the mountain; and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, I will pay thee: but it is no matter of importance, we will go by the mountain.

For thou shalt be at ease, and there shall be no one to fight against thee; and many shall charge, and make supplication to thee.

and that thou shouldest be above all nations, as he has made thee renowned, and a boast, and glorious, that thou shouldest be a holy people to the Lord thy God, as he has spoken.

And the clean man shall sprinkle the water on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day, and on the seventh day he shall purify himself; and the other shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

Every special offering of the holy things, whatsoever the children of Israel shall specially offer to the Lord, I have given to thee and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, a perpetual ordinance: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord, for thee and thy seed after thee.

And thou hast counted me as clay; my portion in dust and ashes.

Cursed is every one that shall pervert the judgment of the stranger, and orphan, and widow: and all the people shall say, So be it.

If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest along with him, and hast cast in thy lot with adulterers.

that such is the overthrow of the ungodly? and out of the earth another shall grow.

Do good, O Lord, to Sion in thy good pleasure; and let the walls of Jerusalem be built.

And Core raised up against them all his company by the door of the tabernacle of witness; and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the congregation.

My root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop.

And if ye be willing, and hearken to me, ye shall eat the good of the land:

He shall deliver my soul in peace from them that draw nigh to me: for they were with me in many cases.

Forgive this people their sin according to thy great mercy, as thou wast favourable to them from Egypt until now.

Cursed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and cursed shalt thou be in thy going out.

and ye shall see the land, what it is, and the people that dwells on it, whether it is strong or weak, or whether they are few or many.

Behold the ways of the Thaemanites, ye that mark the paths of the Sabaeans.

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equalled to it; it shall not be compared with pure gold.

Ye shall not eat one day, nor two, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days;

And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Symeon, was Salamiel son of Surisadai.

And it shall be, whenever the cloud overshadows the tabernacle a number of days, they shall encamp by the word of the Lord, and shall remove by the command of the Lord.

He sends away priests into captivity, and overthrows the mighty ones of the earth.

The high mountains are a refuge for the stags, and the rock for the rabbits.

The rich man shall lie down, and shall not continue: he has opened his eyes, and he is not.

And it shall be if one shall hear the words of this curse, and shall flatter himself in his heart, saying, Let good happen to me, for I will walk in the error of my heart, lest the sinner destroy the guiltless with him:

If I have regarded iniquity in my heart, let not the Lord hearken to me.

And I gave the Levites presented as a gift to Aaron and his sons out of the midst of the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of witness, and to make atonement for the children of Israel: thus there shall be none among the sons of Israel to draw nigh to the holy things.

having carried them into the caves, and into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.

Thou art gone up on high, thou hast led captivity captive, thou hast received gifts for man, yea, for they were rebellious, that thou mightest dwell among them.

I call both heaven and earth to witness this day against you, I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: choose thou life, that thou and thy seed may live;

and the chains, and the ornaments of their faces,

Draw nigh to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

who say, Let him speedily hasten what he will do, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.

And he brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering.

Let them be withered upon the earth; for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.

even until I am old and advanced in years. O God, forsake me not; until I shall have declared thine arm to all the generation that is to come:

How long dost thou not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?

Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who alone does wonders.

And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened loaf from the basket, and one unleavened cake, and shall put them on the hands of the votary after he has shaved off his

Let his substance fail to supply his children: God shall recompense him, and he shall know it.

Surely thou hast appointed judgments to them because of their crafty dealings: thou hast cast them down when they were lifted up.

And now write the words of this song, and teach it to the children of Israel, and ye shall put it into their mouth, that this song may witness for me among the children of Israel to their face.

And the priest shall adjure her, and shall say to the woman, If no one has lain with thee, and if thou hast not transgressed so as to be polluted, being under the power of thy husband, be free from this water of the conviction that causes the curse.

to them that keep his covenant, and remember his commandments to do them.

Remember this thy creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked thy name.

This do ye to them, and they shall live and not die, when they approach the holy of holies: Let Aaron and his sons advance, and they shall place them each in his post for bearing.

For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: and he has plundered an habitation, though he built it not.

And they all shall enter into the clefts of the land, and into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves, and into every ravine.

The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong overflow a heap of the earth: and thou destroyest the hope of man.

And they tempted God in their hearts, in asking meat for the desire of their souls.

They shall utterly destroy the nations, and ye shall call men there, and there offer the sacrifice of righteousness; for the wealth of the sea shall suckle thee, and so shall the marts of them that dwell by the sea-coast.

And a fire was kindled in their congregation, and a flame burnt up the sinners.

and the sons of Caath according to their families; Amram and Issaar, Chebron and Oziel:

For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire?

And if they should say to you, Seek those who have in them a divining spirit, and them that speak out of the earth, them that speak vain words, who speak out of their belly: shall not a nation diligently seek to their God? why do they seek to the dead concerning the living?

They that saw me abhorred me: the very persons whom I had loved, rose up against me.

His forces that were numbered, are forty thousand and five hundred.

suddenly a great wind came on from the desert, and caught the four corners of the house, and the house fell upon thy children, and they are dead; and I have escaped alone, and am come to tell thee.

The whole earth is set on fire because of the fierce anger of the Lord, and the people shall be as men burnt by fire: no man shall pity his brother.

He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

as the Lord commanded Moses, so they were numbered in the wilderness of Sina.

And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and put on it the covering of the veil, and covered the ark of the testimony, as the Lord commanded Moses.

The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord.

and the garments of the sanctuary which belong to Aaron, and the garments of his sons, for the priestly ministry;

He made also the rings of the tabernacle of gold; and the rings of the court, and the rings for drawing out the veil above of brass.