Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And all the congregation of the children of Israel went out from Moses. And they brought, they whose heart prompted them, and they to whomsoever it seemed good in their mind, each and offering:

And ye shall write them on the lintels of your houses, and on your gates;

But grant me two things: then I will not hide myself from thy face.

And the sons of Ruben the first-born of Israel according to their kindreds, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their heads, wereall males from twenty years old and upward, every one that went out with the host

He cast the silver chapiters of the tabernacle, and the brazen chapiters of the door of the tabernacle, and the gate of the court; and he made silver hooks for the posts, he overlaid them with silver on the posts.

Have I a book or a scribe my me, that I may stand and put man to silence?

ye shall eat for a full month, until the flesh come out at your nostrils; and it shall be nausea to you, because ye disobeyed the Lord, who is among you, and wept before him, saying, What had we to do to come out of Egypt?

Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.

And to Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlarges Gad: as a lion he rested, having broken the arm and the ruler.

For in that day a man shall cast forth his silver and gold abominations, which they made in order to worship vanities and bats;

For he has looked out from the height of his sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven;

Thou shalt justly pursue justice, that ye may live, and go in and inherit the land which the Lord thy God gives thee.

They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

O house of Israel, bless ye the Lord: O house of Aaron, bless ye the Lord:

And ye shall purify every garment and every leathern utensil, and all furniture of goat skin, and every wooden vessel.

Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,

And it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel shall no more join themselves with, and the saved of Jacob shall no more trust in, them that injured them; but they shall trust in the Holy God of Israel, in truth.

And the Lord thy God shall send against them the hornets, until they that are left and they that are hidden from thee be utterly destroyed.

And so they shall by no means go in to look suddenly upon the holy things, and die.

But God took you, and led you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

But it shall turn out vanity to them, to cry and beseech a man; for they dealt unlawfully, the poor being turned aside from their right.

He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knows his going down.

If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O thou that understandest the mind of men? why hast thou made me as thine accuser, and why am I a burden to thee?

But if this report be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel;

and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

And from the morning to evening they no longer exist: they have perished, because they cannot help themselves.

He changes the lips of the trusty, and he knows the understanding of the elders.

To Jasub, the family of the Jasubites; to Samram, the family of the Samramites.

God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

As also the other nations which the Lord God destroys before your face, so shall ye perish, because ye hearkened not to the voice of the Lord your God.

And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad, was Elisaph the son of Raguel.

And it shall come to pass when thy son shall ask thee at a future time, saying, What are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord our God has commanded us?

And Moses and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites as the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the sons of Israel did to them.

Verily their substance has been utterly destroyed, and the fire shall devour what is left of their property.

Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and give praise to the Lord.

And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

And if he should thrust him through enmity, or cast any thing upon him from an ambuscade, and the man should die,

that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, that he depart not from the commandments on the right hand or on the left; that he and his sons may reign long in his dominion among the children of Israel.

Oh that thou wouldest slay the wicked, O God; depart from me, ye men of blood.

And Beseleel the son of Urias of the tribe of Juda, did as the Lord commanded Moses.

Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night.

until the Lord your God give your brethren rest, as also he has given to you, and they also shall inherit the land, which the Lord our God gives them on the other side of Jordan; then ye shall return, each one to his inheritance which I have given you.

Thou shalt eat it before the Lord year by year in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy house.

Then thou spokest in vision to thy children, and saidst, I have laid help on a mighty one; I have exalted one chosen out of my people.

Of the tribe of Symeon, Salamiel the son of Semiud.

And it shall come to pass, whenever the cloud shall remain from the evening till the morning, and in the morning the cloud shall go up, then shall they remove by day or by night.

Cursed is he that lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt: and all the people shall say, So be it.

Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction, and he saved them out of their distresses.

How abundant is the multitude of thy goodness, O Lord, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee! thou hast wrought it out for them that hope on thee, in the presence of the sons of men.

So Job arose, and rent his garments, and shaved the hair of his head, and fell on the earth, and worshipped,

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

And he said, Thou shalt not pass through me; and Edom went forth to meet him with a great host, and a mighty hand.

Ye shall offer your bread a heave-offering: as a heave-offering from the threshing-floor, so shall ye separate it,

even thy power and thy righteousness, O God, up to the highest heavens, even the mighty works which thou has done: O God, who is like to thee?

and the sons of Merari according to their families, Mooli and Musi; these are the families of the Levites according to the houses of their families.

For thou hast laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.

And the Lord said to Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any portion among them; for I am thy portion and thine inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.

And having seen Amalec, he took up his parable and said, Amalec is the first of the nations; yet his seed shall perish.

And Moses sent ambassadors to Seon king of the Amorites, with peaceable words, saying,

But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?

For I will bring them into the good land, which I sware to their fathers, to give to them a land flowing with milk and honey: and they shall eat and be filled and satisfy themselves; then will they turn aside after other gods, and serve them, and they will provoke me, and break my covenant.

Let it be to him as a garment which he puts on, and as a girdle with which he girds himself continually.

Then is his sin brought to remembrance, and he vanishes like a vapour of dew: but let what he has done be recompensed to him, and let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.

But if being a married woman thou hast transgressed, or been polluted, and any one has lain with thee, beside thy husband:

and the fourth row a chrysolite and beryl and onyx set round about with gold, and fastened with gold.

And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat;

Let not them that are mine enemies without a cause rejoice against me; who hate me for nothing, and wink with their eyes.

My glory was fresh in me, and by bow prospered in his hand.

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee from thence; therefore I charge thee to do this thing.

One censer of ten golden shekels, full of incense.

I will speak, that I may open my lips and relieve myself.

The Lord has prepared his throne in the heaven; and his kingdom rules over all.

Then shalt thou be pleased with a sacrifice of righteousness, offering, and whole-burnt-sacrifices: then shall they offer calves upon thine altar.

Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness light, and light darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter.

until the time that his cause came on; the word of the Lord tried him as fire.

But safety shall fail them; for their hope is destruction, and the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away.

And their meat-offering shall be fine flour mingled with oil; three tenth deals for one calf, and two tenth deals for one ram.

And God came to Balaam by night, and said to him, If these men are come to call thee, rise and follow them; nevertheless the word which I shall speak to thee, it shalt thou do.

And thou shalt put of thy glory upon him, that the children of Israel may hearken to him.

Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord.

And they departed from Remmon Phares, and encamped in Lebona.

They too that trust in cities and riches shall come to shame.

But the prophet whosoever shall impiously speak in my name a word which I have not commanded him to speak, and whosoever shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but out of them all Lord will deliver them.

For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.

There is no security to his possessions; he shall not be saved by his desire.

God shall hear, and bring them low, even he that has existed from eternity. Pause. For they suffer no reverse, and therefore they have not feared God.

And draw not forth all the mighty men by night, so that the people should go up instead of them.

but if ye be not willing, nor hearken to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.

And the priest shall present them as an offering before the Lord; it shall be the holy portion for the priest beside the breast of the heave-offering and beside the shoulder of the wave-offering: and afterwards the votary shall drink wine.

But the tree which thou knowest to be not fruit-bearing, this thou shalt destroy and cut down; and thou shalt construct a mound against the city, which makes war against thee, until it be delivered up.

And they that encamp next shall be of the tribe of Manasse, and the prince of the sons of Manasse, Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.

And he put the table in the tabernacle of witness, on the north side without the veil of the tabernacle.

Seon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endures for ever:

Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged before thee.

But thou, O Lord, remove not my help afar off: be ready for mine aid.

And the Lord said to Moses, I am gracious to them according to thy word.

And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not: but they stood still, and observed me.