Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And hast thou clad him in perfect armour, and made his breast glorious with courage?

Thou drivest him to an end, and he is gone: thou settest thy face against him, and sendest him away;

And whatever man shall be defiled and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the congregation, because he has defiled the holy things of the Lord, because the water of sprinkling has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

Thou mayest lend on usury to a stranger, but to thy brother thou shalt not lend on usury; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy works upon the land, into which thou art entering to inherit it.

It shall be accounted a land of Raphain, for the Raphain dwelt there before, and the Ammanites call them Zochommin.

For thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before thee.

All the life of the ungodly is spent in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.

The Lord send upon thee want, and famine, and consumption of all things on which thou shalt put thy hand, until he shall have utterly destroyed thee, and until he shall have consumed thee quickly because of thine evil devices, because thou hast forsaken me.

Look upon mine enemies; for they have been multiplied; and they have hated me with unjust hatred.

And he brought me out into a wide place: he will deliver me, because he has pleasure in me.

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in my teeth.

And he was angry with Aaron to destroy him utterly, and I prayed for Aaron also at that time.

Behold, I have received commandment to bless: I will bless, and not turn back.

For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in griefs?

and the curtains of the court, and the posts, and the veil of the door of the tabernacle, and the gate of the court,

In that day the Lord shall shave with the hired razor of the king of Assyria beyond the river the head, and the hairs of the feet, and will remove the beard.

In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in war he shall free thee from the power of the sword.

to deliver their souls from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

They shall not be ashamed in an evil time; and in days of famine they shall be satisfied.

and the array of glorious ornaments, and the armlets, and the bracelets, and the wreathed work, and the finger-rings, and the ornaments for the right hand,

Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to thee: forget not for ever the souls of thy poor.

And what the land is on which they dwell, whether it is good or bad; and what the cities are wherein these dwell, whether they dwell in walled cities or unwalled.

And Moses said to them, If ye will do according to these words, if ye will arm yourselves before the Lord for battle,

But one shall turn aside to the right hand, for he shall be hungry; and shall eat on the left, and a man shall by no means be satisfied with eating the flesh of his own arm.

behold, the Lord your God has delivered to us the land before you: go up and inherit it as the Lord God of your fathers said to you; fear not, neither be afraid.

until his flesh shall be consumed, and he shall shew his bones bare.

His forces that were numbered, were thirty-two thousand and two hundred.

or if he have smitten him with his hand through anger, and the man should die, let the man that smote him be put to death by all means, he is a murderer: let the murderer by all means be put to death: the avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meets him.

But the light is not visible to all: it shines afar off in the heavens, as that which is from him in the clouds.

Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.

Be firm, I pray thee, if thou canst endure; then thy fruit shall prosper.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

and Og king of Basan: for his mercy endures for ever:

The king sent and loosed him; even the prince of the people, and let him go free.

and though his children be multiplied, he knows it not; and if they be few, he is not aware.

To Gedson belongs the family of Lobeni, and the family of Semei: these are the families of Gedson.

There is nothing remaining of his provisions; therefore his goods shall not flourish.

And your sin which ye had made, even the calf, I took, and burnt it with fire, and pounded it and ground it down till it became fine; and it became like dust, and I cast the dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.

Deliver my soul from the sword; my only-begotten one from the power of the dog.

And he saw his first-fruits, that there the land of the princes gathered with the chiefs of the people was divided; the Lord wrought righteousness, and his judgment with Israel.

Thine eye shall not spare him: thou shalt exact life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall rear a heifer, and two sheep.

But if thou shalt say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?

And if the place be far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose for himself, that his name be called upon it, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock which God shall have given thee, even as I commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy cities according to the desire of thy soul.

and they changed their glory into the similitude of a calf that feeds on grass.

Forasmuch as he smote the rock, and the waters flowed, and the torrents ran abundantly; will he be able also to give bread, or prepare a table for his people?

if I lifted my hand against an orphan, trusting that my strength was far superior to his:

And having seen the Kenite, he took up his parable and said, thy dwelling-place is strong; yet though thou shouldest put thy nest in a rock,

And, behold, I have given to the sons of Levi every tithe in Israel for an inheritance for their services, whereinsoever they perform ministry in the tabernacle of witness.

Separate your selves from the midst of this congregation, and I will consume them at once.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search these things out?

We will pass through thy land, we will go by the road; we will not turn aside to the field or to the vineyard.

Men heard me, and gave heed, and they were silent at my counsel.

For to me they spoke peaceably, but imagined deceits in their anger.

But ye also have come to me without pity; so that beholding my wound ye are afraid.

And when thou shalt have reaped corn in thy field, and shalt have forgotten a sheaf in thy field, thou shalt not return to take it; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands.

And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, and they shall ask of him before the Lord the judgment of the Urim: they shall go forth at his word, and at his word they shall come in, he and the children of Israel with one accord, and all the congregation.

He keeps all their bones: not one of them shall be broken.

And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.

He has reached forth his hand for retribution; they have profaned his covenant.

How has the faithful city Sion, once full of judgment, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers.

They attacked me also without mercy: thou hast scourged me with a strong hand.

But as I live and my name is living, so the glory of the Lord shall fill all the earth.

And if thou wilt vow a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it; for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee, and otherwise it shall be sin in thee.

For even if I have sinned, I know it not in my soul: but my life is taken away.

The Lord cause the pestilence to cleave to thee, until he shall have consumed thee off the land into which thou goest to inherit it.

There shall not be trouble in Jacob, neither shall sorrow be seen in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, the glories of rulers are in him.

For the sinners shall perish; and the enemies of the Lord at the moment of their being honoured and exalted have utterly vanished like smoke.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, nor his field, nor his man-servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any beast of his, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

And what the land is, whether rich or poor; whether there are trees in it or no: and ye shall persevere and take of the fruits of the land: and the days were the days of spring, the forerunners of the grape.

that your days may be long, and the days of your children, upon the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Ye shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in thy cities and he shall eat it, or thou shalt sell it to a stranger, because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.

And if there be in it a blemish, if it be lame or blind, an evil blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it to the Lord thy God.

even the first-fruits of your dough, and ye shall give the Lord a heave-offering throughout your generations.

Thou didst make darkness, and it was night; in it all the wild beasts of the forest will be abroad:

He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them out of their destructions.

before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;

It has escaped the notice of every man, and has been hidden from the birds of the sky.

Their meat-offering and their drink-offering shall be to the calves and to the rams and to the lambs according to their number, according to their ordinance.

His lair is formed of sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense quantity of clay.

But he will fill with laughter the mouth of the sincere, and their lips with thanksgiving.

And Moses said, The people among whom I am are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou saidst, I will give them flesh to eat, and they shall eat a whole month.

He shall hide thee from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not be afraid of coming evils.

Thou shalt not plant for thyself a grove; thou shalt not plant for thyself any tree near the altar of thy God.

And the Lord God was angry with me for the things said by you, and sware that I should not go over this Jordan, and that I should not enter into the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

For he surveys the works of men, and nothing of what they do has escaped him.

For he blows upon them, and they are withered: they have perished for lack of wisdom.

And the sons of Caath shall set forward bearing the holy things, and the others shall set up the tabernacle until they arrive.

These are the families of Issachar according to their numbering, sixty-four thousand and four hundred.

And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all things, which the Lord our God did to these two kings: so shall the Lord our God do to all the kingdoms against which thou crossest over thither.

And a burning wind shall catch him, and he shall depart, and it shall utterly drive him out of his place.

When the cloud continues a full month overshadowing the tabernacle, the children of Israel shall encamp, and shall not depart.

Then shalt thou say to thy son, We were slaves to Pharao in the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought us forth thence with a mighty hand, and with a high arm.

Thou wilt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the vexation of man: thou wilt screen them in a tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.

And the stones were twelve according to the names of the children of Israel, graven according to their names like seals, each according to his own name for the twelve tribes.

I have found David my servant; I have anointed him by my holy mercy.