Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

This is the gate of the Lord: the righteous shall enter by it.

They shall wash their hands and feet with water, whensoever they shall go into the tabernacle of witness; they shall wash themselves with water, that they die not; and it shall be for them a perpetual statute, for him and his posterity after him.

And it shall be to you a perpetual statute; and he that sprinkles the water of sprinkling shall wash his garments; and he that touches the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until evening.

So the Levites purified themselves and washed their garments; and Aaron presented them as a gift before the Lord, and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them.

Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.

And the Lord shall separate that man for evil of all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in the book of this law.

So Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through his borders, and Israel turned away from him.

then shall they bring out the damsel to the doors of her father's house, and shall stone her with stones, and she shall die; because she has wrought folly among the children of Israel, to defile the house of her father by whoring: so thou shalt remove the evil one from among you.

They have provoked me to jealousy with that which is not God, they have exasperated me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are no nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding.

He pours dishonour upon princes, and heals the lowly.

And Eleazar the priest said to the men of the host that came from the battle-array, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses.

He is thy boast, and he is thy God, who has wrought in the midst of thee these great and glorious things, which thine eyes have seen.

to enter into the caverns of the solid rock, and into the clefts of the rocks, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.

He made the pins of the tabernacle and the pins of the court of brass.

to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain;

And the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; and thou shalt remove the evil one from yourselves, and the rest shall hear and fear.

Our God is the God of salvation; and to the Lord belong the issues from death.

who desire death, and obtain it not, digging for it as for treasures;

I know then that thou wert born at that time, and the number of thy years is great.

and every one of you will pass over Jordan fully armed before the Lord, until his enemy be destroyed from before his face,

and the ear-rings, and the garments with scarlet borders, and the garments with purple grounds, and the shawls to be worn in the house, and the Spartan transparent dresses, and those made of fine linen, and the purple ones, and the scarlet ones, and the fine linen, interwoven with gold and purple, and the light coverings for couches.

and all the vessels of the tabernacle and all its instruments: and the skins, even rams' skins dyed red, and the blue coverings, and the coverings of the other things, and the pins, and all the instruments for the works of the tabernacle of witness.

He paws exulting in the plain, and goes forth in strength into the plain.

And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me.

My soul has waited for reproach and misery; and I waited for one to grieve with me, but there was none; and for one to comfort me, but I found none.

For truly I will not be awed because of man, nor indeed will I be confounded before a mortal.

For he has not treated the barren woman well, and has had no pity on a feeble woman.

And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.

And he put on it the shewbread before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Woe to them that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their own sight.

Thou shalt offer a tenth for each lamb, for the seven lambs.

This is the dealing of the Lord with those who falsely accuse me, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

One calf of the herd, one ram, one he-lamb of a year old for a whole-burnt-offering,

And they departed from Lebona, and encamped in Ressan.

Or wilt thou fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp?

Why hast thou not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? but now I shall depart to the earth; and in the morning I am no more.

My soul has longed exceedingly for thy judgments at all times.

Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: let the heathen know that they are men. Pause.

What afflictions many and sore hast thou shewed me! yet thou didst turn and quicken me, and broughtest me again from the depths of the earth.

the numbering of them of the tribe of Ruben, was forty-six thousand and four hundred.

Cursed is he that lies with any beast: and all the people shall say, So be it.

For Manasses shall eat the flesh of Ephraim, and Ephraim the flesh of Manasses; for they shall besiege Juda together. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.

For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.

And the remnant of Jacob shall trust on the mighty God.

Thou shalt not be wounded before them, because the Lord thy God in the midst of thee is a great and powerful God.

This is the law of the votary who shall have vowed to the Lord his gift to the Lord, concerning his vow, besides what he may be able to afford according to the value of his vow, which he may have vowed according to the law of separation.

These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.

But take heed lest thou do that which is wrong: for of this thou has made choice because of poverty.

and said, I myself came forth naked from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither; the Lord gave, the Lord has taken away: as it seemed good to the Lord, so has it come to pass; blessed be the name of the Lord.

and they brought an offering to the Lord for all the works of the tabernacle of witness, and all its services, and for all the robes of the sanctuary.

Of the tribe of Benjamin, Eldad the son of Chaslon.

They that reward evil for good slandered me; because I followed righteousness.

As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in thy city thou wilt despise their image.

A great nation and populous, and mightier than you, as also the Enakim: yet the Lord destroyed them from before them, and they inherited their land, and they dwelt there instead of them until this day.

And famine shall come sorely upon you, and it shall come to pass, that when ye shall be hungry, ye shall be grieved, and ye shall speak ill of the prince and your fathers' ordinances: and they shall look up to heaven above,

then the priest shall adjure the woman by the oaths of this curse, and the priest shall say to the woman, The Lord bring thee into a curse and under an oath in the midst of thy people, in that the Lord should cause thy thigh to rot and thy belly to swell;

Withhold thine hand from me: and let not thy fear terrify me.

And this song shall stand up to witness against them; for they shall not forget it out of their mouth, or out of the mouth of their seed; for I know their wickedness, what they are doing here this day, before I have brought them into the good land, which I sware to their fathers.

And I will set my glory among you, and all the nations shall see my judgment which I have wrought, and my hand which I have brought upon them.

Be of good courage, O land; rejoice and be glad: for the Lord has done great things.

Did not the Lord remember the incense which ye burned in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, and your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land? and came it not into his heart?

The Lord God has taken counsel that he might be justified, and might magnify his praise.

And judgment is coming against the land of Misor, upon Chelon, and Rephas, and Mophas,

And by thee I will scatter the horse and his rider; and by thee I will scatter chariots and them that ride in them.

I will make thee a destruction, and thou shalt be no more for ever, saith the Lord God.

Prepare thy children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars.

And I will deliver them into the hands of strangers to make them a prey, and to the pests of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane them.

and the inhabitants of five cities shall come together to one city, saying, Let us go to make supplication to the Lord, and to seek the face of the Lord Almighty; I will go also.

Hear ye now these things, O foolish and senseless people; who have eyes, and see not; and have ears, and hear not:

Thus saith the Lord concerning Achiab, and concerning Sedekias; Behold, I will deliver them into the hands of the king of Babylon; and he shall smite them in your sight.

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, I will hearken to the heaven, and it shall hearken to the earth;

Now Esaias had said to Ezekias; Take a cake of figs, and mash them, and apply them as a plaster, and thou shalt be well.

I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell your meat-offerings in your general assemblies.

And this shall be my covenant with them, said the Lord; My Spirit which is upon thee, and the words which I have put in thy mouth, shall never fail from thy mouth, nor from the mouth of thy seed, for the Lord has spoken it, henceforth and for ever.

and Idumea, and the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon,

on the land, saith the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I command thee.

And the prince shall have the remainder on this side and on that side from the first-fruits of the sanctuary, and there shall be a possession of the city, for five and twenty thousand cubits in length, to the eastern and western borders, for five and twenty thousand to the western borders, next to the portions of the prince; and the first-fruits of the holy things and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst of it.

And thou didst look upon the iniquity of thy youth, the things which thou wroughtest in Egypt in thy lodgings, where were the breasts of thy youth.

Also her hired soldiers in the midst of her are as fatted calves fed in her; for they also have turned, and fled with one accord: they stood not, for the day of destruction was come upon them, and the time of their retribution.

And if they shall thirst, he shall lead them through the desert; he shall bring forth water to them out of the rock: the rock shall be cloven, and the water shall flow forth, and my people shall drink.

Will ye not know? will ye not hear? has it not been told you of old? Have ye not known the foundations of the earth?

I spoke to thee on occasion of thy trespass, but thou saidst, I will not hearken. This has been thy way from thy youth, thou hast not hearkened to my voice.

Son of man, set thy face against Sidon, and prophesy against it,

This will I lay up in my heart, therefore I will endure.

In every battle of his they shall fall by the sword, and I will scatter his remnant to every wind: and ye shall know that I the Lord have spoken it.

Each one had four faces, and each one had eight wings; and under their wings was the likeness of men's hands.

RHECHS. Behold, O Lord; for I am afflicted: my belly is troubled, and my heart is turned within me; for I have been grievously rebellious: abroad the sword has bereaved me, even as death at home.

How long shall I see fugitives, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

And as for the heart set upon their abominations and their iniquities, as their heart went after them, I have recompensed their ways on their heads, saith the Lord.

Thus saith the Lord, Gather your whole-burnt-offerings with your meat-offerings, and eat flesh.

Therefore do thou deliver their sons to famine, and gather them to the power of the sword: let their women be childless and widows; and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in war.

There is no joy to the ungodly, said God.

And I will blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.

Thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever, preserving that which they have planted, even the works of their hands, for glory.

But they provoked me, and their children walked not in my commandments, and they took no heed to mine ordinances to do them, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned my sabbaths: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish mine anger upon them.

Be thou in the depth of the pit: to whom art thou superior? yea, go down, and lie with the uncircumcised, in the midst of them that are slain with the sword.

For the king of Babylon shall stand on the old way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination, to make bright the arrow, and to enquire of the graven images, and to examine the victims.