Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

The sinner borrows, and will not pay again: but the righteous has compassion, and gives.

Your silver is worthless, thy wine merchants mix the wine with water.

Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord does, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

In all these events that befell him Job sinned not at all before the Lord, and did not impute folly to God.

But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame; and the habitation of the ungodly shall perish.

For I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.

And it shall come to pass that if ye will indeed hearken to all these commands, which I charge thee to observe this day, to love the Lord our God, and to walk in all his ways, and to cleave close to him;

It was God who brought him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn.

And to Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp, and shall leap out of Basan.

They gave me also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.

But if thou shouldest be unwilling to vow, it is not sin in thee.

to proclaim the name of the Lord in Sion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

For all the men who see my glory, and the signs which I wrought in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me this tenth time, and have not hearkened to my voice,

Thou shalt eat it in thy cities; the unclean in thee and the clean shall eat it in like manner, as the doe or the stag.

But if he should thrust him suddenly, not through enmity, or cast any thing upon him, not from an ambuscade,

And in wrath he has overthrown the helpless: therefore when he has arisen, a man will not feel secure of his own life.

Behold, the Mighty One shall prevail by his strength: for who is powerful as he is?

But his flesh is in pain, and his soul mourns.

And God was very angry because he went; and the angel of the Lord rose up to withstand him. Now he had mounted his ass, and his two servants were with him.

But when he shall seem to be just satisfied, he shall be straitened; and all distress shall come upon him.

And Moses did as the Lord commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation.

From the north come the clouds shining like gold: in these great are the glory and honour of the Almighty;

I will give thanks to thee; because thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.

And the children of Israel shall no more draw nigh to the tabernacle of witness to incur fatal guilt.

Woe to the strong ones of you that drink wine, and the mighty ones that mingle strong drink:

The numbering of them according to the number of every male from a month old and upwards, their numbering was seven thousand and five hundred.

And he put the candlestick into the tabernacle of witness, on the side of the tabernacle toward the south.

But thou, O Lord, Lord, deal mercifully with me, for thy name's sake: for thy mercy is good.

Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: or thou shalt speak, and I will give thee an answer.

And thou hast put me to grief, and hast cast me away from safety.

and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering.

And the Lord thy God shall consume these nations before thee by little and little: thou shalt not be able to consume them speedily, lest the land become desert, and the wild beasts of the field be multiplied against thee.

let them my shoulder start from the blade-bone, and my arm be crushed off from the elbow.

And they opened wide their mouth upon me; they said Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

And they that encamp next shall be of the tribe of Benjamin, and the prince of the sons of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gadeoni.

At my word they spoke not again, and they were very gland whenever I spoke to them.

and gave their land for an inheritance: for his mercy endures for ever:

And they departed from Ressan, and encamped in Makellath.

And though the people of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be saved.

and this water bringing the curse shall enter into thy womb to cause thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot. And the woman shall say, So be it, So be it.

We will not drink water out of thy well; we will go by the king's highway, until we have past thy boundaries.

Of the tribe of Dan the prince was Bacchir the son of Egli.

Whatsoever words that prophet shall speak in the name of the Lord, and they shall not come true, and not come to pass, this is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; that prophet has spoken wickedly: ye shall not spare him.

And they made on the oracle turned wreaths, wreathen work, of pure gold,

for he knows the secrets of the heart.

Also in the burning, and in the temptation, and at the graves of lust, ye provoked the Lord.

For my hand shall support him; and mine arm shall strengthen him.

Blessed be the Lord: for he has magnified his mercy in a fortified city.

Thou didst multiply thy righteousness, and didst turn and comfort me, and broughtest me again out of the depths of the earth.

For they shall depart by the command of the Lord: - they kept the charge of the Lord by the command of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

He made him Lord over his house, and ruler of all his substance;

And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, the God of spirits and of all flesh, if one man has sinned, shall the wrath of the Lord be upon the whole congregation?

As the doe and the stag are eaten, so shalt thou eat it; the unclean in thee and the clean shall eat it in like manner.

And God shall cast trouble upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

Ye shall not be afraid of them, because the Lord our God himself shall fight for you.

and though Beor should have a skillfully contrived hiding-place, the Assyrians shall carry thee away captive.

And afterwards the Levites went in to minister in their service in the tabernacle of witness before Aaron, and before his sons; as the Lord appointed Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

Therefore the Lord heard, and was provoked: and fire was kindled in Jacob, and wrath went up against Israel.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.

Will he address thee with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?

And the order of the camp of Ephraim shall set forward with their forces; and over their forces was Elisama the son of Semiud.

They forgot God that saved them, who had wrought great deeds in Egypt;

Thou shalt not set up for thyself a pillar, which the Lord thy God hates.

Take the sum of the children of Gedson, and these according to the houses of their lineage, according to their families.

And if a man be found lying with a woman married to a man, ye shall kill them both, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou remove the wicked one out of Israel.

For the children of Symeon 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 polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes out with the host,

Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why dost thou overlook us in times of need, in affliction?

With seventy souls your fathers went down into Egypt; but the Lord thy God has made thee as the stars of heaven in multitude.

Neither shall there be a place for the workers of iniquity to hide themselves.

For I am to die in this land, and shall not pass over this Jordan; but ye are to pass over, and shall inherit this good land.

And thou shalt offer one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you.

And the men, even every one to whom it seemed good in his heart, brought from the women, even brought seals and ear-rings, and finger-rings, and necklaces, and bracelets, every article of gold.

And another generation shall sayeven your sons who shall rise up after you, and the stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon it,

What? have I made any demand of you? or do I ask for strength from you,

Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even as the son of man with his neighbor!

His soul also draws nigh to death, and his life is in Hades.

Beside the gold, and the silver, and the brass, and the iron, and lead, and tin,

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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

For my heart has rejoiced, and my reins have been gladdened.

Shall sheep and oxen be slain for them, and shall it suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and shall it suffice them?

Forsake me not, O Lord my God: depart not from me.

He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,

Revealing deep things out of darkness: and he has brought into light the shadow of death.

The sons of Zabulon according to their families: to Sared, the family of the Saredites; to Allon, the family of the Allonites; to Allel, the family of the Allelites.

He made the brazen altar of the brazen censers, which belonged to the men engaged in sedition with the gathering of Core.

Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders?

and would be very joyful if they should gain it?

And whatsoever the unclean man shall touch shall be unclean, and the soul that touches it shall be unclean till evening.

Destruction and Death said, We have heard the report of it.

And receive a declaration from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

And if there be sin in any one, and the judgment of death be upon him, and he be put to death, and ye hang him on a tree:

As they did to the children of Esau that dwell in Seir, even as they destroyed the Chorrhite from before them, and inherited their country, and dwelt therein instead of them until this day.

Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and thou shalt not be afraid of wild beasts.

For a fire has been kindled out of my wrath, it shall burn to hell below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

And it shall come to pass from their drinking an abundance of milk, that every one that is left on the land shall eat butter and honey.

But God shall crust the heads of his enemies; the hairy crown of them that go on in their trespasses.

And they departed from Cades; and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Or.

And ye all came to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and let them go up to the land for us; and let them bring back to us a report of the way by which we shall go up, and of the cities into which we shall enter.