Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

But hast thou gone to the treasures of snow? and hast thou seen the treasures of hail?

And Moses wrote this song in that day, and taught it to the children of Israel.

Let them acknowledge to the Lord his mercies, and his wonderful works to the children of men.

The Lord smite thee with distress, and fever, and cold, and inflammation, and blighting, and paleness, and they shall pursue thee until they have destroyed thee.

Thou shalt tithe a tenth of all the produce of thy seed, the fruit of thy field year by year.

But whensoever ye shall transgress, and not perform all these commands, which the Lord spoke to Moses;

For he will not lay upon a man more than right.

to chastise his rulers at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house appointed for every mortal.

And the Levite himself shall perform the service of the tabernacle of witness; and they shall bear their iniquities, it is a perpetual statute throughout their generations; and in the midst of the children of Israel they shall not receive an inheritance.

For they that bless him shall inherit the earth; and they that curse him shall be utterly destroyed.

I will gather evils upon them, and will fight with my weapons against them.

And thou shalt eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there; ye shall bring the tithe of thy corn and of thy wine, and of thine oil, the first-born of thy herd and of thy flock, that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.

These are the families of Zabulon according to their numbering, sixty thousand and five hundred.

Cursed is he that lies with his daughter-in-law: and all the people shall say, So be it. Cursed is he that lies with his wife's sister: and all the people shall say, So be it.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Thou hast seen it, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, withdraw not thyself from me.

As the thirsty earth expecting the rain, so they waited for my speech.

Though there should be a thousand messengers of death, not one of them shall wound him: if he should purpose in his heart to turn to the Lord, and declare to man his fault, and shew his folly;

Thou shalt observe the words that proceed from between thy lips; and as thou hast vowed a gift to the Lord God, so shalt thou do that which thou hast spoken with thy mouth.

surely they shall not see the land, which I sware to their fathers; but their children which are with me here, as many as know not good or evil, every inexperienced youth, to them will I give the land; but none who have provoked me shall see it.

then the Lord shall cast out all these nations before you, and ye shall inherit great nations and stronger than yourselves.

And he laid his hands on him, and appointed him as the Lord ordered Moses.

He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because the Lord will make a short work in all the world.

Thy princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.

The sun arises, and they shall be gathered together, and shall lie down in their dens.

And they went up by the wilderness, and departed as far as Chebron; and there was Achiman, and Sessi, and Thelami, the progeny of Enach. Now Chebron was built seven years before Tanin of Egypt.

And thou shalt have over thine head a sky of brass, and the earth under thee shall be iron.

God has well ordered the way of it, and he knows the place of it.

And the Lord said to Moses, Shall not the hand of the Lord be fully sufficient? now shalt thou know whether my word shall come to pass to thee or not.

On the fourth day ten calves, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old without spot.

And over the forces of the tribes of the sons of Manasse, was Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.

He shall cause men to clap their hands against them, and shall hiss him out of his place.

But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of thine eyes: therefore thou didst hearken, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to thee.

And will he make a covenant with thee? and wilt thou take him for a perpetual servant?

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And if there be a young damsel espoused to a man, and a man should have found her in the city and have lain with her;

brimstone and burning salt, (the whole land shall not be sown, neither shall any green thing spring, nor rise upon it, as Sodom and Gomorrha were overthrown, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew in his wrath and anger:)

every thing that shall pass through the fire shall so be clean, nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of sanctification; and whatsoever will not pass through the fire shall pass through water.

Beside the perpetual whole-burnt-offering in the morning, which is a whole-burnt-sacrifice for a continuance,

Causing the nations to wander, and destroying them: overthrowing the nations, and leading them away.

his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but ye shall by all means bury it in that day; for every one that is hanged on a tree is cursed of God; and ye shall by no means defile the land which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance.

The Lord said, I will bring again from Basan, I will bring my people again through the depths of the sea.

And if thou shalt turn and humble thyself before the Lord, thou hast thus removed unrighteousness far from thy habitation.

And thy most beautiful son whom thou lovest shall fall by the sword; and your mighty men shall fall by the sword, and shall be brought low.

But if ye will not do so, ye will sin against the Lord; and ye shall know your sin, when afflictions shall come upon you.

to deliver me from enemies, or to rescue me from the hand of the mighty ones?

And he brought us out thence to give us this land, which he sware to give to our fathers.

Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling-block.

When he has fallen sick, let him not hope to recover: but let him perish by disease.

who justify the ungodly for rewards, and take away the righteousness of the righteous.

And for a sacrifice, a peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this was the gift of Nathanael the son of Sogar.

And they departed from Makellath, and encamped in Saphar.

I will also therefore give thanks to thee, O God, because of thy truth, on an instrument of psalmody: I will sing psalms to thee on the harp, O Holy One of Israel.

Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, Thus ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying to them,

One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;

For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.

And who is he that examines his works? or who can say, he has wrought injustice?

Of the sons of Joseph of the tribe of the sons of Manasse, the prince was Aniel the son of Suphi.

And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall blot them out with the water of the conviction that brings the curse.

And when the Lord sent you forth from Cades Barne, saying, Go up and inherit the land which I give to you, then ye disobeyed the word of the Lord your God, and believed him not, and hearkened not to his voice.

And he charged Joshua, and said, Be courageous and strong, for thou shalt bring the sons of Israel into the land, which the Lord sware to them, and he shall be with thee.

Take the number of them from five and twenty years old and upwards until the age of fifty, every one that goes in to minister, to do his business in the tabernacle of witness.

I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I sing praise to thee.

If by any means he would fill his belly, let God send upon him the fury of wrath; let him bring a torrent of pains upon him.

And it shall come to pass in that day, for every place where there shall be a thousand vines at a thousand shekels, they shall become barren land and thorns.

or smite him with any stone, whereby a man may die, unawares, and it should fall upon him, and he should die, but he was not his enemy, nor sought to hurt him;

And the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, and thou shalt destroy them with a great destruction, until ye shall have utterly destroyed them.

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.

wondrous works in the land of Cham, and terrible things at the Red Sea.

And the saying pleased me: and I took of you twelve men, one man of a tribe.

And to Nephthali he said, Nephthali has the fulness of good things; and let him be filled with blessing from the Lord: he shall inherit the west and the south.

And the sons of Gedson shall encamp westward behind the tabernacle.

even an inheritance to Israel his servant: for his mercy endures for ever.

For oh that my words were written, and that they were recorded in a book forever,

and we do not find another his equal in strength: as for him that judges justly, dost thou not think that he listens?

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

While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is hotly pursued: the wicked are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine.

Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have sought out thy testimonies.

And all as many as brought ornaments of gold to the Lord, and with whomsoever fine linen was found; and they brought skins dyed blue, and rams' skins dyed red.

And the Evites who dwell in Asedoth to Gaza, and the Cappadocians who came out of Cappadocia, destroyed them, and dwelt in their room.

the numbering of them of the tribe of Symeon, was fifty-nine thousand and three hundred.

How many are my sins and my transgressions? teach me what they are.

when the people are gathered together, and the kings, to serve the Lord.

Deliver me, for I am poor and needy; and my heart is troubled within me.

And he put on it its lamps before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

For all his judgments were before me, and his ordinances departed not from me.

And Moses saw all the works; and they had done them all as the Lord commanded Moses, so had they made them; and Moses blessed them.

And is there a store of them, for thee against the time of thine enemies, for the day of wars and battle?

Death is rest to such a man, for God has hedged him in.

He made all the vessels of the altar and its grate, and its base, and its bowls, and the brazen flesh-hooks.

And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.

The bow and sword resound against him; and his rage will swallow up the ground:

But my years are numbered and their end come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.

The enemy shall have no advantage against him; and the son of transgression shall not hurt him again.

And I besought the Lord at that time, saying,

Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord our God, which he made with you, and ye transgress, and make to yourselves a graven image of any of the things concerning which the Lord thy God commanded thee.

and they made two golden circlets and two golden rings.