Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

Cursed is he that smites his neighbour secretly: and all the people shall say, So be it.

Of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, the prince was Camuel the son of Sabathan.

Ye were disobedient in the things relating to the Lord from the day in which he became known to you.

And he shall cause the woman to drink the water of the conviction that brings the curse; and the water of the conviction that brings the curse shall enter into her.

And the Lord charged us to observe all these ordinances; to fear the Lord our God, that it may be well with us for ever, that we may live, as even to-day.

Therefore as stubble shall be burnt by a coal of fire, and shall be consumed by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Remember that his works are great beyond those which men have attempted.

For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous man: he covers the faces of the judges of the earth: but if it be not he, who is it?

Now then arise and depart, and pass over the valley of Arnon: behold, I have delivered into thy hands Seon the king of Esebon the Amorite, and his land: begin to inherit it: engage in war with him this day.

And he shall deliver their kings into your hands, and ye shall destroy their name from that place; none shall stand up in opposition before thee, until thou shalt have utterly destroyed them.

and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused throughout him.

For the sons of Juda 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 forth with the host,

He answered him in the way of his strength: tell me the fewness of my days.

The Lord bless thee and keep thee;

They shall be consumed with hunger and the devouring of birds, and there shall be irremediable destruction: I will send forth against them the teeth of wild beasts, with the rage of serpents creeping on the ground.

And they departed from Saphar, and encamped in Charadath.

Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, and deemest me thine enemy?

On the third day the prince of the sons of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Chaelon.

And if the journey be too far for thee, and thou art not able to bring them, because the place is far from thee which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name called there, because the Lord thy God will bless thee;

And every one that offered an offering brought silver and brass, the offerings to the Lord; and they with whom was found incorruptible wood; and they brought offerings for all the works of the preparation.

And he put the golden altar in the tabernacle of witness before the veil;

I am removed as a shadow in its going down: I am tossed up and down like locusts.

Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; and bow down their back continually.

And I shall be blameless with hem, and shall keep myself from mine iniquity.

For his exaltation has hurt many; but he has withered as mallows in the heat, or as an ear of corn falling off of itself from the stalk.

Let Aaron be added to his people; for ye shall certainly not go into the land which I have given the children of Israel, because ye provoked me at the water of strife.

And ye shall build for yourselves cities for your store, and folds for your cattle; and ye shall do that which proceeds out of your mouth.

And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be levelled with the ground.

Perplexing the minds of the princes of the earth: and he causes them to wander in a way, they have not known, saying,

That thy foot may be dipped in blood, and the tongue of thy dogs be stained with that of thine enemies.

The sons of Gad according to their families: to Saphon, the family of the Saphonites; to Angi, the family of the Angites; to Suni, the family of the Sunites;

For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror.

He made an appendage for the altar of network under the grate, beneath it as far as the middle of it; and he fastened to it four brazen rings on the four parts of the appendage of the altar, wide enough for the bars, so as to bear the altar with them.

And on the seventh day ye shall wash your garments, and be clean; and afterwards ye shall come into the camp.

And whence proceeds the frost? or whence is the south wind dispersed over the whole world under heaven?

Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank.

And one shall come forth from the hands of the Citians, and shall afflict Assur, and shall afflict the Hebrews, and they shall perish together.

and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? what is this great fierceness of anger?

ye shall bring them both out to the gate of their city, and they shall be stoned with stones, and they shall die; the damsel, because she cried not in the city; and the man, because he humbled his neighbour's spouse: so shalt thou remove the evil one from yourselves.

This is the ordinance for the Levites; From five and twenty years old and upward, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle of witness.

For the Lord looks down upon all men, who comprehends unsearchable things, glorious also and excellent things without number.

And wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?

And I will hew down his foes before him, and put to flight those that hate him.

Love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord seeks for truth, and renders a reward to them that deal very proudly.

and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds.

Lord God, thou hast begun to shew to thy servant thy strength, and thy power, and thy mighty hand, and thy high arm: for what God is there in heaven or on the earth, who will do as thou hast done, and according to thy might?

And over the forces of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, was Abidan the son of Gadeoni.

then it shall come to pass, if a trespass be committed unwillingly, unknown to the congregation, then shall all the congregation offer a calf of the herd without blemish for a whole-burnt-offering of sweet savour to the Lord, and its meat-offering and its drink-offering according to the ordinance, and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering.

For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

The Lord thy God make the rain of thy land dust; and dust shall come down from heaven, until it shall have destroyed thee, and until it shall have quickly consumed thee.

And they put the two golden rings on both the upper corners of the oracle;

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

Teach ye me, and I will be silent: if in anything I have erred, tell me.

And Moses went out, and spoke the words of the Lord to the people; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and he set them round about the tabernacle.

and ye said, Behold, the Lord our God has shewn us his glory, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: this day we have seen that God shall speak to man, and he shall live.

There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.

The steps of a man are rightly ordered by the Lord: and he will take pleasure in his way.

For he surveys the whole earth under heaven, knowing the things in the earth:

and of cassia five hundred shekels of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.

Thou shalt lay up for thyself treasure in a heap on the rock; and Sophir shall be as the rock of the torrent.

And they came to the valley of the cluster and surveyed it; and they cut down thence a bough and one cluster of grapes upon it, and bore it on staves, and they took of the pomegranates and the figs.

They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in many waters;

Therefore thus saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Woe to the mighty men of Israel; for my wrath shall not cease against mine adversaries, and I will execute judgment on mine enemies.

Then shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace, and the provision for thy tabernacle shall not fail.

Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Cham.

Behold, the people shall rise up as a lion's whelp, and shall exalt himself as a lion; he shall not lie down till he have eaten the prey, and he shall drink the blood of the slain.

Because I have given as a distinct portion to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the children of Israel, whatsoever they shall offer to the Lord; therefore I said to them, In the midst of the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour till evening.

But my servant Chaleb, because there was another spirit in him, and he followed me, I will bring him into the land into which he entered, and his seed shall inherit it.

And the angel of the Lord stood in the avenues of the vines, a fence being on this side and a fence on that.

Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be your; from the wilderness and Antilibanus, and from the great river, the river Euphrates, even as far as the west sea shall be your coasts.

Ye shall not eat it; ye shall pour it out on the ground as water.

he will support him, that he should not perish, and will restore his body as fresh plaster upon a wall; and he will fill his bones with morrow.

If I made gold my treasure, and if too I trusted the precious stone;

And Israel smote him with the slaughter of the sword, and they became possessors of his land, from Arnon to Jaboc, as far as the children of Amman, for Jazer is the borders of the children of Amman.

these shall ye thus offer daily for seven days, a gift, a sacrifice for a sweet-smelling savour to the Lord; beside the continual whole-burnt-offering, thou shalt offer its drink-offering.

Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe it; and the light of my face has not failed.

Awake, O Lord, and attend to my judgment, even to my cause, my God and my Lord.

Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.

Speak to the congregation, saying, Depart from the company of Core round about.

Yet he commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

So he said that he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn him away from the fierceness of his anger, so that he should not destroy them.

then the assembly shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood, according to these judgments.

Men shall enter thither with arrow and bow; for all the land shall be barren ground and thorns.

Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Be not afraid, my people who dwell in Sion, of the Assyrians, because he shall smite thee with a rod: for I am bringing a stroke upon thee, that thou mayest see the way of Egypt.

And they turned and went up to the mountain, and they came as far as the valley of the cluster, and surveyed it.

And the ruler of the household of the family of Gedson was Elisaph the son of Dael.

And he shall by no means escape from the power of the sword; let the brazen bow wound him.

Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye seed of Jacob, glorify him: let all the seed of Israel fear him.

And to Aser he said, Aser is blessed with children; and he shall be acceptable to his brethren: he shall dip his foot in oil.

For the Lord remembered us in our low estate; for his mercy endures for ever:

with an iron pen and lead, or graven in the rocks!

The order of the camp of Dan shall be northward with their forces; and the prince of the sons of Dan, Achiezer the son of Amisadai.

And the congregation shall rescue the slayer from the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he fled for refuge; and he shall dwell there till the death of the high-priest, whom they anointed with the holy oil.

And he increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies.

And they called that place, The valley of the cluster, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

I will therefore go over and see this good land that is beyond Jordan, this good mountain and Antilibanus.