Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

Cursed is he whosoever shall have taken a bribe to slay an innocent man: and all the people shall say, So be it.

So the Almighty shall be thy helper from enemies, and he shall bring thee forth pure as silver that has been tried by fire.

Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.

Every man has seen in himself, how many mortals are wounded.

His sandal shall be iron and brass; as thy days, so shall be thy strength.

Of the tribe of Zabulon, the prince was Elisaphan the son of Pharnac.

And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him?

For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.

But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, because I do not ask strength of you.

And I will bring my hand upon thee, and purge thee completely, and I will destroy the rebellious, and will take away from thee all transgressors.

And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! and afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing.

And the order of the camp of the sons of Dan shall set forward the last of all the camps, with their forces: and over their forces was Achiezer the son of Amisadai.

And the seventh day shall be to you a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work in it.

And the priest shall take from the hand of the woman the sacrifice of jealousy, and shall present the sacrifice before the Lord, and shall bring it to the altar.

And Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiron, and all the elders of Israel went with him.

The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after him: God is not before him.

For he has not despised nor been angry at the supplication of the poor; nor turned away his face from me; but when I cried to him, he heard me.

Therefore the Lord of hosts was greatly angered against his people, and he reached forth his hand upon them, and smote them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses were as dung in the midst of the way: yet for all this his anger has not been turned away, but his hand is yet raised.

And every mountain shall be certainly ploughed: there shall no fear come thither: for there shall be from among the barren ground and thorns that whereon cattle shall feed and oxen shall tread.

The Lord give thee up for slaughter before thine enemies: thou shalt go out against them one way, and flee from their face seven ways; and thou shalt be a dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth.

But my life is swifter than a post: my days have fled away, and they knew it not.

And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders;

My knees are weakened through fasting, and my flesh is changed by reason of the want of oil.

And now let us not die, for this great fire will consume us, if we shall hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, and we shall die.

And I prayed before the Lord forty days and forty nights, the number that I prayed before, for the Lord said that he would utterly destroy you.

This is the day which the Lord has made: let us exult and rejoice in it.

Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, and terror shall issue out of the secret chambers; the young man shall perish with the virgin, the suckling with him who has grown old.

Begin to put thy terror and thy fear on the face of all the nations under heaven, who shall be troubled when they have heard thy name, and shall be in anguish before thee.

And from fifty years old the Levites shall cease from the ministry, and shall not work any longer.

and redeemed us from our enemies; for his mercy endures for ever.

and rained upon them manna to eat, and gave them the bread of heaven.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

the numbering of them of the tribe of Juda, was seventy-four thousand and six hundred.

and they put the golden wreaths on the rings on both sides of the oracle, and the two wreaths into the two couplings.

And men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, the things which he appointed to their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt:

But Amalec and the Chananite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn and depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

And Balac said to Balaam, Neither curse the people at all for me, nor bless them at all.

the Lord make his face to shine upon thee, and have mercy upon thee;

For thy testimonies are my meditation, and thine ordinances are my counsellors.

And when thou shalt have begotten sons, and shalt have sons' sons, and ye shall have dwelt a long time on the land, and shall have transgressed, and made a graven image of any thing, and shall have done wickedly before the Lord your God to provoke him;

And thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfumed ointment tempered by the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.

And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing.

Who discovers their works, and will bring night about upon them, and they shall be brought low.

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.

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the midst of warriors, as one comforting mourners.

And they departed from Charadath, and encamped in Makeloth.

And when the ass saw the angel of God, she thrust herself against the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall, and he smote her again.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering.

And there shall be mercy to us, if we take heed to keep all these commands before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.

Ye shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods: thou shalt not covet their silver, neither shalt thou take to thyself gold from them, lest thou shouldest offend thereby, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

When he falls, he shall not be ruined: for the Lord supports his hand.

these men have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.

and he burnt on it incense of composition, as the Lord commanded Moses.

How great are thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast thou wrought them all: the earth is filled with thy creation.

to Azeni, the family of the Azenites; to Addi, the family of the Addites:

And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy men that were elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and ceased.

And the charge of the sons of Gedson in the tabernacle of witness was the tent and the veil, and the covering of the door of the tabernacle of witness,

And Balaam rose up and departed and returned to his place, and Balac went to his own home.

Pour out thy wrath upon them, and let the fury of thine anger take hold on them.

He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.

For yet a little while, and the indignation shall cease: but my wrath shall be against their council.

And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes.

No one shall stand before you; and the Lord your God will put the fear of you and the dread of you on the face of all the land, on which ye shall tread, as he told you.

Take Aaron, and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to the mount Or before all the congregation;

Wilt thou be startled at me, as at a leaf shaken by the wind? or wilt thou set thyself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?

Moreover they set at nought the desirable land, and believed not his word.

But my truth and my mercy shall be with him; and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me,

But if not, who is he that says I speak falsely, and will make my words of no account?

And they took in their hands of the fruit of the land, and brought it to you, and said, The land is good which the Lord our God gives us.

And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the trespass shall be forgiven them, because it is involuntary; and they have brought their gift, a burnt-offering to the Lord for their trespass before the Lord, even for their involuntary sins.

And every woman skilled in her heart to spin with her hands, brought spun articles, the blue, and purple, and scarlet and fine linen.

And the sons of Ruben and the sons of Gad spoke to Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as our lord commands.

Let them grope in darkness, and let there be no light, and let them wander as a drunken man.

all that he has made; the weight of the winds, the measures of the water.

But if a man find in the field a damsel that is betrothed, and he should force her and lie with her, ye shall slay the man that lay with her only.

Judge me, O Lord, according to thy righteousness, O Lord my God; and let them not rejoice against me.

And he will make his flesh tender as that of a babe, and he will restore him among men in his full strength.

Thou shalt not eat it, that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee, if thou shalt do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord thy God.

And they shall bear the skins of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of witness, and its veil, and the blue cover that was on it above, and the cover of the door of the tabernacle of witness.

Thy goings, O God, have been seen; the goings of my God, the king, in the sanctuary.

He made the holy anointing oil and the composition of the incense, the pure work of the perfumer.

and if too I rejoiced when my wealth was abundant, and if too I laid my hand on innumerable treasures:

Be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.

And Israel took all their cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Esebon, and in all cities belonging to it.

And thou shalt know that thy seed shall be abundant; and thy children shall be like the herbage of the field.

And let the arrow pierce through his body; and let the stars be against his dwelling-place: let terrors come upon him.

then he charged the Levites who bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying,

Who else will frustrate the tokens of those that have divining spirits, and prophecies from the heart of man? turning the wise back, and making their counsel foolishness;

then thou shalt sell them for money, and thou shalt take the money in thy hands, and thou shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose.

For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me.

and on the head of every way thou didst set up thy fornications, and didst defile thy beauty, and didst open thy feet to every passer by, and didst multiply thy fornication.

And lo! a voice from above the firmament

Yea, I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharao shall fail: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have put my sword into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out over the land of Egypt.

And if the princes shall hear that I have spoken to thee, and they come to thee, and say to thee, Tell us, what said the king to thee? hide it not from us, and we will in no wise slay thee, and what said the king to thee?

Behold, I will avenge Ammon her son upon Pharao, and upon them that trust in him.