Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

to Aroadi, the family of the Aroadites; to Ariel, the family of the Arielites.

the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them.

And they departed from Makeloth, and encamped in Kataath.

And the angel of the Lord went farther, and came and stood in a narrow place where it was impossible to turn to the right or the left.

I was once young, indeed I am now old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

And on the day of the new corn, when ye shall offer a new sacrifice at the festival of weeks to the Lord, there shall be to you a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work,

And he put the altar of the burnt-offerings by the doors of the tabernacle.

One golden censer of ten shekels, full of incense.

O Lord, save now: O Lord, send now prosperity.

Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents:

With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent.

Take the sum of the spoils of the captivity both of man and beast, thou and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the families of the congregation.

I said, I will scatter them, and I will cause their memorial to cease from among men.

Our store, and our wives, and all our cattle shall be in the cities of Galaad.

And he shall pray to the Lord, and his prayer shall be accepted of him; he shall enter with a cheerful countenance, with a full expression of praise: for he will render to men their due.

And it shall be forgiven as respects all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that is abiding among you, because it is involuntary to all the people.

for thou hast written evil things against me, and thou hast compassed me with the sins of my youth.

and to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these sufferings: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;

(do we not see the shining sun eclipsed, and the moon waning? for they have not power to continue:)

Cursed is every man that continues not in all the words of this law to do them: and all the people shall say, So be it.

The princes went first, next before the players on instruments, in the midst of damsels playing on timbrels.

But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.

Were it not for the wrath of the enemy, lest they should live long, lest their enemies should combine against them; lest they should say, Our own high arm, and not the Lord, has done all these things.

and all its furniture, and the candlestick and all its furniture, and the altar of incense,

And he shall hear thee when thou prayest to him, and he shall grant thee power to pay thy vows.

And the rulers brought the emerald stones, and the stones for setting in the ephod, and the oracle,

And they made two golden rings, and put them on the two projections on the top of the oracle, and on the top of the hinder part of the ephod within.

And if one soul sin unwillingly, he shall bring one she-goat of a year old for a sin-offering.

And he made the laver, that at it Moses and Aaron and his sons might wash their hands and their feet: when they went into the tabernacle of witness, or whensoever they should advance to the altar to do service, they washed at it, as the Lord commanded Moses.

And the Lord shall scatter you among all nations, and ye shall be left few in number among all the nations, among which the Lord shall bring you.

the numbering of them of the tribe of Issachar, was fifty-four thousand and four hundred.

And they that encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Aser; and the prince of the sons of Aser, Phagiel the son of Echran.

To Caath belonged one division, that of Amram, and another division, that of Issaar, and another division, that of Chebron, and another division, that of Oziel: these are the divisions of Caath, according to number.

According to the direction of Aaron and his sons shall be the ministry of the sons of Gedson, in all their ministries, and in all their works; and thou shalt take account of them by name in all things borne by them.

And it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have altogether escaped the notice of her husband, then the water of the conviction that brings the curse shall enter into her; and she shall swell in her belly, and her thigh shall rot, and the woman shall be for a curse in the midst of her people.

And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I the Lord will bless them.

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

And over the forces of the tribe of the sons of Nephthali, was Achire the son of Aenan.

And a young man ran and told Moses, and spoke, saying, Eldad and Modad prophesy in the camp.

And they proceeded and came to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Pharan Cades; and they brought word to them and to all the congregation, and they shewed the fruit of the land:

How long shall I endure this wicked congregation? I have heard their murmurings against me, even the murmuring of the children of Israel, which they have murmured concerning you.

And they stood aloof from the tent of Core round about; and Dathan and Abiron went forth and stood by the doors of their tents, and their wives and their children and their store.

and ye shall bring whole-burnt-offerings for a sweet-smelling savour to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs without blemish.

And your heave-offerings shall be reckoned to you as corn from the floor, and an offering from the wine-press.

And Moses did as the Lord commanded him, and took him up to mount Or, before all the congregation.

Therefore say they who deal in dark speeches, Come to Esebon, that the city of Seon may be built and prepared.

And when the ass saw the angel of God, she lay down under Balaam; and Balaam was angry, and struck the ass with his staff.

And Balac said to Balaam, Come and I will remove thee to another place, if it shall please God, and curse me them from thence.

These are the families of the children of Gad according to their numbering, forty-four thousand and five hundred.

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

And ye shall divide the spoils between the warriors that went out to battle, and the whole congregation.

But thy servants will go over all armed and set in order before the Lord to battle, as our lord says.

And they departed from Kataath, and encamped in Tarath.

Of the tribe of the children of Aser, the prince was Achior the son of Selemi.

and the avenger of blood should find him without the bounds of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood should kill the slayer, he is not guilty.

And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us.

I will pass through thy land: I will go by the road, I will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

Go up to the top of the quarried rock, and look with thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes, for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

Do thou draw near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say, and thou shalt speak to us all things whatsoever the Lord our God shall speak to thee, and we will hear, and do.

Remember Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thyself: look not upon the hardness of heart of this people, and their impieties, and their sins.

the blessing, if ye hearken to the commands of the Lord your God, all that I command you this day;

And thou shalt sacrifice thy whole-burnt-offerings, thou shalt offer the flesh upon the altar of the Lord thy God; but the blood of thy sacrifices thou shalt pour out at the foot of the altar of the Lord thy God, but the flesh thou shalt eat.

and the Levite that is in thy cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with thee.

because he found her in the field; the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to help her.

So I know you, that ye presumptuously attack me:

The Lord smite thee with the botch of Egypt in the seat, and with a malignant scab, and itch, so that thou canst not be healed.

And the Lord was exceedingly angry with that land to bring upon it according to all the curses which are written in the book of this law.

For I know thy provocation, and thy stiff neck; for yet during my life with you at this day, ye have been provoking in your conduct toward God: how shall ye not also be so after my death?

And the rule of God shall protect thee, and that under the strength of the everlasting arms; and he shall cast forth the enemy from before thy face, saying, Perish.

Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have heard: but do thou reflect with thyself, if thou hast done anything wrong.

Even because ye attack the fatherless, and insult your friend.

And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;

And thou hast placed my foot in the stocks; and thou hast watched all my works, and hast penetrated my heels.

For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.

which I am conscious of in myself, which mine eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in my bosom.

And let the heaven reveal his iniquities, and the earth rise up against him.

Then he saw it, and declared it: he prepared it and traced it out.

My belly boiled, and would not cease: the days of poverty prevented me.

and if my heart was secretly deceived, and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it:

Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? and he has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins.

Because they turned aside from the law of God, and did not regard his ordinances,

And the drops of rain are numbered by him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud.

and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?

And does the eagle rise at thy command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,

But thou shalt lay thy hand upon him once, remembering the war that is waged by his mouth; and let it not be done any more.

For he has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, continuing without evil from generation to generation.

And with the excellent man thou wilt be excellent; and with the perverse thou wilt shew frowardness.

The poor shall eat and be satisfied; and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their heart shall live for ever.

Let them be confounded and ashamed together that rejoice at my afflictions: let them be clothed with shame and confusion that speak great swelling words against me.

He is merciful, and lends continually; and his seed shall be blessed.

Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord: we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord.

Praise God in the congregations, the Lord from the fountains of Israel.

Because they persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

He removed the south wind from heaven; and by his might he brought in the south-west wind.