Bohairic Coptic Old Testament

And from the borders of Gad, from the eastern parts to the south-western parts; his coasts shall even be from Thaeman, and the water of Barimoth Cades, for an inheritance, unto the great sea.

A voice of men fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, to declare to Sion the vengeance that comes from the Lord our God.

And they that escape the sword shall return to the land of Juda few in number, and the remnant of Juda, who have continued in the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word shall stand.

And thou, son of man, prophesy, and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and thou shalt say, O sword, sword, drawn for slaughter, and drawn for destruction, awake, that thou mayest gleam.

But now I know thy rest, and thy going out, and thy coming in.

And he brought me into the inner court of the south gate: and he measured the gate according to these measures;

Bring up nations against her, even the king of the Medes and of the whole earth, his rulers, and all his captains.

And thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that have been slain by the sword.

As the appearance of the bow when it is in the cloud in days of rain, so was the form of brightness round about.

And where are thy gods, which thou madest for thyself? will they arise and save in the time of thine affliction? for according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they sacrificed to Baal.

This is the nation which has not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, nor received correction: truth has failed from their mouth.

for I will not be wroth with you for ever, neither shall the voice of my anger crush you.

And they shall no more be a spoil to the nations, and the wild beasts of the land shall no more at all devour them; and they shall dwell safely, and there shall be none to make them afraid.

CONCERNING KEDAR THE QUEEN OF THE PALACE, WHOM NABUCHODONOSOR KING OF BABYLON SMOTE, thus saith the Lord; Arise ye, and go up to Kedar, and fill the sons of Kedem.

And I will make the land desert, and the pride of her strength shall perish; and the mountains of Israel shall be made desolate by reason of no man passing through.

Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel; This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it:

And his breath, as rushing water in a valley, shall reach as far as the neck, and be divided, to confound the nations for their vain error: error also shall pursue them, and overtake them.

and they have transgressed the rule of judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.

And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, when I have been manifested to them among the nations.

And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that committed the trespass unwillingly, and that sinned unwillingly before the Lord, to make atonement for him.

and the curse, if ye do not hearken to the commands of the Lord our God, as many as I command you this day, and ye wander from the way which I have commanded you, having gone to serve other gods, which ye know not.

Lest the inhabitants of the land whence thou broughtest us out speak, saying, Because the Lord could not bring them into the land of which he spoke to them, and because he hated them, has he brought them forth to slay them in the wilderness.

And ye shall take a tribute for the Lord from the warriors that went out to battle; one soul out of five hundred, from the men, and from the cattle, even from the oxen, and from the sheep, and from the asses; and ye shall take from their half.

Their meat-offering shall be fine flour mingled with oil; there shall be three tenth deals for one calf, and two tenth deals for one ram.

And the Lord heard the voice of your words as ye spoke to me; and the Lord said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, even all things that they have said to thee. They have well said all that they have spoken.

Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light.

and to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the countries.

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

And Moses said, Hereby shall ye know that the Lord has sent me to perform all these works, that I have not done them of myself.

And he took Aaron's garments off him, and put them on Eleazar his son, and Aaron died on the top of the mountain; and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.

And Moses appointed to them for judges Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Naue, and the chiefs of the families of the tribes of Israel.

This is the service of the sons of Gedson in the tabernacle of witness, and their charge by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

All wait upon thee, to give them their food in due season.

And charge Joshua, and strengthen him, and encourage him; for he shall go before the face of this people, and he shall give them the inheritance of all the land which thou hast seen.

Whose arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; their horses' hoofs are counted as solid rock: their chariot-wheels are as a storm.

And they departed from Tarath, and encamped in Mathecca.

and they reported to him, and said, We came into the land into which thou sentest us, a land flowing with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

so as to bring before him the cry of the needy; for he will hear the cry of the poor.

I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent.

For thou wilt save the lowly people, and wilt humble the eyes of the proud.

For a fire has gone forth from Esebon, a flame from the city of Seon, and has consumed as far as Moab, and devoured the pillars of Arnon.

The Lord smite thee with insanity, and blindness, and astonishment of mind.

Thou shalt give me food for money, and I will eat; and thou shalt give me water for money, and I will drink; I will only go through on my feet:

It is a nation that has lost counsel, neither is there understanding in them.

Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.

The ancient heavens shall flow, and the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals: he has fixed a time to cattle, and they know the order of rest. Yet by all these things thy understanding is not astonished, neither is thy mind disturbed in thy body.

Who is the rain's father? and who has generated the drops of dew?

Every male from a month old and upward, eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charges of the holy things.

Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord: surely as ye spoke into my ears, so will I do to you.

And he rained upon them flesh like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the seas.

on a crag of a rock, and in a secret place?

Whither do we go up? and your brethren drew away your heart, saying, It is a great nation and populous, and mightier than we; and there are cities great and walled up to heaven: moreover we saw there the sons of the giants.

But if the woman have not been polluted, and be clean, then shall she be guiltless and shall conceive seed.

Gather together to me the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, that I may speak in their ears all these words; and I call both heaven and earth to witness against them.

For he ought to have remained in the city of refuge till the high-priest died; and after the death of the high-priest the slayer shall return to the land of his possession.

Of the tribe of Nephthali, the prince was Phadael the son of Jamiud.

So shall ye also separate them from all the offerings of the Lord out of all your tithes, whatsoever ye shall receive from the children of Israel; and ye shall give of them an offering to the Lord to Aaron the priest.

and the compounds both for the anointing oil, and the composition of the incense.

Add iniquity to their iniquity; and let them not come into thy righteousness.

And they made two golden rings, and put them on both the shoulders of the ephod under it, in front by the coupling above the connexion of the ephod.

Instruct me in the way of thine ordinances; and I will meditate on thy wondrous works.

And if any one should find a young virgin who has not been betrothed, and should force her and lie with her, and be found,

And the transgressors and the sinners shall be crushed together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be utterly consumed.

I am as that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment.

But now, having looked upon your countenances, I will not lie.

There is Benjamin the younger one in ecstasy, the princes of Juda their rulers, the princes of Zabulon, the princes of Nephthali.

God is the Lord, and he has shined upon us: celebrate the feast with thick branches, binding the victims even to the horns of the altar.

And God opened the mouth of the ass, and she says to Balaam, What have I done to thee, that thou hast smitten me this third time?

And I will make him my first-born, higher than the kings of the earth.

And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.

And Balac took Balaam to the top of Phogor, which extends to the wilderness.

And Israel shall dwell in confidence alone on the land of Jacob, with corn and wine; and the sky shall be misty with dew upon thee.

so that ye will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?

His forces that were numbered, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.

Turn aside from evil, and do good; and dwell for ever.

And Joshua the son of Naue, who attended on Moses, the chosen one, said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

After three years thou shalt bring out all the tithes of thy fruits, in that year thou shalt lay it up in thy cities.

They are troubled, they stagger as a drunkard, and all their wisdom is swallowed up.

And the Lord removed them from their land in anger, and wrath, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land as at present.

Beware and hearken, and thou shalt do all the commands which I charge thee, that it may be well with thee and with thy sons for ever, if thou shalt do that which is pleasing and good before the Lord thy God.

And he shall establish to thee again a habitation of righteousness and there shall be light upon thy paths.

But if ye shall also say, What shall we say before him, and so find the root of the matter in him?

The sons of Aser according to their families; to Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; to Jesu, the family of the Jesusites; to Baria, the family of the Bariaites.

Let destruction bring his house to an end; let a day of wrath come upon him.

For the sons of Zabulon 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,

Let them that rejoice in my righteousness exult and be glad: and let them say continually, The Lord be magnified, who desire the peace of his servant.

And ye shall there serve other gods, the works of the hands of men, wood and stones, which cannot see, nor can they hear, nor eat, nor smell.

For he shall arrive at the city of Angai, and shall pass on to Maggedo, and shall lay up his stores in Machmas.

And he said to man, Behold, godliness is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding.

I went mourning without restraint: and I have stood and cried out in the assembly.

And the cloud covered the tabernacle of witness, and the tabernacle was filled with the glory of the Lord.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him.

let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I should have lied against the Lord Most High.

These are the armies of the children of Israel; and they set forward with their forces.