Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

For I give you a good gift; forsake ye not my law.

And Jonathan said to him, Far be it from thee: thou shalt not die: behold, my father will not do any thing great or small without discovering it to me; and why should my father hide this matter from me? This thing is not so.

And I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.

Every one that is proud in heart is unclean before God, and he that unjustly strikes hands with hand shall not be held guiltless. The beginning of a good way is to do justly; and it is more acceptable with God than to offer sacrifices. He that seeks the Lord shall find knowledge with righteousness: and they that rightly seek him shall find peace. All of the works of the Lord are done with righteousness; and the ungodly man is kept for the evil day.

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye are come into the land of your habitation, which I give to you,

It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to thy name, O thou Most High;

and Esbon and its suburbs; and Jazer and its suburbs: the cities were four in all.

Praise the Lord on the harp; platy to him on a psaltery of ten strings.

He shall say to the Lord, Thou art my helper and my refuge: my God; I will hope in him.

Hear me, ye wise men; hearken, ye that have knowledge.

And Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said to her, Am I in the place of God, who has deprived thee of the fruit of the womb?

And Jacob departed for his journey; and having looked up, he saw the host of God encamped; and the angels of God met him.

saying,

I will sing of thy mercies, O Lord, for ever: I will declare thy truth with my mouth to all generations.

Before the mountains existed, and before the earth and the world were formed, even from age to age, Thou art.

O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before thee.

And she conceived, and bore a male child; and having seen that he was fair, they hid him three months.

And it shall come to pass in the day when ye shall cross over Jordan into the land which the Lord thy God gives thee, that thou shalt set up for thyself great stones, and shalt plaster them with plaster.

Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? but who shall endure the force of thy words?

Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my griefs in a balance together!

Thy throne is prepared of old: thou art from everlasting.

O Lord, thou has taken pleasure in thy land: thou hast turned back the captivity of Jacob.

And the Lord, said to the devil, Whence comest thou? Then the devil said before the Lord, I am come from going through the world, and walking about the whole earth.

Preserve my soul, for I am holy; save thy servant, O God, who hopes in thee.

Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy.

And thou shalt make the horns on the four corners; the horns shall be of the same piece, and thou shalt overlay them with brass.

Let the children of Israel encamp fronting each other, every man keeping his own rank, according to their standards, according to the houses of their families; the children of Israel shall encamp round about the tabernacle of witness.

This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it is the first to you among the months of the year.

And Jonathan, Saul's son, loved David much: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul seeks to kill thee: take heed to thyself therefore to-morrow morning, and hide thyself, and dwell in secret.

For behold, I have opened my mouth, and my tongue has spoken.

How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause.

O God, who shall be compared to thee? be not silent, neither be still, O God.

Rejoice ye in God our helper; shout aloud to the God of Jacob.

Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, This is the word which the Lord has commanded, saying,

Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guidest Joseph like a flock; thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself;

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

The Lord loves the gates of Sion, more than all the tabernacles of Jacob.

I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron; and all the congregation said to them,

And Samuel said, How can I go? whereas Saul will hear of it, and slay me: and the Lord said, Take a heifer in thine hand and thou shall say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.

And God formed the man dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.

God is known in Judea: his name is great in Israel.

I cried to the Lord with my voice, yea, my voice was addressed to God; and he gave heed to me.

We will give thanks to thee, O God, we will give thanks, and call upon thy name: I will declare all thy wonderful works.

And Moses wrote their removals and their stages, by the word of the Lord: and these are the stages of their journeying.

But my feet were almost overthrown; my goings very nearly slipped.

And their lot was Beersabee, and Samaa, and Caladam,

And the king said to Esther at the banquet on the second day, What is it, queen Esther? and what is thy request, and what is thy petition? and it shall be done for thee, to the half of my kingdom.

And Saul and the men of Israel gather together, and they encamp in the valley, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

And he looks, and behold! a well in the plain; and there were there three flocks of sheep resting at it, for out of that well they watered the flocks, but there was a great stone at the mouth of the well.

In that day the adversaries of the Jews perished: for no one resisted, through fear of them.

And as for his strength and valour, and the wealth and glory of his kingdom, behold, they are written in the book of the Persians and Medes, for a memorial.

Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased from the beginning; thou didst ransom the rod of thine inheritance; this mount Sion wherein thou hast dwelt.

I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings which have been from the beginning.

And these the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.

In thy righteousness deliver me and rescue me: incline thine ear to me, and save me.

And the five curtains shall be joined one to another, and the other five curtains shall be closely connected the one with the other.

Thus said the Lord of hosts, Now will I take vengeance for what Amalec did to Israel, when he met him in the way as he came up out of Egypt.

And he found the records written concerning Mardochaeus, how he had told the king concerning the two chamberlains of the king, when they were keeping guard, and sought to lay hands on Artaxerxes.

And the sons of Israel remained, even those who had not received their inheritance, seven tribes.

that he may judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul.

And there was land assigned to the other sons of Manasse according to their families; to the sons of Jezi, and to the sons of Kelez, and to the sons of Jeziel, and to the sons of Sychem, and to the sons of Symarim, and to the sons of Opher: these are the males according to their families.

Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered; and let them that hate him flee from before him.

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whosoever shall vow a vow as the valuation of his soul for the Lord,

thine elders and thy judges shall come forth, and shall measure the distances of the cities round about the slain man:

For his mercy has been abundant toward us: and the truth of the Lord endures for ever.

And having raised the golden sceptre he laid it upon her neck, and embraced her, and said, Speak to me. And she said to him, I saw thee, my lord, as an angel of God, and my heart was troubled for fear of thy glory; for thou, my lord, art to be wondered at, and thy face is full of grace. And while she was speaking, she fainted and fell. Then the king was troubled, and all his servants comforted her.

Draw nigh, O God, to my help.

And he uttered his voice with weeping; and all the Egyptians heard, and it was reported to the house of Pharao.

Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bathuel the father of thy mother, and take to thyself thence a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

Praise becomes thee, O God, in Sion; and to thee shall the vow be performed.

O sing praises to his name; give glory to his praise.

Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt; go down thither, and buy for us a little food, that we may live, and not die.

And all in the palace did him obeisance, for so the king had given orders to do: but Mardochaeus did not do him obeisance.

Take Aaron and his sons, and his robes and the anointing oil, and the calf for the sin-offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,

O God, my God, I cry to thee early; my soul has thirsted for thee: how often has my flesh longed after thee, in a barren and trackless and dry land!

Then the servants of the king said, Let there be sought for the king chaste and beautiful young virgins.

And it shall come to pass whenever thou shalt draw nigh to battle, that the priest shall draw nigh and speak to the people, and shall say to them,

And Jonathan smote Nasib the Philistine that dwelt in the hill; and the Philistines hear of it, and Saul sounds the trumpet through all the land, saying, The servants have despised us.

And he came to the king's gate, and stood; for it was not lawful for him to enter into the palace, wearing sackcloth and ashes.

Hear my prayer, O God, when I make my petition to thee; deliver my soul from fear of the enemy.

God be merciful to us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us. Pause.

And the Lord said to him, What is this thing that is in thine hand? and he said, A rod.

And the Lord said to Moses, Speak to Aaron thy brother, and let him not come in at all times into the holy place within the veil before the propitiatory, which is upon the ark of the testimony, and he shall not die; for I will appear in a cloud on the propitiatory.

O God, hearken to my petition; attend to my prayer.

And the women began the strain, and said, Saul has smitten his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

in those days, when king Artaxerxes was on the throne in the city of Susa,

thou shalt separate for thyself three cities in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God gives thee.

And they will go out to Baethel, and will proceed to the borders of Achatarothi.

And the king went up to the house of the Lord, he and all Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that were found in the house of the Lord.

And now, behold, the king goes before you; and I am grown old and shall rest; and, behold, my sons are among you; and, behold, I have gone about before you from my youth to this day.

And if thy brother do not come nigh thee, and thou dost not know him, thou shalt bring it into thy house within; and it shall be with thee until thy brother shall seek them, and thou shalt restore them to him.

And Saul sat on the top of the hill under the pomegranate tree that is in Magdon, and there were with him about six hundred men.

Shall not my soul be subjected to God? for of him is my salvation.

They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of thy holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth.

And he said, Behold, I am grown old, and know not the day of my death.

According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so spoke Nathan to David.