Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

For when thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not be distressed.

And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it. The three stems are three days.

And he shall bring it to the priest; and the priest having taken a handful of it, shall lay the memorial of it on the altar of whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord; it is a sin-offering.

And Zelpha the maid of Lea conceived yet again, and bore Jacob a second son.

A land which the Lord thy God surveys continually, the eyes of the Lord thy God are upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

And Abraam did obeisance before the people of the land.

And Joseph brought them out from his knees, and they did reverence to him, with their face to the ground.

And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me into the mountain, and be there; and I will give thee the tables of stone, the law and the commandments, which I have written to give them laws.

save Caleb the son of Jephonne, who was set apart, and Joshua the son of Naue, for they closely followed after the Lord.

And Moses poured of the anointing oil on the head of Aaron; and he anointed him and sanctified him.

His eyes shall be more cheering than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.

and Dase between Ninevi and Chalach: this is the great city.

They shall not leave of it until the morrow, and they shall not break a bone of it; they shall sacrifice it according to the ordinance of the passover.

And Cainan lived an hundred and seventy years, and he begot Maleleel.

And he said, Look up with thine eyes, and behold the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-coloured spots; for I have seen all things that Laban does to thee.

And thou shalt take of the blood of the calf, and put it on the horns of the altar with thy finger, but all the rest of the blood thou shalt pour out at the foot of the altar.

And he searched, beginning from the eldest, until he came to the youngest; and he found the cup in Benjamin's sack.

And Pharao having sent, called Joseph; and they brought him out from the prison, and shaved him, and changed his dress, and he came to Pharao.

For it is a jubilee of release; it shall be holy to you, ye shall eat its fruits off the fields.

Have I conceived all this people, or have I born them? that thou sayest to me, Take them into thy bosom, as a nurse would take her suckling, into the land which thou swarest to their fathers?

Do thou also charge the children of Israel, saying, Take heed and keep my sabbaths; for they are a sign with me and among you throughout your generations, that ye may know that I am the Lord that sanctifies you.

Of ten cubits shalt thou make one post, and the breadth of one post of a cubit and a half.

For how sayest thou, I am righteous, yet he has not hearkened to me? for he that is above mortals is eternal.

And the Chorrhite dwelt in Seir before, and the sons of Esau destroyed them, and utterly consumed them from before them; and they dwelt in their place, as Israel did to the land of his inheritance, which the Lord gave to them.

And Judas knew , and said, Thamar is cleared rather than I, forasmuch as I gave her not to Selom my son: and he knew her not again.

And his brethren went to feed the sheep of their father to Sychem.

take heed to thyself, lest at any time thou make a covenant with the dwellers on the land, into which thou art entering, lest it be to thee a stumbling-block among you.

And they departed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Raphaca.

And the sons of Phares Esron, and Jemuel. And the sons of Issachar; Thola, and Phua, and Asum, and Sambran.

And he shall take his censer full of coals of fire off the altar, which is before the Lord; and he shall fill his hands with fine compound incense, and shall bring it within the veil.

And they shall take all the instruments of service, with which they minister in the sanctuary: and shall place them in a cloth of blue, and shall cover them with blue skin covering, and put them upon staves.

And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge.

And now, Israel, what does the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, and to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul;

thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not spare her.

And thence they departed, and encamped in the valley of Zared.

and I will go throughout the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite every first-born in the land of Egypt both man and beast, and on all the gods of Egypt will I execute vengeance: I am the Lord.

And these the generations of Ismael the son of Abraam, whom Agar the Egyptian the hand-maid of Sarrha bore to Abraam.

And now swear to me by the Lord God; since I deal mercifully with you, so do ye also deal mercifully with the house of my father:

And it shall come to pass toward evening he shall wash his body with water, and when the sun has gone down, he shall go into the camp.

And he said, Let us depart, and proceed right onward.

And they said, Thou hast saved us; we have found favour before our lord, and we will be servants to Pharao.

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God commanded thee.

Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thine ordinances.

And we inherited that land at that time from Aroer, which is by the border of the torrent Arnon, and half the mount of Galaad; and I gave his cities to Ruben and to Gad.

And they took also Lot the son of Abram's brother, and his baggage, and departed, for he dwelt in Sodom.

And he that offered his gift on the first day, was Naasson the son of Aminadab, prince of the tribe of Juda.

that thou shalt set apart every offspring opening the womb, the males to the Lord, every one that opens the womb out of the herds or among thy cattle, as many as thou shalt have: thou shalt sanctify the males to the Lord.

And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him again any more.

And the earthen vessel which he that has the issue shall happen to touch, shall be broken; and a wooden vessel shall be washed with water, and shall be clean.

And when thou shalt have completed all the tithings of thy fruits in the third year, thou shalt give the second tenth to the Levite, and stranger, and fatherless, and widow; and they shall eat it in thy cities, and be merry.

Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, and the stranger that abides among you shall not eat blood.

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because ye have not believed me to sanctify me before the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt, and let the locust come up on the land, and it shall devour every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which the hail left.

Thou shalt make fringes on the four borders of thy garments, with which soever thou mayest be clothed.

And God said to Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them, neither shalt thou curse the people; for they are blessed.

And they shall wash the entrails and the feet with water, and the priest shall bring all the parts and put them on the altar: it is a burnt-offering, a sacrifice, a smell of sweet savour to the Lord.

Is not this the word which we spoke to thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians? for it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness.

Multiply dowry very much, and I will give accordingly as ye shall say to me, only ye shall give me this damsel for a wife.

And Lot dwelt in a city of the neighbouring people, and pitched his tent in Sodom.

For I saved the poor out of the hand of the oppressor, and helped the fatherless who had no helper.

and they shall carry out the whole calf out of the camp into a clean place, where they pour out the ashes, and they shall consume it there on wood with fire: it shall be burnt on the ashes poured out.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister, for she is near akin to thy father.

These shall stand to bless the people on mount Garizin having gone over Jordan; Symeon, Levi, Judas, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

He shall be purified on the third day and the seventh day, and shall be clean; but if he be not purged on the third day and the seventh day, he shall not be clean.

Of Dan, Achiezer the son of Amisadai.

In this day the manna failed, after they had eaten of the corn of the land, and the children of Israel no longer had manna: and they took the fruits of the land of the Phoenicians in that year.

And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, and he hearkened not to them, as the Lord appointed.

and I will walk among you, and be your God, and ye shall be my people.

and shouldest bring her within thine house: then shalt thou shave her head, and pare her nails;

And in the breadth of the tabernacle toward the west curtains of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their sockets ten.

Report, therefore, to my father all my glory in Egypt, and all things that ye have seen, and make haste and bring down my father hither.

God has well ordered the way of it, and he knows the place of it.

And the earth brought forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and God saw that it was good.

If ye be peaceable, let one of your brethren be detained in prison; but go ye, and carry back the corn ye have purchased.

How shall I alone be able to bear your labour, and your burden, and your gainsayings?

And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the termination shall be the salt sea; this shall be your land and its borders round about.

Thou stretchedst forth thy right hand, the earth swallowed them up.

Say, therefore, I am his sister, that it may be well with me on account of thee, and my soul shall live because of thee.

And Abraam lifted up his eyes and beheld, and lo! a ram caught by his horns in a plant of Sabec; and Abraam went and took the ram, and offered him up for a whole-burnt-offering in the place of Isaac his son.

And if the worshipper will at all redeem it, he shall add the fifth part to its value.

and supposing any one shall lie with her carnally, and the thing shall be hid from the eyes of her husband, and she should conceal it and be herself defiled, and there be no witness with her, and she should not be taken;

And Abraam rose up in the morning and took loaves and a skin of water, and gave to Agar, and he put the child on her shoulder, and sent her away, and she having departed wandered in the wilderness near the well of the oath.

Of Aser, Phagaiel the son of Echran.

And he shall put the covering on the altar, and they shall cover it with a cloth all of purple.

For every first-born is mine; in the day in which I smote every first-born in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to myself every first-born in Israel: both of man and beast, they shall be mine: I am the Lord.

His forces that were numbered, were fifty-nine thousand and three hundred.

And Joseph appointed it to them for an ordinance until this day; to reserve a fifth part for Pharao, on the land of Egypt, except only the land of the priests, that was not Pharao's.

And Joseph took his two sons, both Ephraim in his right hand, but on the left of Israel, and Manasse on his left hand, but on the right of Israel, and brought them near to him.

And they rent their garments, and laid each man his sack on his ass, and returned to the city.

that she called those that were in the house, and spoke to them, saying, See, he has brought in to us a Hebrew servant to mock ushe came in to me, saying, Lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

And Pharao said to Joseph, I have seen a vision, and there is no one to interpret it; but I have heard say concerning thee that thou didst hear dreams and interpret them.

Zabulon shall dwell on the coast, and he by a haven of ships, and shall extend to Sidon.

Yet three days and Pharao shall remember thy office, and he shall restore thee to thy place of chief cupbearer, and thou shalt give the cup of Pharao into his hand, according to thy former high place, as thou wast wont to be cupbearer.

Take hold of my instruction; let it not go, but keep it for thyself for thy life.

And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and those that had gone up with him to bury his father.

What man is there that desires life, loving to see good days?

And they embittered their life by hard labours, in the clay and in brick-making, and all the works in the plains, according to all the works, wherein they caused them to serve with violence.

And to Joseph he said, His land is of the blessing of the Lord, of the seasons of sky and dew, and of the deeps of wells below,

And having gone out the second day he sees two Hebrew men fighting; and he says to the injurer, Wherefore smitest thou thy neighbour?

Rise, sanctify the people and tell them to sanctify themselves for the morrow: thus says the Lord God of Israel, The accursed thing is among you; ye shall not be able to stand before your enemies, until ye shall have removed the cursed thing from among you.