Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

The works of the Lord are great, sought out according to all his will.

The Lord shall send out a rod of power for thee out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine.

Hear, O heaven, and hearken, O earth: for the Lord has spoken, saying, I have begotten and reared up children, but they have rebelled against me.

O God, my heart is ready, my heart is ready; I will sing and sing psalms with my glory.

A good name is better than good oil; and the day of death than the day of birth.

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,

Let them say so who have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

And these are the names of his sons; Joel the first-born, and the name of the second Abia, judges in Bersabee.

And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train; and there came camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and she came in to Solomon, and told him all that was in her heart.

for the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the crafty man have been opened against me: they have spoken against me with a crafty tongue.

Observe the commandment of the king, and that because of the word of the oath of God.

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

and said to them, Ye have heard all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and ye have hearkened to my voice in all that he commanded you.

Who shall tell the mighty acts of the Lord? who shall cause all his praises to be heard?

For through the multitude of trial a dream comes; and a fool's voice is with a multitude of words.

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 she conceived and bore to Abraam a son in old age, at the set time according as the Lord spoke to him.

and I praised all the dead that had already died more than the living, as many as are alive until now.

a man to whom God shall give wealth, and substance, and honour, and he wants nothing for his soul of all things that he shall desire, yet God shall not give him power to eat of it, for a stranger shall devour it: this is vanity, and an evil infirmity.

In the place where they slay the whole-burnt-offering, they shall slay the ram of the trespass-offering before the Lord, and he shall pour out the blood at the bottom of the altar round about.

And God spoke to Israel in a night vision, saying, Jacob, Jacob; and he said, What is it?

And he took of his brethren five men, and set them before Pharao.

If any man of you shall bring gifts to the Lord, ye shall bring your gifts of the cattle and of the oxen and of the sheep.

who dost robe thyself with light as with a garment; spreading out the heaven as a curtain.

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

when they shall come and pray toward this place,

Sing to him, yea, sing praises to him: tell forth all his wonderful works.

I said to laughter, Madness: and to mirth, Why doest thou this:

a people great and many and tall, the sons of Enac, whom thou knowest, and concerning whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Enac?

A time of birth, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what has been planted;

And he himself went a day's journey in the wilderness, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and asked concerning his life that he might die, and said, Let it be enough now, O Lord, take, I pray thee, my life from me; for I am no better than my fathers.

and unleavened loaves kneaded with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil: thou shalt make them of fine flour of wheat.

And Moses called all the sons of Israel and said to them, Ye have seen all things that the Lord did in the land of Egypt before you to Pharao and his servants, and all his land;

and he spoke to the man of God that came out of Juda, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast resisted the word of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee,

What wilt thou keep, my son, what? the words of God. My firstborn son, I speak to thee: what? son of my womb? what? son of my vows?

And if thou wilt walk before me as David thy father walked, in holiness of heart and uprightness, and so as to do according to all that I commanded him, and shalt keep my ordinances and my commandments:

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

And of the clean cattle take in to thee sevens, male and female, and of the unclean cattle pairs male and female.

This is the law of the leper: in whatsoever day he shall have been cleansed, then shall he be brought to the priest.

Vanity is in all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; both to the pure, and to the impure; both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifice not: as is the good, so is the sinner: as is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath.

Give not thy soul unto a woman to set her foot upon thy substance.

abandoned for ever, to be a fold and resting-place for flocks, and there shall be none to go after them.

And Ezekias turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying,

Let thy neighbour, and not thine own mouth, praise thee; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

As birds and sparrows fly, so a curse shall not come upon any one without a cause.

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses.

and I will be wise in a blameless way. When wilt thou come to me? I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to thee.

By reason of the sins of ungodly men quarrels arise; but a wise man will quell them.

and the shawls to be worn in the house, and the Spartan transparent dresses,

Thou shalt not associate with the multitude for evil; thou shalt not join thyself with a multitude to turn aside with the majority so as to shut out judgment.

In the Lord I have put my trust: how will ye say to my soul,

behold, I have done according to thy word: behold, I have given thee an understanding and wise heart: there has not been any one like thee before thee, and after thee there shall not arise one like thee.

Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Judas,

Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, according to the houses of their lineage, every one that goes forth to battle in Israel.

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from unjust lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

and apply thine hand, knowing that it behoves thee to prepare such meats: but if thou art very insatiable,

For their heart meditates falsehoods, and their lips speak mischiefs.

And be ready by the morning, and thou shalt go up to the mount Sina, and shalt stand there for me on the top of the mountain.

And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee in the wilderness, that he might afflict thee, and try thee, and that the things in thine heart might be made manifest, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.

I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will recount all thy wonderful works.

And put my silver cup into the sack of the youngest, and the price of his corn. And it was done according to the word of Joseph, as he said.

Every man seems to himself righteous; but the Lord directs the hearts.

And Abraam said concerning Sarrha his wife, She is my sister, for he feared to say, She is my wife, lest at any time the men of the city should kill him for her sake. So Abimelech king of Gerara sent and took Sarrha.

but be thou strong, and shew thyself a man;

And the seven ill-favoured and lean cows devoured the seven well-favoured and choice-fleshed cows; and Pharao awoke.

and said to them, I am this day a hundred and twenty years old; I shall not be able any longer to come in or go out; and the Lord said to me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

And the Lord God, having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that every one in his heart was intently brooding over evil continually,

The threat of a king differs not from the rage of a lion; and he that provokes him sins against his own soul.

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,

And they departed from Raphidin, and came into the wilderness of Sina, and there Israel encamped before the mountain.

Take the sum of the children of Caath from the midst of the sons of Levi, after their families, according to the houses of their fathers' households;

And they fulfilled forty days for him, for so are the days of embalming numbered; and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.

Wealth acquires many friends; but the poor is deserted even of the friend he has.

Bana son of Achiluth had Ithaanach, and Mageddo, and his was the whole house of San which was by Sesathan below Esrae, and from Bethsan as far as Sabelmaula, as far as Maeber Lucam, one.

And thou shalt make holy apparel for Aaron thy brother, for honour and glory.

And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the first-born; and Abiud, Eleazar and Ithamar.

And the Philistines call their priests, and their prophets, and their enchanters, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the Lord? teach us wherewith we shall send it away to its place.

And ye shall know this day; for I speak not to your children, who know not and have not seen the discipline of the Lord thy God, and his wonderful works, and his strong hand, and his high arm,

A senseless man feels no need of wisdom, for he is rather led by folly.

The rich and the poor meet together; but the Lord made them both.

When the righteous are praised, the people will rejoice: but when the ungodly rule, men mourn.

And the Philistines took the ark of the Lord, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

O Lord my God, in thee have I trusted: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.

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.

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

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

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.

A good man shall eat of the fruits of righteousness: but the lives of transgressors shall perish before their time.

He that walks uprightly fears the Lord; but he that is perverse in his ways shall be dishonoured.

And the king said to Joab commander of the host, who was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel and Juda, from Dan even to Bersabee, and number the people, and I will know the number of the people.

And ye shall make no covenant with them that dwell in this land, neither shall ye worship their gods; but ye shall destroy their graven images, ye shall pull down their altars: but ye hearkened not to my voice, for ye did these things.

And the king said to them, Take the servants of your lord with you, and mount my son Solomon upon my own mule, and bring him down to Gion.

And Pharao was wroth with his two eunuchs, with his chief cupbearer, and with his chief baker.

He that has found favour with the Lord is made better; but a transgressor shall be passed over in silence.

O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is thy name in all the earth! for thy magnificence is exalted above the heavens.

The tongue of the wise knows what is good: but the mouth of the foolish tells out evil things.

A wise servant shall have rule over foolish masters, and shall divide portions among brethren.