Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

and the cormorant, and the hawk, and its like, and the hoopoe, and the raven,

And thou shalt divide the ram by his several limbs, and thou shalt wash the inward parts and the feet with water, and thou shalt put them on the divided parts with the head.

And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this was the gift of Naasson the son of Aminadab.

Thou hast chosen God this day to be thy God, and to walk in all his ways, and to observe his ordinances and judgments, and to hearken to his voice.

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

And if her father positively refuse, and will not consent to give her to him for a wife, he shall pay compensation to her father according to the amount of the dowry of virgins.

And they shall take down the tabernacle, and the sons of Gedson shall set forward, and the sons of Merari, who bear the tabernacle.

The nakedness of a woman and her daughter shalt thou not uncover; her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter, shalt thou not take, to uncover their nakedness, for they are thy kinswomen: it is impiety.

that the Lord spoke to me, saying,

And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from the slaughter of Chodollogomor, and the kings with him, to the valley of Saby; this was the plain of the kings.

And they shall take for the unclean of the burnt ashes of purification, and they shall pour upon them running water into a vessel.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

These are the ordinances which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and daughter in her youth in the house of her father.

Dost thou then yet exert thyself to hinder my people, so as not to let them go?

And all its spoils thou shalt gather into its public ways, and thou shalt burn the city with fire, and all its spoils publicly before the Lord thy God; and it shall be uninhabited for ever, it shall not be built again.

But if ye will not hearken to us to be circumcised, we will take our daughter and depart.

And thou shalt not make to thyself molten gods.

But thou shalt not redeem the first-born of calves and the first-born of sheep and the first-born of goats; they are holy: and thou shalt pour their blood upon the altar, and thou shalt offer the fat as a burnt-offering for a smell of sweet savour to the Lord.

Cursed is he that removes his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say, So be it.

And if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I send upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and upon your houses, the dog-fly; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with the dog-fly, even throughout the land upon which they are.

And Joseph turned away from them, and wept; and again he came to them, and spoke to them; and he took Symeon from them, and bound him before their eyes.

And he brought the sacrifice and filled his hands with it, and laid it on the altar, besides the morning whole-burnt-offering.

Thou shalt not commit murder.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, so thou shalt not bear sin on his account.

And Abraam prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his women servants, and they bore children.

Thou shalt not be able to eat in thy cities the tithe of thy corn, and of thy wine, and of thine oil, the first-born of thine herd and of thy flock, and all your vows as many as ye shall have vowed, and your thank-offerings, and the first-fruits of thine hands.

and the fourth row, a chrysolite, and a beryl, and an onyx stone, set round with gold, bound together with gold: let them be according to their row.

Cursed shall be thy barns and thy stores.

All these things shall the righteous gain, and the truehearted shall possess his wealth.

These things saith the Lord: Hereby shalt thou know that I am the Lord: behold, I strike with the rod that is in my hand on the water which is in the river, and it shall change it into blood.

And Moses and Aaron took these men who were called by name.

Of all winged birds after their kind, and of all cattle after their kind, and of all reptiles creeping upon the earth after their kind, pairs of all shall come in to thee, male and female to be fed with thee.

And it came to pass when Esau heard the words of his father Isaac, he cried out with a great and very bitter cry, and said, Bless, I pray thee, me also, father.

And Araba and Jordan are the boundary of Machanareth, even to the sea of Araba, the salt sea under Asedoth Phasga eastward.

Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God.

Lest thou shouldest say in thine heart, My strength, and the power of mine hand have wrought for me this great wealth.

And ye beheld their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are among them.

And these are the sons of Gedson, Lobeni and Semei, the houses of their family. And the sons of Caath,

But I will sleep with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me up out of Egypt, and bury me in their sepulchre. And he said, I will do according to thy word.

Whosoever shall take his sister by his father or by his mother, and shall see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness, it is a reproach: they shall be destroyed before the children of their family; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness, they shall bear their sin.

And when the sun was about to set, there was a flame, and behold a smoking furnace and lamps of fire, which passed between these divided pieces.

And take each man his censer, and ye shall put incense upon them, and shall bring each one his censer before the Lord, two hundred and fifty censers, and thou and Aaron shall bring each his censer.

Now then slay every male in all the spoil, slay every woman, who has known the lying with man.

Render a recompense to thy servant: so shall I live, and keep thy words.

and the Evite, and the Arukite, and the Asennite,

And it was brought by their families, and family of the Zaraites was pointed out.

And the priest shall dip his finger into some of the blood of the calf, and shall sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, in front of the veil of the sanctuary.

And it came to pass in her giving up the ghost (for she was dying), that she called his name, The son of my pain; but his father called his name Benjamin.

And Seth had a son, and he called his name Enos: he hoped to call on the name of the Lord God.

And all the wild beasts as many as are with thee, and all flesh both of birds and beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, bring forth with thee: and increase ye and multiply upon the earth.

But if thy heart change, and thou wilt not hearken, and thou shalt go astray and worship other gods, and serve them,

And he said to them, Ye are idle, ye are idlers: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to our God.

Thou shalt not have respect to persons in judgment, thou shalt judge small and great equally; thou shalt not shrink from before the person of a man, for the judgment is God's; and whatsoever matter shall be too hard for you, ye shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.

and the Lord be angry with you, and restrain the heaven; and there shall not be rain, and the earth shall not yield its fruit, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land, which the Lord has given you.

Say to Aaron, A man of thy tribe throughout your generations, who shall have a blemish on him, shall not draw nigh to offer the gifts of his God.

And the man said to him, They have departed hence, for I heard them saying, Let us go to Dothaim; and Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothaim.

And the Lord said to Moses, I will also do for thee this thing, which thou hast spoken; for thou hast found grace before me, and I know thee above all.

And Abessalom said to Chusi, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not forth with thy friend?

And the man did as Joseph said; and he brought the men into the house of Joseph.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

But the calf, and his hide, and his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.

And the servant ran up to meet her, and said, Give me a little water to drink out of thy pitcher;

But if thou shouldest say in thine heart, This nation is greater than I, how shall I be able to destroy them utterly?

And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn my face away from them, and they shall be devoured; and many evils and afflictions shall come upon them; and they shall say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me.

I shall not die, but live, and recount the works of the Lord.

For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with wine of transgression.

And he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace-offering to the Lord with the basket of unleavened bread; and the priest shall offer its meat-offering and its drink-offering.

And the appearance of the glory of the Lord was as burning fire on the top of the mountain, before the children of Israel.

And the flood was upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and the water abounded greatly and bore up the ark, and it was lifted on high from off the earth.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And this rod that was turned into a serpent thou shalt take in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt work miracles.

And Jacob arose and took his wives and his children up on the camels;

And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast hearkened to my voice.

and we will arm ourselves and go as an advanced guard before the children of Israel, until we shall have brought them into their place; and our possessions shall remain in walled cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

And he was afraid, and said, How fearful is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

And now, O Lord, let thy strength be exalted, as thou spakest, saying,

And if he should smite him with a stone thrown from his hand, whereby a man may die, and he thus die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.

They sacrificed to devils, and not to God; to gods whom they knew not: new and fresh gods came in, whom their fathers knew not.

And he said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of the Egyptians to the land of the Chananites and the Chettites, and Amorites and Pherezites, and Gergesites, and Evites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.

And the eyes of Lea were weak. But Rachel was beautiful in appearance, and exceedingly fair in countenance.

And it shall be equal below, they shall be equal toward the same part from the heads to one joining; so shalt thou make to both the two corners, let them be equal.

Whereinsoever we hearkened to Moses we will hearken to thee; only let the Lord our God be with thee, as he was with Moses.

And the shepherds came, and were driving them away; and Moses rose up and rescued them, and drew water for them, and watered their sheep.

And all the days of Maleleel were eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he died.

For the Lord your God, he is God of gods, and the Lord of lords, the great, and strong, and terrible God, who does not accept persons, nor will he by any means accept a bribe:

These the sons of Zelpha, which Laban gave to his daughter Lea, who bore these to Jacob, sixteen souls.

Ye shall bring from your dwelling loaves, as a heave-offering, two loaves: they shall be of two tenth portions of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven of the first-fruits to the Lord.

And Joseph having seen that his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraimit seemed grievous to him; and Joseph took hold of the hand of his father, to remove it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasse.

And when the cloud went up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel departed; and in whatever place the cloud rested, there the children of Israel encamped.

Thou shalt by all means keep the commands of the Lord thy God, the testimonies, and the ordinances, which he commanded thee.

And these the sons of Seir, the Chorrhite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, Sobal, Sebegon, Ana,

And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraam my servant what things I intend to do?

These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses called Ause the son of Naue, Joshua.

the likeness of any beast of those that are on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird which flies under heaven,

And they departed from the Graves of Lust, and encamped in Aseroth.

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

And the city shall be devoted, it and all things that are in it, to the Lord of Hosts: only do ye save Raab the harlot, and all things in her house.

His beauty is as the firstling of his bull, his horns are the horns of a unicorn; with them he shall thrust the nations at once, even from the end of the earth: these are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of Manasse.

And the king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, Why is it that ye have done this thing, and saved the male children alive?