Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and said, Forasmuch as this nation has forsaken my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not hearkened to my voice,

For thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before thee.

And David returned to bless his house. And Melchol the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and saluted him, and said, How was the king of Israel glorified to-day, who was to-day uncovered in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the dancers wantonly uncovers himself!

And his servants rose up and made a conspiracy, and smote Joas in the house of Mallo that is in Sela.

And they brought him upon horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

and Anachereth, and Dabiron, and Kison, and Rebes,

And one son of Abimelech son of Achitob escapes, and his name was Abiathar, and he fled after David.

And what shall David yet say to thee? and now thou knowest thy servant, O Lord, my Lord.

And they went out, all the men of Israel, to fight with Benjamin, and engaged with them at Gabaa.

Why hast thou not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? but now I shall depart to the earth; and in the morning I am no more.

Then David rose up from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his raiment, and went into the house of God, and worshipped him; and went into his own house, and called for bread to eat, and they set bread before him and he ate.

Blessed be the Lord God, blessed be the Lord daily; and the God of our salvation shall prosper us. Pause.

And Joab said to him, Thou shalt not be a messenger of glad tidings this day; thou shalt bear them another day; but on this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead.

And he shall by no means escape from the power of the sword; let the brazen bow wound him.

And Seon did not trust Israel to pass by his coast; and Seon gathered all his people, and they encamped at Jasa; and he set the battle in array against Israel.

Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

And all Israel knew from Dan even to Bersabee, that Samuel was faithful as a prophet to the Lord.

For to me they spoke peaceably, but imagined deceits in their anger.

Whereas thou camest yesterday, shall I to-day cause thee to travel with us, and shalt thou thus change thy place? thou didst come forth yesterday, and to-day shall I set thee in motion to go along with us? I indeed will go whithersoever I may go: return then, and cause thy brethren to return with thee, and may the Lord deal mercifully and truly with thee.

And Orna looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on before him: and Orna went forth, and did obeisance to the king with his face to the earth.

And Saul went up and all the people that were with him, and they come to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was against his neighbour, a very great confusion.

and gave their land for an inheritance: for his mercy endures for ever:

He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,

And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me.

And concerning thine asses that have been lost now these three days, care not for them, for they are found. And to whom does the excellency of Israel belong? does it not to thee and to thy father's house?

And it came to pass when the flame went up above the altar toward heaven, that the angel of the Lord went up in the flame; and Manoe and his wife were looking, and they fell upon their face to the earth.

and said to the king, Let not my lord now impute iniquity, and remember not all the iniquity of thy servant in the day in which my lord went out from Jerusalem, so that the king should mind it.

And now according to all the king's desire to come down, let him come down to us; they have shut him up into the hands of the king.

Behold, I have received commandment to bless: I will bless, and not turn back.

And Aaron shall take the names of the children of Israel, on the oracle of judgment on his breast; a memorial before God for him as he goes into the sanctuary.

As also the other nations which the Lord God destroys before your face, so shall ye perish, because ye hearkened not to the voice of the Lord your God.

And do thou charge the children of Israel, and let them take for thee refined pure olive-oil beaten to burn for light, that a lamp may burn continually

And he was angry with Aaron to destroy him utterly, and I prayed for Aaron also at that time.

And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty and two years, and he died.

And they that encamp next shall be of the tribe of Manasse, and the prince of the sons of Manasse, Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.

And if he do not redeem the field, but should sell the field to another man, he shall not after redeem it.

But if being a married woman thou hast transgressed, or been polluted, and any one has lain with thee, beside thy husband:

And Joshua set these twelve stones which he took out of Jordan, in Galgala,

and saw again in my sleep, and as it were seven ears came up on one stem, full and good.

Aser, his bread fat; and he shall yield dainties to princes.

And the priest shall present them as an offering before the Lord; it shall be the holy portion for the priest beside the breast of the heave-offering and beside the shoulder of the wave-offering: and afterwards the votary shall drink wine.

And we said to lord, We have a father, an old man, and he has a son of his old age, a young one, and his brother is dead, and he alone has been left behind to his mother, and his father loves him.

And the Lord was with Joseph, and poured down mercy upon him; and he gave him favour in the sight of the chief keeper of the prison.

And your strength shall be in vain; and your land shall not yield its seed, and the tree of your field shall not yield its fruit.

And he blessed them in that day, saying, In you shall Israel be blessed, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and Manasse; and he set Ephraim before Manasse.

One censer of ten golden shekels, full of incense.

And it came to pass on the third day that it was Pharao's birth-day, and he made a banquet for all his servants, and he remembered the office of the cupbearer and the office of the baker in the midst of his servants.

And he said to them, Fear not, I will maintain you, and your families: and he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

And to Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlarges Gad: as a lion he rested, having broken the arm and the ruler.

And as the midwives feared God, they established for themselves families.

And these the sons of Sobal; Golam, and Manachath, and Gaebel, and Sophar, and Omar.

And he said to his daughters, And where is he? and why have ye left the man? call him therefore, that he may eat bread.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but out of them all Lord will deliver them.

Uz the first-born, and Baux his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians, and Chazad, and

And Moses and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites as the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the sons of Israel did to them.

Behold this city is near for me to escape thither, which is a small one, and there shall I be preserved, is it not little? and my soul shall live because of thee.

and said, I will turn away my face from them, and will show what shall happen to them in the last days; for it is a perverse generation, sons in whom is no faith.

and I will stretch out my hand, and smite the Egyptians with all my wonders, which I shall work among them, and after that he will send you forth.

And it shall come to pass, whenever the cloud shall remain from the evening till the morning, and in the morning the cloud shall go up, then shall they remove by day or by night.

And Moses took his wife and his children, and mounted them on the beasts, and returned to Egypt; and Moses took the rod which he had from God in his hand.

My son, attend to my speech; and apply thine ear to my words:

And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad, was Elisaph the son of Raguel.

And if ye should say, What shall we eat in this seventh year, if we do not sow nor gather in our fruits?

ye shall eat for a full month, until the flesh come out at your nostrils; and it shall be nausea to you, because ye disobeyed the Lord, who is among you, and wept before him, saying, What had we to do to come out of Egypt?

For I will bring them into the good land, which I sware to their fathers, to give to them a land flowing with milk and honey: and they shall eat and be filled and satisfy themselves; then will they turn aside after other gods, and serve them, and they will provoke me, and break my covenant.

bruise for bruise, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as any one may inflict a blemish on a man, so shall it be rendered to him.

So the field and the cave which was in it were made sure to Abraam for possession of a burying place, by the sons of Chet.

And the sons of Jacob were twelve.

And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat;

This is the gate of the Lord: the righteous shall enter by it.

And what the land is on which they dwell, whether it is good or bad; and what the cities are wherein these dwell, whether they dwell in walled cities or unwalled.

And the sons of Ruben the first-born of Israel 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 heads, wereall males from twenty years old and upward, every one that went out with the host

to love the Lord thy God, to hearken to his voice, and cleave to him; for this is thy life, and the length of thy days, that thou shouldest dwell upon the land, which the Lord sware to thy fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them.

And the Lord said, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha has been increased towards me, and their sins are very great.

And I said to you, Ye have come as far as the mountain of the Amorite, which the Lord our God gives to you:

And the priest shall place them with the loaves of the first-fruits an offering before the Lord with the two lambs, they shall be holy to the Lord; they shall belong to the priest that brings them.

And they met Moses and Aaron coming forth to meet them, as they came forth from Pharao.

And the Lord said to Moses, I am gracious to them according to thy word.

And Ambram took to wife Jochabed the daughter of his father's brother, and she bore to him both Aaron and Moses, and Mariam their sister: and the years of the life of Ambram were a hundred and thirty-two years.

They shall not bring to the Lord anything that has a blemish in it, for it shall not be acceptable for you.

My soul has longed exceedingly for thy judgments at all times.

Ye shall offer your bread a heave-offering: as a heave-offering from the threshing-floor, so shall ye separate it,

This we will do; take them alive, and we will preserve them: so there shall not be wrath against us by reason of the oath which we swore to them.

Whensoever ye shall forsake the Lord and serve other gods, then he shall come upon you and afflict you, and consume you, because he has done you good.

God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

or hump-backed, or blear-eyed, or that has lost his eye-lashes, or a man who has a malignant ulcer, or tetter, or one that has lost a testicle.

And she hasted, and emptied the water-pot into the trough, and ran to the well to draw again, and drew water for all the camels.

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

and Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded them; and Aaron having lifted up his hand with his rod, smote the water in the river before Pharao, and before his servants, and changed all the water in the river into blood.

and the Chettites, and the Pherezites, and the Raphaim,

Whosoever shall lie with his near kinswoman, has uncovered the nakedness of one near akin to him: they shall die childless.

And Achar answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel: thus and thus have I done:

And if any one lie carnally with a woman, and she should be a home-servant kept for a man, and she has not been ransomed, and her freedom has not been given to her, they shall be visited with punishment; but they shall not die, because she was not set at liberty.

And the Lord said to Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any portion among them; for I am thy portion and thine inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.

And so they shall by no means go in to look suddenly upon the holy things, and die.

And whatever man shall be defiled and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the congregation, because he has defiled the holy things of the Lord, because the water of sprinkling has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

and blessed be the most high God who delivered thine enemies into thy power. And Abram gave him the tithe of all.

And thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.

The Lord send upon thee want, and famine, and consumption of all things on which thou shalt put thy hand, until he shall have utterly destroyed thee, and until he shall have consumed thee quickly because of thine evil devices, because thou hast forsaken me.