Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night.

And one having opened his sack to give his asses fodder, at the place where they rested, saw also his bundle of money, for it was on the mouth of his sack.

And he said, Thou shalt not pass through me; and Edom went forth to meet him with a great host, and a mighty hand.

And the dog-fly came in abundance into the houses of Pharao, and into the houses of his servants, and into all the land of Egypt; and the land was destroyed by the dog-fly.

And he shall finish making atonement for the sanctuary and for the tabernacle of witness, and for the altar; and he shall make a cleansing for the priests, and he shall bring the living goat;

And Moses sent ambassadors to Seon king of the Amorites, with peaceable words, saying,

And every bed on which she shall lie all the days of her flux shall be to her as the bed of her separation, and every seat whereon she shall sit shall be unclean according to the uncleanness of her separation.

Abraam begot Isaac. And Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebecca, daughter of Bathuel the Syrian, out of Syrian Mesopotamia, sister of Laban the Syrian.

And God came to Balaam by night, and said to him, If these men are come to call thee, rise and follow them; nevertheless the word which I shall speak to thee, it shalt thou do.

Cursed is he that lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt: and all the people shall say, So be it.

And Emmor and Sychem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

He of the servants of Pharao that feared the word of the Lord, gathered his cattle into the houses.

And the priest shall offer the whole-burnt-offering, and the sacrifice upon the altar before the Lord; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be cleansed.

And Abenner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asael himself? and he said, I am.

And having seen Amalec, he took up his parable and said, Amalec is the first of the nations; yet his seed shall perish.

And Pharao gave charge to men concerning Abram, to join in sending him forward, and his wife, and all that he had.

And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharao, and he did not send away the children of Israel.

And he set up there an altar, and called on the God of Israel.

Ye shall eat nothing leavened, but in every habitation of your ye shall eat unleavened bread.

To Jasub, the family of the Jasubites; to Samram, the family of the Samramites.

At my word they spoke not again, and they were very gland whenever I spoke to them.

And if thou shouldest gather thine olives, thou shalt not return to collect the remainder; it shall be for the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.

Thou shalt not lend to thy brother on usury of silver, or usury of meat, or usury of any thing which thou mayest lend out.

What afflictions many and sore hast thou shewed me! yet thou didst turn and quicken me, and broughtest me again from the depths of the earth.

And the children of Israel departed from Socchoth, and encamped in Othom by the wilderness.

then the priest shall look, and, behold, if the appearance be beneath the skin, and its hair has changed to white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; because it is a leprosy, it has broken out in the ulcer.

And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.

But if this report be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel;

And Isaac said to them, Wherefore have ye come to me? whereas ye hated me, and sent me away from you.

And thou shalt put of thy glory upon him, that the children of Israel may hearken to him.

And it went between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel, and stood; and there was darkness and blackness; and the night passed, and they came not near to one another during the whole night.

and they shall say to the men of their city, This our son is disobedient and contentious, he hearkens not to our voice, he is a reveler and a drunkard.

And their meat-offering shall be fine flour mingled with oil; three tenth deals for one calf, and two tenth deals for one ram.

And he dwelt in the wilderness, and his mother took him a wife out of Pharan of Egypt.

And all winged creatures that creep, which go upon four feet, are abominations to you.

On the third day eleven calves, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old without blemish.

And he charged the first and the second and the third, and all that went before him after these flocks, saying, Thus shall ye speak to Esau when ye find him;

And Mariam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, having taken a timbrel in her handthen there went forth all the women after her with timbrels and dances.

But the tree which thou knowest to be not fruit-bearing, this thou shalt destroy and cut down; and thou shalt construct a mound against the city, which makes war against thee, until it be delivered up.

And Moses heard it, and it pleased him.

There the sons of Cham in their tribes according to their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

And he put the fat on the breasts, and offered the fat on the altar.

and the sons of Benjamin; Bala, and Bochor, and Asbel. And the sons of Bala were Gera, and Noeman, and Anchis, and Ros, and Mamphim. And Gera begot Arad.

And ye shall purify every garment and every leathern utensil, and all furniture of goat skin, and every wooden vessel.

And they gathered it every morning, each man what he needed, and when the sun waxed hot it melted.

And God said, Let the waters bring forth reptiles having life, and winged creatures flying above the earth in the firmament of heaven, and it was so.

And the rest shall hear and fear, and do no more according to this evil thing in the midst of you.

And Moses offered up the whole ram on the altar: it is a whole-burnt-offering for a sweet-smelling savour; it is a burnt-offering to the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

And Isaac answered and said to Esau, If I have made him thy lord, and have made all his brethren his servants, and have strengthened him with corn and wine, what then shall I do for thee, son?

And Moses said to them, If ye will do according to these words, if ye will arm yourselves before the Lord for battle,

and the sons of Merari according to their families, Mooli and Musi; these are the families of the Levites according to the houses of their families.

But the prophet whosoever shall impiously speak in my name a word which I have not commanded him to speak, and whosoever shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.

And thou shalt testify to them the ordinances of God and his law, and thou shalt shew to them the ways in which they shall walk, and the works which they shall do.

that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, that he depart not from the commandments on the right hand or on the left; that he and his sons may reign long in his dominion among the children of Israel.

Now then come, let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil wild beast has devoured him; and we shall see what his dreams will be.

And they departed from Remmon Phares, and encamped in Lebona.

Thou shalt justly pursue justice, that ye may live, and go in and inherit the land which the Lord thy God gives thee.

But if any one should injure us, or betray these our matters, we shall be quit of this thine oath.

And Moses says to them, Be of good courage, for God is come to you to try you, that his fear may be among you, that ye sin not.

Thou shalt eat it before the Lord year by year in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, thou and thy house.

And whatsoever soul shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace-offering which is the Lord's, and his uncleanness be upon him, that soul shall perish from his people.

Of the tribe of Symeon, Salamiel the son of Semiud.

And Noe began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.

Every one that touches the flesh of it shall be holy, and on whosesoever garment any of its blood shall have been sprinkled, whosoever shall have it sprinkled, shall be washed in the holy place.

And if a man smite his man-servant or his maid-servant, with a rod, and the party die under his hands, he shall be surely punished.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And if he should thrust him through enmity, or cast any thing upon him from an ambuscade, and the man should die,

And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If the Lord God will be with me, and guard me throughout on this journey, on which I am going, and give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

And Noe built an altar to the Lord, and took of all clean beasts, and of all clean birds, and offered a whole burnt-offering upon the altar.

And he shall do to the calf as he did to the calf of the sin-offering, so shall it be done; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and the trespass shall be forgiven them.

And Jacob served for Rachel seven years, and they were before him as a few days, by reason of his loving her.

Ye shall eat every clean bird.

And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin, and clothed them.

It shall be accounted a land of Raphain, for the Raphain dwelt there before, and the Ammanites call them Zochommin.

He that sacrifices to any gods but to the Lord alone, shall be destroyed by death.

And the priests sounded with the trumpets: and when the people heard the trumpets, all the people shouted at once with a loud and strong shout; and all the wall fell round about, and all the people went up into the city:

And the first-born of an ass thou shalt redeem with a sheep, and if thou wilt not redeem it thou shalt pay a price: every first-born of thy sons shalt thou redeem: thou shalt not appear before me empty.

And God said, Thou shalt not be able to see my face; for no man shall see my face, and live.

until the Lord your God give your brethren rest, as also he has given to you, and they also shall inherit the land, which the Lord our God gives them on the other side of Jordan; then ye shall return, each one to his inheritance which I have given you.

Fifteen cubits upwards was the water raised, and it covered all the high mountains.

But God took you, and led you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

And if the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy borders, as he said to thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh; if thy soul should desire to eat flesh, thou shalt eat flesh according to all the desire of thy soul.

And, behold, I send my angel before thy face, that he may keep thee in the way, that he may bring thee into the land which I have prepared for thee.

And Moses said to Aaron, What has this people done to thee, that thou hast brought upon them a great sin?

And Laban said to him, If I have found grace in thy sight, I would augur , for the Lord has blessed me at thy coming in.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

And ye shall write them on the lintels of your houses, and on your gates;

And Jacob hid Laban the Syrian, so as not to tell him that he ran away.

And it shall come to pass when thy son shall ask thee at a future time, saying, What are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord our God has commanded us?

and five bars to one post on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars to the hinder posts, on the side of the tabernacle toward the sea.

And thou shalt kill it, and take of the blood of it, and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, and on the tips of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the great toes of their right feet.

And the children of Israel did so; and Joseph gave to them waggons, according to the words spoken by king Pharao; and he gave them provision for the journey.

And the Lord thy God shall send against them the hornets, until they that are left and they that are hidden from thee be utterly destroyed.

Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt cleave to him, and shalt swear by his name.

saying, We pray , Sir; we came down at first to buy food.

Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction, as clouds of rain in the time of drought.

The natures of living creatures, and the furies of wild beasts: the violence of winds, and the reasonings of men: the diversities of plants and the virtues of roots:

Then her words pleased Holofernes and all his servants; and they marvelled at her wisdom, and said,

As it behoved them to come, that are resolute to stand out against such things, as are not lawful for love of life to be tasted.

And when they cast up the accounts of their sins, they shall come with fear: and their own iniquities shall convince them to their face.