Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

Then shalt thou say to thy son, We were slaves to Pharao in the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought us forth thence with a mighty hand, and with a high arm.

And he that did not attend in his mind to the word of the Lord, left the cattle in the fields.

And whensoever thou shalt gather the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean what thou hast left; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow:

And Moses was established with the man, and he gave Sepphora his daughter to Moses to wife.

And do thou look out for thyself out of all the people able men, fearing God, righteous men, hating pride, and thou shalt set over the people captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens.

These men are peaceable, let them dwell with us upon the land, and let them trade in it, and behold the land is extensive before them; we will take their daughters to us for wives, and we will give them our daughters.

This is the law of the votary who shall have vowed to the Lord his gift to the Lord, concerning his vow, besides what he may be able to afford according to the value of his vow, which he may have vowed according to the law of separation.

And the Lord shall separate that man for evil of all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in the book of this law.

And these the sons of Sebegon; Aie, and Ana; this is the Ana who found Jamin in the wilderness, when he tended the beasts of his father Sebegon.

The sons of Lea, the first-born of Jacob; Ruben, Symeon, Levi, Judas, Issachar, Zabulon.

Cursed is he that lies with any beast: and all the people shall say, So be it.

There shall not be trouble in Jacob, neither shall sorrow be seen in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, the glories of rulers are in him.

And they departed from Lebona, and encamped in Ressan.

Thou shalt not be wounded before them, because the Lord thy God in the midst of thee is a great and powerful God.

Whoever of the seed of Aaron the priest has a blemish on him, shall not draw nigh to offer sacrifices to thy God, because he has a blemish on him; he shall not draw nigh to offer the gifts of God.

And there died all flesh that moved upon the earth, of flying creatures and cattle, and of wild beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, and every man.

These are the families of Issachar according to their numbering, sixty-four thousand and four hundred.

And he restored the chief cupbearer to his office, and he gave the cup into Pharao's hand.

And Abram and Nachor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sara, and the name of the wife of Nachor, Malcha, daughter of Arrhan, and he was the father of Malcha, the father of Jescha.

And the man took great notice of her, and remained silent to know whether the Lord had made his way prosperous or not.

I will therefore go down and see, if they completely correspond with the cry which comes to me, and if not, that I may know.

And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the Lord carried back the sea with a strong south wind all the night, and made the sea dry, and the water was divided.

behold, the Lord your God has delivered to us the land before you: go up and inherit it as the Lord God of your fathers said to you; fear not, neither be afraid.

And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.

Whosoever shall smite a man, and he shall die, let him die the death.

And he departed himself and all that belonged to him, and passed over the river, and went into the mountain Galaad.

And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all things, which the Lord our God did to these two kings: so shall the Lord our God do to all the kingdoms against which thou crossest over thither.

Thou shalt not plant for thyself a grove; thou shalt not plant for thyself any tree near the altar of thy God.

And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me: thou shalt stand upon the rock;

then shall they bring out the damsel to the doors of her father's house, and shall stone her with stones, and she shall die; because she has wrought folly among the children of Israel, to defile the house of her father by whoring: so thou shalt remove the evil one from among you.

His forces that were numbered, were thirty-two thousand and two hundred.

But these ye shall eat of the creeping winged animals, which go upon four feet, which have legs above their feet, to leap with on the earth.

And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his brethren, and all the family of his father; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

that your days may be long, and the days of your children, upon the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Take heed to thyself and hearken to him, and disobey him not; for he will not give way to thee, for my name is on him.

Separate your selves from the midst of this congregation, and I will consume them at once.

And Abenner said to him, Turn thou to the right hand or to the left, and lay hold for thyself on one of the young men, and take to thyself his armour: but Asel would not turn back from following him.

And let the bar in the middle between the posts go through from the one side to the other side.

And Isaac prayed the Lord concerning Rebecca his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord heard him, and his wife Rebecca conceived in her womb.

And the people stood afar off, and Moses went into the darkness where God was.

And the chief keeper of the prison gave the prison into the hand of Joseph, and all the prisoners as many as were in the prison; and all things whatsoever they do there, he did them.

And Eleazar the priest said to the men of the host that came from the battle-array, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses.

And the Lord thy God shall consume these nations before thee by little and little: thou shalt not be able to consume them speedily, lest the land become desert, and the wild beasts of the field be multiplied against thee.

So the presents went on before him, but he himself lodged that night in the camp.

And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; beside the continual whole-burnt-offering; there shall be their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings.

Were I to laugh on them, they would not believe it; and the light of my face has not failed.

and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.

that thou shalt do no wrong by us, as we have not abhorred thee, and according as we have treated thee well, and have sent thee forth peaceably; and now thou art blessed of the Lord.

And these of them ye shall eat: the caterpillar and his like, and the attacus and his like, and the cantharus and his like, and the locust and his like.

And Joseph saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation; and the sons of Machir the son of Manasse were borne on the sides of Joseph.

And if thou wilt vow a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it; for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee, and otherwise it shall be sin in thee.

And to his father he sent at the same rate, and ten asses, bearing some of all the good things of Egypt, and ten mules, bearing bread for his father for thy journey.

And thou shalt offer one kid of the goats for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you.

And if there be sin in any one, and the judgment of death be upon him, and he be put to death, and ye hang him on a tree:

And the pillar of cloud failed not by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before all the people.

And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry land, and the water of it was a wall on the right hand and a wall on the left.

And thou shalt say to Pharao, These things saith the Lord, Israel is my first-born.

And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.

And if a man be found lying with a woman married to a man, ye shall kill them both, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou remove the wicked one out of Israel.

The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dream of Pharao is one.

And we have brought other money with us to buy food; we know not who put the money into our sacks.

And Moses did as the Lord commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation.

And it shall come to pass that if ye will indeed hearken to all these commands, which I charge thee to observe this day, to love the Lord our God, and to walk in all his ways, and to cleave close to him;

For all the men who see my glory, and the signs which I wrought in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me this tenth time, and have not hearkened to my voice,

And Moses turned to the Lord, and said, I pray, Lord, why hast thou afflicted this people? and wherefore hast thou sent me?

For they shall depart by the command of the Lord: - they kept the charge of the Lord by the command of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner.

As the doe and the stag are eaten, so shalt thou eat it; the unclean in thee and the clean shall eat it in like manner.

And Joshua called them together and said to them, Why have ye deceived me, saying, We live very far from you; whereas ye are fellow-countrymen of those who dwell among us?

But every woman shall ask of her neighbour and fellow lodger, articles of gold and silver, and apparel; and ye shall put them upon your sons and upon your daughters, and spoil ye the Egyptians.

And the sons of Oziel, Misael, and Elisaphan, and Segri.

And these the sons of Ana; Desonand Olibema daughter of Ana.

For a fire has been kindled out of my wrath, it shall burn to hell below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Hasten therefore to escape thither, for I shall not be able to do anything until thou art come thither; therefore he called the name of that city, Segor.

And afterwards the Levites went in to minister in their service in the tabernacle of witness before Aaron, and before his sons; as the Lord appointed Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

And the sons of Rachel; Joseph and Benjamin.

One that is blind, or broken, or has its tongue cut out, or is troubled with warts, or has a malignant ulcer, or tetters, they shall not offer these to the Lord; neither shall ye offer any of them for a burnt-offering on the altar of the Lord.

And to Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp, and shall leap out of Basan.

these are eight sons, which Melcha bore to Nachor the brother of Abraam.

For the children of Symeon 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 polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes out with the host,

The gifts of God are most holy, and he shall eat of the holy things.

His soul also draws nigh to death, and his life is in Hades.

But whensoever ye shall transgress, and not perform all these commands, which the Lord spoke to Moses;

The death of sinners is evil: and they that hate righteousness will go wrong.

And the woman conceived and bore a son, and Moses called his name Gersam, saying, I am a sojourner in a strange land.

And another generation shall sayeven your sons who shall rise up after you, and the stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon it,

And all things which have the breath of life, and whatever was on the dry land, died.

For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

And it came to pass when all the camels ceased drinking, that the man took golden ear-rings, each of a drachm weight, and he two bracelets on her hands, their weight was ten pieces of gold.

Ye shall not be afraid of them, because the Lord our God himself shall fight for you.

For I am to die in this land, and shall not pass over this Jordan; but ye are to pass over, and shall inherit this good land.

And keep ye all my ordinances, and my judgments; and ye shall do them, and the land shall not be aggrieved with you, into which I bring you to dwell upon it.

and when my glory shall pass by, then I will put thee into a hole of the rock; and I will cover thee over with my hand, until I shall have passed by.

And he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph, interpreted to them.

And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, the God of spirits and of all flesh, if one man has sinned, shall the wrath of the Lord be upon the whole congregation?

It was God who brought him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn.

Because of him the chief keeper of the prison knew nothing, for all things were in the hand of Joseph, because the Lord was with him; and whatever things he did, the Lord made them to prosper in his hands.

If ye will indeed hear my voice, and if thou wilt do all the things I shall charge thee with, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations, for the whole earth is mine; and ye shall be to me a royal priesthood, and a holy nation: these words shall ye speak to the children of Israel, If ye shall indeed hear my voice, and do all the things I shall tell thee, I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries.

And the charmers also of the Egyptians did so with their sorceries; and the heart of Pharao was hardened, and he did not hearken to them, even as the Lord said.

And Abenner said yet again to Asael, Stand aloof from me, lest I smite thee to the ground? and how should I lift up my face to Joab?