Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, and terror shall issue out of the secret chambers; the young man shall perish with the virgin, the suckling with him who has grown old.

And all the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, who came out of his loins, besides the wives of the sons of Jacob, all the souls were sixty-six.

Let all thy sheep pass by to-day, and separate thence every grey sheep among the rams, and every one that is speckled and spotted among the goats shall be my reward.

And Balaam rose up and departed and returned to his place, and Balac went to his own home.

And Eleazar the son of Aaron took to himself for a wife one of the daughters of Phutiel, and she bore to him Phinees. These are the heads of the family of the Levites, according to their generations.

And ye shall make a distinction between the clean and the unclean cattle, and between clean and unclean birds; and ye shall not defile your souls with cattle, or with birds, or with any creeping things of the earth, which I have separated for you by reason of uncleanness.

then thou shalt sell them for money, and thou shalt take the money in thy hands, and thou shalt go to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose.

And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mambre, to a city of the plain; this is Chebron in the land of Chanaan, where Abraam and Isaac sojourned.

And these the sons of Rison; Hos, and Aran.

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids assent to just things.

And the opening of it shall be in the middle having a fringe round about the opening, the work of the weaver, woven together in the joining of the same piece that it might not be rent.

And they took in their hands of the fruit of the land, and brought it to you, and said, The land is good which the Lord our God gives us.

And Joseph died, aged an hundred and ten years; and they prepared his corpse, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.

And in the fifth year ye shall eat the fruit, its produce is an increase to you. I am the Lord your God.

the Lord make his face to shine upon thee, and have mercy upon thee;

Thou shalt not eat it, that it may be well with thee and with thy sons after thee, if thou shalt do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord thy God.

He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering.

We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is with his father to-day in the land of Chanaan.

and Sepphora having taken a stone cut off the foreskin of her son, and fell at his feet and said, The blood of the circumcision of my son is staunched:

And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

Begin to put thy terror and thy fear on the face of all the nations under heaven, who shall be troubled when they have heard thy name, and shall be in anguish before thee.

Six days ye shall gather it, and on the seventh day is a sabbath, for there shall be none on that day.

And from fifty years old the Levites shall cease from the ministry, and shall not work any longer.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And it was morning, and behold it was Lea; and Jacob said to Laban, What is this that thou hast done to me? did I not serve thee for Rachel? and wherefore hast thou deceived me?

And the priest shall put some of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger on the horns of the altar of whole-burnt-offering; and he shall pour out all its blood by the bottom of the altar of whole-burnt-offerings.

And she said to him, We have both straw and much provender, and a place for resting.

And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to their kind, and God saw that they were good.

His sandal shall be iron and brass; as thy days, so shall be thy strength.

And thou shalt serve the Lord thy God, and I will bless thy bread and thy wine and thy water, and I will turn away sickness from you.

And the seventh day shall be to you a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work in it.

to Azeni, the family of the Azenites; to Addi, the family of the Addites:

And they prepared their gifts, until Joseph came at noon, for they heard that he was going to dine there.

I will therefore go over and see this good land that is beyond Jordan, this good mountain and Antilibanus.

And from the basket of consecration, which was before the Lord, he also took one unleavened loaf, and one loaf made with oil, and one cake; and put them upon the fat, and the right shoulder:

And the order of the camp of the sons of Dan shall set forward the last of all the camps, with their forces: and over their forces was Achiezer the son of Amisadai.

And the priest shall take from the hand of the woman the sacrifice of jealousy, and shall present the sacrifice before the Lord, and shall bring it to the altar.

So Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and gave them a law and an ordinance in Selo before the tabernacle of the God of Israel.

And every one that takes of their dead bodies shall wash his garments, and shall be unclean till the evening.

And Moses cried to the Lord, and the Lord shewed him a tree, and he cast it into the water, and the water was sweetened: there he established to him ordinances and judgments, and there he proved him,

burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

And if ye should enter into the land, which the Lord shall give you, as he has spoken, keep this service.

And they called that place, The valley of the cluster, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

And Moses said, Nay, but thou shalt give to us whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices, which we will sacrifice to the Lord our God.

And the hail smote in all the land of Egypt both man and beast, and the hail smote all the grass in the field, and the hail broke in pieces all the trees in the field.

The Lord give thee up for slaughter before thine enemies: thou shalt go out against them one way, and flee from their face seven ways; and thou shalt be a dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth.

And I prayed before the Lord forty days and forty nights, the number that I prayed before, for the Lord said that he would utterly destroy you.

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.

But Amalec and the Chananite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn and depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

O Lord, save now: O Lord, send now prosperity.

And the first came out red, hairy all over like a skin; and she called his name Esau.

and my God helped thee, and he blessed thee with the blessing of heaven from above, and the blessing of the earth possessing all things, because of the blessing of the breasts and of the womb,

And the congregation shall rescue the slayer from the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he fled for refuge; and he shall dwell there till the death of the high-priest, whom they anointed with the holy oil.

And the sons of Ruben and the sons of Gad spoke to Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as our lord commands.

And Mathusala lived an hundred and sixty and seven years, and begot Lamech.

Ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall offer a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord.

and the land is polluted; and I have recompensed their iniquity to them because of it, and the land is aggrieved with them that dwell upon it.

And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy men that were elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and ceased.

And Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son; and thou shalt surely do valiantly, and surely prevail. And David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

Knowest thou not the mischief of Abenner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all things that thou doest?

And now art thou any better than Balac son of Sepphor, king of Moab? did he indeed fight with Israel, or indeed make war with him,

And David said to the messenger, Thus shalt thou say to Joab, Let not the matter be grievous in thine eyes, for the sword devours one way at one time and another way at another: strengthen thine array against the city, and destroy it, and strengthen him.

And he went down from Bama into the city; and they prepared a lodging for Saul on the roof, and he lay down.

And thou shalt know that thy seed shall be abundant; and thy children shall be like the herbage of the field.

but if thou shall return to the city, and shalt say to Abessalom, Thy brethren are passed over, and the king thy father is passed over after me: and now I am thy servant, O king, suffer me to live: at one time even of late I was the servant of thy father, and now I am thy humble servantso shalt thou disconcert for me, the counsel of Achitophel.

And there was not a man in Israel so very comely as Abessalom: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

For what have I in heaven but thee? and what have I desired upon the earth beside thee?

And he sat upon his seat as in former times, even on his seat by the wall, and he went before Jonathan; and Abenner sat on one side of Saul, and the place of David was empty.

And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders;

For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me,

He asked for water, she gave him milk in a dish; she brought butter of princes.

For he has not despised nor been angry at the supplication of the poor; nor turned away his face from me; but when I cried to him, he heard me.

And they brought him before the Lord; and his father slew his offering which he offered from year to year to the Lord; and he brought near the child, and slew the calf; and Anna the mother of the child brought him to Heli.

Give thanks to the God of heaven; for his mercy endures for ever.

So is this great and wide sea: there are things creeping innumerable, small animals and great.

Whereas the Lord has set boundaries between us and you, even Jordan, and ye have no portion in the Lord: so your sons shall alienate our sons, that they should not worship the Lord.

He speaks, and the stormy wind arises, and its waves are lifted up.

And now, behold, we are in your power; do to us as it is pleasing to you, and as it seems good to you.

And Samuel told the people the manner of the king, and wrote it in a book, and set it before the Lord: and Samuel sent away all the people, and each went to his place.

And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered up whole-burnt-offerings and peace-offerings: and Solomon made an addition to the altar afterwards, for it was little at first. And the Lord hearkened to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

He recovered the coast of Israel from the entering in of Aemath to the sea of Araba, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonas the son of Amathi, the prophet of Gethchopher.

How then do ye comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.

And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and called his name Jeddedi, for the Lord's sake.

The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after him: God is not before him.

And now, O my Lord, the Almighty Lord God of Israel, confirm the word for ever which thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and his house: and now as thou hast said,

And the king of Syria had charged the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, Fight not against small or great, but against the king of Israel only.

Let not my lord, I pray thee, take to heart this pestilent man, for according to his name, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thy handmaid saw not the servants of my lord whom thou didst send.

And he will make his flesh tender as that of a babe, and he will restore him among men in his full strength.

Thy goings, O God, have been seen; the goings of my God, the king, in the sanctuary.

And the watchman cried out, and reported to the king. And the king said, If he be alone, there are good tidings in his mouth. And the man came and drew near.

But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.

And he shewed them the way into the city; and they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and his family.

Gabaon, and Rama, and Beerotha;

And Memphibosthe the son of Saul's son went down to meet the king, and had not dressed his feet, nor pared his nails, nor shaved himself, neither had he washed his garments, from the day that the king departed, until the day when he arrived in peace.

And the Spirit of the Lord began to go out with him in the camp of Dan, and between Saraa and Esthaol.

For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me.

And now remove, I pray thee, my sin, and turn back with me, and I will worship the Lord thy God.

And Joshua said to Achar, Why hast thou destroyed us? the Lord destroy thee as at this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones.

And Joas the son of Joachaz returned, and took the cities out of the hand of the son of Ader the son of Azael, which he had taken out of the hand of Joachaz his father in the war: thrice did Joas smite him, and he recovered the cities of Israel.

Neither will your reproof cause me to cease my words, for neither will I endure the sound of your speech.