Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

And the Lord said to Moses, How long are ye unwilling to hearken to my commands and my law?

These are the families of the children of Gad according to their numbering, forty-four thousand and five hundred.

And I will send terror before thee, and I will strike with amazement all the nations to which thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies to flee.

Do thou draw near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say, and thou shalt speak to us all things whatsoever the Lord our God shall speak to thee, and we will hear, and do.

And the Lord said to Moses, Write these words for thyself, for on these words I have established a covenant with thee and with Israel.

Whereas if thou hadst told me, I would have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, and timbrels, and harp.

And Israel said, It is a great thing for me if Joseph my son is yet alive. I will go and see him before I die.

To Caath belonged one division, that of Amram, and another division, that of Issaar, and another division, that of Chebron, and another division, that of Oziel: these are the divisions of Caath, according to number.

Ye shall not make a round cutting of the hair of your head, nor disfigure your beard.

And the Lord shall scatter you among all nations, and ye shall be left few in number among all the nations, among which the Lord shall bring you.

And Laban said to him, Let it be according to thy word.

And this is the law for her that has the issue of blood in her separation, and as to the person who has an issue of seed, in his issue: it is a law for the male and the female, and for the man who shall have lain with her that is set apart.

And thou shalt sacrifice thy whole-burnt-offerings, thou shalt offer the flesh upon the altar of the Lord thy God; but the blood of thy sacrifices thou shalt pour out at the foot of the altar of the Lord thy God, but the flesh thou shalt eat.

And the Lord did as Moses said, and removed the dog-fly from Pharao, and from his servants, and from his people, and there was not one left.

And if hereupon ye will not obey me, but walk perversely towards me,

Fulfil then her sevens, and I will give to thee her also in return for thy labour, which thou labourest with me, yet seven other years.

And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us.

And all the days of Mathusala which he lived, were nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he died.

Their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings shall be to the calves and the rams and the lambs according to their number, according to their ordinance.

And he asked them, How are ye? and he said to them, Is your father, the old man of whom ye spoke, well? Does he yet live?

Benjamin, as a ravening wolf, shall eat still in the morning, and at evening he gives food.

the numbering of them of the tribe of Issachar, was fifty-four thousand and four hundred.

And the priest shall sprinkle with the finger of his right hand some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord.

Therefore say they who deal in dark speeches, Come to Esebon, that the city of Seon may be built and prepared.

Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? and he has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins.

And a young man ran and told Moses, and spoke, saying, Eldad and Modad prophesy in the camp.

And Balac said to Balaam, Come and I will remove thee to another place, if it shall please God, and curse me them from thence.

And ye shall divide the spoils between the warriors that went out to battle, and the whole congregation.

And they stood aloof from the tent of Core round about; and Dathan and Abiron went forth and stood by the doors of their tents, and their wives and their children and their store.

and the Levite that is in thy cities, because he has not a portion or inheritance with thee.

And Abraam answered and said, Now I have begun to speak to my Lord, and I am earth and ashes.

And dwell with him certain days, until thy brother's anger

And the priest shall look upon him on the seventh day; and if the spot be much spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy, it has broken out in the ulcer.

that ye shall say to them, This passover is a sacrifice to the Lord, as he defended the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, but delivered our houses.

And they that encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Aser; and the prince of the sons of Aser, Phagiel the son of Echran.

then shall he calculate the years of his sale, and he shall give what is due to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession.

And they departed from Kataath, and encamped in Tarath.

And Isaac gave up the ghost and died, and was laid to his family, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.

And the calf for the sin-offering, and the goat for the sin-offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, they shall carry forth out of the camp, and burn them with fire, even their skins and their flesh and their dung.

And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses; and he went and met him in the mount of God, and they kissed each other.

And he said to him, Let me go, for the day has dawned; but he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

According to the direction of Aaron and his sons shall be the ministry of the sons of Gedson, in all their ministries, and in all their works; and thou shalt take account of them by name in all things borne by them.

And when the ass saw the angel of God, she lay down under Balaam; and Balaam was angry, and struck the ass with his staff.

And Abraam rose up early to go to the place, where he had stood before the Lord.

Of the tribe of the children of Aser, the prince was Achior the son of Selemi.

And thou shalt screen with the veil the ark of the testimony in the holy of holies.

Instruct me in the way of thine ordinances; and I will meditate on thy wondrous works.

Come, let us sell him to these Ismaelites, but let not our hands be upon him, because he is our brother and our flesh; and his brethren hearkened.

Every soul that shall eat blood, that soul shall perish from his people.

And Moses did as the Lord commanded him, and took him up to mount Or, before all the congregation.

I will pass through thy land: I will go by the road, I will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

But if he should redeem an unclean beast, according to its valuation, then he shall add the fifth part to it, and it shall be his; and if he redeem it not, it shall be sold according to its valuation.

One calf of the herd, one ram, one he-lamb of a year old for a whole-burnt-offering,

And Moses dismissed his father-in-law, and he returned to his own land.

Also on the tenth day of this seventh month is a day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you; and ye shall humble your souls, and offer a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord.

because he found her in the field; the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to help her.

Were it not for the wrath of the enemy, lest they should live long, lest their enemies should combine against them; lest they should say, Our own high arm, and not the Lord, has done all these things.

the blessing, if ye hearken to the commands of the Lord your God, all that I command you this day;

And it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have altogether escaped the notice of her husband, then the water of the conviction that brings the curse shall enter into her; and she shall swell in her belly, and her thigh shall rot, and the woman shall be for a curse in the midst of her people.

And Esau was forty years old; and he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beoch the Chettite, and Basemath, daughter of Helon the Chettite.

And if one soul sin unwillingly, he shall bring one she-goat of a year old for a sin-offering.

Now then, look out a wise and prudent man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

And they proceeded and came to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Pharan Cades; and they brought word to them and to all the congregation, and they shewed the fruit of the land:

and the water returned and covered the chariots and the riders, and all the forces of Pharao, who entered after them into the sea: and there was not left of them even one.

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

But if his hand have not prospered sufficiently, so as that he should restore the money to him, then he that bought the possessions shall have them till the sixth year of the release; and it shall go out in the release, and the owner shall return to his possession.

The sons of Aser according to their families; to Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; to Jesu, the family of the Jesusites; to Baria, the family of the Bariaites.

Eval, and Abimael, and Saba,

But if the woman have not been polluted, and be clean, then shall she be guiltless and shall conceive seed.

And the priest shall put of the oil that is on his hand on the tip of the right ear of him that is under purification, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass-offering.

And it came to pass as they were emptying their sacks, there was each man's bundle of money in his sack; and they and their father saw their bundles of money, and they were afraid.

But if the bright spot remain stationary, and be not spread in the skin, but the sore should be dark, it is a scar of inflammation; and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the mark of the inflammation.

And the men, the merchants of Madian, went by, and they drew and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ismaelites for twenty pieces of gold; and they brought Joseph down into Egypt.

And Joseph having made ready his chariots, went up to meet Israel his father, at the city of Heroes; and having appeared to him, fell on his neck, and wept with abundant weeping.

And Pharao says, Depart from me, beware of seeing my face again, for in what day thou shalt appear before me, thou shalt die.

And ye shall take a tribute for the Lord from the warriors that went out to battle; one soul out of five hundred, from the men, and from the cattle, even from the oxen, and from the sheep, and from the asses; and ye shall take from their half.

And the sound of Aaron shall be audible when he ministers, as he goes into the sanctuary before the Lord, and has he goes out, that he die not.

And it shall be a perpetual statute of the children of Israel to Aaron and his sons, for this is a separate offering; and it shall be a special offering from the children of Israel, from the peace-offerings of the children of Israel, a special offering to the Lord.

And he has delivered my soul from death, that my life may praise him in the light.

See, for the Lord has given you this day as the sabbath, therefore he has given you on the sixth day the bread of two days: ye shall sit each of you in your houses; let no one go forth from his place on the seventh day.

And Moses took the breast, and separated it for a heave-offering before the Lord, from the ram of consecration; and it became Moses' portion, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Pray then for me to the Lord, and let him cause the thunderings of God to cease, and the hail and the fire, and I will send you forth and ye shall remain no longer.

And Abimelech said to Abraam, What are these seven ewe-lambs which thou hast set alone?

And Isaac loved Esau, because his venison was his food, but Rebecca loved Jacob.

And Moses appointed to them for judges Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Naue, and the chiefs of the families of the tribes of Israel.

And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

And Lamech lived an hundred and eighty and eight years, and begot a son.

then will I walk with you with a froward mind, and I will chasten you seven-fold according to your sins.

These are the armies of the children of Israel; and they set forward with their forces.

and the curse, if ye do not hearken to the commands of the Lord our God, as many as I command you this day, and ye wander from the way which I have commanded you, having gone to serve other gods, which ye know not.

And God opened the mouth of the ass, and she says to Balaam, What have I done to thee, that thou hast smitten me this third time?

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And every dedicated thing which a man shall dedicate to the Lord of all that he has, whether man or beast, or of the field of his possession, he shall not sell it, nor redeem it: every devoted thing shall be most holy to the Lord.

And they departed from Tarath, and encamped in Mathecca.

And ye shall there serve other gods, the works of the hands of men, wood and stones, which cannot see, nor can they hear, nor eat, nor smell.

And they said, Thy servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And he said, Blessed be that man by God; and they bowed, and did him reverence.

My soul has slumbered for sorrow; strengthen thou me with thy words.

And Pharao hardened his heart, even on this occasion, and he would not send the people away.

For a fire has gone forth from Esebon, a flame from the city of Seon, and has consumed as far as Moab, and devoured the pillars of Arnon.

But if the fifty righteous should be diminished to forty-five, wilt thou destroy the whole city because of the five ? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there forty-five.