Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

For the sons of Manasse 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,

And your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.

I ran the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart.

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord your God.

But the men that went up together with him said, We will not go up, for we shall not by any means be able to go up against the nation, for it is much stronger than we.

It shall be a holy sabbath to you; and ye shall humble your souls, from the ninth day of the month: from evening to evening ye shall keep your sabbaths.

And he said, Will there be anything , Lord, if I speak yet once? but if there should be found there ten? And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.

This is the law for him in whom is the plague of leprosy, and who cannot afford the offerings for his purification.

And they departed from Banaea, and encamped in the mountain Gadgad.

This is the numbering of the children of Israel according to the houses of their families: all the numbering of the camps with their forces, was six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

And every tithe of oxen, and of sheep, and whatsoever may come in numbering under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the Lord.

and ye shall give the right shoulder for a choice piece to the priest of your sacrifices of peace-offering.

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another nation, and thine eyes wasting away shall look for them: thine hand shall have no strength.

And ye shall not bear sin by reason of it, for ye shall have offered an offering of first-fruits from it, and ye shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that ye die not.

But thou shalt go to the house of my father, and to my tribe, and thou shalt take thence a wife for my son.

And Moses said to Aaron, Take a golden pot, and cast into it one full homer of manna; and thou shalt lay it up before God, to be kept for your generations,

And the chief over the chief of the Levites, was Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, appointed to keep the charges of the holy things.

We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Chanaan, and ye shall give us our inheritance beyond Jordan.

And Abraam planted a field at the well of the oath, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.

And ye shall take heed to do as the Lord thy God commanded thee; ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left,

Thou shalt make no covenant with them and their gods.

And Pharao called the name of Joseph, Psonthomphanech; and he gave him Aseneth, the daughter of Petephres, priest of Heliopolis, to wife.

And that which remained of the spoil which the warriors took, wasof the sheep, six hundred and seventy-five thousand:

And that which is left of the flesh and of the loaves burn ye with fire.

And they set on for him alone, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians feasting with him by themselves, for the Egyptians could not eat bread with the Hebrews, for it is an abomination to the Egyptians.

The priest whomsoever they shall anoint shall make atonement, and whomsoever they shall consecrate to exercise the priestly office after his father; and he shall put on the linen robe, the holy garment.

And the people rose up all the day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered quails; he that gathered least, gathered ten measures; and they refreshed themselves round about the camp.

And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the loaves in the basket, by the doors of the tabernacle of witness.

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

And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took it, and its villages, and cast out the Amorite that dwelt there.

And on whatsoever one of their dead bodies shall fall it shall be unclean; whatever wooden vessel, or garment, or skin, or sack it may be, every vessel in which work should be done, shall be dipped in water, and shall be unclean till evening; and then it shall be clean.

And I will lay your land desolate, and your enemies who dwell in it shall wonder at it.

And Jacob said to him, Swear to me this day; and he swore to him; and Esau sold his birthright to Jacob.

Come and let us make our father drink wine, and let us sleep with him, and let us raise up seed from our father.

And they sent the coat of many colours; and they brought it to their father, and said, This have we found; know if it be thy son's coat or no. And he recognised it, and said, It is my son's coat, an evil wild beast has devoured him; a wild beast has carried off Joseph.

And the sun rose upon him, when he passed the Face of God; and he halted upon his thigh.

And the angel of God said to him, Why hast thou smitten thine ass this third time? and, behold, I came out to withstand thee, for thy way was not seemly before me; and when the ass saw me, she turned away from me this third time.

And it shall come to pass if thou wilt go with us, it shall even come to pass that in whatsoever things the Lord shall do us good, we will also do thee good.

in the portion of the field, and of the cave that was in it, of the sons of Chet.

And Asom died; and Adad son of Barad, who cut off Madiam in the plain of Moab, ruled in his stead; and the name of his city was Getthaim.

If then Pharao call you, and say to you, What is you occupation?

And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities in their possession, shall be always redeemable to the Levites.

But the wheat and the rye were not smitten, for they were late.

And ye shall take heed to do all his ordinances, and these judgments, as many as I set before you to-day.

And take with you your sheep, and your oxen: bless me also, I pray you.

My son, if thou wilt, thou shalt be taught: and if thou wilt apply thy mind, thou shalt be prudent.

Therefore from the beginning I was resolved, and thought upon these things, and have left them in writing.

Without these cannot a city be inhabited: and they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up and down:

There are yet hid greater things than these be, for we have seen but a few of his works.

Be not made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing, when thou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt lie in wait for thine own life, and be talked on.

Then said Judith unto them, Hear me, and I will do a thing, which shall go throughout all generations to the children of our nation.

The priests also take off their garments, and clothe their wives and children.

And stretch thine hand unto the poor, that thy blessing may be perfected.

Behold that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all them that seek wisdom.

And these wicked men commanded to uncover her face, (for she was covered) that they might be filled with her beauty.

For we suffer because of our sins.

Receive a stranger into thine house, and he will disturb thee, and turn thee out of thine own.

And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name,

Miserable are the cities which thy children served: miserable is she that received thy sons.

But he that knoweth all things knoweth her, and hath found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore hath filled it with fourfooted beasts:

All the works of the Lord are good: and he will give every needful thing in due season.

If thou love to hear, thou shalt receive understanding: and if thou bow thine ear, thou shalt be wise,

They shall not be sought for in publick counsel, nor sit high in the congregation: they shall not sit on the judges' seat, nor understand the sentence of judgment: they cannot declare justice and judgment; and they shall not be found where parables are spoken.

And though the living Lord be angry with us a little while for our chastening and correction, yet shall he be at one again with his servants.

He that sendeth forth light, and it goeth, calleth it again, and it obeyeth him with fear.

For the Lord hath made all things; and to the godly hath he given wisdom.

A gift hath grace in the sight of every man living; and for the dead detain it not.

Whether it be evil that one doeth unto them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king, nor put him down.

Therefore her friends and all that saw her wept.

For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.

And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.

Ye shall stand this night in the gate, and I will go forth with my waitingwoman: and within the days that ye have promised to deliver the city to our enemies the Lord will visit Israel by mine hand.

But the Lord will not leave him in his hands, nor by any means condemn him when he is judged.

for they provoked his spirit, and he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

And it came to pass afterwards that Eleazar the high-priest the son of Aaron died, and was buried in Gabaar of Phinees his son, which he gave him in mount Ephraim. In that day the children of Israel took the ark of God, and carried it about among them; and Phinees exercised the priest's office in the room of Eleazar his father till he died, and he was buried in his own place Gabaar: but the children of Israel departed every one to their place, and to their own city: and the children of Israel worshipped Astarte, and Astaroth, and the gods of the nations round about them; and the Lord delivered them into the hands of Eglom king of Moab and he ruled over them eighteen years.

And Saul lifted up his spear against Jonathan to slay him: so Jonathan knew that this evil was determined on by his father to slay David.

Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and ye shall live.

who strengthens my feet as hart's feet, and sets me upon high places.

Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jerusa daughter of Sadoc.

And the king mourned over Abenner, and said, Shall Abenner die according to the death of Nabal?

I will sing to the Lord while I live; I will sing praise to my God while I exist.

And it pleased the children of Israel; and they spoke to the children of Israel, and blessed the God of the children of Israel, and told them to go up no more to war against the others to destroy the land of the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse: so they dwelt upon it.

He turns rivers into a desert, and streams of water into a dry land;

And Saul said to David, Thou wilt not in anywise be able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for thou art a mere youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

And he smote their vines and their fig trees; and broke every tree of their coast.

Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth; sing psalms to the Lord. Pause.

And Berzelli was a very old man, eighty years old; and he had maintained the king when he dwelt in Manaim; for he was a very great man.

Samnan the Arodite; Amnan the son of Arai the Saraurite.

And now let not my lord the king take the matter to heart, saying, All the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only of them is dead.

And he smote them from Aroer till one comes to Arnon, in number twenty cities, and as far as Ebelcharmim, with a very great destruction: and the children of Ammon were straitened before the children of Israel.

And all the men rose up out of their places, and engaged in Baal Thamar; and the liers in wait of Israel advanced from their place from Maraagabe.

And Samuel said to Agag, As thy sword has bereaved women of their children, so shall thy mother be made childless among women: and Samuel slew Agag before the Lord in Galgal.

And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.

And all Madiam, and Amalek, and the sons of the east gathered themselves together, and encamped in the valley of Jezrael.

And if I do not destroy a man of thine from my altar, it shall be that his eyes may fail and his soul may perish; and every one that remains in thy house shall fall by the sword of men.

If at any time the land groaned against me, and if its furrows mourned together;

And Nephthali did not drive out the inhabitants of Baethsamys, nor the inhabitants of Baethanach; and Nephthali dwelt in the midst of the Chananite who inhabited the land: but the inhabitants of Bethsamys and of Baetheneth became tributary to them.

In the plain country Astaol, and Raa, and Assa,