Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

And it shall eat up the young of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy land, so as not to leave to thee corn, wine, oil, the herds of thine oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep, until it shall have destroyed thee;

For if I should not cross over unto thee, neither shouldest thou cross over to me, for mischief beyond this heap and this pillar.

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

This is the numbering of the children of Israel, six hundred and one thousand and seven hundred and thirty.

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are to pass over Jordan into the land of Chanaan.

Because ye disobeyed my word among the children of Israel, at the waters of strife of Cades in the wilderness of Sin; because ye sanctified me not among the sons of Israel.

And in removing the tabernacle, the Levites shall take it down, and in pitching the tabernacle they shall set it up: and let the stranger that advances to touch it die.

And if any have a greater number of years than enough, according to these he shall pay his ransom out of his purchase-money.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And ye shall destroy all that dwell in the land before your face, and ye shall abolish their high places, and all their molten images ye shall destroy, and ye shall demolish all their pillars.

He shall burn the garment, either the warp or woof in woollen garments or in flaxen, or in any utensil of skin, in which there may be the plague; because it is a confirmed leprosy; it shall be burnt with fire.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and brought the vessels into the tabernacle of witness, a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord.

The God of Abraam and the God of Nachor judge between us; and Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

and have utterly crushed thee in thy cities, until the high and strong walls be destroyed, in which thou trustest, in all thy land; and it shall afflict thee in thy cities, which he has given to thee.

Thou shalt see the land before thee, but thou shalt not enter into it.

And the children of Israel shall encamp, every man in his own order, and every man according to his company, with their host.

I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and was comforted.

and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering.

And if but a little time be left of the years to the year of release, then shall he reckon to him according to his years, and shall pay his ransom

And the men of Israel and Juda arose, and shouted and pursued them as far as the entrance to Geth, and as far as the gate of Ascalon: and the slain men of the Philistines fell in the way of the gates, both to Geth, and to Accaron.

And the war was vehement against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man, and any valiant man, then he took them to himself.

Aerem, and Remna, and Soma,

For thou hast pronounced false judgment and hast condemned the innocent and hast let the guilty go free; albeit the Lord saith, The innocent and righteous shalt thou not slay.

For neither can they set up a king in the land, nor give rain unto men.

and laid a stone upon me.

wherewith thine enemies have reviled, O Lord: wherewith they have reviled the recompense of thine anointed.

And he removed his people like sheep; he led them as a flock in the wilderness.

O ye light and darkness, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever. 72a O ye frost and heat, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever. 72b O ye frost and snow, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Thou therefore bear thy punishment, for that thou hast corrupted thy sisters by thy sins which thou hast committed beyond them; and thou hast made them appear more righteous than thyself: thou therefore be ashamed, and bear thy dishonour, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

And I will turn their captivity, even the captivity of Sodom and her daughters; and I will turn the captivity of Samaria and her daughters; and I will turn thy captivity in the midst of them:

Blessed be the Lord for ever. So be it, so be it.

And he guided them with hope, and they feared not: but the sea covered their enemies.

Water flowed over my head: I said, I am cut off.

O ye lightnings and clouds, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

and Jemain, and Baethachu, and Phacua,

And the men of Israel returned from pursuing after the Philistines, and they destroyed their camp.

And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this was the gift of Elisama the son of Emiud.

And he offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren, and they ate and drank, and slept in the mountain.

as a hireling; he shall be with him from year to year; thou shalt not oppress him with labour before thee.

To these the land shall be divided, so that they may inherit according to the number of the names.

And if the priest should see, and the plague be not spread in the garments, either in the warp or in the woof, or in any utensil of skin,

And ye shall destroy all the inhabitants of the land, and ye shall dwell in it, for I have given their land to you for an inheritance.

Despair took hold upon me, because of the sinners who forsake thy law.

And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, all that he has given thee, in thy straitness and thy affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee.

But let the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of witness fronting it, and so there shall be no sin among the children of Israel; and the Levites themselves shall keep the guard of the tabernacle of witness.

Neither can they judge their own cause, nor redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth.

Now then, if thou hast seen her, tell me, Under what tree sawest thou them companying together? Who answered, Under a mastick tree.

Whereupon when fire falleth upon the house of gods of wood, or laid over with gold or silver, their priests will flee away, and escape; but they themselves shall be burned asunder like beams.

And Daniel said, Very well; thou hast lied against thine own head; for even now the angel of God hath received the sentence of God to cut thee in two.

and Euma, and the city Arboc, this is Chebron, and Soraith: nine cities and their villages:

And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.

O let the earth bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

that thou mayest bear thy punishment, and be dishonoured for all that thou hast done in provoking me to anger.

KOPH. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the lowest dungeon.

And he brought them in to the mountain of his sanctuary, this mountain which his right hand had purchased.

And ye shall inherit their land according to your tribes; to the greater number ye shall give the larger possession, and to the smaller ye shall give the less possession; to whatsoever part a man's name shall go forth by lot, there shall be his property: ye shall inherit according to the tribes of your families.

He that is tender and very delicate within thee shall look with an evil eye upon his brother, and the wife in his bosom, and the children that are left, which may have been left to him;

Thine ordinances were my songs in the place of my sojourning.

And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

then the priest shall give directions, and one shall wash that on which there may have been the plague, and the priest shall set it aside a second time for seven days.

And if he do not pay his ransom accordingly, he shall go out in the year of his release, he and his children with him.

On the eighth day the prince of the sons of Manasse, Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.

To the greater number thou shalt give the greater inheritance, and to the less number thou shalt give the less inheritance: to each one, as they have been numbered, shall their inheritance be given.

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

And the priest shall look upon it after the plague has been washed; and if this, even the plague, has not changed its appearance, and the plague does not spread, it is unclean; it shall be burnt with fire: it is fixed in the garment, in the warp, or in the woof.

But if ye will not destroy the dwellers in the land from before you, then it shall come to pass that whomsoever of them ye shall leave shall be thorns in your eyes, and darts in your sides, and they shall be enemies to you on the land on which ye shall dwell;

For the children of Israel are my servants: they are my attendants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt.

so as not to give to one of them of the flesh of his children, whom he shall eat, because of his having nothing left him in thy straitness, and in thy affliction, with which thine enemies shall afflict thee in all thy cities.

I remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and kept thy law.

The land shall be divided to the names by lot, they shall inherit according to the tribes of their families.

Maor, and Chermel, and Ozib, and Itan,

Moreover they cannot withstand any king or enemies: how can it then be thought or said that they be gods?

So he put him aside, and commanded to bring the other, and said unto him, O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty hath deceived thee, and lust hath perverted thine heart.

And thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall be restored as they were at the beginning, and thou and thy daughters shall be restored as ye were at the beginning.

Thou heardest my voice: close not thine ears to my supplication.

And he cast out the nations from before them, and made them to inherit by a line of inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

O ye mountains and little hills, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Thou drewest nigh to my help: in the day wherein I called upon thee thou saidst to me, Fear not.

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies.

O all ye things that grow on the earth, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

And surely thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the days of thy pride:

and Jariel, and Aricam, and Zacanaim,

This I had, because I diligently sought thine ordinances.

and it shall come to pass that as I had determined to do to them, so I will do to you.

One golden censer of ten shekels, full of incense.

And if the priest should look, and the spot be dark after it has been washed, he shall tear it off from the garment, either from the warp or from the woof, or from the skin.

And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot has not assayed to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter,

Thou shalt divide their inheritance by lot between the many and the few.

Neither are those gods of wood, and laid over with silver or gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers.

Thus have ye dealt with the daughters of Israel, and they for fear companied with you: but the daughter of Juda would not abide your wickedness.

Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong take, and go away withal: neither are they able to help themselves.

Now therefore tell me, Under what tree didst thou take them companying together? Who answered, Under an holm tree.

and Gabaa, and Thamnatha; nine cities, and their villages;

O ye seas and rivers, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers: they became like a crooked bow.

before thy wickedness was discovered, even now thou art the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, even of the daughters of the Philistines that compass thee round about.

RECHS. O Lord, thou has pleaded the causes of my soul; thou has redeemed my life.

And if it should still appear in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in any article of skin, it is a leprosy bursting forth: that wherein is the plague shall be burnt with fire.

And the sons of Levi according to their families; to Gedson, the family of the Gedsonites; to Caath, the family of the Caathites; to Merari, the family of the Merarites.

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