Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

And Moses said, I will go near and see this great sight, why the bush is not consumed.

The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity.

And I will deliver them up for distress to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasses son of Ezekias king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.

And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt report to this people all these words, and they shall say to thee, Wherefore has the Lord pronounced against us all these evils? what is our unrighteousness? and what is our sin which we have sinned before the Lord our God?

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

And all the people took off the golden ear-rings that were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle out of the place where I had buried it: and, behold, it was rotten, utterly good for nothing.

My heart shall be found pure by my words; and the understanding of my lips shall meditate purity.

And they will become wives in one of the tribes of the children of Israel; so their inheritance shall be taken away from the possession of our fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which the women shall marry, and shall be taken away from the portion of our inheritance.

For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

and his miracles, and his wonders, which he wrought in the midst of Egypt on Pharao king of Egypt, and all his land;

My soul longs, and faints for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh have exulted in the living god.

in the house of Michaias, and they recognised the voice of the young man the Levite, and turned in thither; and said to him, Who brought thee in hither? and what doest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?

Judge the orphan and poor: do justice to the low and needy.

Behold, the inheritance of the Lord, children, the reward of the fruit of the womb.

But thou, Lord, knowest me; thou hast proved my heart before thee; purify them for the day of their slaughter.

And her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.

Speak, thou that art the elder, for it becometh thee, but with sound judgment; and hinder not musick.

And verily they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: but, as it seems, my words are vain.

And when they could no longer hide him, his mother took for him an ark, and besmeared it with bitumen, and cast the child into it, and put it in the ooze by the river.

The Lord has done great things among them. The Lord has done great things for us, we became joyful.

the great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of thy house: thy children as young olive-plants round about thy table.

So the children of Israel gave to the Levites in their inheritance by the command of the Lord the cities and the country round.

my God; he shall be to me my guard, I will trust in him: he is my protector, and the horn of my salvation, my helper, and my sure refuge; thou shalt save me from the unjust man.

For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.

O Lord, teach me, and I shall know: then I saw their practices.

And ye shall destroy their altars, and break in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their groves, and ye shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods, and ye shall abolish their name out of that place.

For the Lord will not allow the rod of sinners to be upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous should stretch forth their hands to iniquity.

Beware ye each of his neighbour, and trust ye not in your brethren: for every one will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.

And David said to the Gabaonites, What shall I do to you? and wherewithal shall I make atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord?

before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us.

Issachar, Zabulon, Benjamin,

then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom in Israel for ever, as I spoke to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to rule in Israel.

verily, while my breath is yet in me, and the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils,

Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

Hearken, I pray you, and hear: will they not speak thus, There is no man that repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? the runner has failed from his course, as a tired horse in his neighing.

And the priest shall view the spot in the skin of his flesh; and if the hair in the spot be changed to white, and the appearance of the spot be below the skin of the flesh, it is a plague of leprosy; and the priest shall look upon it, and pronounce him unclean.

Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the midst of the congregation that rebelled against the Lord in the gathering of Core; for he died for his own sin, and he had no sons. Let not the name of our father be blotted out of the midst of his people, because he has no son: give us an inheritance in the midst of our father's brethren.

And Jezan begot Saba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Assurians and the Latusians, and Laomim.

And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.

For I also was a son obedient to my father, and loved in the sight of my mother:

And I will go forth, and stand near my father in the field where thou shalt be, and I will speak concerning thee to my father; and I will see what his answer may be, and I will tell thee.

And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.

And there let Sadoc the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him to be king over Israel, and do ye sound the trumpet, and ye shall say, Let king Solomon live.

And ye have seen all that the Lord our God has done to all these nations before us; for it is the Lord your God who has fought for you.

And the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Massepha: and the children of Israel came and said, Tell us, where did this wickedness take place?

Give not thy wealth to women, nor thy mind and living to remorse. Do all things with counsel: drink wine with counsel.

A man of understanding trusteth in the law; and the law is faithful unto him, as an oracle.

And he said to me, Son of man, will these bones live? and I said, O Lord God, thou knowest this.

Even a refuge to the slayer who has smitten a man unintentionally; and the cities shall be to you a refuge, and the slayer shall not be put to death by the avenger of blood, until he have stood before the congregation for judgment.

Have pity upon us, O Lord, have pity upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

And when the days of mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the princes of Pharao, saying, If I have found favour in your sight, speak concerning me in the ears of Pharao, saying,

All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us.

And every reptile which is living shall be to you for meat, I have given all things to you as the green herbs.

At that time they shall say to this people and to Jerusalem, There is a spirit of error in the wilderness: the way of the daughter of my people is not to purity, nor to holiness.

O Lord, thine eyes are upon faithfulness: thou hast scourged them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.

Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a man-child!

and to frame works, to labour in gold, and silver, and brass, and blue, and purple, and spun scarlet,

The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that held by the law knew me not: the shepherds also sinned against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not.

And the Philistines stand on the mountain on one side, and Israel stands on the mountain on the other side, and the valley was between them.

And thou shalt sound with them, and all the congregation shall be gathered to the door of the tabernacle of witness.

And write the name of Aaron on the rod of Levi; for it is one rod for each: they shall give them according to the tribe of the house of their families.

Jerusalem is built as a city whose fellowship is complete.

In the day of mine affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; even with my hands by night before him, and I was not deceived; my soul refused to be comforted.

from twenty-five years old and upward until fifty years, every one that goes in to minister, to do all the works in the tabernacle of witness.

And David went into his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and he put them in a place of custody, and maintained them, and went not in to them; and they were kept living as widows, till the day of their death.

Thou art fair, my companion, as Pleasure, beautiful as Jerusalem, terrible as armies set in array.

And thou didst retain many shepherds for a stumbling-block to thyself: thou hadst a whore's face, thou didst become shameless toward all.

And the cities shall be for them to dwell in, and their enclosures shall be for their cattle and all their beasts.

Ruben, thou my first-born, thou my strength, and the first of my children, hard to be endured, self-willed.

And the Lord said to the devil, Hast thou then observed my servant Job, that there is none of men upon the earth like him, a harmless, true, blameless, godly man, abstaining from all evil? and he yet cleaves to innocence, whereas thou has told me to destroy his substance without cause?

Behold, I have appointed thee this day over nations and over kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to rebuild, and to plant.

And his place has been in peace, and his dwelling-place in Sion.

When I shall take a set time, I will judge righteously.

But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to me, is as he that kills a dog; and he that offers fine flour, as one that offers swine's blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer. Yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations.

Let not thy foot be moved; and let not thy keeper slumber.

And the victory was turned that day into mourning to all the people, for the people heard say that day, The king grieves after his son.

So I made an ark of boards of incorruptible wood, and I hewed tables of stone like the first, and I went up to the mountain, and the two tables were in my hand.

and they charged the people, saying, When ye shall see the ark of the covenant of the Lord our God, and our priests and the Levites bearing it, ye shall depart from your places, and ye shall go after it.

And they said, Thou shalt not go out: for if we should indeed flee, they will not care for us; and if half of us should die, they will not mind us; for thou art as ten thousand of us: and now it is well that thou shalt be to us an aid to help us in the city.

And his cattle consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses in the pastures, and a very great household, and he had a great husbandry on the earth; and that man was most noble of the men of the east.

This is the people that provokes me continually in my presence; they offer sacrifices in gardens, and burn incense on bricks to devils, which exist not.

And thou shalt call Jessae to the sacrifice, and I will make known to thee what thou shalt do; and thou shalt anoint him whom I shall mention to thee.

But our God has done in heaven and on earth, whatsoever he has pleased.

verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:

And Jacob said to Joseph, My God appeared to me in Luza, in the land of Chanaan, and blessed me,

One born of a harlot shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord.

They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

But he returned the silver to his mother, and his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, and he made it a graven and a molten image; and it was in the house of Michaias.

Lift up thine hands against their pride continually; because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in thy holy places.

whenever thou shalt work gloriously; trembling from thee shall take hold upon the mountains.

And I allowed my wrath to come to full, yet I kept it in, and did not utterly destroy them: I will pour it out on the children without, and on the assembly of young men together: for man and woman shall be taken together, the old man with him that is full of days.

that there should be given to them that mourn in Sion glory instead of ashes, the oil of joy to the mourners, the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness: and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory.

if my foot has turned aside out of the way, or if mine heart has followed mine eye, and if too I have touched gifts with my hands;

For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners.

Let the mountains and the hills raise peace to thy people:

And thou shalt be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

From the rising of the sun to his setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised.

Be to me a protecting God, and a strong hold to save me: for thou art my fortress and my refuge.