Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

And Moses said to the sons of Gad and the sons of Ruben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?

And the child of eight days shall be circumcised by you, every male throughout your generations, and born in the house and he that is bought with money, of every son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed.

Blessed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and blessed shalt thou be in thy going out.

But I have been made king by him on Sion his holy mountain,

And he gave him Sekelac in that day: therefore Sekelac came into possession of the king of Judea to this day.

before the silver cord be let go, or the choice gold be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel run down to the cistern;

And at the banquet the king said to Esther, What is thy request, queen Esther? speak, and thou shalt have all that thou requirest.

And afterwards God brought out our fathers from Egypt, and ye entered into the Red Sea; and the Egyptians pursued after our fathers with chariots and horses into the Red Sea.

And Debbora sent and called Barac the son of Abineem out of Cades Nephthali, and she said to him, Has not the Lord God of Israel commanded thee? and thou shalt depart to mount Thabor, and shalt take with thyself ten thousand men of the sons of Nephthali and of the sons of Zabulon.

And Chusi went in to Abessalom, and Abessalom spoke to him, saying, After this manner spoke Achitophel: shall we do according to his word? but if not, do thou speak.

My soul has long been a sojourner;

VAU. And all her beauty has been taken away from the daughter of Sion: her princes were as rams finding no pasture, and are gone away in weakness before the face of the pursuer.

And their silver and their gold shall in nowise be able to rescue them in the day of the Lord's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealously; for he will bring a speedy destruction on all them that inhabit the land.

Thou art formed out of the clay as also I: we have been formed out of the same substance.

And Moses took half the blood and poured it into bowls, and half the blood he poured out upon the altar.

And Crete shall be a pasture of flocks, and a fold of sheep.

And Moses sent them away a thousand of every tribe with their forces, and Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest: and the holy instruments, and the signal trumpets were in their hands.

And the borders will proceed to the sea to Icasmon north of Therma; they will go round eastward to Thenasa, and Selles, and will pass on eastward to Janoca,

They went on and wept as they cast their seeds; but they shall surely come with exultation, bringing their sheaves with them.

That they that come from the east and they that come from the west may know that there is no God but me. I am the Lord God, and there is none beside.

But the host of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the country beyond Jericho; and all his servants were dispersed from about him.

And Saul took his spear and said, I will smite David even to the wall. But David escaped twice from his presence.

The heavens have declared his righteousness, and all the people have seen his glory.

But if her father straitly forbid her in the day in which he shall hear all her vows and her obligations, which she has contracted upon her soul, they shall not stand; and the Lord shall hold her guiltless, because her father forbade her.

but keeping fast to my righteousness I will by no means let it go: for I am not conscious to myself of having done any thing amiss.

Because of troubles I looked upon the tents of the Ethiopians: the tabernacles also of the land of Madiam shall be dismayed.

And Abram said to Sara, Behold thy handmaid is in thy hands, use her as it may seem good to thee. And Sara afflicted her, and she fled from her face.

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening let not thine hand be slack: for thou knowest not what sort shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether both shall be good alike.

Wherefore, behold, I stir up the Chaldeans, the bitter and hasty nation, that walks upon the breadth of the earth, to inherit tabernacles not his own.

And they came to Joshua into the camp of Israel to Galgala, and said to Joshua and Israel, We are come from a far land: now then make a covenant with us.

And he built there an altar, and called the name of the place Baethel; for there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother Esau.

For the Lord knows the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

A stallion horse is as a mocking friend, he neigheth under every one that sitteth upon him.

which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor heed the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.

So mine anger and my wrath dropped upon them, and was kindled in the gates of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became a desolation and a waste, as at this day.

Thus saith God the King of Israel, and the God of hosts that delivered him; I am the first, and I am hereafter: beside me there is no God.

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee according to thine unclean ways, and will make thee a public example.

Thou shalt not wrest the sentence of the poor in his judgment.

Beside the whole-burnt-offerings for the new moon, and their meat-offerings, and their drink-offerings, and their perpetual whole-burnt-offering; and their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings according to their ordinance for a sweet-smelling savour to the Lord.

Therefore shall every holy one pray to thee in a fit time: only in the deluge of many waters they shall not come nigh to him.

And he said to Giezi, What must we do for her? and Giezi his servant said, Indeed she has no son, and her husband is old.

Thy mercy also shall follow me all the days of my life: and my dwelling shall be in the house of the Lord for a very long time.

I will say to the north, Bring; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from the land afar off, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

It is a perpetual whole-burnt-offering, a sacrifice offered in the mount of Sina for a sweet-smelling savour to the Lord.

And Mardochaeus shewed him what was done, and the promise which Aman had made the king of ten thousand talents to be paid into the treasury, that he might destroy the Jews.

Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth.

But hear ye the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips.

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; and thy glory above all the earth.

And whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will hearken to the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, because we shall hearken to the voice of the Lord our God.

Thanksgiving and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty are in his sanctuary.

And the Lord God said to him, Not so, any one that slays Cain shall suffer seven-fold vengeance; and the Lord God set a mark upon Cain that no one that found him might slay him.

The daughters of Salpaad have spoken rightly: thou shalt surely give them a possession of inheritance in the midst of their father's brethren, and thou shalt assign their father's inheritance to them.

And if fire have gone forth and caught thorns, and should also set on fire threshing-floors or ears of corn or a field, he that kindled the fire shall make compensation.

For the son dishonours his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house shall be all a man's enemies.

Who shall stand before his anger? and who shall withstand in the anger of his wrath? his wrath brings to nought kingdoms, and the rocks are burst asunder by him.

His glory is great in thy salvation: thou wilt crown him with glory and majesty.

And it shall come to pass that the child which she shall bear, shall be named by the name of the deceased, and his name shall not be blotted out of Israel.

And they shall tend the Assyrian with a sword, and the land of Nebrod with her trench: and he shall deliver you from the Assyrian, when he shall come upon your land, and when he shall invade your coasts.

And Joab went in to the king, into the house, and said, Thou hast this day shamed the faces of all thy servants that have delivered thee this day, and have saved the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and of thy concubines,

I the Lord God have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will strengthen thee: and I have given thee for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles:

also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, have now perished; yea, there is no portion for them any more for ever in all that is done under the sun.

And Ismael went out to meet them; and they went on and wept: and he said to them, Come in to Godolias.

The fool has been set in very high places, while rich men would sit in a low one.

And Emmor the father of Sychem went forth to Jacob, to speak to him.

For to every thing there is time and judgment; for the knowledge of a man is great to him.

And they buried him in Gai near the house of Phogor; and no one has seen his sepulchre to this day.

All the day long they have abominated my words; all their devices are against me for evil.

Come, let us worship and fall down before him; and weep before the Lord that made us.

To Asron, the family of Asroni: to Charmi, the family of Charmi.

And Abram believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.

his master shall bring him to the judgment-seat of God, and then shall he bring him to the door, to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

We will exult in thy salvation, and in the name of our God shall we be magnified: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions.

Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

Weep not with tears in the assembly of the Lord, neither let any weep for these things; for he shall not remove the reproaches,

therefore there shall be night to you instead of a vision, and there shall be to you darkness instead of prophecy; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark upon them.

And he came to Godolias to Massepha, and dwelt in the midst of his people that was left in the land.

And, behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought his brother to a Madianitish woman before Moses, and before all the congregation of the children of Israel; and they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of witness.

the mighty men, and the women, and the children that were left, and the daughters of the king, and the souls which Nabuzardan had left with Godolias the son of Achicam and Jeremias the prophet, and Baruch the son of Nerias.

In that day, saith the Lord, I will gather her that is bruised, and will receive her that is cast out, and those whom I rejected.

It is better to hear a reproof of a wise man, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Therefore I will make Samaria as a store-house of the fruits of the field, and as a planting of a vineyard: and I will utterly demolish her stones, and I will expose her foundations.

And they cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the king's son, which was in the court of the prison; and they let him down into the pit: and there was no water in the pit, but mire: and he was in the mire.

Fear and trembling came upon me, and darkness covered me.

And the maid-servants and their children drew near and did reverence.

And Eliu said to him, Stay here, I pray thee, for the Lord has sent me to Jordan. And Elisaie said, As the Lord lives and thy soul lives, I will not leave thee: and they both went on.

Behold, the days come, when they shall take all the things that are in thine house, and all that thy fathers have gathered until this day, shall go to Babylon; and they shall not leave anything at all: and God hath said,

And he returned to him, and moreover he stood over his whole-burnt-offerings, and all the princes of Moab with him; and the Spirit of God came upon him.

and bestowing mercy on them that love me to thousands of them, and on them that keep my commandments.

One part cleaves fast to another, and the air cannot come between them.

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

But she had brought them up upon the house, and hid them in the flax-stalks that were spread by her on the house.

And the Lord God commanded a gourd, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, to shade him from his calamities: and Jonas rejoiced with great joy for the gourd.

Though he has lived to the return of a thousand years, yet he has seen no good: do not all go to one place?

For I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt to this day, but I have been walking in a lodge and in a tent,

The sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon by night.

even as many as provoke the Lord, as if there were indeed to be no inquisition made of them.

every one judging for his neighbor and that to assist his brother: and one will say,

And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians: and I will defend this city.

so thou shalt read in this roll in the ears of the people in the house of the Lord, on the fast day; and in the ears of all Juda that come out of their cities, thou shalt read to them.