Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house with his lord the Egyptian.

And there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine, which was in the time of Abraam; and Isaac went to Abimelech the king of the Phylistines to Gerara.

And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, Rhos prince of Mesoch and Thobel:

And it came to pass in the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the first month, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the taking of the city, in that day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me

And the Philistines gather all their armies to Aphec, and Israel encamped in Aendor, which is in Jezrael.

Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou hast clothed thyself with praise and honour:

And all the congregation of the children of Israel were assembled at Selo, and there they pitched the tabernacle of witness; and the land was subdued by them.

And it came to pass when David and his men had entered Sekelac on the third day, that Amalec had made an incursion upon the south, and upon Sekelac, and smitten Sekelac, and burnt it with fire.

Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not make any baldness between you eyes for the dead.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Give thanks to the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy endures for ever.

Now these the generations of the sons of Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.

And he brought me to the entrance of the house; and, behold, water issued from under the porch eastward, for the front of the house looked eastward; and the water came down from the right side, from the south to the altar.

And it came to pass after this that David enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up into one of the cities of Juda? and the Lord said to him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? and he said, To Chebron.

And there was a certain man of the tribe of Levi, who took to wife one of the daughters of Levi.

And it pleased Darius, and he set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, to be in all his kingdom;

In the first year of Baltasar, king of the Chaldeans Daniel had a dream, and visions of his head upon his bed: and he wrote his dream.

The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

And it came to pass after Saul was dead, that David returned from smiting Amalec, and David abode two days in Sekelac.

And now I will tell thee the truth. Behold, there shall yet rise up three kings in Persia: and the fourth shall be very far richer than all: and after that he is master of his wealth, he shall rise up against all the kingdoms of the Greeks.

For the end, a Psalm of David. O God, pass not over my praise in silence;

And the people murmured sinfully before the Lord; and the Lord heard them and was very angry; and fire was kindled among them from the Lord, and devoured a part of the camp.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And Balaam said to Balac, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven calves, and seven rams.

And the second lot came out for the children of Symeon; and their inheritance was in the midst of the lots of the children of Juda.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Every seven years thou shalt make a release.

And it came to pass after Isaac was old, that his eyes were dimmed so that he could not see; and he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him, My son; and he said, Behold, I .

When I have healed Israel, then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood: and a thief shall come in to him, even a robber spoiling in his way;

Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye peoples.

And it came to pass after the plague, that the Lord spoke to Moses and Eleazar the priest, saying,

And it happened after this that Abessalom the son of David had a very beautiful sister, and her name was Themar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

The words of Amos which came to him in Accarim out of Thecue, which he saw concerning Jerusalem, in the days of Ozias king of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joas king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

At the going forth of Israel from Egypt, of the house of Jacob from a barbarous people,

And there was war for a long time between the house of Saul and the house of David; and the house of David grew continually stronger; but the house of Saul grew continually weaker.

And the daughters of Salpaad the son of Opher, the son of Galaad, the son of Machir, of the tribe of Manasse, of the sons of Joseph, came near; and these were their names, Maala, and Nua, and Egla, and Melcha, and Thersa;

And the Lord said to Moses, Now thou shalt see what I will do to Pharao; for he shall send them forth with a mighty hand, and with a high arm shall he cast them out of his land.

And if one steal an ox or a sheep, and kill it or sell it, he shall pay five calves for a calf, and four sheep for a sheep.

And Jebosthe the son of Saul heard that Abenner the son of Ner had died in Chebron; and his hands were paralyzed, and all the men of Israel grew faint.

I lifted up mine eyes to the mountains, whence my help shall come.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonas the son of Amathi, saying,

And out of the tribe of Gad the city of refuge for the slayer, both Ramoth in Galaad, and its suburbs; Camin and its suburbs;

And other seven cows came up after these out of the river, ill-favoured and lean-fleshed, and fed by the cows on the bank of the river.

Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a calf or a sheep, in which there is a blemish, or any evil thing; for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

And these the generations of Esau; this is Edom.

They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.

And he shall say, Hear now these words, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye remnant of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know judgment?

And all the tribes of Israel come to David to Chebron, and they said to him, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

Unto thee who dwellest in heaven have I lifted up mine eyes.

O city of blood, wholly false, full of unrighteousness; the prey shall not be handled.

The burden which the prophet Ambacum saw.

And David again gathered all the young men of Israel, about seventy thousand.

And Isaac having called for Jacob, blessed him, and charged him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites.

Except the Lord build the house, they that build labour in vain: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman watches in vain.

They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion: he that dwells in Jerusalem shall never be moved.

Be ye gathered and closely joined together, O unchastened nation;

When the Lord turned the captivity of Sion, we became as comforted ones.

And it came to pass after this, that David smote the Philistines, and put them to flight, and David took the tribute from out of the hand of the Philistines.

A Song of Degrees. Many a time have they warred against me from my youth, let Israel now say:

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And David said, Is there yet any one left in the house of Saul, that I may deal kindly with him for Jonathan's sake?

And the angel that talked with me returned, and awakened me, as when a man is awakened out of his sleep.

And if thou shouldest go forth to war against thine enemies, and shouldest see horse, and rider, and a people more numerous than thyself; thou shalt not be afraid of them, for the Lord thy God is with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

And Israel departed, he and all that he had, and came to the well of the oath; and he offered sacrifice to the God of his father Isaac.

And this is the law of the ram for the trespass-offering; it is most holy.

And it came to pass after many days after the Lord had given Israel rest from all his enemies round about, that Joshua was old and advanced in years.

And Jacob called his sons, and said to them,

Lord, remember David, and all his meekness:

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion; proclaim it aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, the King is coming to thee, just, and a Saviour; he is meek and riding on an ass, and a young foal.

On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.

The priests, the Levites, even the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; the burnt-offerings of the Lord are their inheritance, they shall eat them.

Behold, the days of the Lord come, and thy spoils shall be divided in thee.

But I alone went often to Jerusalem at the feasts, as it was ordained unto all the people of Israel by an everlasting decree, having the firstfruits and tenths of increase, with that which was first shorn; and them gave I at the altar to the priests the children of Aaron.

And Jacob heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and of our father's property has he gotten all this glory.

And Jacob started and went to the land of the east to Laban, the son of Bathuel the Syrian, and the brother of Rebecca, mother of Jacob and Esau.

See now! what is so good, or what so pleasant, as for brethren to dwell together?

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat; and wept when we remembered Sion.

Behold now, bless ye the Lord, all the servants of the Lord, who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.

In the twelfth year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, who reigned in Nineve, the great city; in the days of Arphaxad, which reigned over the Medes in Ecbatane,

And they departed from Aelim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Aelim and Sina; and on the fifteenth day, in the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt,

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And God finished on the sixth day his works which he made, and he ceased on the seventh day from all his works which he made.

And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel enquired of the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Chananites, to fight against them?

And when the Lord thy God shall have destroyed the nations, which God gives thee, even the land, and ye shall inherit them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses,

And the Lord sent Nathan the prophet to David; and he went in to him, and said to him, There were two men in one city, one rich and the other poor.

And it came to pass when the time o the year for kings going out to battle had come round, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbath: but David remained at Jerusalem.

Give thanks to the Lord: for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.

Judith fell upon her face, and put ashes upon her head, and uncovered the sackcloth wherewith she was clothed; and about the time that the incense of that evening was offered in Jerusalem in the house of the Lord Judith cried with a loud voice, and said,

Give thanks to the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.

But if I had gone with scorners, and if too my foot has hasted to deceit:

And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people combined against Aaron, and said to him, Arise and make us gods who shall go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us forth out of the land of Egyptwe do not know what is become of him.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And the Lord said to Moses, I will yet bring one plague upon Pharao and upon Egypt, and after that he will send you forth thence; and whenever he sends you forth with every thing, he will indeed drive you out.

Therefore the Lord hath made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Juda,