Sahidic Coptic Old Testament

And the Lord said to me, Arise, go down quickly from hence, for thy people whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt have transgressed; they have gone aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them, and have made themselves a molten image.

And they cast down each his rod, and they became serpents, but the rod of Aaron swallowed up their rods.

then shall the elders of his city send, and take him thence, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the avengers of blood, and he shall die.

O God, go not far from me, O my God, draw nigh to my help.

And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire a voice of words, which ye heard: and ye saw no likeness, only ye heard a voice.

And the sons of Symeon:the family of the sons of Symeon: to Namuel, belonged the family of the Namuelites; to Jamin the family of the Jaminites; to Jachin the family of the Jachinites.

Behold, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the children of Israel, instead of every male that opens the womb from among the children of Israel: they shall be their ransom, and the Levites shall be mine.

Behold, ye all know that ye are adding vanity to vanity.

Deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, lest haply he should come and smite me, and the mother upon the children.

And if the leprosy should have come out very evidently in the skin, and the leprosy should cover all the skin of the patient from the head to the feet, wheresoever the priest shall look;

And if any one should lie with his daughter-in-law, let them both be put to death; for they have wrought impiety, they are guilty.

And the children of Israel set forward with their baggage in the wilderness of Sina; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan.

But the hands of Moses were heavy, and they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat upon it; and Aaron and Or supported his hands one on this side and the other on that, and the hands of Moses were supported till the going down of the sun.

And thus shalt thou make the ark; three hundred cubits the length of the ark, and fifty cubits the breadth, and thirty cubits the height of it.

Ye shall bring them in the way of fruits to the Lord, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a sweet-smelling savour to the Lord.

And Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of Israel hearkened not to me, and how shall Pharao hearken to me? and I am not eloquent.

It is not in heaven above, as if there were one saying, Who shall go up for us into heaven, and shall take it for us, and we will hear and do it?

For every one that does these things is an abomination to the Lord thy God; for because of these abominations the Lord will destroy them from before thy face.

beware lest thou forget the Lord thy God that brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiron sons of Eliab; and they said, We will not go up.

And God went up from him from the place where he spoke with him.

in which he was consecrated to the Lord, all the days of his vow; and he shall bring a lamb of a year old for a trespass-offering; and the former days shall not be reckoned, because the head of his vow was polluted.

And Jothor the father-in-law of Moses took whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices for God, for Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

And thou shalt make the oracle of judgment, the work of the embroiderer: in keeping with the ephod, thou shalt make it of gold, and blue and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen spun.

And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his clothes in her hands, and fled, and gone forth,

And he shall not go forth out of the sanctuary, and he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God, because the holy anointing oil of God is upon him: I am the Lord.

And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the child, neither do anything to him, for now I know that thou fearest God, and for my sake thou hast not spared thy beloved son.

So the people were dispersed in all the land of Egypt, to gather stubble for straw.

And if his offering be of the goats, then shall he bring it before the Lord.

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evilof it ye shall not eat, but in whatsoever day ye eat of it, ye shall surely die.

And the servants of Isaac dug in the valley of Gerara, and they found there a well of living water.

And the Lord said to Moses, Go up to the mountain that is in the country beyond Jordan, this mount Nabau, and behold the land Chanaan, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession.

And the man whosoever shall act in haughtiness, so as not to hearken to the priest who stands to minister in the name of the Lord thy God, or the judge who shall preside in those days, that man shall die, and thou shalt remove the evil one out of Israel.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not again do according to this evil thing among you.

And thou shalt separate the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves that ye go not up into the mountain, nor touch any part of it: every one that touches the mountain shall surely die.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

having assembled the people, the men, and the women, and the children, and the stranger that is in your cities, that they may hear, and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God; and they shall hearken to do all the words of this law.

And take double money in your hands, and the money that was returned in your sacks, carry back with you, lest peradventure it is a mistake.

And if the daughter of a priest should marry a stranger, she shall not eat of the offerings of the sanctuary.

Three tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil for one calf, and two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil for one ram.

And Ragau lived and hundred thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.

And the Lord God said to Noe, This the sign of the covenant which I set between me and you, and between every living creature which is with you for perpetual generations.

And the children of Israel will not be able to stand before their enemies; they will turn their back before their enemies, for they have become an accursed thing: I will not any longer be with you, unless ye remove the cursed thing from yourselves.

According to the number of what ye shall offer, so shall ye do to each one, according to their number.

Honour thy father and thy mother, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long on the good land, which the Lord thy God gives to thee.

And the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the calves; and thou shalt offer one for a sin-offering, and the other for a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord, to make atonement for them.

And now go and I will open thy mouth, and will instruct thee in what thou shalt say.

And on the second day Joshua rose up in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord seven days.

Take heed lest he rebuke thee: hear this, hearken to the voice of words.

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and thou shalt observe and do these commands.

Choose for yourselves twelve men of the sons of Israel, one of each tribe.

the Lord alone led them, there was no strange god with them.

But God said to Abraam, Let it not be hard before thee concerning the child, and concerning the bondwoman; in all things whatsoever Sarrha shall say to thee, hear her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

And the Lord God said to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me and I ate.

And all things that have not fins or scales of those that are in the waters, these are an abomination to you.

And Sarrha laughed in herself, saying, The thing has not as yet happened to me, even until now, and my lord is old.

lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them;

And if any man smite another and he die, let him be certainly put to death.

And they that encamp next to him shall be of the tribe of Symeon, and the prince of the sons of Symeon shall be Salamiel the son of Surisadai.

And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraam, prosper my way before me to day, and deal mercifully with my master Abraam.

They compassed me about as bees do a honeycomb, and they burst into flame as fire among thorns: but in the name of the Lord I repulsed them.

And God spoke to Moses, saying, I will be with thee, and this shall be the sign to thee that I shall send thee forth, when thou bringest out my people out of Egypt, then ye shall serve God in this mountain.

And Abenner the son of Ner went forth, and the servants of Jebosthe the son of Saul, from Manaem to Gabaon.

And if thy brother or sister, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, be sold to thee, he shall serve thee six years, and in the seventh year thou shalt send him out free from thee.

And he told Rachel that he was the near relative of her father, and the son of Rebecca; and she ran and reported to her father according to these words.

and her husband should hear, and hold his peace at her, and not disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and all the obligations which she contracted against her soul, shall stand against her.

And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who survived, Take the sacrifice that is left of the burnt-offerings of the Lord, and ye shall eat unleavened bread by the altar: it is most holy.

These the chiefs of the son of Esau, the sons of Eliphas, the first-born of Esau; chief Thaeman, chief Omar, chief Sophar, chief Kenez,

And these of them ye shall not eat; the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,

And the men said to Lot, Hast thou here sons-in-law, or sons or daughters, or if thou hast any other friend in the city, bring them out of this place.

And to Ruben, and to Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasse, Joshua said,

And ye shall offer on the day on which ye bring the sheaf, a lamb without blemish of a year old for a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord.

I will smite them with death, and destroy them; and I will make of thee and of thy father's house a great nation, and much greater than this.

And having looked round this way and that way, he sees no one; and he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

remembering Abraam and Isaac and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou hast sworn by thyself, and hast spoken to them, saying, I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which thou spokest of to give to them, so that they shall possess it for ever.

And if it be stolen from him, he shall make compensation to the owner.

And to Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in confidence, and God overshadows him always, and he rested between his shoulders.

And let nations serve thee, and princes bow down to thee, and be thou lord of thy brother, and the sons of thy father shall do thee reverence; accursed is he that curses thee, and blessed is he that blesses thee.

For truly she is my sister by my father, but not by my mother, and she became my wife.

Of the tribe of Joseph of the sons of Manasse, Gaddi the son of Susi.

Let her not be as it were like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother's womb, when the disease devours the half of the flesh.

and dreamed, and behold a ladder fixed on the earth, whose top reached to heaven, and the angels of God ascended and descended on it.

And the name of his brother was Jubal; he it was who invented the psaltery and harp.

But as they humbled them, by so much they multiplied, and grew exceedingly strong; and the Egyptians greatly abhorred the children of Israel.

And he slew the whole-burnt-offering; and the sons of Aaron brought the blood to him, and he poured it on the altar round about.

they were married to men of the tribe of Manasse of the sons of Joseph; and their inheritance was attached to the tribe of their father's family.

And the priest shall make a valuation between the good and the bad, and accordingly as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand.

And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is at your gates; because he has no portion or inheritance with you.

And the sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses commanded them.

And the cities shall be to you places of refuge from the avenger of blood, and the slayer shall not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

Six days shalt thou do thy works, and on the seventh day there shall be rest, that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and that the son of thy maid-servant and the stranger may be refreshed.

the great wonders, and the mighty hand which Moses displayed before all Israel.

And it shall come to pass when ye shall have heard these ordinances, and shall have kept and done them, that the Lord thy God shall keep for thee the covenant and the mercy, which he sware to your fathers.

Come, ye children, hear me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

And they put him in ward, to judge him by the command of the Lord.

And they brought to Moses and to Eleazar the priest, and to all the children of Israel, the captives, and the spoils, and the plunder, to the camp to Araboth Moab, which is at Jordan by Jericho.

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whosesoever wife shall transgress against him, and slight and despise him,

So his sons carried him up into the land of Chanaan, and buried him in the double cave, which cave Abraam bought for possession of a burying place, of Ephrom the Chettite, before Mambre.