“Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, that the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s roots comes forth an adder, and its offspring is a fiery flying serpent.
Numbers 21:6 - The Scriptures 2009 And יהוה sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people. And many of the people of Yisra’ĕl died. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then the Lord sent fiery (burning) serpents among the people; and they bit the people, and many Israelites died. American Standard Version (1901) And Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Common English Bible So the LORD sent poisonous snakes among the people and they bit the people. Many of the Israelites died. Catholic Public Domain Version For this reason, the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, which wounded or killed many of them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them. |
“Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, that the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s roots comes forth an adder, and its offspring is a fiery flying serpent.
The message concerning the beasts of the South. Through a land of trouble and distress, from which came the lioness and lion, the adder and fiery flying serpent, they convey their riches on the backs of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people,
“For look, I am sending among you serpents, adders, which have no enchanter, and they shall bite you,” declares יהוה.
“If I cause an evil beast to pass through the land, and it shall bereave it, and it shall be a wasteland, so that no man passes through because of the beasts,
neither let us try Messiah, as some of them also tried, and were destroyed by serpents,
who led you through that great and awesome wilderness – fiery serpents and scorpions and thirst – where there was no water, who brought water for you out of the flinty rock,