Numbers 21:6 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁶ And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Then the Lord sent fiery (burning) serpents among the people; and they bit the people, and many Israelites died.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

Common English Bible

⁶ So the LORD sent poisonous snakes among the people and they bit the people. Many of the Israelites died.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ For this reason, the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, which wounded or killed many of them.

Numbers 21:6 Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:9

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

Jeremiah 8:17

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

Deuteronomy 8:15

who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

Isaiah 30:6

The burden of the beasts of the south. Into the land of trouble and anguish from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

Isaiah 14:29

Rejoice not thou, whole Palesti´na, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

Ezekiel 14:15

If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts: