Numbers 21:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them.

Numbers 21:6 Cross References

Isaiah 14:29

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the root of the snake will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.

Isaiah 30:6

An oracle concerning the animals of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and distress, of lioness and roaring lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels to a people that cannot profit them.

Jeremiah 8:17

See, I am letting snakes loose among you, adders that cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 14:15

If I send wild animals through the land to ravage it so that it is made desolate and no one may pass through because of the animals,

1 Corinthians 10:9

We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents.

Deuteronomy 8:15

who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland with poisonous snakes and scorpions. He made water flow for you from flint rock.