Numbers 21:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord to take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ And the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord, that He may take away the serpents from us. So Moses prayed for the people.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against Jehovah, and against thee; pray unto Jehovah, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

Common English Bible

⁷ The people went to Moses and said, “We’ve sinned, for we spoke against the LORD and you. Pray to the LORD so that he will send the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And so they went to Moses, and they said: "We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray, so that he may take away these serpents from us." And Moses prayed for the people.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ Upon which they came to Moses, and said: We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and thee. Pray that he may take away these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

Numbers 21:7 Cross References

Genesis 20:17

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.

Genesis 20:7

Now then, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all that are yours.”

1 Kings 13:6

The king said to the man of God, “Entreat now the favor of the Lord your God, and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored to me.” So the man of God entreated the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him and became as it was before.

2 Kings 13:4

But Jehoahaz entreated the Lord, and the Lord heeded him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Aram oppressed them.

Job 42:10

And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends, and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Job 42:8

Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering, and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has done.”

Psalm 106:23

Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

Psalm 78:34

When he killed them, they searched for him; they repented and sought God earnestly.

Exodus 10:17

Do forgive my sin this once, and pray to the Lord your God that at the least he remove this deadly thing from me.”

Exodus 32:11

But Moses implored the Lord his God and said, “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Exodus 32:30

On the next day Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. But now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

Exodus 8:28

So Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, provided you do not go very far away. Pray for me.”

Exodus 8:4

The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials.’ ”

Exodus 8:8

Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the Lord to take away the frogs from me and my people, and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.”

Isaiah 26:16

O Lord, in distress they sought you; they poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

Jeremiah 15:1

Then the Lord said to me: Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

Jeremiah 37:3

King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “Please pray for us to the Lord our God.”

Hosea 5:15

I will return again to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face. In their distress they will beg my favor:

Numbers 11:2

But the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the Lord, and the fire abated.

Matthew 27:4

He said, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.”

Acts 8:24

Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may happen to me.”

Romans 10:1

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

Deuteronomy 9:20

The Lord was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him, but I interceded also on behalf of Aaron at that same time.

James 5:16

Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.

1 Samuel 15:24

Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

1 Samuel 15:30

Then Saul said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, so that I may worship the Lord your God.”