Numbers 21:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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

“Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod which smote you is broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying serpent.

Isaiah 30:6

An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the viper and the flying serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.

Jeremiah 8:17

For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you,” says the Lord.

Ezekiel 14:15

If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the beasts;

1 Corinthians 10:9

We must not put the Lord 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, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,