Numbers 21:6 - The Scriptures 2009

⁶ And יהוה sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people. And many of the people of Yisra’ĕl 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 try Messiah, as some of them also tried, and were destroyed by serpents,

Jeremiah 8:17

“For look, I am sending among you serpents, adders, which have no enchanter, and they shall bite you,” declares יהוה.

Deuteronomy 8:15

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,

Isaiah 30:6

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,

Isaiah 14:29

“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.

Ezekiel 14:15

“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,