Numbers 21:6

New American Bible - revised edition

So the Lord sent among the people seraph serpents, which bit the people so that many of the Israelites died.

Cross References

Isaiah 14:29

Do not rejoice, Philistia, not one of you, that the rod which struck you is broken; For out of the serpent’s root shall come an adder, its offspring shall be a flying saraph.

Isaiah 30:6

Oracle on the Beasts of the Negeb. Through the distressed and troubled land of the lioness and roaring lion, of the viper and flying saraph, They carry their riches on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels To a people good for nothing,

Jeremiah 8:17

Yes, I will send against you poisonous snakes. Against them no charm will work when they bite you—oracle of the Lord.

Ezekiel 14:15

If I summoned wild beasts to prowl the land, depopulating it so that it became a wasteland which no one would cross because of the wild beasts,

1 Corinthians 10:9

Let us not test Christ as some of them did, and suffered death by serpents.

Deuteronomy 8:15

he guided you through the vast and terrible wilderness with its saraph serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground; he brought forth water for you from the flinty rock