Numbers 21:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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.