Numbers 21:6

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:9

We must not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents;

Jeremiah 8:17

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

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,

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.

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.

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;