Don’t rejoice, all of you in Philistia, because the rod of the one who struck you is broken. For a viper will come from the root of a snake, and from its egg comes a flying serpent.
Numbers 21:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Then the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit them so that many Israelites died. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then the Lord sent fiery (burning) serpents among the people; and they bit the people, and many Israelites died. American Standard Version (1901) And Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Common English Bible So the LORD sent poisonous snakes among the people and they bit the people. Many of the Israelites died. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them. |
Don’t rejoice, all of you in Philistia, because the rod of the one who struck you is broken. For a viper will come from the root of a snake, and from its egg comes a flying serpent.
A pronouncement concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of trouble and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people who will not help them.
Indeed, I am about to send snakes among you, poisonous vipers that cannot be charmed. They will bite you. This is the Lord’s declaration.
‘Suppose I allow dangerous animals to pass through the land and depopulate it so that it becomes desolate, with no one passing through it for fear of the animals.
Let us not test Christ as some of them did and were destroyed by snakes.
He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint rock for you.