He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moshe had made; for to those days the children of Yisra'el did burn incense to it; and he called it Nechushtan 1.
Numbers 21:9 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Moshe made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it on a pole, and if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of bronze [attentively, expectantly, with a steady and absorbing gaze], he lived. American Standard Version (1901) And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the standard: and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived. Common English Bible Moses made a bronze snake and placed it on a pole. If a snake bit someone, that person could look at the bronze snake and live. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, Moses made a bronze serpent, and he placed it as a sign. When those who had been struck gazed upon it, they were healed. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: which when they that were bitten looked upon, they were healed. |
He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moshe had made; for to those days the children of Yisra'el did burn incense to it; and he called it Nechushtan 1.
Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else.
I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
The next day, he saw Yeshua coming to him, and said, *Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.*
This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.*
For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, *But the righteous shall live by faith.*
For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
looking to Yeshua, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.