Numbers 21:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.

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  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.
  • Deut 8:15 : 15 Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;
  • Jer 8:17 : 17 See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.
  • Isa 14:29 : 29 Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.
  • Isa 30:6 : 6 The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.
  • Amos 9:3-4 : 3 Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite: 4 And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.
  • Gen 3:14-15 : 14 And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life: 15 And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

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  • Num 21:7-9
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    7Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.

    8And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wounded by the snakes, looking on it will be made well.

    9So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on the snake of brass, was made well.

  • Num 11:33
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    33But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was moved against the people and he sent a great outburst of disease on them.

  • Jer 8:17
    75%

    17See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.

  • Num 21:4-5
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    4Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, going round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people was overcome with weariness on the way.

    5And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.

  • Num 11:1-2
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    1Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle.

    2And the people made an outcry to Moses, and Moses made prayer to the Lord, and the fire was stopped.

  • 1 Cor 10:9
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    9And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.

  • Exod 19:21
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    21And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the people orders to keep back, for fear that a great number of them, forcing their way through to see the Lord, may come to destruction.

  • Lev 10:2
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    2And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.

  • Num 25:9-10
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    9But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.

    10And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 20:3-4
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    3And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!

    4Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?

  • Ps 78:31
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    31The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel.

  • Exod 32:35
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    35And the Lord sent punishment on the people because they gave worship to the ox which Aaron made.

  • Num 31:16
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    16It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

  • Exod 17:3-4
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    3And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?

    4And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by stoning.

  • Num 16:21
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    21Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.

  • Num 16:41
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    41But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to death the Lord's people.

  • Exod 4:3
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    3And he said, Put it down on the earth. And he put it down on the earth and it became a snake; and Moses went running from it.

  • Exod 16:2-3
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    2And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:

    3And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.

  • Num 14:11
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    11And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them?

  • 1 Chr 21:14
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    14So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.

  • Num 14:2
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    2And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!

  • Ps 78:45
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    45He sent different sorts of flies among them, poisoning their flesh; and frogs for their destruction.

  • Num 25:3
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    3So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel.

  • Deut 7:20
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    20And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off.

  • Deut 28:21-22
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    21The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by death from the land to which you are going.

    22The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be till your destruction is complete.

  • Num 14:16
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    16Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.

  • 2 Sam 24:15
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    15So David made selection of the disease; and the time was the days of the grain-cutting, when the disease came among the people, causing the death of seventy thousand men from Dan as far as Beer-sheba.

  • Deut 32:24
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    24They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

  • Deut 9:22
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    22Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord angry.

  • Deut 8:15
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    15Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;

  • Ps 78:21
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    21So these things came to the Lord's ears, and he was angry; and a fire was lighted against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel;

  • Exod 32:11
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    11But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your wrath burning against your people whom you took out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with the strength of your hand?

  • Exod 32:21
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    21And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great sin come on them?

  • Num 11:21
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    21Then Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, I will give them flesh to be their food for a month.

  • Deut 2:15
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    15For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.

  • Deut 1:27
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    27And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.

  • Exod 5:21
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    21And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.