Numbers 21:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So 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.

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  • John 3:14-15 : 14 As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up: 15 So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.
  • 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.
  • Zech 12:10 : 10 And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.
  • John 1:29 : 29 The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
  • John 6:40 : 40 This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.
  • John 12:32 : 32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will make all men come to me.
  • Rom 1:17 : 17 For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.
  • Rom 5:20-21 : 20 And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace: 21 That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 8:3 : 3 For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:
  • 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.
  • 1 John 3:8 : 8 The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.
  • Isa 45:22 : 22 Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have salvation, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 21:6-8
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    6 Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.

    7 Then 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.

    8 And 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.

  • 14 As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:

  • Exod 4:2-4
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    2 And the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod.

    3 And 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.

    4 And the Lord said to Moses, Put out your hand and take it by the tail: (and he put out his hand and took a grip of it and it became a rod in his hand:)

  • Exod 7:8-10
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    8 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

    9 If Pharaoh says to you, Let me see a wonder: then say to Aaron, Take your rod and put it down on the earth before Pharaoh so that it may become a snake.

    10 Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and they did as the Lord had said: and Aaron put his rod down on the earth before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a snake.

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

  • Exod 9:10-11
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    10 So they took some dust from the fire, and placing themselves before Pharaoh, Moses sent it out in a shower up to heaven; and it became a skin-disease bursting out on man and on beast.

    11 And the wonder-workers were not able to take their places before Moses, because of the disease; for the disease was on the wonder-workers and on all the Egyptians.

  • 18 They will take up snakes, and if there is poison in their drink, it will do them no evil; they will put their hands on those who are ill, and they will get well.

  • 10 Then the children of Israel went on and put up their tents in Oboth.

  • 31 And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,

  • 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.

  • 12 For every one of them put down his rod on the earth, and they became snakes: but Aaron's rod made a meal of their rods.

  • 4 He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.

  • 10 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • 9 And Moses took the rod from before the Lord as he gave him orders.

  • 19 As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

  • Num 17:9-11
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    9 Then Moses took out all the rods from before the Lord, and gave them back to the children of Israel: and they saw them, and every man took his rod.

    10 And the Lord said to Moses, Put Aaron's rod back in front of the ark of witness, to be kept for a sign against this false-hearted people, so that you may put a stop to their outcries against me, and death may not overtake them.

    11 This Moses did: as the Lord gave orders, so he did.

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    25 And in answer to his prayer, the Lord made him see a tree, and when he put it into the water, the water was made sweet. There he gave them a law and an order, testing them;

    26 And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.

  • 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning; when he goes out to the water, you will be waiting for him by the edge of the Nile, with the rod which was turned into a snake in your hand;

  • 3 But when Paul had got some sticks together and put them on the fire, a snake came out, because of the heat, and gave him a bite on the hand.

  • 6 See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel.

  • 21 And 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.

  • 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:

  • 32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

  • 20 And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had said; and when his rod had been lifted up and stretched out over the waters of the Nile before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, all the water in the Nile was turned to blood;

  • 48 And he took his place between the dead and the living: and the disease was stopped.

  • 11 And lifting up his hand, Moses gave the rock two blows with his rod: and water came streaming out, and the people and their cattle had drink enough.

  • 17 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • 1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

  • 1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

  • 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;

  • 18 Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry;

  • 17 And Moses made the people come out of their tents and take their places before God; and they came to the foot of the mountain,

  • 15 Then Moses put up an altar and gave it the name of Yahweh-nissi:

  • 13 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • 16 It 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.

  • 16 And I saw that you had done evil against the Lord, and had made for yourselves a metal image of a young ox: you had quickly been turned from the way in which the Lord had given you orders to go.