Numbers 21:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The LORD said to Moses,“Make a poisonous snake and set it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 106:43-45 : 43 Many times he delivered them, but they had a rebellious attitude, and degraded themselves by their sin. 44 Yet he took notice of their distress, when he heard their cry for help. 45 He remembered his covenant with them, and relented because of his great loyal love.
  • Ps 145:8 : 8 The LORD is merciful and compassionate; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.
  • John 3:14 : 14 Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

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  • Num 21:9
    95%

    9So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived.

  • Num 21:6-7
    2 verses
    83%

    6So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died.

    7Then the people came to Moses and said,“We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD that he would take away the snakes from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

  • John 3:14
    78%

    14Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

  • Exod 4:2-4
    3 verses
    75%

    2The LORD said to him,“What is that in your hand?” He said,“A staff.”

    3The LORD said,“Throw it to the ground.” So he threw it to the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses ran from it.

    4But the LORD said to Moses,“Put out your hand and grab it by the tail”– so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand–

  • Jer 8:17
    71%

    17The LORD says,“Yes indeed, I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. And they will inflict fatal wounds on you.”

  • Exod 7:8-10
    3 verses
    70%

    8The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

    9“When Pharaoh says to you,‘Do a miracle,’ and you say to Aaron,‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ it will become a snake.”

    10When Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, they did so, just as the LORD had commanded them– Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a snake.

  • Num 25:10
    69%

    10The Aftermath The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Mark 16:18
    69%

    18they will pick up snakes with their hands, and whatever poison they drink will not harm them; they will place their hands on the sick and they will be well.”

  • Exod 7:15
    68%

    15Go to Pharaoh in the morning when he goes out to the water. Position yourself to meet him by the edge of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was turned into a snake.

  • 1 Cor 10:9
    68%

    9And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

  • Exod 15:25-26
    2 verses
    68%

    25He cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When Moses threw it into the water, the water became safe to drink. There the LORD made for them a binding ordinance, and there he tested them.

    26He said,“If you will diligently obey the LORD your God, and do what is right in his sight, and pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then all the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians I will not bring on you, for I, the LORD, am your healer.”

  • Exod 19:21
    68%

    21The LORD said to Moses,“Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the LORD to look, and many of them perish.

  • Exod 7:12
    67%

    12Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

  • Exod 9:10
    67%

    10So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh, Moses threw it into the air, and it caused festering boils to break out on both people and animals.

  • Acts 7:31
    67%

    31When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and when he approached to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord,

  • Num 17:10-11
    2 verses
    67%

    10The Memorial The LORD said to Moses,“Bring Aaron’s staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end before me, that they will not die.”

    11So Moses did as the LORD commanded him– this is what he did.

  • Acts 28:3
    67%

    3When Paul had gathered a bundle of brushwood and was putting it on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.

  • Exod 8:16
    66%

    16The Third Blow: Gnats The LORD said to Moses,“Tell Aaron,‘Extend your staff and strike the dust of the ground, and it will become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.’”

  • Amos 9:3
    66%

    3Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, from there I would command the Sea Serpent to bite them.

  • Num 20:9
    66%

    9So Moses took the staff from before the LORD, just as he commanded him.

  • Prov 23:32
    66%

    32Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper.

  • Amos 5:19
    66%

    19Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.

  • Num 20:7
    66%

    7Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 17:6
    66%

    6I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in plain view of the elders of Israel.

  • Exod 9:8
    66%

    8The Sixth Blow: Boils Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,“Take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and have Moses throw it into the air while Pharaoh is watching.

  • Lev 13:1
    66%

    1Infections on the Skin The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Deut 8:15
    66%

    15and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and

  • Num 19:1
    66%

    1The Red Heifer Ritual The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Lev 6:8
    66%

    8Sacrificial Instructions for the Priests: The Burnt Offering(6:1) Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 17:1
    66%

    1The Budding of Aaron’s Staff The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Lev 24:13
    66%

    13Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Gen 3:14
    66%

    14The LORD God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the cattle and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.

  • Lev 19:1
    66%

    1Religious and Social Regulations The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 30:11
    66%

    11The Ransom Money The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 16:44
    66%

    44The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 30:17
    66%

    17The Bronze Laver The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Num 5:1
    66%

    1Separation of the Unclean Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 7:20
    66%

    20Moses and Aaron did so, just as the LORD had commanded. He raised the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile right before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood.