Numbers 21:6

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.

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  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
  • Deut 8:15 : 15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;
  • Jer 8:17 : 17 For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.
  • Isa 14:29 : 29 Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
  • Isa 30:6 : 6 The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
  • Amos 9:3-4 : 3 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them. 4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.
  • Gen 3:14-15 : 14 Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."

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    7The people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us." Moses prayed for the people.

    8Yahweh said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live."

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  • Num 11:33
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    33While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.

  • Jer 8:17
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    17For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.

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    4They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

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    1The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and Yahweh's fire burnt among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

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    9Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

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    21Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.

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    2And fire came forth from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.

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    9Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

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    3The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, "We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

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    31when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.

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    35Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

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    3The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

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    21"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!"

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    14So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

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    2All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

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    3Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel.

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    20Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.

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    21Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.

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    21Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

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    15Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.

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