Numbers 21:8

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh 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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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 106:43-45 : 43 Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity. 44 Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry. 45 He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
  • Ps 145:8 : 8 Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
  • John 3:14 : 14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

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  • Num 21:9
    95%

    9 Moses 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.

  • Num 21:6-7
    2 verses
    83%

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

    7 The 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.

  • John 3:14
    78%

    14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

  • Exod 4:2-4
    3 verses
    75%

    2 Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A rod."

    3 He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.

    4 Yahweh said to Moses, "Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail." He put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.

  • Jer 8:17
    71%

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

  • Exod 7:8-10
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    70%

    8 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

    9 "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Perform a miracle!' then you shall tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.'"

    10 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.

  • Num 25:10
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    10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Mark 16:18
    69%

    18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."

  • Exod 7:15
    68%

    15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he goes out to the water; and you shall stand by the river's bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand.

  • 1 Cor 10:9
    68%

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

  • Exod 15:25-26
    2 verses
    68%

    25 Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;

    26 and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you."

  • Exod 19:21
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    21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.

  • Exod 7:12
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    12 For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

  • Exod 9:10
    67%

    10 They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became a boil breaking forth with boils on man and on animal.

  • Acts 7:31
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    31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,

  • Num 17:10-11
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    67%

    10 Yahweh said to Moses, "Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die."

    11 Moses did so. As Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

  • Acts 28:3
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    3 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

  • Exod 8:16
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    16 Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.'"

  • Amos 9:3
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    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.

  • Num 20:9
    66%

    9 Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.

  • Prov 23:32
    66%

    32 In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

  • Amos 5:19
    66%

    19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

  • Num 20:7
    66%

    7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 17:6
    66%

    6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

  • Exod 9:8
    66%

    8 Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.

  • Lev 13:1
    66%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Deut 8:15
    66%

    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;

  • Num 19:1
    66%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Lev 6:8
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    8 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 17:1
    66%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Lev 24:13
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    13 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Gen 3:14
    66%

    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.

  • Lev 19:1
    66%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 30:11
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    11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 16:44
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    44 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 30:17
    66%

    17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 5:1
    66%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 7:20
    66%

    20 Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.