Numbers 21:5-9
New American Standard Bible 1995
5 The people spoke against God and Moses, “(A)Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no [a]food and no water, and [b](B)we loathe this miserable food.”
The Bronze Serpent
6 (C)The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and (D)they bit the people, so that (E)many people of Israel died. 7 (F)So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and you; (G)intercede with the Lord, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded for the people. 8 Then the Lord said to Moses, “[c]Make a (H)fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live.” 9 And Moses made a (I)bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.
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- Numbers 21:5 Lit bread
- Numbers 21:5 Lit our soul loathes
- Numbers 21:8 Lit Make for yourself
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