Numbers 21:8
Contemporary English Version
8 and the Lord answered, “Make a snake out of bronze and place it on top of a pole. Anyone who gets bitten can look at the snake and be saved from death.”
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Numbers 21:8
King James Version
8 And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
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Numbers 21:8
New King James Version
8 Then the Lord said to Moses, (A)“Make a (B)fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”
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Numbers 21:9
Contemporary English Version
9 (A) Moses obeyed the Lord. And all of those who looked at the bronze snake lived, even though they had been bitten by the poisonous snakes.
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Numbers 21:9
King James Version
9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
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Numbers 21:9
New King James Version
9 So (A)Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
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John 3:14
Contemporary English Version
14 (A) And the Son of Man must be lifted up, just as the metal snake was lifted up by Moses in the desert.[a]
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- 3.14 just as the metal snake was lifted up by Moses in the desert: When the Lord punished the people of Israel by sending snakes to bite them, he told Moses to hold a metal snake up on a pole. Everyone who looked at the snake was cured of the snake bites (see Numbers 21.4-9).
John 3:14
King James Version
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
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John 3:14
New King James Version
14 (A)And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so (B)must the Son of Man be lifted up,
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John 3:15
Contemporary English Version
15 Then everyone who has faith in the Son of Man will have eternal life.
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John 3:15
King James Version
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
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John 3:15
New King James Version
15 that whoever (A)believes in Him should [a]not perish but (B)have eternal life.
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- John 3:15 NU omits not perish but
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