Numbers 21:8
New International Version
8 The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole;(A) anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”
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 21:9
New International Version
9 So Moses made a bronze snake(A) and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.(B)
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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John 3:14
New International Version
14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,(A) so the Son of Man must be lifted up,[a](B)
Footnotes
- John 3:14 The Greek for lifted up also means exalted.
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 3:15
New International Version
Footnotes
- John 3:15 Some interpreters end the quotation with verse 21.
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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