Numbers 21:6
“And the Lord sent fierie serpents among the people, and they bit the people, and much people of Israel died.”
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Numbers 21:6 Context
4¶ And they iourneyed from mount Hor, by the way of the red sea, to compasse the land of Edom: and the soule of the people was much discouraged because of the way. 5And the people spake against God and against Moses, Wherefore haue ye brought vs vp out of Egypt, to die in the wildernesse? for there is no bread, neither is there any water, and our soule loatheth this light bread. 6And the Lord sent fierie serpents among the people, and they bit the people, and much people of Israel died. 7¶ Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We haue sinned: for wee haue spoken against the Lord, and against thee: pray vnto the Lord that hee take away the serpents from vs: and Moses prayed for the people. 8And the Lord said vnto Moses, Make thee a fierie serpent, and set it vpon a pole: and it shall come to passe, that euery one that is bitten, when hee looketh vpon it, shall liue.
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And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
- King James Version
The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.
- New American Standard Version (1995)