Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
So Moses made a snake of bronze, and he placed it on the pole; whenever a snake bit someone, and that person looked at the snake of bronze, he lived.
New American Standard Bible
And Moses made a
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. Whenever someone was bitten, and he looked at the bronze snake, he recovered.
International Standard Version
So Moses made a bronze serpent and fastened it to a pole. If a person who had been bitten by a poisonous serpent looked to the serpent, he lived.
A Conservative Version
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the standard. And it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.
American Standard Version
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the standard: and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.
Amplified
So Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it on the pole, and it happened that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.
Bible in Basic English
So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on the snake of brass, was made well.
Darby Translation
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole; and it came to pass, if a serpent had bitten any man, and he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
Julia Smith Translation
And Moses will make a brass serpent, and will set it up for a signal, and it was if the serpent bit a man and he looked upon the brass serpent, and he lived.
King James 2000
And Moses made a serpent of bronze, 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 bronze, he lived.
Modern King James verseion
And Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole. And it happened that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked upon the serpent of brass, he lived.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Moses made a serpent of brass and set it up for a sign. And when the serpents had bitten any man, he went and beheld the serpent of brass and recovered.
NET Bible
So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived.
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon the standard, - and it came to pass - that if the serpent had bitten any man, as soon as he directed his look unto the serpent of bronze, he lived.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Moses maketh a serpent of brass, and setteth it on the ensign, and it hath been, if the serpent hath bitten any man, and he hath looked expectingly unto the serpent of brass -- he hath lived.
Themes
Bible stories for children » How snake bites were healed
Brass » Moses made the serpent of
Brazen serpent » Made by moses for the healing of the israelites
journey of israel through the Desert » To zalmonah » Brazen serpent raised up
intercession » Answered » That the plague of the fiery serpents would stop
Israel » Scoured » Serpents » Poisonous
Miracles » Catalogue of » The scourge of serpents
Miracles wrought through servants of God » Moses and aaron: » Healing by brazen serpent
Salvation » Illustrated by » Typified by the bronze serpent
Serpent » The wound of, miraculously healed by looking upon the bronze snake, erected by moses
Serpents » Miracles connected with » Israelites cured by looking at one of brass
Symbols and similitudes » The bronze serpent, of Christ
Types » Of the saviour » The bronze serpent
Interlinear
N@chosheth
נחשׁת
N@chosheth
brass, brasen, fetters, chain, copper, filthiness, steel
Usage: 140
Suwm
Nabat
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Morish
Smith
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 21:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Bronze Snake
8 And Yahweh said to Moses, "Make for yourself a snake and place it on a pole. When anyone is bitten and looks at it, that person will live." 9 So Moses made a snake of bronze, and he placed it on the pole; whenever a snake bit someone, and that person looked at the snake of bronze, he lived. 10 The {Israelites} set out and encamped at Oboth.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places, and he smashed the stone pillars; he cut down the poles of Asherah worship and demolished the bronze serpent which Moses had made, for up to those days the {Israelites} were offering incense to it and called it Nehushtan.
John 3:14-15
And just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, thus it is necessary [that] the Son of Man be lifted up,
Zechariah 12:10
" 'I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, and they will look to me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn over him, as one wails over an only child, and they will grieve bitterly over him as [one] grieves bitterly over a firstborn.
Isaiah 45:22
Turn to me and be saved, all [the] ends of [the] earth, for I [am] God and there is none besides [me].
John 1:29
On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
John 6:40
For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks at the Son and believes in him would have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."
John 12:32
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all [people] to myself."
Romans 1:17
For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith to faith, just as it is written, "But the one who is righteous by faith will live."
Romans 5:20-21
Now the law came in as a side issue, in order that the trespass could increase, but where sin increased, grace was present in greater abundance,
Romans 8:3
For what [was] impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God [did]. [By] sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
2 Corinthians 5:21
He made the one who did not know sin [to be] sin on our behalf, in order that we could become the righteousness of God in him.
Hebrews 12:2
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the originator and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
1 John 3:8
The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this [reason] the Son of God was revealed: in order to destroy the works of the devil.