Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Then the LORD instructed Moses, "Make a poisonous serpent out of brass and fasten it to a pole. Anyone who has been bitten and who looks at it will live." 9 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. 10 After this, the Israelis traveled and encamped at Oboth.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places, demolished the sacred pillars, and tore down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had crafted, because the Israelis had been burning incense to it right up until that time. Hezekiah called it a piece of brass.
John 3:14-15
Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
Zechariah 12:10
I will pour out on the house of David and on the residents of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and of supplications, and they will look to me the one whom they pierced.'"
Isaiah 45:22
Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth. For I am God, and there is no other.
John 1:29
The next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
John 6:40
This is my Father's will: That everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day."
John 12:32
As for me, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself."
Romans 1:17
For in the gospel God's righteousness is being revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, "The righteous will live by faith."
Romans 5:20-21
Now the Law crept in so that the offense would increase. But where sin increased, grace increased even more,
Romans 8:3
For what the Law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did. By sending his own Son in the form of humanity, he condemned sin by being incarnate,
2 Corinthians 5:21
God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that God's righteousness would be produced in us.
Hebrews 12:2
fixing our attention on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of the faith, who, in view of the joy set before him, endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
1 John 3:8
The person who practices sin belongs to the evil one, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason that the Son of God was revealed was to destroy what the Devil has been doing.