Numbers 21:9 “So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who w…”

Numbers 21:9

So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, 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.

Geneva Bible 1599

So Moses made a serpent of brasse, and set it vp for a signe: and when a serpent had bitten a man, then he looked to the serpent of brasse, and liued.

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.

Young's 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.

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.

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Cross references

“A serpent of”

2 Kings 18:4 John 12:32 Romans 8:3 2 Corinthians 5:21 John 3:14 John 3:15

2 Kings 18:4 · BSB

He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to…

John 12:32 · BSB

And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw everyone to Myself.”

Romans 8:3 · BSB

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 likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

2 Corinthians 5:21 · BSB

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

John 3:14 · BSB

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

John 3:15 · BSB

that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.

“when he”

Hebrews 12:2 Isaiah 45:22 Zechariah 12:10 1 John 3:8 John 1:29

Hebrews 12:2 · BSB

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Isaiah 45:22 · BSB

Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

Zechariah 12:10 · BSB

Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and gr…

1 John 3:8 · BSB

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

John 1:29 · BSB

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

“he lived”

John 6:40 Romans 1:17 Romans 5:20 Romans 5:21

John 6:40 · BSB

For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

Romans 1:17 · BSB

For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

Romans 5:20 · BSB

The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

Romans 5:21 · BSB

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.”

10Then the Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.

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