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Numbers 21:9

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7 Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD so He will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses interceded for the people.

8 Then 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.”

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.

10 Then the Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.

11 They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness opposite Moab to the east.

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BSB
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.
KJV
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.
WEB
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.
ASV
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.
DARBY
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.
BLB
And Moses made a bronze serpent and put it on a pole. And it came to pass [that], if a serpent had bitten anyone, and he looked unto the bronze serpent, he lived.
ÅB
Så gjorde Moses en kobberslange og satte den på en stang; og når en slange hadde bitt noen, og han så på kobberslangen, ble han i live.
OTB
Så laget Moses en kobberslange og satte den på en stang; når en slange bet noen, og den personen så på kobberslangen, overlevde de.
B1930
Så gjorde Moses en kobberslange og satte den på en stang; og når en slange hadde bitt nogen, og han så på kobberslangen, blev han i live.

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  • John 3:14–15

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

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  • Hebrews 12:2

    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.

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  • John 6:40

    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.”

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  • 2 Kings 18:4

    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 it.

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  • John 12:32

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

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  • Isaiah 45:22

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

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

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  • 2 Corinthians 5:21

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

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