8Yahweh said to Moses, |Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.|


In Context

5 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, |Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread.|

6 Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.

7 The people came to Moses, and said, |We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.| Moses prayed for the people.

8 Yahweh said to Moses, |Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.|

9 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.

10 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.

Numbers 21:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:8And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:8The Lord said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:8And the Lord said to him: Make brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:8And Jehovah said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a standard: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he seeth it, shall live.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:8And Jehovah said to Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, and looketh upon it, shall live.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:8And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a standard: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he seeth it, shall live.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:8And the LORD said to Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:8And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Make for thee a burning serpent, and set it on an ensign; and it hath been, every one who is bitten and hath seen it — he hath lived.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:8And the LORD said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looks on it, shall live.