Numbers 21:8

Adonai said to Moses [Drawn out], “Make a fiery serpent, and set it up + 21:8. Quoted in John 12:34 on a pole. It shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”

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In The King James Version

And 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.

In Context

7The people came to Moses [Drawn out], and said, “We have sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)·, because we have spoken against Adonai, and against you. Pray to Adonai, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses [Drawn out] prayed for the people.

9Moses [Drawn out] made a serpent + 21:9. Quoted in John 3:14 of bronze, and set it + 21:9. MP: The one providing atonement is lifted up on a stake to restore healing to man. (John 3:14 (context 3:14-18), 12:32-34; Acts 3:26) on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived.

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Cross References

Psalms 145:8ח Adonai is gracious, merciful, 2 slow to anger, and of great chesed ·loving-kindness·. 1

Matthew Henry on Numbers 21:5-10

The Brazen Serpent. ( b. c. 1452.) 4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. 5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. 6 And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel… Read the whole commentary →

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