Verse 6
Numbers 21:6
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יְשַׁלַּ֨ח יְהוָ֜ה בָּ/עָ֗ם אֵ֚ת הַ/נְּחָשִׁ֣ים הַ/שְּׂרָפִ֔ים וַֽ/יְנַשְּׁכ֖וּ אֶת הָ/עָ֑ם וַ/יָּ֥מָת עַם רָ֖ב מִ/יִּשְׂרָאֵֽל
English Translation
And the Lord sent among the people the fiery serpents, and they bit the people, and many people of Israel died.
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Chapter 21 Context
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And when king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south, had heard this, to wit, that Israel...
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But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: It thou wilt deliver this people into my hand,...
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And the Lord heard the prayers of Israel, and delivered up the Chanaanite, and they cut them off and...
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And they marched from mount Hor, by the way that leadeth to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom...
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And speaking against God (Elohim) end Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die...
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Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them.
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Upon which they came to Moses, and said: We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and...
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And the Lord said to him: Make brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being struck shal...
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Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: which when they that were bitten lo...
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And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth.
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And departing thence they pitched their tents in Jeabarim, in the wilderness, that faceth Moab towar...
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And removing from thence, they came to the torrent Zared:
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Which they left and encamped over against Arnon, which is in the desert and standeth out on the bord...
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Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord: As he did in the Red Sea, so will he do in...
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The rocks of the torrents were bowed down that they might rest in Ar, and lie down in the borders of...
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When they went from that place, the well appeared whereof the Lord said to Moses: Gather the people...
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Then Israel sung this song: Let the well spring up. They sung thereto:
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The well, which the princes dug, and the chiefs of the people prepared by the direction of the lawgi...
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From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth.
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From Bamoth, is a valley in the country of Moab, to the top of Phasga, which looked towards the dese...
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And Israel sent messengers to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, saying:
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I beseech thee that I may have leave to pass through thy land: we will not go aside into the fields...
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And he would not grant that Israel should pass by his borders: but rather gathering an army, went fo...
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And he was slain by them with the edge of the sword, and they possessed his land from the Arnon unto...
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So Israel took all his cities, and dwelt in the cities of the Amorrhite, to wit, in Hesebon, and in...
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Hesebon was the city of Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, who fought against the king of Moab: and t...
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Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come into Hesebon, let the city of Sehon be built and set up:
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A fire is gone out of Hesebon, a flame from the city of Sehon, and hath consumed Ar of the Moabites,...
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Woe to thee Moab: thou art undone, O people of Chamos. He hath given his sons to flight, and his dau...
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Their yoke is perished from Hesebon unto Dibon, they came weary to Nophe, and unto Medaba.
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So Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorrhite.
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And Moses sent some to take a view of Jazer: and they took the villages of it, and conquered the inh...
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And they turned themselves, and went up by the way of Basan, and Og the king of Basan came against t...
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And the Lord said to Moses: Fear him not, for I have delivered him and all his people, and his count...
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So they slew him also with his sons, and all his people, not letting any one escape, and they posses...
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