Numbers 21
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Numbers 21:4-20

4And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to go around the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.1 5And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have ye brought us 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. 6And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died. 7Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. 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. 9And 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.

10And the children of Israel moved forward, and encamped in Oboth. 11And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.2 12From there they removed, and encamped in the valley of Zared. 13From there they removed, and encamped on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the borders of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 14Therefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,3 15And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.4 16And from there they went to Beer: that is the well of which the LORD spoke to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. 17Then Israel sung this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye to it:56 18The princes searched out the well, the nobles of the people dug it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staffs. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah: 19And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth: 20And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.789

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Notes

  1. 1. Numbers 21:4 discouraged: or, grieved: Heb. shortened ↩
  2. 2. Numbers 21:11 Ijeabarim: or, heaps of Abarim ↩
  3. 3. Numbers 21:14 What...: or, Vaheb in Suphah ↩
  4. 4. Numbers 21:15 lieth: Heb. leaneth ↩
  5. 5. Numbers 21:17 Spring...: Heb. Ascend ↩
  6. 6. Numbers 21:17 sing: or, answer ↩
  7. 7. Numbers 21:20 country: Heb. field ↩
  8. 8. Numbers 21:20 Pisgah: or, the hill ↩
  9. 9. Numbers 21:20 Jeshimon: or, the wilderness ↩

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Revised Webster's Bible — 1833 — Public Domain