The Scriptures 1998

Numbers 21:6-18 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

6. And יהוה sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people. And many of the people of Yisra’ĕl died.

7. Then the people came to Mosheh, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against יהוה and against you. Pray to יהוה to take away the serpents from us.” So Mosheh prayed on behalf of the people.

8. And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole. And it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”

9. So Mosheh made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole. And it came to be, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

10. And the children of Yisra’ĕl set out and camped in Oḇoth.

11. And they departed from Oḇoth and camped at Iyĕ Ha-Aḇarim, in the wilderness which is east of Mo’aḇ, toward sunrise.

12. From there they set out and camped at the wadi Zereḏ.

13. From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorites, for the Arnon is the border of Mo’aḇ, between Mo’aḇ and the Amorites.

14. Therefore it is said in the Book of the Battles of יהוה, “Wahĕḇ in Suphah, the wadi Arnon,

15. and the slope of the wadi that turns aside to the dwelling of Ar, and lies on the border of Mo’aḇ.”

16. And from there on to Be’ĕr, which is the well where יהוה said to Mosheh, “Gather the people, and let Me give them water.”

17. Yisra’ĕl then sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Sing to it,

18. a well the leaders sank, which the nobles of the people dug with their staves, by the word of the Law-giver.” Then from the wilderness on to Mattanah,