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Numbers 21:6Num.21.6

And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Alors l'Eternel envoya contre le peuple des serpents brûlants; ils mordirent le peuple, et il mourut beaucoup de gens en Israël.

KJV

And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

Patristic reading

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  • Philo Judaeus

    Legum Allegoriarum Libri I-III

    ν λαὸν τοὺς ὄφεις τοὺς θανατοῦντας. καὶ ἔδακνον τὸν λαόν, καὶ ἀπέθνῃσκε λαὸς πολὺς τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ“ (Num. 21, 6)· ὄντως γὰρ οὐδὲν οὕτως θάνατον ἐπάγει ψυχῇ, ὡς ἀμετρία τῶν ἡδονῶν. τὸ δὲ ἀποθνῇσκον οὐ τὸ ἄρχον ἐστὶν ἐν ἡμῖν, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἀρχόμενον τὸ λαῶδες, καὶ μέχρι τούτου θάνατον ἐν…
  • Barnabae epistula

    Barnabae epistula

    τι δεῖ αὐτὸν παθεῖν, καὶ αὐτὸς ζωοποιήσει, ὃν δόξουσιν ἀπολωλεκέναι, ἐν σημείῳ πίπτοντος τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, Num.21,6 ff. ʽἐποίησεν γὰρ κύριος πάντα ὄφιν δάκνειν αὐτούς, καὶ ἀπέθνησκον ἐπειδὴ ἡ παράβασις διὰ τοῦ ὄφεως ἐν Εὔᾳ ἐγένετὀ. ἵνα ἐλέγξῃ αὐτούς. ὅτι διὰ τὴν παράβασιν αὐτῶν εἰς θλῖ…
  • Hippolytus

    Refutatio Omnium Haeresium (= Philosophumena)

    ὐκ ἐδέξατο, φησί, τὴν ἀμβλυωπὸν εὐλογίαν, ἀλλ᾿ ἐπλούτησεν ἔξωθεν, οὐδὲν ἀπὸ τοῦ 1 Exod. 15, 22 — 4ff Num. 21, 6ff — 12 Exod. 7, 12? — 15f vgl. Exod. 4, 2—4 17. 7, 9 —13 u. VIII 14, 3 — 16 —18 Exod. 7, 11. 12 — 19 Gen. 3, 1 7 — 19f Gen. 2, 8. 10, vgl. ο. S. 101, 2ff — 20 Gen. 4, 1…

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