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Polyglot Bible: Numbers: Numbers 21

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This is Numbers 21 from the Hebrew Bible, presented as a parallel critical edition in three columns: the King James Version with embedded Strong's Concordance numbers, the Greek Septuagint (LXX), and the Hebrew Masoretic Text (Tanakh). The chapter narrates several episodes from the Israelites' wilderness journey: their war against the Canaanite king of Arad (with a vow of total destruction, *herem*), the plague of fiery serpents sent as punishment for complaining, and Moses' construction of a bronze serpent on a pole that healed those who looked upon it. The narrative continues with a series of campsites along the route toward Canaan, including the episode at the well of Beer, before culminating in Israel's military victories over Sihon king of the Amorites and Og king of Bashan, resulting in territorial conquests east of the Jordan. The text's distinctive feature is its multilingual synoptic format, which allows direct comparison of translation choices and variant readings across the three major textual traditions — the Strong's numbers embedded in the KJV column make it particularly useful for lexical study. Readers interested in biblical text criticism, the history of the wilderness traditions, or the typological significance of the bronze serpent (later cited in John 3:14) would find this edition directly relevant.

Polyglot Bible: Numbers: Numbers 21

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