New Revised Standard Version
Then the LORD sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died.

Contemporary English Version
Then the LORD sent poisonous snakes that bit and killed many of them.

New American Bible
So the LORD sent among the people seraph serpents, which bit the people so that many of the Israelites died.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them.

Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them.

Genesis 3:14,15 And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. . . .

Deuteronomy 8:15 And was thy leader in the great and terrible wilderness, wherein there was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and the dipsas, and no waters at all: who brought forth streams out of the hardest rock,

Isaiah 14:29 Rejoice not thou, whole Philistia, that the rod of him that struck thee is broken in pieces: for out of the root of the serpent shall come forth a basilisk, and his seed shall swallow the bird.

Isaiah 30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south. In a land of trouble and distress, from whence come the lioness, and the lion, the viper and the flying basilisk, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of beasts, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that shall not be able to profit them.

Jeremiah 8:17 For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

Amos 9:3,4 Though they go down even to hell, thence shall my hand bring them out: and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and perished by the serpent.