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L’Éternel écouta la voix d’Israël et lui livra les Cananéens; et on les frappa d’anathème, eux et leurs villes, et l’on donna à ce lieu le nom de Horma.
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et de Bamoth, au plateau qui est dans la campagne de Moab, au sommet du Pisga, d’où l’on découvrait l’étendue du désert.
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Bible du Rabbinat 1899 [fr] · Licence: Public Domain · Source
Nombres 21:9 dans toutes les traductions
English · Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009
Moshe made a copper snake and placed it on the banner; whenever a snake bit a person, he would gaze upon the copper snake and live.
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English · The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein
And Moses made a serpent of copper (nechosheth) [(Since the L-rd called it "nachash," he made it of nechosheth)], and he placed it on a pole. And it was, if the snake had bitten a man, when he gazed [intently] at the copper snake, he lived.
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עברית · Miqra according to the Masorah
וַיַּ֤עַשׂ מֹשֶׁה֙ נְחַ֣שׁ נְחֹ֔שֶׁת וַיְשִׂמֵ֖הוּ עַל־הַנֵּ֑ס וְהָיָ֗ה אִם־נָשַׁ֤ךְ הַנָּחָשׁ֙ אֶת־אִ֔ישׁ וְהִבִּ֛יט אֶל־נְחַ֥שׁ הַנְּחֹ֖שֶׁת וָחָֽי׃
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English · The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation (JPS 1917)
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.
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עברית · Tanach with Ta'amei Hamikra
וַיַּ֤עַשׂ מֹשֶׁה֙ נְחַ֣שׁ נְחֹ֔שֶׁת וַיְשִׂמֵ֖הוּ עַל־הַנֵּ֑ס וְהָיָ֗ה אִם־נָשַׁ֤ךְ הַנָּחָשׁ֙ אֶת־אִ֔ישׁ וְהִבִּ֛יט אֶל־נְחַ֥שׁ הַנְּחֹ֖שֶׁת וָחָֽי׃
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עברית · Tanach with Text Only
ויעש משה נחש נחשת וישמהו על הנס והיה אם נשך הנחש את איש והביט אל נחש הנחשת וחי
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עברית · Tanach with Nikkud
וַיַּעַשׂ מֹשֶׁה נְחַשׁ נְחֹשֶׁת וַיְשִׂמֵהוּ עַל־הַנֵּס וְהָיָה אִם־נָשַׁךְ הַנָּחָשׁ אֶת־אִישׁ וְהִבִּיט אֶל־נְחַשׁ הַנְּחֹשֶׁת וָחָי׃
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English · Sefaria Community Translation
Moshe made a copper snake and placed it on the banner; whenever a snake bit a person, he would gaze upon the copper snake and live.
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ייִדיש · Yehoyesh's Yiddish Tanakh Translation [yi]
האָט משה געמאַכט אַ קופּערנע שלאַנג, און האָט זי אַרױפֿגעטאָן אױף אַ שטאַנג; און עס איז געװען, אַז אַ שלאַנג האָט עמיצן געביסן, אַזױ האָט ער אַ קוק געטאָן אױף דער קופּערנער שלאַנג, און איז געבליבן לעבן.
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Français · Bible du Rabbinat 1899 [fr]
Et Moïse fit un serpent d’airain, le fixa sur une perche; et alors, si quelqu’un était mordu par un serpent, il levait les yeux vers le serpent d’airain et était sauvé.
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Polski · Bible in Polish, trans. Izaak Cylkow, 1841 - 1908 [pl]
I zrobił Mojżesz węża miedzianego, i utwierdził go na drzewcu; i bywało, że gdy wąż ukąsił człowieka a spojrzał na węża miedzianego, tedy wyzdrowiał.
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Deutsch · Die Heilige Schrift, trans. Dr. Simon Bernfeld, Berlin, 1902 - German [de]
Mose machte eine kupferne Schlange und setzte sie auf eine Stange, und so geschah, wenn eine Schlange jemanden gebissen hatte, so schaute er auf zu der kupfernen Schlange und blieb leben.
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Esperanto · La Malnova Testamento, L.L.Zamenhof [eo]
Kaj Moseo faris kupran serpenton kaj metis ĝin sur stangon; kaj se serpento mordis iun kaj ĉi tiu ekrigardis la kupran serpenton, li restis viva.
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Commentaires sur Nombres 21:9
Rashi
English
A copper snake. He was not told to make it of copper, but Moshe said: “The Holy One, Blessed is He, called it “ נָחָשׁ “ (“snake,”) so I shall make it of “ נְחֹשֶׁת “ (“copper”). The terminology is well matched.
Rashi Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 · Licence: CC-BY · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria
Targum Jonathan
English
And Mosheh made a serpent of brass, and set it upon a place aloft; and it was, when a serpent had bitten a man, and the serpent of brass was gazed at, and his heart was intent upon the Name of the Word of the Lord, he lived.
The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862 · Licence: Public Domain · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria
Ramban (Nachmanides)
English
AND MOSES MADE ‘NECHASH NECHOSHETH’ (A SERPENT OF BRASS). “He was not told to make it of brass. But Moses said: ‘The Holy One, blessed be He, called it a nachash (serpent); therefore I will make it of nechosheth (brass)’ — since the one word resembles the other [in sound].” This is Rashi’s language, based upon the words of our Rabbis. But I do not understand this, for the Holy One, blessed be He, did not mention to Moses [the word] nachash, but said to him, Make thee ‘saraf’ (a fiery serpent)! But the intention of the Sages is that Moses was guided by the substantive name thereof [which is nachash; and saraf is merely a particular description of a certain kind of serpent — a “fiery” serpent — hence he made the saraf which G-d mentioned to him from nechosheth (brass), corresponding with its substantive name].
It appears to me that the secret of this matter is that this is one of the ways of the Torah, every deed of which is a miracle within a miracle. Thus [the Torah] removes injury by means of the cause of the injury, and heals illness by means of the cause of the sickness, as the Rabbis have mentioned in connection with [the verse], and the Eternal showed him a tree, and as occurred with the salt that Elisha [cast] into the water. Now it is a well-known medical principle that all people bitten by poisonous creatures become dangerously ill when they see them, or [even] when they [only] see their likeness, so that if people who have been bitten by a mad dog or other mad animals look into water, they see there the image of the dog or the attacker, and [this] can [cause them to] die, as is written in medical books and mentioned in the Gemara of Tractate Yoma. Similarly doctors protect them from [people] mentioning in their presence the name of the animal that bit them, [and they forbid people] to mention it at all, because their minds cling to this thought and do not turn away from it altogether until it causes their death. [The doctors] have already mentioned that it is an empirical fact, amongst the wonders of reproduction, that if the urine of a person bitten by a mad dog is put in a glass receptacle after he has become rabidly sick, there will appear in that urine the likeness of the young of small dogs. And if you pass the liquid through a cloth and filter it, you will not find any trace of them at all; but if you return the liquid to the glass bottle, and it remains there …
Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976 · Licence: CC-BY · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria
Sforno
English
נחש נחושת, after Moses had understood what G’d had intended with His command, he agreed to make this replica of a snake out of copper and not out of gold. Copper would be more likely to induce thoughts of remorse as they would associate its colour with the sensation of burning.
Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash · Licence: CC-BY · Commentaire complet sur Sefaria