diff --git a/samples/snippets/classify_text/requirements.txt b/samples/snippets/classify_text/requirements.txt
index 8ebc429c..0f35f5cc 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/classify_text/requirements.txt
+++ b/samples/snippets/classify_text/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 google-cloud-language==2.3.1
 numpy==1.22.1; python_version > '3.7'
 numpy==1.21.4; python_version == '3.7'
-numpy==1.19.5; python_version <= '3.6'
+numpy==1.21.0; python_version <= '3.6'