As Moses Lifted Up the Serpent – Numbers 21:4-9
From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red
Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became
impatient on the way. The people spoke against God and against
Moses, ‘Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the
wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this
miserable food.’ Then the Lord sent poisonous
serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many
Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, ‘We have
sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you; pray
to the Lord to take away the serpents from us.’ So Moses
prayed for the people. And the Lord said to Moses,
‘Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone
who is bitten shall look at it and live.’ So Moses made a
serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit
someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.
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