Numbers 21:4b-9
Chapter 21
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From Mount Hor, they set out by the Red Sea road to go around the land of Edom. The people were discouraged by the journey
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and began to complain against God and Moses:
“Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is neither bread nor water here, and we are disgusted with this tasteless manna.”
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The Lord then sent fiery serpents against them. They bit the people, and many of the Israelites died.
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Then the people came to Moses and said:
“We have sinned, speaking against the Lord and you. Plead with the Lord to take the serpents away.”
Moses pleaded for the people,
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and the Lord said:
“Make a fiery serpent and set it on a standard; whoever has been bitten and then looks at it shall live.”
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So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. Whenever a man was bitten, he looked towards the bronze serpent and lived.
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