Numbers 21:4-9 ▼

4 Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient because of the journey.

5 The people spoke against God and 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 loathe this miserable food.|

6 The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.

7 So the people came to Moses and said, |We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD and you; intercede with the LORD, that He may remove the serpents from us.| And Moses interceded for the people.

8 Then the LORD said to Moses, |Make a fiery [serpent], and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live.|

9 And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.