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4 Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became impatient along the way. 5 And 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 bread or water, and we detest this worthless food.| 6 So the LORD sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died. 7 Then the people came to Moses and said, |We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD that he would take away the snakes from us.| So Moses prayed for the people. 8 The LORD said to Moses, |Make a poisonous snake and set it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.| 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived. Numbers 21:4-9, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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