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Numbers 21:4-9 NIV
4 They traveled from Mount Hor
along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people
grew impatient on the way;
5 they spoke against God and
against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to
die in the desert? There is no bread! There is no water! And we
detest this miserable food!"
6 Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the
people and many Israelites died.
7 The people came to Moses and
said, "We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you.
Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us." So Moses
prayed for the people.
8 The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a
pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live."
9 So Moses made a bronze snake
and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and
looked at the bronze snake, he lived. |