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The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? Look, there is no food! There is no water! And we are disgusted by this worthless food!”[a]

The Lord sent venomous[b] snakes among the people, and the snakes bit the people. As a result many people from Israel died. The people went to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord to take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed on behalf of the people.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:5 The word twice translated food is the same as the word for bread.
  2. Numbers 21:6 Literally burning