(A)Wherefore the Lord sent [a]fiery serpents among the people, which stung the people: so that many of the people of Israel died.

Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned: for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee: pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us: and Moses prayed for the people.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it up for a [b]sign, that as many as are bitten, may look upon it, and live.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:6 For they that were stung therewith, were so inflamed with the heat thereof, that they died.
  2. Numbers 21:8 Or, upon a pole.

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