Numbers 21:6-8

New Catholic Bible

⁶ The Lord sent seraph^[a] serpents among the people. They bit the people, and many of the people of Israel died. ⁷ The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord so that he might save us from the serpents.” So Moses prayed for the people. ⁸ The Lord said to Moses, “Make a seraph serpent and put it upon a pole. Whoever has been bitten and looks upon it will live.”