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 [a]sign, that as many as are bitten, may look upon it, and live.

(A)So Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it up for a sign: and when a serpent had bitten a man, then he looked to the serpent of brass, and [b]lived.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:8 Or, upon a pole.
  2. Numbers 21:9 Or, recovered.

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