6 Then the Lord sent poisonous[a] serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died.(A)
4 They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,(A)
5 so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.(A)
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