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Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a snake, and put it on a pole. Anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole. People looked at the bronze snake after they were bitten, and they lived.[a]

Israel Travels Past Edom to Moab

10 The Israelites moved and set up camp at Oboth.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:9 There is a play on words here between Hebrew nachash (snake) and nechosheth (bronze).

The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole;(A) anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” So Moses made a bronze snake(B) and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.(C)

The Journey to Moab

10 The Israelites moved on and camped at Oboth.(D)

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And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.

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