So the people spoke against God and Moses: “(A)Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no [a]food and no water, and [b](B)we are disgusted with [c]this miserable food.”

The Bronze Serpent

(C)Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and (D)they bit the people, so that (E)many people of Israel died. (F)So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and against you; (G)intercede with the Lord, that He will remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded for the people.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:5 Lit bread
  2. Numbers 21:5 Lit our soul is disgusted
  3. Numbers 21:5 I.e., the manna

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