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15 he guided you through the vast and terrible wilderness with its saraph[a] serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground; he brought forth water for you from the flinty rock(A)

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  1. 8:15 Saraph: see note on Nm 21:6.

For when the dire venom of beasts came upon them(A)
    and they were dying from the bite of crooked serpents,
    your anger endured not to the end.

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Let us not test Christ[a] as some of them did, and suffered death by serpents.(A)

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  1. 10:9 Christ: to avoid Paul’s concept of Christ present in the wilderness events, some manuscripts read “the Lord.”