Numbers 21:4-6

Contemporary English Version

Moses Makes a Bronze Snake

^4 (A) The Israelites had to go around the territory of Edom, so when they left Mount Hor, they headed south toward the Red Sea.^[a] But along the way, the people became so impatient ^5 (B) that they complained against God and said to Moses, “Did you bring us out of Egypt, just to let us die in the desert? There's no water out here, and we can't stand this awful food!”

⁶ Then the Lord sent poisonous snakes that bit and killed many of them.