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From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea,[a] to go around the land of Edom, but the people became discouraged on the way.(A) The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.”(B) Then the Lord sent poisonous[b] serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died.(C)

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  1. 21.4 Or Sea of Reeds
  2. 21.6 Or fiery