The people spoke against God and Moses, “(A)Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no [a]food and no water, and [b](B)we loathe this miserable food.”

The Bronze Serpent

(C)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 you; (G)intercede with the Lord, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded for the people.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:5 Lit bread
  2. Numbers 21:5 Lit our soul loathes