(A)Wherefore the Lord sent [a]fiery serpents among the people, which stung the people: so that many of the people of Israel died.

Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned: for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee: pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us: and Moses prayed for the people.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it up for a [b]sign, that as many as are bitten, may look upon it, and live.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:6 For they that were stung therewith, were so inflamed with the heat thereof, that they died.
  2. Numbers 21:8 Or, upon a pole.

Then the Lord sent venomous snakes(A) among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.(B) The people came to Moses(C) and said, “We sinned(D) when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord(E) will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed(F) for the people.

The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole;(G) anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”

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