^9 (A)So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole. Anyone who had been bitten would look at the bronze snake and be healed.

^5 (A)When terrible, fierce snakes attacked your people and were killing them with their poison, you did not remain angry long enough to destroy your people. ⁶ This trouble lasted for only a little while, as a warning. Then you gave them a healing symbol, the bronze snake, to remind them of what your Law requires. ⁷ If a person looked at that symbol, he was cured of the snakebite—not by what he saw, but by you, the savior of all mankind.