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Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the ^(F1)Red Sea, to ^(C1)go around the land of Edom; and the ^(F2)people became impatient because of the journey.

So the people spoke against God and Moses: "^(C1)Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no ^(F1)food and no water, and ^(F2)(C2)we are disgusted with ^(F3)this miserable food."

^(C1)Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people and ^(C2)they bit the people, so that ^(C3)many people of Israel died.

^(C1)So the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD and against you; ^(C2)intercede with the LORD, that He will remove the serpents from us." And Moses interceded for the people.

Then the LORD said to Moses, "^(F1)Make a ^(C1)fiery serpent, and put it on a flag pole; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, and looks at it, will live."

So Moses made a ^(C1)bronze serpent and put it on the flag pole; and it came about, that if a serpent bit someone, and he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.