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Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the ^[f]Red Sea, to ^(d)go around the land of Edom; and the ^[g]people became impatient because of the journey.

The people spoke against God and Moses, "^(e)Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no ^[h]food and no water, and ^[i](f)we loathe this miserable food."

^(g)The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and ^(h)they bit the people, so that ⁽ⁱ⁾many people of Israel died.

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

Then the Lord said to Moses, "^[j]Make a ^(l)fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live."

And Moses made a ^(m)bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.