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4 Then they moved from Mount Hor, following the road that goes to the Red Sea, in order to get around Edom. The people became impatient on the trip 5 and criticized God and Moses. They said, |Why did you make us leave Egypt-just to let us die in the desert? There's no bread or water, and we can't stand this awful food!| 6 So the LORD sent poisonous snakes among the people. They bit the people, and many of the Israelites died. 7 The people came to Moses and said, |We sinned when we criticized the LORD and you. Pray to the LORD so that he will take the snakes away from us.| So Moses prayed for the people. 8 The LORD said to Moses, |Make a snake, and put it on a pole. Anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.| 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole. People looked at the bronze snake after they were bitten, and they lived. Numbers 21:4-9, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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