The Bronze Serpent — Numbers 21:6-20, New American Standard Bible == BIBLE-CENTER

Numbers, Chapter 21, verses 6-20

⁶ The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. ⁷ So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD and you; intercede with the LORD, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded for the people. ⁸ Then the LORD said to Moses, “^jMake a 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.” ⁹ And Moses made a 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.

¹⁰ Now the sons of Israel moved out and camped in Oboth. ¹¹ They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness which is opposite Moab, to the^keast. ¹² From there they set out and camped in^lWadi Zered. ¹³ From there they journeyed and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites, for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. ¹⁴ Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD,“Waheb in Suphah,
And the wadis of the Arnon,

¹⁵And the slope of the wadis
That extends to the site of Ar,
And leans to the border of Moab.”

¹⁶ From there they continued to^mBeer, that is the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Assemble the people, that I may give them water.”

¹⁷ Then Israel sang this song:“Spring up, O well! Sing to it!

¹⁸“The well, which the leaders sank,
Which the nobles of the people dug,
With the scepter and with their staffs.”

And from the wilderness they continued to Mattanah,

¹⁹ and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth, ²⁰ and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the land of Moab, at the top of Pisgah which overlooks theⁿwasteland.


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