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The Bronze Serpent

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The people of Israel complained about being in the wilderness. God sent poisonous snakes. The people realized they had been wrong to complain. God told Moses to make a replica of the snake from bronze and anyone who was bitten by a snake could be healed by looking at the bronze replica.

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Secondary Keywords	healed snake wilderness
Scriptures	Numbers 21:4-9
Numbers 21 4 From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way.5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.”6 Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.7 And the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.8 And the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”9 So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.

The Bronze Serpent

Numbers 21

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