Numbers 21:4-9

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The Bronze Snake

⁴They traveled from Mount Hor^(A) along the route to the Red Sea,^[a]^(B) to go around Edom.^(C) But the people grew impatient on the way;^(D) ⁵they spoke against God^(E) and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt^(F) to die in the wilderness?^(G) There is no bread! There is no water!^(H) And we detest this miserable food!”^(I)

⁶Then the Lord sent venomous snakes^(J) among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.^(K) ⁷The people came to Moses^(L) and said, “We sinned^(M) when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord^(N) will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed^(O) for the people.

⁸The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole;^(P) anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” ⁹So Moses made a bronze snake^(Q) and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.^(R)

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Numbers 21:4 Or the Sea of Reeds

Philippians 2:6-11

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⁶Who, being in very nature^[a] God,^(A)
    did not consider equality with God^(B) something to be used to his own advantage;
⁷rather, he made himself nothing^(C)
    by taking the very nature^[b] of a servant,^(D)
    being made in human likeness.^(E)
⁸And being found in appearance as a man,
    he humbled himself
    by becoming obedient to death^(F)—
        even death on a cross!^(G)

⁹Therefore God exalted him^(H) to the highest place
    and gave him the name that is above every name,^(I)
¹⁰that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,^(J)
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,^(K)
¹¹and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,^(L)
    to the glory of God the Father.

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Philippians 2:6 Or in the form of
Philippians 2:7 Or the form

John 3:13-17

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¹³No one has ever gone into heaven^(A) except the one who came from heaven^(B)—the Son of Man.^[a]^(C) ¹⁴Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,^(D) so the Son of Man must be lifted up,^[b]^(E) ¹⁵that everyone who believes^(F) may have eternal life in him.”^[c]^(G)

¹⁶For God so loved^(H) the world that he gave^(I) his one and only Son,^(J) that whoever believes^(K) in him shall not perish but have eternal life.^(L) ¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world^(M) to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.^(N)