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They hatch deadly snakes
    and weave spiders’ webs.
Whoever eats their eggs will die;
    whoever cracks them will hatch a viper.

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34 You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say.

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But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to watch him baptize,[a] he denounced them. “You brood of snakes!” he exclaimed. “Who warned you to flee the coming wrath?

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Footnotes

  1. 3:7 Or coming to be baptized.

29 Do not rejoice, you Philistines,
    that the rod that struck you is broken—
    that the king who attacked you is dead.
For from that snake a more poisonous snake will be born,
    a fiery serpent to destroy you!

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32 For in the end it bites like a poisonous snake;
    it stings like a viper.

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14 Their confidence hangs by a thread.
    They are leaning on a spider’s web.

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