⁸ The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole;^(A) anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”

⁴ He removed^(A) the high places,^(B) smashed the sacred stones^(C) and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake^(D) Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.^[a])