⁴ Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way to the ^[a]Red Sea, to ^(A)go around the land of Edom; and the ^[b]people became impatient on the way. ⁵ And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “^(B)Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no ^[c]food and no water, and ^[d](C)we loathe this miserable food.”

The Bronze Serpent

^6 (D)So Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and ^(E)they bit the people so that ^(F)many people of Israel died. ^7 (G)Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you; ^(H)pray to Yahweh, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses prayed for the people. ⁸ Then Yahweh said to Moses, “^[e]Make a ^(I)fiery serpent and set it on a standard; and it will be that everyone who is bitten and looks at it, will live.” ⁹ And Moses made a ^(J)bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it happened, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.