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Dan will be a snake by the roadside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.
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The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.” Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it.
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Then the Lord said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
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Aaron’s Staff Becomes a Snake
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
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“When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ then say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a snake.”
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So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake.
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Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
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Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river. Confront him on the bank of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.
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The Bronze Snake
They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way;
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Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.
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The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
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The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”
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So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.
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He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.
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He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.)
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Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
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In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.
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the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a young woman.
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Whoever digs a pit may fall into it; whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
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If a snake bites before it is charmed, the charmer receives no fee.
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Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken; from the root of that snake will spring up a viper, its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.
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A prophecy concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’ backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation,
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“See, I will send venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the Lord.
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It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him.
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They will lick dust like a snake, like creatures that crawl on the ground. They will come trembling out of their dens; they will turn in fear to the Lord our God and will be afraid of you.
