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So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole. People looked at the bronze snake after they were bitten, and they lived.[a]

Israel Travels Past Edom to Moab

10 The Israelites moved and set up camp at Oboth. 11 Next they moved from Oboth and set up camp at Iye Abarim in the desert west of Moab.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:9 There is a play on words here between Hebrew nachash (snake   ) and nechosheth (bronze   ).

So Moses made a bronze snake(A) and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.(B)

The Journey to Moab

10 The Israelites moved on and camped at Oboth.(C) 11 Then they set out from Oboth and camped in Iye Abarim, in the wilderness that faces Moab(D) toward the sunrise.

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