Numbers 21:4-9 They journeyed from Mount Hor by way of the Sea of Weeds to get around the land of Edom. And the soul of the people was impatient on the way.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ They journeyed from Mount Hor by way of the Sea of Weeds to get around the land of Edom. And the soul of the people was impatient on the way. ⁵ The people spoke against Elohim and against Moses:Why did you bring us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread and there in no water, and our soul is irritated by the lightly esteemed bread. ⁶ So Yahweh sent burning serpents among the people; they bit the people, and many people of Israel died. ⁷ The people came to Moses and said:We have sinned, for we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh that He may take the serpents away from us. So Moses prayed about the people. ⁸ Yahweh said to Moses:Make for yourself a burning serpent and place it on a banner pole; and it will come to be that anyone bitten, when he sees it, will live. ⁹ Moses made a serpent of copper and placed it on the banner pole, and it came to be that if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked to the copper serpent he lived.