Numbers 21:4-9
4Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way to the 1Red Sea, to ago around the land of Edom; and the 2people became impatient on the way. 5And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “aWhy have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no 1food and no water, and 2,bwe loathe this miserable food.”
The Bronze Serpent
6aSo Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and bthey bit the people so that cmany people of Israel died. 7aThen the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you; bpray to Yahweh, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses prayed for the people. 8Then Yahweh said to Moses, “1Make a afiery serpent and set it on a standard; and it will be that everyone who is bitten and looks at it, will live.” 9And Moses made a abronze 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.