Numbers 21:4-20

4Then they set out from Mount Hor by way of the Red Sea to bypass the land of Edom, but the people became impatient because of the journey.

5The people spoke against God and Moses: “Why have you led us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”

6Then the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit them so that many Israelites died.

7The people then came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you. Intercede with the Lord so that he will take the snakes away from us.” And Moses interceded for the people.

8Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake image and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will recover.”

9So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. Whenever someone was bitten, and he looked at the bronze snake, he recovered.

10The Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.

11They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness that borders Moab on the east.

12From there they went and camped at Zered Valley.

13They set out from there and camped on the other side of the Arnon River, in the wilderness that extends from the Amorite border, because the Arnon was the Moabite border between Moab and the Amorites.

14Therefore it is stated in the Book of the Lord’s Wars: Waheb in Suphah and the ravines of the Arnon,

15even the slopes of the ravines that extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.

16From there they went to Beer, the well the Lord told Moses about, “Gather the people so I may give them water.”

17Then Israel sang this song: Spring up, well — sing to it!

18The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with a scepter and with their staffs. They went from the wilderness to Mattanah,

19from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth,

20from Bamoth to the valley in the territory of Moab near the Pisgah highlands that overlook the wasteland.