Numbers 21:2-9

2So 1Israel made a vow to the Lord and said, “If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will 2utterly destroy their cities.” 3The Lord heard the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites; then they 3utterly destroyed them and their cities. Thus the name of the place was called 45Hormah.

4Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the 6Red Sea, to 7go around the land of Edom; and the 8people became impatient because of the journey. 5The people spoke against God and Moses, “9Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no 10food and no water, and 1112we loathe this miserable food.” 613The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and 14they bit the people, so that 15many people of Israel died. 716So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and you; 17intercede with the Lord, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded for the people. 8Then the Lord said to Moses, “18Make a 19fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live.” 9And Moses made a 20bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.