Numbers 21:4-20

4They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way;

5they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”

6Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.

7The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

8The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”

9So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.

10The Israelites moved on and camped at Oboth.

11Then they set out from Oboth and camped in Iye Abarim, in the wilderness that faces Moab toward the sunrise.

12From there they moved on and camped in the Zered Valley.

13They set out from there and camped alongside the Arnon, which is in the wilderness extending into Amorite territory. The Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

14That is why the Book of the Wars of the Lord says: “…Zahab in Suphah and the ravines, the Arnon

15and the slopes of the ravines that lead to the settlement of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”

16From there they continued on to Beer, the well where the Lord said to Moses, “Gather the people together and I will give them water.”

17Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Sing about it,

18about the well that the princes dug, that the nobles of the people sank— the nobles with scepters and staffs.” Then they went from the wilderness to Mattanah,

19from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth,

20and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.