Numbers 21:5-17

⁵And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.

⁶Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.

⁷Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.

⁸And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wounded by the snakes, looking on it will be made well.

⁹So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on the snake of brass, was made well.

¹⁰Then the children of Israel went on and put up their tents in Oboth.

¹¹And journeying on again from Oboth, they put up their tents in Iye-abarim, in the waste land before Moab looking east.

¹²And moving on from there, they put up their tents in the valley of Zered.

¹³From there they went on and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon, which is on the waste land at the edge of the land of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the line of division between Moab and the Amorites:

¹⁴As it says in the book of the Wars of the Lord, Vaheb in Suphah, and the valley of the Amon;

¹⁵The slope of the valleys going down to the tents of Ar and touching the edge of Moab.

¹⁶From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which the Lord said to Moses, Make the people come together and I will give them water.

¹⁷Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it: