5and they began to grumble/complain against God and against Moses/me. They said, “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in this desert RHQ? There is nothing to eat here, and nothing to drink. And we detest this lousy manna food!”
6So Yahweh sent poisonous snakes among them. Many of the people were bitten by the snakes and died.
7Then the people came to Moses/me and cried out, saying, “We now know that we have sinned against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, asking that he will take away the snakes!” So Moses/I prayed for the people.
8Then Yahweh told him/me, “Make a model/image of a poisonous snake, and attach it to the top of a pole. If those who are bitten by the snakes look at that model, they will ◄recover/get well►.”
9So Moses/I made a snake from bronze and attached it to the top of a pole. Then, when those who had been bitten by a snake looked at the bronze snake, they recovered!
10Then the Israelis traveled to Oboth and ◄camped/set up their tents► there.
11Then they left there, and went to Iye-Abarim, in the desert on the eastern border of Moab.
12From there they traveled to the valley where the Zered riverbed is, and camped there.
13Then they traveled to the north side of the Arnon River. That area is in the desert next to the land where the Amor people-group lived. The Arnon River is the boundary between Moab and where the Amor people-group lived.
14That is why in the book called ❛The Book of the Wars of Yahweh❜ it tells about “Waheb town in the Suphah area, and the ravines there; and the Arnon River
15and the ravines there, which extend as far as Ar village on the border of Moab.”
16From there, the Israelis traveled to Beer. There was a well there, where Yahweh previously had said to Moses/me, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”
17There the Israelis sang this song: “O well, give us water! Sing about this well!
Numbers 21
Numbers 21:5-17